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  • 24 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

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

about tax legislation beyond concern over the amount of the check we write each April 15? Yes, very much so. Our tax policies reflect the values that the country stands for. Do we cut taxes on top earners or redistribute their wealth to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 13

voluntary disclosure and marketing decisions. Publisher's link: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/StrategicDisclosure.pdf January 2015 Innovation Policy and the Economy Firms and the Economics of Skilled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

Rebel with a Cause

environmental activist and ran for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts (he lost). HBS attracted Massie after he realized that business could be a powerful agent for shaping public policy and creating social good, “the most potent force... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; social activism; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

The Myth of Laissez-Faire

fellow at the New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, means big. He wants an American federal government that raises taxes on almost everyone and everything to fund up to $500 billion... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 28 Oct 2024
  • Op-Ed

Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.

their policy platforms, to appeal to suburban voters. Why demographics are not destiny in politics We are economists, and we study markets. Politics is a competitive one. Just as auto manufacturers don’t sit and idly watch market... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro
  • 15 Apr 2017
  • News

Bringing Markets to Myanmar

sort of questions did they have? Brunell: Well first, there was a preliminary meeting with the head of the investment agency in Yangon. He told me his objective was to prepare a private sector development transition plan to accelerate and influence View Details
Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

policyholder often incurs a substantial discount on its economic value. At the same time, the insurer keeps the difference between the policy’s economic value and its surrender value. By selling a View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

flows. The hyperbole was striking: The language of religion—orthodoxy, heresy, dogma—seems for some reason to pervade policy discussions of international monetary and financial issues. And the prevailing orthodoxy had been determined in... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 30 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

contingent claims analysis (CCA). We illustrate how to use the CCA approach to model and measure sectoral and national risk exposures, and analyze policies to offset their potentially harmful effects. This new framework provides View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2001 (Revised May 2001)
  • Background Note

State, The

By: Rawi E. Abdelal
Surveys approaches to understanding the state; highlights the relationships between the state, order, and property; and offers an analytical framework for how states vary from place to place and over time. View Details
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Governance Compliance; Framework; Economic Sectors; Policy; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Entrepreneurship; Development Economics; Equality and Inequality
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  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

the economic consequences of clusters. We identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation. While arguments exist for and against... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

assure that state and local governments can appropriately respond to the digital activities that impact physical realities. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54300 August 2017 Journal of Law & Economics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

levels of economic development, shared a continental European political and social culture, and began regulating consumer markets at nearly the same time. Yet their policy solutions were dramatically... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 13 Dec 2011
  • News

Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project

RELATED LINKS Video: Dean Nohria introduces the Project U.S. Competitiveness home page HBS Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness The Path to Economic Revival Made in America — Making Their Way How Boeing Competes — James McNerney Jr.... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

According to Oliva and Suarez, YPF, Argentina's formerly state-owned oil company, is one example of a company's transformation following economic reform. Unlike Chile, which modified its economic View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

regaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1990. Describes Latvia's economic development over this period, discussing the economic policy efforts that have taken place and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 7

survey a sampling of the research questions these data help to answer. Advertising Disclosures: Measuring Labeling Alternatives in Internet Search Engines Authors:Benjamin G. Edelman and Duncan S. Gilchrist Publication:Information View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

The power of storytelling can be a catalyst in advocating for the rights of women

Khana and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women and Foreign Policy program, Lemmon uses this power to make the case that investing in women is an economic, security and development imperative. “I want to reshape the... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses

some immigrants could add billions to government coffers rather than be a drain on the economy. Nor have fears of immigrants as national security threats been borne out. See Also Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014 Revised immigration View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 05 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior By: Baloria, Vishal P., and Jonas Heese Abstract—The media can impose reputational costs on firms because of its important role as an information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne