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01 Mar 2024
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Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China

States and China. As political tensions rise between the two countries, US government policies have caused a move away from direct trade with China, shifting sourcing to lower-wage nations and friendly... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

05 May 2011
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How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless

amendment meant to broaden the scope and accessibility of democracy called for the creation of directly elected local councils at the district, intermediate, and village levels, and mandated that one-third of all council seats be filled by women. The amendment is an... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

1991
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Business Policy: Text and Cases

By: J. L. Bower, Christopher A. Bartlett, C. Roland Christensen, Andrall E. Pearson and Kenneth R. Andrews

Keywords: Policy; Cases

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August 2024
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The Labor Market Effects of Loan Guarantee Programs

By: Jean-Noël Barrot, Thorsten Martin, Julien Sauvagnat and Boris Vallée

We investigate the labor market effects of a loan guarantee program targeting French SMEs during the financial crisis. Exploiting differences in regional treatment intensity in a border discontinuity design, we uncover a central trade-off for such interventions. While... View Details

Keywords: Labor; Financial Crisis; Policy; France

July 2022
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Busting the Myths Around Public Investment in Clean Energy

By: Jonas Meckling, Joseph Aldy, Matthew Kotchen, Sanya Carley, Daniel Esty, Peter Raymond, Bella Tonkonogy, Charles Harper, Gillian Sawyer and Julia Sweatman

Keywords: Energy Policy

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17 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance

business owner to do as the clock keeps ticking? At some point, absent some major policy change, landlord patience will run out, and small businesses will have to make rent or mortgage payments. “Respondents overwhelmingly reported they... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

24 Sep 2001
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Five Questions for Debora L. Spar

companies pushed the U.S. government in the late 1990s into relaxing its rules on encryption exports—a great case of how the Internet would seem to take power away from the state and put it, as Lewis might predict, back into the hands of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Apr 2011
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HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

01 Jun 2008
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Faculty Research Online

confined mostly to entrepreneurs? Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5887.html. Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy Who you know and how much money is in your pocket have always been... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

2014
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De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution

By: Benjamin B Lockwood and Matthew Weinzierl

The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption relative to leisure rises, in terms of... View Details

Keywords: Spending; Policy; Taxation; Theory; United States

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26 Oct 2017
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In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?

pondered the impact of fake news on democracy, the potential for government regulation of the internet, and the future of business models that support traditional media such as newspapers. The event was co-sponsored by the Tow Center for... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting; Journalism & News

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The new industrial state? | Institute for Business in Global Society

and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Representatives from key government departments—Treasury, Commerce, Energy, and the White House—joined forces with leaders from finance, manufacturing, and technology sectors to discuss the... View Details

21 Jul 2023
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Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

business that is creating economic opportunity for marginalized communities in the United States. McClain, who also completed a master’s in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, will serve as chief of staff at BrightUp, a... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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Curriculum | MBA

(recommended) Year 3 Harvard Kennedy School & Harvard Business School Fall Term 2 HKS Elective Courses Getting Things Done: Management in a Development Context Normative Principles of Governance in Development Business-Government... View Details

05 Mar 2007
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Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

to gain much traction and proposes measures that will better protect the rights of property owners. We asked Wells to discuss his research and experiences representing host governments in such negotiations, and what international managers... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities

May 2021
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The International Space Station, Principal-Agent Problems, and NASA's Quest to Keep Humans in Space

By: Matthew Weinzierl and Mehak Sarang

In building the International Space Station (ISS), NASA opened the door to the development of a robust in-space economy in low-Earth Orbit, and yet the decision to build the station, and continue to extend its lifetime, placed a huge burden on NASA’s Human Spaceflight... View Details

Keywords: Aerospace; Nasa; Space Economy; Principal-agent Theory; Policy; Commercialization; Aerospace Industry

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1995
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Business Policy: Managing Strategic Processes

By: Joseph L. Bower, Christopher A. Bartlett, Hugo Uyterhoeven and Richard E. Walton

Keywords: Policy; Management; Strategy

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I am a doctoral candidate in the strategy unit at Harvard Business School. My main areas of interest are organizational economics, public policy, and technology. My research is published at PNAS and forthcoming at the Journal of Financial Economics. My work has been... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Communication Technology; Wages; Policy; Brazil

2018
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Towards a New Approach for Upgrading Europe's Competitiveness

By: Christian Ketels and Michael E. Porter

The traumatic experience of the European sovereign debt crisis, followed by the outcome of the British referendum on leaving the European Union, has sent shockwaves through Europe. For the first time since the signing of the Treaties of Rome six decades ago, the very... View Details

Keywords: Competitiveness; Economy; Policy; Problems and Challenges; Europe; European Union

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