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- 13 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
corporations back off and issue short-term instead. We called this "gap-filling," in the sense that firms fill in the gaps created by government financing policy. In that paper, we had thought about government maturity View Details
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
prospective physicians who must incur massive debt for their education reluctantly opt for other occupations in which the government is not their sole source of revenues. A government market with an underpriced Medicare would likely lead... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
lucrative assignments—is likely to have a subtle effect on many practitioners' reactions to proposals for radical change. Moreover, the negative effects of bad patent policy are very diffuse, and very... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 2011
- Chapter
The Economics of Housing Finance Reform
By: David S. Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam
This paper analyzes the two leading types of proposals for reform of the housing finance system: (i) broad-based, explicit, priced government guarantees of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and (ii) privatization. Both proposals have drawbacks. Properly-priced... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Housing; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics
Scharfstein, David S., and Adi Sunderam. "The Economics of Housing Finance Reform." In The Future of Housing Finance: Restructuring the U.S. Residential Mortgage Market, edited by Martin Neil Baily. Brookings Institution Press, 2011.
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Launches Alumni Survey
alumni — and the media, as appropriate. A related survey for Executive Education alumni is also on the drawing board. Plans for the HBS survey were nudged along last spring when Business Week set out for the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Students Blog on Economics
between sound economic principles and the policies that are often enacted, you want to do something to help close that gap. This is a chance for us to use our HBS educations to... View Details
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
It's safe to say that the rollout of the Affordable Care Act was not pretty. Plagued by technical problems on Healthcare.gov, and stymied by a lack of political support in around half of the 50 states, the... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
extends existing work demonstrating the importance of political economy explanations for financial development and financial backwardness. It should help to better understand which View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
"The USDA could be looking for a scapegoat," he speculates. "A positive signal from a fellow bureaucratic actor could diffuse the blame and provide political cover were the department to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
students; currently, 132 students are studying to receive a DBA (offered in accounting, management, marketing, strategy, and TOM) or, in collaboration with Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, a... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
In the late 1970s, the Chicago Police Department noticed that the city's crime rate increased when cops stopped walking the beat and started driving around in patrol cars instead. They wondered why, and... View Details
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
empirical projects, and experiments—the latter often in conjunction with the Doorways to Dreams Fund, a nonprofit I cofounded that is an R&D lab for new financial products for low-income families. My first outlet for teaching the... View Details
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
vividly in these articles is the multidimensional quality of our competitiveness problem. Despite what political rhetoric may suggest, there are no simple fixes. Discrete reforms in tax policy, regulation, corporate governance, K-12... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 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 View Details
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
flat part of the flat tax concept is in fact what has been attractive or whether the flat aspect has been a political way to sell the overall tax reform, and hence mostly low taxes. Q: Can Slovakia serve as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 2020
- Working Paper
An Executive Order Worth $100 Billion: The Impact of an Immigration Ban's Announcement on Fortune 500 Firms' Valuation
By: Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Britta Glennon
On June 22, 2020, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) that suspended new work visas, barring nearly 200,000 foreign workers and their dependents from entering the United States and preventing American companies from hiring skilled immigrants using H-1B or L1... View Details
Keywords: Visa; Foreign Workers; Fortune 500; Immigration; Policy; System Shocks; Business Ventures; Valuation
Bahar, Dany, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Britta Glennon. "An Executive Order Worth $100 Billion: The Impact of an Immigration Ban's Announcement on Fortune 500 Firms' Valuation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-055, October 2020.
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
economics course, the premed student — whose third language is English, after Russian and Armenian — was instantly heading in a new direction. “I just fell in love,” she says. “I did some research on View Details
- May 2001 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
"To hell with the future, let's get on with the past." George Mitchell in North Ireland
By: James K. Sebenius and Daniel F. Curran
Examines the strategies and tactics used by U.S. negotiator George Mitchell during his two-year tenure as chairman of the all-party talks in Northern Ireland. His efforts culminated in the signing of the historic Good Friday Accords. View Details
Keywords: Policy; International Relations; Managerial Roles; Negotiation Tactics; Strategy; Northern Ireland
Sebenius, James K., and Daniel F. Curran. "To hell with the future, let's get on with the past." George Mitchell in North Ireland. Harvard Business School Case 801-393, May 2001. (Revised March 2008.)
- December 2003
- Case
George Mitchell in Northern Ireland (B)
By: James K. Sebenius and Daniel F. Curran
Examines the strategies and tactics that U.S. negotiator George Mitchell used during his two-year tenure as chairman of the all-party talks in Northern Ireland. His efforts culminated in the signing of the historic Good Friday Accords. A revised version of an earlier... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
protest," Lerner says. "But if such a policy is encouraged by antitrust bodies and courts, it could be beneficial for society as a whole and for technological... View Details