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- 2018
- Working Paper
Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century
By: Ufuk Akcigit, John Grigsby, Tom Nicholas and Stefanie Stantcheva
This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the 20th century. We use three new datasets: a panel of the universe of inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location, and patents of firms...
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Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, Tom Nicholas, and Stefanie Stantcheva. "Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 24982, September 2018. (Forthcoming in Quarterly Journal of Economics.)
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
Choudhury, Prithwiraj Abstract—I study whether return migrants and their direct reports facilitate knowledge production and transfer across borders for multinationals. Using unique personnel and patenting data for 1,315 inventors at an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
possibility, in light of the lessons of the Kursk submarine rescue failure. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-003_f69cf9de-5517-4355-95c4-5555674a37ee.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 714-042...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
economists—had foreseen. The crisis raises questions about how competently financial institutions, such as mutual funds, managed their global capital investments. It raises questions about how effective the International Monetary Fund's...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
energy intensive. This effect is quantitatively substantial: going from the 25th to the 75th percentile of management practices is associated with a 17.4% reduction in energy intensity. Better managed firms are also significantly more...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
Tactics, deal design, and set-up are three crucial components of the most effective negotiations. Yet many negotiators focus only on the tactical part, running the risk of undermining their own best interests. How can you negotiate more...
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by Martha Lagace
- Person Page
Course Development
By: Debora L. Spar
Managing International Trade and Investment
Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details
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Senior Executive Program—Africa
to lead effectively and help your organization achieve ambitious goals. Design an effective strategy for business growth in an African context—within your country or across View Details
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Private Equity and Venture Capital
Summary Tax reforms, regulatory uncertainty, and global market volatility are creating a more complex investment environment, but the outlook for private equity remains strong. This investment management course provides the frameworks you need to improve your firm's...
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Strategic Negotiations
efficiencies by developing a systematic approach to managing negotiations Synchronize internal and external negotiations Address the complexities associated with multiple parties and agendas as well as evolving timeframes Negotiate View Details
- 01 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Confronting Climate Change in the Classroom and Beyond
learning experiences of every MBA student. Add in the Executive Education Agribusiness seminar, student sustainability associates, a climate-change focused alumni network, two new HarvardX courses, and a collaboration with WBUR’s CitySpace, and that infusion becomes...
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
cross-border flows of goods and capital affect firms’ and nations’ competitive positions, and analyze the effects of environmental change on the competitive landscape. Highlights Absolute Advantage - Static of Production Frontier Water...
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- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
that these effects were amplified for inventors with particular characteristics. As Marx explains, the results suggest that "star" or "specialist" inventors wishing to explore career opportunities may need to look...
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by Martha Lagace
- Web
Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research
advantageous position in the market — is integral to any business, and especially relevant for platforms because it determines their ability to achieve network effects and scale. But web3 fundamentally transforms the nature of competition...
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Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)
The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change....
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
domestic monetary policy may drive a bank to lend more in a foreign currency by its effect on the these currency hedges. Falk and Victoria show evidence supporting this channel of cross border shock...
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- 11 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains
scenarios are: A more stringent cap on immigration regardless of education and skills. A tougher approach on undocumented immigration, with enhanced border security and possibly a tougher limit on the number of unskilled immigrants, but a...
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by Rachel Layne
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Europe - Global
Europe Paris HBS opened the Europe Research Center (ERC) in Paris in 2003, to help HBS develop and strengthen relationships with European business and academic leaders. The ERC enables HBS faculty to study more effectively one of the...
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- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a multinational as the typical decision maker. Illustrated with examples from companies of all sizes...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Business History - Faculty & Research
margins of academic discourses and their own institutions. There was a constant struggle to define the borders of the field and the central research questions that it sought to answer. However, the commitment to engage with the...
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