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  • March 2007 (Revised March 2010)
  • Case

Rovna Dan: The Flat Tax in Slovakia

By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella, Ane Damgaard Jensen and Vincent Marie Dessain
Explores the tax policy choices made by Slovakia and the impact of reforms. Set in 2006, looks at the decision facing new Prime Minister Robert Fico as he faces the public's "reform fatigue." Traces the development of tax and fiscal policies since Slovakia's... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Taxation; Labor; Welfare; Slovakia
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  • October 2007
  • Teaching Note

Rovna Dan: The Flat Tax in Slovakia (TN)

By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Renee Kim
Teaching Note to 707043. View Details
Keywords: Policy; Taxation; System; Labor; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Slovakia
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  • Book Review

Review of The Basic Features of Postcommunist Capitalism in Eastern Europe: Firms in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia by Lawrence Peter King

By: Doug Guthrie
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  • 08 Jan 2010
  • News

Multinational firms, agglomeration, and global networks

  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

Ane Damgaard Jensen. The case, "Rovná daň: The Flat Tax in Slovakia," describes how the flat tax was introduced there in 2004 as well as the surprising influence of Slovakia ever since. But the concept of a flat tax is not new:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

  Working PapersThe Global Networks of Multinational Firms Authors:Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen Abstract In this paper we characterize the topology of global multinational networks and examine the macro and micro patterns of multinational activity. We construct indices... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Dec 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie Chen
  • Web

Faculty & Advisors | MBA

education. Jan Skvarka MBA '99, Harvard Business School; PhD Economics, University of Econ., Slovakia Jan is an Executive Chairman at DEM Biopharma, and a member of the Board of Directors at Zentalis Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq:ZNTL) and... View Details
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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Lisbon (2017) The Automotive Cluster in Portugal (2007) Romania Romania Apparel Cluster (2010) Russia The Moscow Financial Services Cluster (2012) Moscow Transportation (2006) Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia Chemicals Cluster (2016) Singapore Singapore Higher Education... View Details

    William A. Sahlman

    William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

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    • Web

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    Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

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    • May 1998
    • Article

    Learning in High Stakes Ultimatum Games: An Experiment in the Slovak Republic

    By: R. Slonim and A. E. Roth
    Keywords: Learning; Slovakia
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    • April 1992 (Revised February 1994)
    • Case

    Czechoslovakia's Privatization: The Fund Phenomenon

    By: Samuel L. Hayes III
    Keywords: Privatization; Financing and Loans; Slovakia; Czech Republic
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    • October 1999 (Revised June 2000)
    • Supplement

    Shock Therapy in Eastern Europe: Supplement

    By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Rebecca Evans
    Supplements Shock Therapy in Eastern Europe: The Polish and Czechoslovakia Economic Reforms. Designed as an in-class handout. View Details
    Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Macroeconomics; Slovakia; Czech Republic; Poland
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    • April 2010
    • Background Note

    Central Europe after the Crash: Between Europe and the Euro

    By: Diego A. Comin, Dante Roscini and Elisa Farri
    This note briefly reviews the financial crisis in central Europe in late 2008, and summarizes how four central European countries—Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia—have coped with the economic downturn. View Details
    Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Crisis; Financial Strategy; Czech Republic; Hungary; Poland; Slovakia
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    • February 1997 (Revised October 1999)
    • Case

    Shock Therapy in Eastern Europe: The Polish and Czechoslovak Economic Reforms

    Provides information on economic reform programs in Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1990. Students are asked to compare and contrast the economic situations in the two countries, as well as the political constraints on reform. View Details
    Keywords: Macroeconomics; Poland; Slovakia; Czech Republic
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    • 01 Sep 2004
    • News

    American Dream

    travel from countries as far-off as Slovakia and Poland. The workers stay in dormitories — homes in town that the Husteads have renovated — for a nominal fee. “Getting and training good people is a core competency for us,” Hustead... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Accommodation; Hospitality
    • 05 Sep 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

    with the VW Touareg and was partially manufactured in VW's Bratislava, Slovakia plant. Then, as if that were not enough, Wiedeking shocked the investment world once again by purchasing roughly a 20 percent stake in VW, which led to major... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing