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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

exports, and by integration with democratic partners that account for a larger share of a country’s trade in institutionally intensive, cultural, and consumer goods, as well as in goods that involve more... View Details
  • October 2024
  • Teaching Note

El Salvador: Launching Bitcoin as Legal Tender

By: Laura Alfaro
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 322-055. In June 2021, Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, surprised the world with the announcement that the country would adopt bitcoin as legal tender, becoming the first nation to do so. Bitcoin was mostly used for trading and had... View Details
Keywords: Bitcoin; Cryptocurrency; Currency; Financial Strategy; Economic Growth; Governance; Macroeconomics; Assets; Government Administration; Latin America; El Salvador
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  • 2011
  • Chapter

Innovations in Governance

By: Raymond Fisman and Eric Werker
In this paper we explore the innovations in governance that have promoted investment and growth. Some policymakers have tinkered with their country's institutions, some have undertaken wholesale changes, while others have attempted to influence the rules in other... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Investment; Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics; Innovation and Invention
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    Innovations in Governance

    In this paper we explore the innovations in governance that have promoted investment and growth. Some policymakers have tinkered with their country's institutions, some have undertaken wholesale changes, while others have attempted to influence the rules in other... View Details

    • November 2000 (Revised June 2001)
    • Case

    Pokemon: Gotta Catch 'Em All

    Pokemon, the colloquial name given to a collection of 150 fantastic, animal-inspired creatures with organic powers and the capacity to evolve, are the stars of video games, trading card games, and TV cartoons. Conceived in Japan in 1996, Pokemon quickly became that... View Details
    Keywords: Age; Entertainment; Ethics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Brands and Branding; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Japan; United States
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Digital Interactivity: Unanticipated Consequences for Markets, Marketing, and Consumers

    By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
    The digital interactive transformation in marketing is not unfolding, as many thought it would, on the model of direct marketing. That model anticipated that digital media using rich profiling data would intrude marketing messaging more deeply and more precisely into... View Details
    Keywords: Communication Intention and Meaning; Interactive Communication; Marketing Communications; Consumer Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet and the Web
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    • 16 Feb 2023
    • HBS Case

    ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

    The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
    • November 2012 (Revised July 2013)
    • Case

    Gerry Pasciucco at AIG Financial Products

    By: Gautam Mukunda and Thomas J. DeLong
    Gerry Pasciucco was appointed to lead American International Group's Financial Products (AIGFP) group after the government bailout of AIG in 2008 and charged with the task of shutting down the division while minimizing the government's losses. AIGFP's failed trades had... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Crisis Management; Financial Crisis; Management Teams; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • August 2023
    • Case

    Constellation Pharmaceuticals: Corporate Development at a Novel Therapeutic Company

    By: Satish Tadikonda and Brad Prosek
    Constellation Pharmaceuticals was a company focused on epigenetic therapies for cancer patients. Despite a promising start and an early deal with a leading biopharma company, the company weathered twin setbacks in the end of a major research collaboration and the... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Care and Treatment; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Research and Development; Business Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Goals and Objectives; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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    • 24 May 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets

    Keywords: by Alvin Roth
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    Contact Us

    Contact Us Contact Us Work with Us Career & Professional Development is dedicated to fostering connections between employers and HBS talent. Our office takes a personalized approach to your recruiting strategy regardless of your... View Details
    • 03 Nov 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses

    Keywords: by Benjamin Edelman & Michael Schwarz; Publishing
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    • “The ‘Carbon Club’: Oil Companies, Climate Change & the Shaping of Public Policy”. Conspiracy theories abound, but the roles of the major oil companies in influencing public policy on climate change remain largely obscure. This... View Details
    • 29 Nov 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

    lost critical people in the background who make this whole thing work. Gazette: Twitter has been under a consent decree for over a decade over data privacy and security violations. Back in May, the company had to pay the Department of... View Details
    Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology
    • 04 May 2021
    • Book

    Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

    desperate to get the toy fixed. “At any other store, they would have been directed to the toy aisle to buy a replacement,” says Hubert Joly, Best Buy’s former chairman and CEO, who is now a senior lecturer of business administration at... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
    • 15 Sep 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    From Bench to Board: Gender Differences in University Scientists’ Participation in Commercial Science

    Keywords: by Waverly W. Ding, Fiona Murray & Toby E. Stuart; Biotechnology
    • 07 Aug 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: August 7, 2007

      Working PapersThe New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks Authors:Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard Posner, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract In the past, judges have often hired applicants for judicial clerkships as early as the beginning View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
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    Lehman Brothers Timeline | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s Leadership Transitions 2008 Bankruptcy... View Details
    • 23 Mar 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Do US Market Interactions Affect CEO Pay? Evidence from UK Companies

    Keywords: by Joseph J. Gerakos, Joseph D. Piotroski & Suraj Srinivasan
    • July 2006 (Revised March 2008)
    • Case

    Changan Automobile Co., Ltd.

    By: Dennis Campbell and Donglin Xia
    Chairman Yin Jiaxu must communicate that the company's extraordinary reported performance in 2002 reflects Changan's unique strategy within the competitive dynamics of China's automobile industry. Changan's 2002 annual report demonstrated an extraordinary level of... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Reporting; Ethics; Corporate Disclosure; Media; Business and Shareholder Relations; Auto Industry; China
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