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- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
awareness. We use a network approach to demonstrate that the connections between two countries through joint-membership in the same IGOs are associated with a large positive influence on the foreign direct investment that flows between them. Moreover, we show that this...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
and face disincentive effects from taxation but acquire positive benefits from public infrastructure. Political corruption governs the efficiency with which tax revenues are translated into infrastructure. The model predicts an inverted-U...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent by tracking its short-run effect on aggregate demand, prices, the national accounts, savings, and the balance of payments. We find that aid is mostly consumed, primarily...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
capital ought to flow across country borders with minimal restriction and regulation. Freedom for capital movements became the new orthodoxy. In an intellectual, legal, and political history of financial globalization, Rawi Abdelal shows...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44800 Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract—Minimum capital requirements are a central tool of banking regulation....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Management Journal The Ethnic Migrant Inventor Effect: Codification and Recombination of Knowledge Across Borders By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Do Yoon Kim Abstract—Ethnic migrant inventors may differ from locals in terms of the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
that internal agglomerations have a positive impact on location. The effects of internal agglomerations vary by activity, and they arise both within an activity (e.g., among plants) and across activities (e.g., between sales and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
borders with minimal restriction and regulation. In fact, two very different visions for financial globalization have been in conflict. The U.S. approach to globalization has been ad hoc, relying on the bilateral influence of the U.S....
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by Ann Cullen
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
development due to corrupt business practices? Will it be able to enact more effective reforms? Jones: The latest Corruptions Perceptions Index ranks Turkey as 78 out of 180 countries in their level of corruption, more corrupt than China...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
We are in a unique moment in time, where the United States’ chance to make a difference on climate is greater – and more necessary – than ever. With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August, business leaders have a nearly $370 billion opportunity to...
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- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
Designed around the course 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...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
result of that meeting, and subsequent introductions, Levitt found a home in the Marketing area at HBS. “That sequence of events had a powerful effect on him,” remembers Peter Levitt. “He learned the power of writing.” In 1985, HBS...
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- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
90th percentile of corruption are much lower across the board. We make progress towards causality through Granger-style tests and by considering periphery counties where effective tax policy is largely driven by View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
high levels of inequality. While closing the borders of small markets to globalization has been a recipe for slow growth and low productivity, opening them all too often is a recipe for instability and shocks. View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
renewables, the increasing concern about global warming actually effecting daily lives, major corporate renewable buyers and the war in Ukraine, you have major tailwinds for our industry. Then you add on the passage of the IRA, and the...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Science Museum: “We’re changing the cultural landscape of an entire city.” The Hub in the Heart of Texas The success of any large-scale project usually comes down to the effective management of hundreds and hundreds of small, pressing...
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- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
magazine's offices on his way to a job interview at Dartmouth College. As a result of that meeting, and subsequent introductions, Levitt found a home in the Marketing area at HBS. "That sequence of events had a powerful effect on...
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- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
that his or her followers accord the organization, including its values, its charter, and those charged with serving as stewards of these critical aspects. We have yet to see Mr. Trump evidence such respect or incite it among his fellow Americans. Anyone we would say...
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
focus: patient experience, provider experience, population health, and value. “The knock-on effects of delayed surgeries, delayed treatments, and mental health issues will require a new level of care that will be just as important as with...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
retired Dean of the Harvard Business School. John Hector McArthur was born in 1934 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and grew up somewhere between the right side of the tracks and the wrong side of the tracks in a suburb called Burnaby, which View Details