Thin Political Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2019 (Revised May 2020)
Supplement

Keroche (C): The Excise Tax Increase

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pippa Tubman Armerding

This case discusses the Kenyan government’s decision to increase excise taxes on wines in 2007. The tax increase would cause an average increase in price of 367% on Keroche’s fortified wines. Meanwhile, Keroche’s competitor EABL had effectively lobbied the government... View Details

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19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

military’s shooting down of a Russian military airplane over the Turkish-Syrian border. The incident threatened to undermine the countries’ political and economic ties, and starting from late 2015, the dialogue between Ankara and Moscow... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51195 Spring 2016 Business History Review California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of 'Fairness' in U.S. Competition Policy By: Sawyer, Laura Phillips Abstract—In the decades before... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

the right leadership style by knowing which levers shape organizational capabilities and how to use them Use power and politics to address resistance and maintain control during a transition Understand the link between personal and... View Details

19 Dec 2024
News

The Musts of 2024

remember there are four Ps of marketing and there are four Ps of scientific wellness. The first P is to predict disease before it happens. Most people believe that you're healthy and then you're sick, but in reality there's a long period... View Details

27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

Hiatt and Sangchan Park Abstract Little is known about the factors that influence regulatory agencies' decision making. We posit that regulatory agencies are influenced by the firms they regulate but not exclusively via political... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024

noteworthy considering the challenges that confronted HBS and other academic institutions this year, from an economic landscape marked by higher operating costs to an increasingly complex global political climate that created pressure on... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

What's the Word?

ability to act on ideas using zero-cost trading tools like Robinhood. On the positive side, Cohen notes, meme stocks signal levels of engagement with the stock market that haven’t been seen in decades. But the valuation of meme stocks is... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2007
News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

ethical obligation. Business school deans in the early 1930s were determined to finally reach a working consensus about what constituted a professional business education, and to mobilize their institutions on behalf of a nation whose core View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

14 Nov 2024
News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Ocean? And I would argue, how do we build in those places? When markets fail, that's the role of government plain and simple in my view. And so, if something isn't insurable, you have to think about why that is. It's because the risk... View Details

21 May 2019
Blog Post

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

didn’t teach us about current events or help us form political views. I felt like I was constantly playing catch-up, that my understanding of the “real world” had started so much later than my peers. My mom, hurt, told me I was being... View Details

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

organizations as being focused on tangible hard metrics like profit or market capitalization. But for-profits also do a lot of organizational capacity-building work. Venture capital investments are very much about building the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

resulting endogenous scarcity of informed investors exacerbates primary market collapses in bad times. Inefficiency arises because informed investors are a public good from the perspective of originators. All originators benefit from the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2016
News

Vive la Madeleine!

the pantheon of classic French treats. In the 1980s, the company employed nearly 400 workers and enjoyed a 40 percent market share. Subjected to a series of buyouts, the product line shifted to a more mass-market approach that led to a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

01 Mar 2014
News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

particular jobs, but the professors argued that agricultural was a social, economic and political enterprise, and studying the entire system would lead to better decisions. This magazine named the publication of their 1957 textbook, A... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

April 2025 (Revised April 2025)
Case

Techint: Strategic Choices for Community Impact

By: Lauren Cohen, Virak Prum, Kenneth Charman, Pedro Levindo and Mariana Cal

In early 2024 Erika Bienek, Chief Community Relations Officer at Techint, had to decide whether to invest in a new company-owned and operated technical school in Veracruz, Mexico, or invest instead in strengthening the city’s public education system. Techint, a global... View Details