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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Finance Corporation, she was recommended for a role at Egypt's Ministry of Finance in 2010, working in the Macro Fiscal Policy Unit with a focus on energy subsidies and state debt. Enan, then 24 years old, leapt at the chance to work for...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
namely its shift from a supplier and builder of affordable housing to an approach that focuses on demand-side solutions and indirect subsidies to private developers. In addition to a shift from supply-based to demand-based solutions,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Affordable Healthcare Act. Although the federal government offers a range of subsidies for healthcare policies obtained through these connectors, cities would still have to decide who should pay the remaining premiums on these policies....
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- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
government programs. [Editor's note: In a nutshell, regulatory capture refers to the tendency of regulators to favor, in effect, the interest of the industry they are supposed to be regulating rather than the public interest.] Any program that assigns View Details
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by Ann Cullen
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
financially benefit most from home delivery are more likely to choose it. Those who benefit least from insurance subsidies are more likely to make no active choice and lose those subsidies. The implicit default incentivizes people to make...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
a congested public streetcar. The inequity was further exacerbated by government-supported redlining that prevented Black Americans from subsidies and underwriting that effectively prohibited them from obtaining private financing for home...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation...
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- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
increased by 9.4% following the first managerial change. Our results highlight the important complementarities between incentives and management practices, especially in developing countries. A back-of-the-envelope calculation that suggests India could save on 9–24% of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
cost of capital due to the governmental subsidies accompanying loans. Next, examining the selection process through which BNDES' capital is allocated to firms, we find that BNDES apparently selects firms with good operational performance...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
households. In contrast, small subsidy payments have a large effect on the likelihood of opening a savings account. These payments are more than two times more cost-effective than the financial literacy training. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
most platform launches fail, what mistakes should managers and entrepreneurs avoid? Yoffie: We see four common problems across the data. The number one problem is how to price the product. The vast majority of platforms require subsidies...
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
exploring the conditions under which investable tax credits may be the most effective mechanism to deliver a production subsidy and discusses the desirability of employing investable tax credits in other policy domains. Estimates of tax...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Fundamental principles of intellectual property rights and agricultural subsidies are described, along with the challenges of creating and operating multilateral institutions. The note begins with a brief history of multilateral...
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- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
paper addresses these questions by analyzing the available evidence on two related claims: (1) that the current U.S. policy of deferring taxation of foreign profits represents a subsidy to American firms and (2) that activity abroad by...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
contrast, small subsidy payments have a large effect on the likelihood of opening a savings account. These payments are more than two times more cost-effective than the financial literacy training, though this calculation does not take...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
India, the government has begun delivering subsidy vouchers electronically to more than 10 million farmers, a measure that has increased the amount of fertilizer that makes it to smallholders from 11 percent to 94 percent. Masha returned...
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- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
and with new governmental subsidies in China, Japan, and the U.S., Suntech is shifting its focus—first to the U.S., and then to China and Japan. And it has recently moved downstream in the U.S., into systems integration and independent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
reflected both home country subsidies for wind energy and strong local content policies, while successful firms pursued successful strategies to acquire technologies and develop their own capabilities. Download the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
education program has modest effects, increasing demand for bank accounts only for those with low levels of education or financial literacy. In contrast, small subsidies greatly increase demand. A follow-up survey confirms these findings,...
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Sean Silverthorne