Internal Governance - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

helping the environment or encouraged to drill for carbon-based fuels? How do we fund government programs such as health care and entitlements? How big should government be? "...it would be constructive... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 May 2016
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Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

keep close watch over them. In 2015, Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, highlighted the problem. “A local food safety problem can rapidly become an international emergency,” she wrote in a statement.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

06 Dec 2011
Op-Ed

Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis

take a grim view. The EMU has had no fiscal solidarity, no fiscal discipline, and no lender of last resort. To regain a level of competitiveness comparable to Germany's, weaker European economies would have to suffer through a painful View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

about how the world works. In this I have enjoyed collaborating with many colleagues in the HBS unit called Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE). My special interest in developing—or poor—countries goes back fifty... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Mar 2003
News

Brazil Banks on Experience

of Goi ás as a member of a party that opposed Lula’s Workers Party. “Despite being a member of the outgoing governing party and making his career in international finance, Mr. Meirelles won points with Mr.... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Jun 2015
News

The Military and the MBA

Edited by April White A US military convoy was halted on a road north of Fallujah, among the most dangerous cities in Iraq. There was a possible IED in its path. They needed orders: Should they reroute? At the same moment, another Marine convoy discovered a possible... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

01 Jun 2025
News

Assets: Matchup

Photo: Allison Sepanek Meg Rithmire first visited China in 2001, the summer after her first year of college. “I remember thinking it would be an interesting country to study because it was so hard for me to understand it,” she recalls. “I figured I would never get... View Details

Keywords: collectibles; faculty; China; Chinese leaders

13 Jul 2018
News

Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs

programs at 12 centers across the country, creating more than 3,000 entrepreneurs and 12,000 jobs. “Our goal has been to leverage the program through government organizations, given their vast resources and existing infrastructure to... View Details

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

strictly an American phenomenon. “Voter turnout has been declining in many Western democracies over the past decades,” says Vincent Pons, assistant professor at Harvard Business School in the Business, Government, and the International... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations

December 8, 2022
Article

The New China Shock: How Beijing’s Party-State Capitalism Is Changing the Global Economy

By: Margaret M. Pearson, Meg Rithmire and Kellee S. Tsai

In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008, China began to move away from the market-based approach that had shaped its economic policies for three decades, and toward something that might be termed “party-state capitalism,” which involves a high degree of... View Details

Keywords: International Relations; Globalized Economies and Regions; Economic Systems; Trade; China

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Overcoming Obstacles to a Successful Climate Convention

By: James K. Sebenius

Keywords: Negotiation; Conflict and Resolution; Climate Change; International Relations

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12 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

policies, institutions, or resource endowments. I show that firms have agency. When governments attempted to reverse globalization during the interwar years, firms redesigned their international businesses... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical

20 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 20

cost, but is also a function of the competitiveness of the upstream economy. Moreover, the presence of a gray market competitor may cause unintended social welfare consequences when domestic governments mandate the use of arm's length... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Hakeem Belo-Osagie | Baker Library

services. He started at a securities trading outfit and soon realized there was little trading activity going on in commercial paper, treasury bills, and bankers acceptances. Together with Nigerian shareholders and international... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

Building Community in the Bay Area

Last fall, over eighty HBS alumni and nonprofit leaders gathered in Menlo Park, California, to hear HBS senior lecturer Reynold Levy discuss the relationship between nonprofit CEOs and their boards. Levy, himself a CEO of the New York City; based View Details

Keywords: Reynold Levy; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2010
News

Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning

Brazil and Costa Rica take place in March. This year, for the first time since the IXP was launched in 2007, an international program went beyond observing a country’s business environment and engaged in short-term consulting projects.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 1999
News

Christensen and Vernon Remembered

Compassionate Support, which helps members of the HBS community, particularly secretarial staff and research associates, who are in need of temporary financial assistance. A Scholar with Worldwide Influence Raymond Vernon, the Clarence Dillon Professor of View Details

06 Jun 2017
News

Many Rivers to Cross

Colombian octogenarian Mariano Ospina-Hernandez (MBA 1951) is the resolute visionary behind an ambitious proposal to improve and expand the country’s transportation infrastructure. His foresight could open new possibilities for View Details

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Benjamin Peterson

what classes I should take; and in Haiti, there were millions of people worried if they’d be safe at night.” Determined to understand poverty and what he could do about it, Ben studied international relations at Stanford. His thesis... View Details

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Buying a Small Business Pt3: Screening brokers /small companies (For HBS Alumni)

Dealers (AAFD) – the website provides resources for franchise buyers. BizBuySell is one of the largest online databases of businesses for sale. International Business Brokers Association (IBBA) -- The IBBA is the world’s... View Details

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