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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money
law when you can make a reasonable profit by abiding by the law? Are you hopeful that things will get better? Part of the reason I’m optimistic is that the illegalities I write about can be curtailed merely with the application of View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
A Man of Influence
encompass political consulting. After doing some work for LBJ, the vice president asked Valenti to run President Kennedy’s reelection campaign fundraiser in Houston — hardly friendly territory for an Irish-Catholic Yankee. Pleased with...
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- Profile
Andrew Kletzing
to serve my country again. Not in the military, but by using my business experience and knowledge. I love politics and would like a public service or government role. Perhaps even in elected office. One of the great things about HBS is...
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- Web
Teaching Guidelines - Creating Emerging Markets
Marcelo Bucheli Associate ProfessorGies College of Business,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CEM Perspectives on TeachingPresentation at CEM Conference Jeffrey Fear Professor of International Business HistorySchool of Social & View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
Global health care is entering its most challenging era, with increasing demand for services from consumers newly arrived in the middle class, under-served people, and rapidly aging populations, all the while dealing with the need to manage advanced medical technology,...
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- November 1981 (Revised June 1998)
- Case
A Keynesian Cure for the Depression
Keynes, in excerpts from a 1933 pamphlet, outlines his recommendations for recovery from the Depression. He emphasizes the need for public works expenditures financed by government borrowing and discusses the "multiplier" effect of deficit spending on gross national...
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McCraw, Thomas K. "A Keynesian Cure for the Depression." Harvard Business School Case 382-065, November 1981. (Revised June 1998.)
- Winter 2022
- Article
Determinants of Small Business Reopening Decisions After COVID Restrictions Were Lifted
The COVID-19 pandemic led to dramatic economic disruptions, including government-imposed restrictions that temporarily shuttered millions of American businesses. We use a nation-wide survey of thousands of small business owners to establish three main facts about...
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Keywords:
COVID-19;
Demand Forecasting;
Reopening;
Health Pandemics;
Government Administration;
Small Business
Balla-Elliott, Dylan, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, and Christopher Stanton. "Determinants of Small Business Reopening Decisions After COVID Restrictions Were Lifted." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 41, no. 1 (Winter 2022): 278–317.
- August 2022
- Case
Negotiating Peace in Colombia
By: Deepak Malhotra and Cody Smith
This case follows the protracted armed conflict between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), tracing it from its origins over 50 years ago, through the private and public negotiations that ultimately resulted in the 2016...
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- Editorial
Zeroing Out on zero-COVID
By: William C. Kirby
China’s culture reveres science, yet operates under a government that often defines what “science” is and is not. China’s “zero-COVID” policy has created a bifurcated scientific community that threatens international collaboration in science and technology. A...
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Keywords:
COVID;
Scientific Community;
World Health Organization;
Pseudoscience;
Governance;
Government and Politics;
Health;
Research and Development;
Social Media;
China
Kirby, William C. "Zeroing Out on zero-COVID." Science 376, no. 6597 (June 2, 2022): 1026.
- November 12, 2020
- Article
What We Can Learn About Unity from Hostile Takeovers
In the wake of the recent election, the United States faces a fraught, difficult transfer of power. What we know about hostile takeovers in business can provide help in finding a path forward. Leaders on the winning side of the more successful acquisitions emphasized...
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Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "What We Can Learn About Unity from Hostile Takeovers." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (November 12, 2020).
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An Integrated Decision-Making Approach for Improving European Air Traffic Management
By: Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Bert De Reyck and Zeger Degraeve
We develop a multistakeholder, multicriteria decision-making framework for Eurocontrol, the European air traffic management organization, for evaluating and selecting operational improvements to the air traffic management system. The selected set of improvements will...
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Framework;
Operations;
Performance Improvement;
Government Administration;
Air Transportation Industry;
Europe
Grushka-Cockayne, Yael, Bert De Reyck, and Zeger Degraeve. "An Integrated Decision-Making Approach for Improving European Air Traffic Management." Management Science 54, no. 8 (August 2008): 1395–1409.
- 2018
- Chapter
Why Do So Many Chinese Students Come to the United States?
By: William C. Kirby
Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent on the global horizon has provoked....
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Keywords:
Asia;
China;
Emerging Country;
Students;
Education;
Higher Education;
Globalization;
International Relations;
History;
Society;
Education Industry;
Asia;
China;
United States
Kirby, William C. "Why Do So Many Chinese Students Come to the United States?" Chap. 27 in The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power, edited by Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi, 219–230. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Delaying Firearm Purchases Reduces Gun Violence
By: Michael Luca, Deepak Malhotra and Christopher Poliquin
Handgun waiting periods are laws that impose a two to seven-day delay between the purchase and delivery of a firearm. While states might institute waiting periods for different reasons (e.g., to allow for background checks), these delays also create a “cooling off”...
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- August 2016 (Revised March 2019)
- Case
Tom Kalil: Leading Technology & Innovation at the White House
By: Linda A. Hill and Allison J. Wigen
This case explores the role of Tom Kalil as Deputy Director for Technology & Innovation at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. With the end of President Obama's Administration drawing near, Kalil and his team of "policy entrepreneurs" must work to...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Innovation Leadership;
Government Innovation;
Talent Management;
Collaboration;
Policy-making;
Public Sector Management;
Leadership And Managing People;
Public-Private Partnerships;
Ecosystems;
Science And Technology Studies;
Public Entrepreneurship;
Business And Government;
Entrepreneurship;
Government and Politics;
Leadership;
Networks;
Partners and Partnerships;
Science;
Technology;
Technology Industry;
North and Central America;
United States;
District of Columbia
Hill, Linda A., and Allison J. Wigen. "Tom Kalil: Leading Technology & Innovation at the White House." Harvard Business School Case 417-021, August 2016. (Revised March 2019.)
- Article
Tax Aversion in Labor Supply
By: Judd B. Kessler and Michael I. Norton
In a real-effort laboratory experiment, labor supply decreases more with the introduction of a tax than with a financially equivalent drop in wages. This “tax aversion” is large in magnitude: when we decompose the productivity decrease that arises from taxation, we...
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Keywords:
Taxes;
Labor Supply;
Productivity;
Experiments;
Wages;
Human Capital;
Performance Productivity;
Taxation
Kessler, Judd B., and Michael I. Norton. "Tax Aversion in Labor Supply." Special Issue on Taxation, Social Norms and Compliance. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 124 (April 2016): 15–28.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Executives' Financial Preferences and Shareholder Tax Outcomes
By: Gerardo Pérez Cavazos and Andreya M. Perez-Silva
We demonstrate that executives’ personal financial preferences impact both layers of shareholder taxes, corporate taxes and corporate payouts. We reconstruct executives’ insider equity portfolios to quantify their personal incentives and analyze stock sales that reveal...
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Keywords:
Executives;
Capital Gain;
Dividends;
Effective Tax Rate;
Tax Avoidance;
Taxation;
Management Teams;
Business and Shareholder Relations
Pérez Cavazos, Gerardo, and Andreya M. Perez-Silva. "Executives' Financial Preferences and Shareholder Tax Outcomes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-034, September 2015.
- September 30, 2011
- Article
The Mirage of Corporate Tax Reform
By: Robert C. Pozen
Pozen, Robert C. "The Mirage of Corporate Tax Reform." Washington Post (September 30, 2011).
- June 1992 (Revised August 1992)
- Case
Parker-Spencer: The Legal Form of Joint Ventures
Parker Co., a U.S. based agricultural chemical company with $4 billion in sales, has agreed to a joint venture with Spencer, Inc., a smaller U.S. based company, to develop and market a new herbicide for corn. The two companies must consider marketing, tax, and...
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Keywords:
Business Organization;
Joint Ventures;
Taxation;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Chemical Industry;
United States
Wilson, G. Peter, and Jane Palley Katz. "Parker-Spencer: The Legal Form of Joint Ventures." Harvard Business School Case 192-155, June 1992. (Revised August 1992.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
Rethinking the Role of History in Law & Economics: The Case of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927
By: David A. Moss and Jonathan B. Lackow
In the study of law and economics, there is a danger that historical inferences from theory may infect historical tests of theory. It is imperative, therefore, that historical tests always involve a vigorous search not only for confirming evidence, but for...
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Keywords:
Economic History;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Government Legislation;
Law;
Media and Broadcasting Industry
Moss, David A., and Jonathan B. Lackow. "Rethinking the Role of History in Law & Economics: The Case of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-008, August 2008.