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Curriculum - Case Method Project
theories; majority rule vs. tyranny of the majority; dangers of small republics; “expanding the sphere”; the Constitutional Convention; origins of American federalism, Articles I-III of the U.S. Constitution In Detail: Debt and Paper...
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Help - Alumni
made by December 31 following the reunion and should be fulfilled by the following June 30. Non-Reunion Pledges: Must be paid by June 30th fiscal year close to be counted in giving totals and listed in the School's Contributors Report....
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- 12 Apr 2022
- Book
Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence
Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new...
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by Avery Forman
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Abstract—Himachal Pradesh outperforms other Indian states in implementing universal primary education. Through comparative field research, this article finds that bureaucratic norms—unwritten rules that guide public officials—influence...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Students on the Job Market - Doctoral
efficacy of two technology-enabled policy interventions in a developing country to reduce the shadow economy. Specifically, I find that mandating the use of online Electronic Fiscal Devices (EFDs), which provide regulators with real-time...
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Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Macroeconomics Competitiveness Sound Monetary & Fiscal Policies Human Development & Effective Political Institutions Endowments Productivity ultimately depends on improving the microeconomic capability of the economy and the...
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- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
economic harm that system operators could prevent or mitigate. Although the legal system can respond, regulations have mixed results. I examine the applicable legal rules that constrain online fraud and the economic underpinnings to...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
directly estimate the practical capacity of the resources supplied as a percentage of the theoretical capacity. There are various ways to do this. As a rule of thumb, you could simply assume that practical full capacity is 80 percent to...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
earnings growth by 6%. Consistent with the hypothesis that this effect derives from the local demand channel, we find that consumption is less responsive to local labor demand shocks in counties with more generous benefits. Our analysis finds that the local View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
establishing some stylized facts about the fine-grained structure of large, real-world technical systems. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2277795 Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz...
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Anna Secino
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
Panama Canal was the Battle of Guadalcanal and the United States had the initiative at Guadalcanal, and could therefore choose when it wanted to attack. Shutting down the Panama Canal for a year would have raised the fiscal cost of the...
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- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
and explained that the School is complying with the Supreme Court’s recent ruling regarding admissions while still ensuring HBS classroom diversity in support of the case method. She added that the School is doing more work on...
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- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
The dot-com boom of the 1990s had changed the rules of business forever, it seemed; all you needed was a sexy IPO, cold nerve, and the magic carpet of momentum trading. But even as entrepreneurs and venture capitalists were dismissing...
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- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
too narrow, or underconfident. When combining probability forecasts, users need to adjust for those individual tendencies. Measuring accuracy and tracking performance are crucial to improving forecasts. Just as there are different methods to combine forecasts, there...
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Laarits & Jeffrey Wurgler MAR 2022 What is the role of fiscal stimulus in the stock market? The authors study the stock market effects of the arrival of the three rounds of “stimulus checks” to U.S. taxpayers and the single round of...
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- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World...
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- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
ruling radical left-wing SYRIZA party. During the campaign, Mitsotakis pledged to bulldoze the barriers that have long made Greece a difficult place to do business and set spinning a virtuous cycle of foreign and domestic investment, job...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
financial crisis, but they may be hard to get rid of. The Washington political system struggles to deal with this gigantic fiscal challenge, and—no surprise—large tax increases and large expenditure reductions are not high on politicians'...
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by Staff
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
will be critical to their success. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51813 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
was roughly half as large as prior estimates have suggested. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55509 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk...
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Dina Gerdeman