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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Brennan Best Paper Prize for his paper with Mihir Desai and Kristen Forbes, "Financial Constraints and Growth: Multinational and Local Firm Responses to Currency Crises"... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
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Raising Capital Requirements: At What Cost?
By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
Since the financial crisis, bank capital positions have improved considerably. However, calls for heightened capital requirements have not abated. Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, Vice Chair Janet Yellen, and governors Daniel Tarullo and Jeremy Stein have all... View Details
Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Raising Capital Requirements: At What Cost?" Review of Financial Regulation Studies, no. 11 (Summer 2013): 4–6.
- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
professional and personal lives, or who might need to toggle between work and childcare depending on the needs of the day. “The Portugal legislation makes it easier for people, both men View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 12 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster
accepted into the Harvard Climate Circle have access to over 100 resources. Most of the resources are concierge 1:1 offerings, like meeting with Oladeji Timayu, of the Harvard Law School Negotiation and... View Details
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
other projects produced the nation's first big-city 311 app that allows citizens to alert government to potholes and graffiti. He also helped cut through zoning laws to create the Boston Innovation District... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
spearheaded by University of California, Berkeley, engineering and business professor Lee Fleming, and also included University of Connecticut law professor Hillary Greene,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
Council on Foreign Relations 2007 Becomes chair of Maine's Council on Competitiveness and the Economy 2009 Named administrator of the US Small Business Administration Throughout her career, Karen Gordon Mills owned, managed, mentored,... View Details
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Why HBS? - Doctoral
Harvard faculty in departments including economics , psychology , and sociology , as well as other graduate professional schools, like the Harvard Kennedy School of Government , Harvard Chan School of Public Health , Harvard View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
Cofounder and Managing Partner, Strategic Grant Partners Download Jacobson profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1960 Born, Framingham, Massachusetts 1982 Earns BA, International Relations, University of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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1929: The Great Crash - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
securities legislation of 1933–1934 and subsequent founding of the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) have been regarded as a successful chapter in financial regulation. These efforts bear the stamp of Harvard Professor of View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Toward a Life Well Lived
Illustration by Valerie Chiang Illustration by Valerie Chiang In many states, you’re required by law to get your car inspected annually, and if there’s something wrong, you get the car serviced, says... View Details
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Ellen Mahoney | About
resources professionals from business schools across the US and Europe. Ellen serves on a variety of non-profit boards including the Soldier’s Field Park Children’s Center Board of Directors and Friends of... View Details
- 11 Jan 2021
- News
The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?
- March 1997 (Revised November 1997)
- Case
Incidents in Foreign Direct Investment
By: Louis T. Wells Jr. and Courtenay Sprague
Presents seven examples (i.e., incidents) of conflict concerning foreign direct investment. The incidents lay the framework for discussion of issues such as the jurisdiction of the WTO and the U.S. position, the Helms-Burton Act of 1996 and its political implications,... View Details
Wells, Louis T., Jr., and Courtenay Sprague. "Incidents in Foreign Direct Investment." Harvard Business School Case 797-111, March 1997. (Revised November 1997.)
- 28 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?
Writers may lament the uncertainties of the digital age, as many turn to online markets to distribute their work with no promises of fame or fortune. But when authors are guaranteed a cut of their own book sales, they tend to work harder View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- August 2005 (Revised April 2015)
- Background Note
Employment At Will: A Legal Perspective
By: Lynn S. Paine and Christopher M. Bruner
Provides a brief overview of the employment-at-will doctrine, an important concept unique to the U.S. legal system and business landscape. Briefly surveys the history and development of this doctrine and certain limitations and exceptions to it, as well as some of the... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Resignation and Termination; Employment; Common Law; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; United States
Paine, Lynn S., and Christopher M. Bruner. "Employment At Will: A Legal Perspective." Harvard Business School Background Note 306-036, August 2005. (Revised April 2015.)
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Foundation Prize for narrative nonfiction. Mattias E. Fibiger : Winner of the 2024 Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) for Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
prices beyond those included in the original contract; and a statute that allowed for code-making authority in intrastate commerce. California’s codes included maximum working hours, minimum wages, View Details
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
long-term strategy and culture. David Wittenberg led the way in making the argument for an inadequate strategy as a primary cause of the problem. He suggested that bad timing is related to a lack of “strategic frameworks to assess the... View Details