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- 23 Oct 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey
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by Sari Pekkala Kerr & William R. Kerr
- Web
Placement - Doctoral
(Co-Chair), Carey Morewedge, and John T. Gourville 2018 Grant Donnelly Marketing, 2018 Placement: The Ohio State University, Fisher School of Business Dissertation: Essays on Enhancing Consumer Welfare...
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
Introduction - Ray Mabus Welfare Economics Corruption ShowHide Details Concepts The State The Role of Government Democracy and Alternatives Long-Term Growth Featured Exercises The Median Voter Theorem...
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- October 2007 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
World Economic Forum (A)
Covers strategy and leadership. World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab has created the world's most famous-and exclusive-global business conference, held annually in Davos, Switzerland, and backed by a formidable membership organization that includes many of the...
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Conferences;
Economics;
Globalization;
Leadership;
Social Enterprise;
Welfare;
Strategy;
Davos
Khanna, Tarun, Rakesh Khurana, and Forest L. Reinhardt. "World Economic Forum (A)." Harvard Business School Case 708-025, October 2007. (Revised May 2008.)
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
Trumbull, that unfettered marketplace has "virtually disappeared." "Today, arguably no other economic actor in the advanced industrial countries—not the investor, not the worker, not the welfare recipient—enjoys a more thorough set of...
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- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
emotion that's also appropriate for the one that you're actually feeling or or simply deciding to disregard your emotions, living in the living in the observational state as opposed to constantly looking in the mirrors around you making...
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by HBS Staff
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
1920–1928 Samuel B. ColgateColgate-Palmolive Company, 1933–1938 John L. CollyerB. F. Goodrich Company, 1939–1953 Samuel P. ColtUnited States Rubber Company, 1892–1918 Herman Cone IICone Mills Corporation, 1938–1950 John T. ConnorMerck &...
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- 14 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career
A few years ago, DJ DiDonna seemed to have everything going for him. He had started a successful venture called the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab, which used psychometric factors to help banks issuing microloans in the developing world avoid risk. “We created an...
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by Michael Blanding
- 2009
- Working Paper
Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism?: Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms
By: Mihir A. Desai
Tax policy toward American multinational firms would appear to be approaching a crossroads. The presumed linkages between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign...
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Multinational Firms and Management;
Policy;
Taxation;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
United States
Desai, Mihir A. "Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism?: Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-107, March 2009.
- 09 Jan 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand: Evidence from Urban China
- 21 Nov 2023
- Op-Ed
The Beauty Industry: Products for a Healthy Glow or a Compact for Harm?
In my recently published book Deeply Responsible Business, I write about business leaders since the 19th century who have acted responsibly, often by putting the welfare of their communities above the idea of maximizing profits. I make a sharp distinction between...
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- November 2014 (Revised March 2015)
- Case
Disrupting the Meat Industry: Tissue Culture Beef
By: Jose B. Alvarez and Matthew G. Preble
Dr. Mark Post and his team at Maastricht University were perfecting their tissue culture beef product—made entirely from muscle grown in his lab—to give it the same taste, texture and appearance of a traditional beef hamburger. A previous iteration of this product had...
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Innovation;
Beef Production;
Environmental Impacts Of Food Production;
Agribusiness;
Animal-Based Agribusiness;
Disruptive Innovation;
Innovation and Invention;
Environmental Sustainability;
Food;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Netherlands;
United States;
United Kingdom
Alvarez, Jose B., and Matthew G. Preble. "Disrupting the Meat Industry: Tissue Culture Beef." Harvard Business School Case 515-001, November 2014. (Revised March 2015.)
- 25 Sep 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Colocation and Scientific Collaboration: Evidence from a Field Experiment
- May 2017 (Revised July 2017)
- Supplement
Aadhaar: From Voluntary to Mandatory
By: Tarun Khanna, Anjali Raina and Rachna Chawla
Approximately 1.1 billion residents of India (99% of the population) had a unique biometric identity—Aadhaar—by 2017. In six years, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) had achieved an unprecedented milestone in emerging and developed markets. The...
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Entrepreneurship;
Business and Government Relations;
Emerging Markets;
Information;
Information Technology;
Organizational Design;
Infrastructure;
Identity;
Projects;
Information Management;
Government and Politics;
Digital Platforms;
Internet and the Web;
Transformation;
Society;
Welfare;
Social Issues;
Private Sector;
Public Sector;
Information Technology Industry;
Asia;
India;
New Delhi
Khanna, Tarun, Anjali Raina, and Rachna Chawla. "Aadhaar: From Voluntary to Mandatory." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-512, May 2017. (Revised July 2017.)
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
and will support students who are from the Middle East and North Africa. Mariam focuses on cultural preservation and educational outreach as cofounder of the Citizens Archive, and she oversees a grant from the US Department of State for...
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- June 2007 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
The Vanguard Group, Inc. in 2006 and Target Retirement Funds
By: Luis M. Viceira
The Vanguard Group is one of the largest asset managers in the U.S., with over $1 trillion in assets, ninety percent of which are mutual fund assets, and more than 12,000 employees at year-end 2006. Vanguard has built a strong reputation as the manager of reference for...
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Asset Management;
Investment Funds;
Personal Finance;
Brands and Branding;
Retirement;
Trust;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Viceira, Luis M. "The Vanguard Group, Inc. in 2006 and Target Retirement Funds." Harvard Business School Case 207-129, June 2007. (Revised January 2008.)
- 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
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
water purification solution. We find that higher prices screen out those who use the product less. By contrast, we find no consistent evidence of sunk-cost effects. Welfare Payments and Crime Author:C. Fritz Foley Publication:The Review...
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Martha Lagace
Raymond P. Kluender
Ray Kluender is an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, teaching Entrepreneurial Finance to second-year MBA students.
He studies the causes of financial distress among American households and how public policy,... View Details
- 09 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Publications September 2014 Cambridge University Press Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and Welfare By: Trumbull, Gunnar Abstract—Why did America embrace consumer credit over the course of the twentieth century, when most...
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Sean Silverthorne