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  • 24 Jul 2014
  • Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

exclusively on advancing US welfare with particular attention on reforms that will improve American wages” While these transactions naturally attract growing attention, inversions are merely the most visible manifestation of these... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical
  • 03 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Business of Animal Protection Club

limited concentration at Harvard Business School? That issue is animal protection. The change in attitude towards animals is undeniable. Animal welfare ballot initiatives receive bipartisan support across red and blue states. Roughly... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Going Public: Shari P. Hubert

smile talks about her experience tutoring a single mother on welfare as a volunteer in Boston City Hospital's Adult Literacy Program. "This woman was smart, motivated, and capable," recalls Hubert, who met with her student twice a week,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

nurtured and maintained. Publisher's link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0415783135 2013 pub The Welfare State as an Investment Strategy: Denmark's Flexicurity Policies By: Daemmrich, Arthur, and Thomas Bredgaard... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • November 2015 (Revised January 2016)
  • Teaching Note

McDonald's Corporation: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain—From Amazon Soya to Cage Free Eggs

By: Michael W. Toffel
This case provides an opportunity for students to consider how large, multinational corporations should respond when targeted by activists regarding environmental and social concerns in their supply chains. Greenpeace targeted McDonald's because its chicken supplier... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Welfare; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry; Brazil; United States; United Kingdom
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  • May 2010
  • Article

Elections and Discretionary Accruals: Evidence from 2004

By: Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury
We examine the accrual choices of outsourcing firms with links to U.S. congressional candidates during the 2004 elections, when corporate outsourcing was a major campaign issue. We find that politically connected firms with more extensive outsourcing activities have... View Details
Keywords: Political Economy; Accounting Information; Accruals Management; Campaign Contributions; Discretionary Accruals; Election Outcomes; Political Currency; Political Process; Social Issues; Political Elections; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Motivation and Incentives; Earnings Management; Welfare; United States
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  • September 1988 (Revised January 1990)
  • Case

Federal Assistance to the Farm Credit System: The Road to Recovery?

By: Ray A. Goldberg
Keywords: Agribusiness; Welfare; Government and Politics; Credit; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Building a Strong and Prosperous Society

Professor Rebecca Henderson, Photo credit: Susan Young Rebecca Henderson is worried about the current state of capitalism in America. The noted economist says that increasing global crises and challenges to democracy are posing some of... View Details
  • 19 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

history, HBS assistant professor Noel Maurer considers these questions and opens the door to other queries involving issues of economics and governance that reach well beyond the United States and its neighbor to the south. Mexico makes a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

premia, real interest rates and inflation. The variation in investment opportunities is captured by a flexible vector autoregressive parameterization, which readily accommodates a large number of assets and state variables. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

growing income inequality in the United States and high household indebtedness. Most accounts trace the U.S. idea of credit-as-welfare to the period of wage stagnation and welfare retrenchment that began in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Dec 2018
  • News

Lesson Plan

parents are all engaged in debating both sides of the issue. What would be the fairest solution? Or in Yokohama, Japan. In March 2003, a 22-year-old teaching English at a local junior high school is watching television with other staff members when news breaks that the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

welfare enhancing. In this case, the net cost of both contracting directly on an aggregate measure and exploiting career incentives based on disaggregated measures is smaller than the cost of contracting directly on disaggregate measures.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels

research shows that in the 10 cities with the largest Airbnb market share in the US, the entry of Airbnb resulted in 1.3 percent fewer hotel nights booked and a 1.5 percent loss in hotel revenue. The paper, The Welfare Effects of Peer... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Travel
  • 17 Apr 2013
  • Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

White stay-at-home mothers are idealized, while black stay-at-home mothers are stereotyped as lazy welfare exploiters, because unlike white mothers, society expects black mothers to work. In one experiment Cuddy described, participants... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 08 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

nature of willpower and are reliable predictors of economic outcomes in the adult. The implication is that one might, for example, be able to strengthen a "weak" child's ability to resist temptation, and in so doing offer View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Commencement 2011 Address | About

As I stand here today, giving this Commencement address, I have to pinch myself to believe it is actually happening. When I came to the United States in 1984 to attend graduate school — at that other noted institution in Boston on the... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

growth. Four of the five papers in this year’s volume highlight the increasing role of the Internet and digitization in our understanding of the changing nature of innovation and entrepreneurship and the impact of innovation policy. Consumer Lending in France and... View Details
Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research
  • 17 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

films). Similarly, we also predict and find that should DVDs are held longer than want DVDs. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-099.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsNone this week   PublicationsDoes Employment Protection Reduce Productivity?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Professional Networks in China and America

States a rich field of study and one that's a specialty for Harvard Business School professor Roy Chua. Chua, a native of Singapore who speaks fluent Mandarin, draws on human psychology to better understand important social processes in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne