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- 20 May 2019
- News
Why Do We Let Political Parties Act Like Monopolies?
- 07 Nov 2016
- News
How Wikipedia Keeps Political Discourse from Turning Ugly
- Article
The Emergence of Mafia-like Business Systems in China
By: Meg Rithmire and Hao Chen
A large body of literature on state–business relations in China has examined the political role of capitalists and collusion between the state and the private sector. This paper contributes to that literature and understanding of the internal differentiation among... View Details
Keywords: China's Political Economy; State-business Relations; Business Groups; Financial System; Business and Government Relations; Finance; Economic Systems; China
Rithmire, Meg, and Hao Chen. "The Emergence of Mafia-like Business Systems in China." China Quarterly 248 (December 2021): 1037–1058.
- Mar 2012
- Article
Fixing What's Wrong with U.S. Politics
In America today there's a growing sense that the political system is broken and that its ineffectiveness is a major threat to U.S. competitiveness. Why do so many think the political system is not working?... View Details
- 08 Aug 2021
- News
Business Needs to Rethink Its Role in Politics
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
How should companies navigate polarized politics in the Trump era?
- 21 May 2019
- News
Making Change Payments, Perspectives, and Politics
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
Political Paralysis Is the Biggest Threat to U.S. Competitiveness
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
this fact. "Where the consensus today is that eighteenth-century economists believed that free trade would bring peace and prosperity to all, the mainstream of political economy at the time was actually... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2017
- News
Can a French Political Upstart Ride Obama's Strategy to Victory?
- January 1984 (Revised April 1993)
- Background Note
Introduction to U.S. Political Economy: Antecedents to the New Deal
Provides background information on developments in the U.S. economy and policy over several decades preceding the Hoover Administration. View Details
Encarnation, Dennis J., III. "Introduction to U.S. Political Economy: Antecedents to the New Deal." Harvard Business School Background Note 384-160, January 1984. (Revised April 1993.)
- Teaching Interest
Overview
Globalization and Emerging Markets (Elective Course)
The world order has changed significantly in the last two decades. The influence of western-style varieties of capitalism has been challenged by new forms of capitalism that rely less on private enterprise and on the... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Strategy; Macroeconomics; State Capitalism; Political Economy; Emerging Markets; Multinational Firms and Management; Global Strategy; Economics; Energy Industry; Retail Industry; Mining Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Banking Industry; China; Africa; Dubai; Pakistan; India; Brazil; Russia; Cuba; Argentina
- 2024
- Chapter
The Private Economy Under Party-State Capitalism
By: Margaret M. Pearson, Meg Rithmire and Kellee S. Tsai
This chapter addresses the evolution of China’s approach to the private sector from the early reform era until the beginning of Xi Jinping’s third term. It argues that China has evolved from a familiar form of state capitalism, in which economic growth is the primary... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; International Relations; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economic Systems; China
Pearson, Margaret M., Meg Rithmire, and Kellee S. Tsai. "The Private Economy Under Party-State Capitalism." Chap. 3 in Chinese Politics: The Xi Jinping Difference. 2nd edition edited by Stanley Rosen and Daniel C. Lynch, 67–82. Routledge, 2024.
- 14 Sep 2017
- News
Political failure through a business lens
- 2021
- Book
Global Goliaths: Multinational Corporations in the 21st Century Economy
By: C. Fritz Foley, James R. Hines Jr. and David Wessel
Globalization and multinational corporations have long seemed partners in the enterprise of economic growth: globalization-led prosperity was the goal, and giant corporations spanning the globe would help achieve it. In recent years, however, the notion that all... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Globalization; Economy; Economic Growth; Equality and Inequality; Employment; Policy
Foley, C. Fritz, James R. Hines Jr., and David Wessel, eds. Global Goliaths: Multinational Corporations in the 21st Century Economy. Brookings Institution Press, 2021.
- 05 Jun 2018
- News
Howard Schultz has tremendous skills that would transfer to politics
- 11 Mar 2009
- HBS Case
The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine
state to ownership (with 50.002 percent), and Gazprom's strategy for becoming a global energy company, mainly through acquisition and partnerships. “Russia needs the money. It can't scare away its customers.” The learning objectives of the case focus on how View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- News