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- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
wound ointment for thousands of years. The United States Patent and Trademark Office revoked the patent in 1997. The case illustrates the issue of "bio-piracy," wherein patentees charge rents for... View Details
- 5 Sep 2013
- Conference Presentation
The Color of Taste: Selling Food in Clear Packages in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States
By: Ai Hisano
This paper examines the role of color in the marketing and retailing of food products by focusing on the increasingly popular presentation of food in clear packages in the early-twentieth-century United States. In the 1910s, a candy company began using cellophane to... View Details
Hisano, Ai. "The Color of Taste: Selling Food in Clear Packages in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States." Paper presented at the CHORD Conference, Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD), Leeds, UK, September 5, 2013.
- February 2014 (Revised May 2014)
- Background Note
Finding the Money: An Overview of Infrastructure Finance Challenges and Opportunities
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Daniel Fox
This overview describes how the United States funds and finances infrastructure investment to maintain its economic competitiveness. It considers the roles of taxpayers, users, government allocators and lenders, and private investors in the infrastructure funding... View Details
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Daniel Fox. "Finding the Money: An Overview of Infrastructure Finance Challenges and Opportunities." Harvard Business School Background Note 314-094, February 2014. (Revised May 2014.)
- March 2022
- Background Note
Climate Challenges for Cities: Introduction to Issues and Actions in the United States
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Catarina Mia Martinez
This background Note introduces the implications of climate change (global warming) for American cities. In the U.S., partisan political divides and unaddressed economic and racial disparities in climate vulnerabilities can inhibit action. The two main fronts for... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Cities; Emission Reduction; Change; Change Leadership; Electric Power Generation; Transportation; Recycling; Green Business; Green Building; Ecosystem; Construction; Systems Change; Cross-sector Collaboration; Adaptation; Geographic Location; Resource Allocation; Infrastructure; Government and Politics; Social Issues; Urban Development; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Catarina Mia Martinez. "Climate Challenges for Cities: Introduction to Issues and Actions in the United States." Harvard Business School Background Note 322-103, March 2022.
- 8 Mar 1985
- Lecture
Capital and Ownership Structure: A Comparison of United States and Japanese Manufacturing Corporations
By: W. Carl Kester
Kester, W. Carl. "Capital and Ownership Structure: A Comparison of United States and Japanese Manufacturing Corporations." Lecture at the International Competition Conference, Harvard Kennedy School, Center for Business and Government, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 8, 1985. (Research presenter.)
- March 2022
- Article
Strategic State Capacity: How States Counter Opposition to Climate Policy
By: Jonas Meckling and Jonas Nahm
When can states implement policies against the opposition from powerful interest groups? Research on state capacity has examined bureaucratic sources of capacity, leaving unexplained why countries with similar levels of bureaucratic capacity vary in goal attainment. We... View Details
Meckling, Jonas, and Jonas Nahm. "Strategic State Capacity: How States Counter Opposition to Climate Policy." Comparative Political Studies 55, no. 3 (March 2022): 493–523.
- August, 2022
- Article
Changing Ingroup Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the United States
By: Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
How do social group boundaries evolve? Does the appearance of a new outgroup change the ingroup's perceptions of other outgroups? We introduce a conceptual framework of context-dependent categorization, in which exposure to one minority leads to recategorization of... View Details
Keywords: In-group-out-group Relations; Ingroup-outgroup Relations; Immigration; Race; Relationships; United States
Fouka, Vasiliki, and Marco Tabellini. "Changing Ingroup Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the United States." American Political Science Review 116, no. 3 (August, 2022): 968–984. (Featured in the Boston Globe, Washington Post, and HBS Working Knowledge.)
- 1994
- Article
Cross-Investments in Transnational Banking: Britain, Germany and the United States in the Twentieth Century
By: G. Jones
Keywords: Investment; Banks and Banking; Business History; Banking Industry; United Kingdom; Germany; United States
Jones, G. "Cross-Investments in Transnational Banking: Britain, Germany and the United States in the Twentieth Century." Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte 39 (1994).
- December 2000
- Article
Risk versus Risk: Tragic Choices in Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
Daemmrich, Arthur A. "Risk versus Risk: Tragic Choices in Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany." Science as Culture 9, no. 4 (December 2000): 505–534.
- Article
How the United States Can Use Trade Policy to Prevent a New Sino-Russian Alliance
By: Jeremy Friedman
Friedman, Jeremy. "How the United States Can Use Trade Policy to Prevent a New Sino-Russian Alliance." Jurist (March 18, 2022).
- 2008
- Chapter
Innovation and the Evolution of Market Structure for Internet Access in the United States
By: Shane Greenstein
Greenstein, Shane. "Innovation and the Evolution of Market Structure for Internet Access in the United States." Chap. 3 in The Internet and American Business, edited by William Aspray and Paul Ceruzzi, 47–104. MIT Press, 2008.
- 1976
- Book
U.S. Taxation of United States Manufacturing Abroad: Likely Effects of Taxing Unremitted Profits
By: Robert B. Stobaugh
Stobaugh, Robert B. U.S. Taxation of United States Manufacturing Abroad: Likely Effects of Taxing Unremitted Profits. New York: Financial Executives Research Foundation, 1976.
- Article
Capital and Ownership Structure: A Comparison of United States and Japanese Manufacturing Corporations
By: W. C. Kester
Kester, W. C. "Capital and Ownership Structure: A Comparison of United States and Japanese Manufacturing Corporations." Financial Management 15, no. 1 (Spring 1986): 5–16.
- July 1991 (Revised May 1995)
- Case
Samuel Slater, Francis Cabot Lowell, and the Beginnings of the Factory System in the United States
Deals with the coming of the mechanized textile industry to the United States, and with it, the nation's first factories. Considers the introduction of small spinning mills in Rhode Island, and the appearance of large integrated spinning and weaving mills in... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business History; Production; Industry Growth; Manufacturing Industry; Rhode Island; Massachusetts
McCraw, Thomas K. "Samuel Slater, Francis Cabot Lowell, and the Beginnings of the Factory System in the United States." Harvard Business School Case 792-008, July 1991. (Revised May 1995.)
- January 2019 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Lattice Semiconductor and the Future of Chinese High-Tech Acquisitions in the United States
By: Meg Rithmire and Yihao Li
Rithmire, Meg, and Yihao Li. "Lattice Semiconductor and the Future of Chinese High-Tech Acquisitions in the United States." Harvard Business School Case 719-059, January 2019. (Revised June 2019.)
- 1999
- Chapter
Determinants of the Regional Distribution of Information Technology Infrastructure in the United States
By: Shane Greenstein and Mercedes Lizardo
Greenstein, Shane, and Mercedes Lizardo. "Determinants of the Regional Distribution of Information Technology Infrastructure in the United States." In The Electronic Village: Public Policy Issues of the Information Economy, edited by Dale Orr and Thomas Wilson. C.D. Howe Institute, 1999.
- April 1987
- Background Note
Decline of United States Competitiveness in the World Economy: Some Causes and Remedies
By: George C. Lodge
Lodge, George C. "Decline of United States Competitiveness in the World Economy: Some Causes and Remedies." Harvard Business School Background Note 387-178, April 1987.
- 17 Aug 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Corporate Governance and Networks: Bankers in the Corporate Networks of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States circa 1910
Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio
- 2008
- Chapter
The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Saving Outcomes: Evidence from the United States
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
This paper summarizes the empirical evidence on how defaults impact retirement savings outcomes. After outlining the salient features of the various sources of retirement income in the U.S., the paper presents the empirical evidence on how defaults impact retirement... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Financial Condition; Retirement; Investment Funds; Microeconomics; Outcome or Result; Government and Politics; Financial Institutions; Macroeconomics; United States
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Saving Outcomes: Evidence from the United States." In Lessons from Pension Reform in the Americas, edited by Stephen J. Kay and Tapen Sinha, 59–87. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.