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- 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 package of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
Review 90, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2012) Abstract The article argues that U.S. taxation reform should reduce corporate taxes, incorporate an awareness of the global marketplace, and generate revenue-neutral incentives for innovation....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2010
- Article
Corporate Governance at the World Bank and the Dilemma of Global Governance
By: Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker
Most major decisions at the World Bank are made by its Board of Executive Directors. While some countries enjoy the opportunity to serve on this powerful body, most countries rarely, if ever, get that chance. This gives rise to the question: does board membership lead...
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Corporate Governance;
Decisions;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Banks and Banking;
Financing and Loans;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Voting;
Globalized Economies and Regions
Kaja, Ashwin, and Eric Werker. "Corporate Governance at the World Bank and the Dilemma of Global Governance." World Bank Economic Review 24, no. 2 (2010).
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
foreign direct investment in an environment of politics, geography, globalization, and history. Since the end of apartheid, South Africa had undertaken substantial economic reforms in order to attract more foreign direct investment, but...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
article reviews recent research conducted by the authors that finds that intellectual property rights reform increases technology transfers, foreign direct investment inflows, and industrial development. It also places the findings of...
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- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
even economic reform or democratization. Almost any project can get hooked up to the idea of the nation, then used in a sense as part of nationalism. That's not to say that these are always good things. In fact, more often than not, what...
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by Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
Book: http://store.elsevier.com/Handbook-of-Safeguarding-Global-Financial-Stability/isbn-9780123978752/ Working PapersLeading Amidst Competing Technical and Institutional Demands: Revisiting Selznick's Conception of Leadership...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
contributed to the financial turmoil that followed. This performance has come under tremendous scrutiny by lawmakers and regulators, who are debating ways to reform the ratings industry. One prominent suggestion: increased competition....
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- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
agglomeration evident in the 1970s and 1980s. The heightened ethnic agglomeration is particularly evident in industry patents for high-tech sectors, and similar trends are not found in institutions constrained from agglomerating (e.g.,...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
of IFRS Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten Abstract If the differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology, the rule of law, etc.), why did several...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
http://www.cbspress.dk/Visning-af-titel.848.0.html?&cHash=3818d01f1b&ean=9788763002417&code=kommende The Case for Professional Boards Author:Robert C. Pozen Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010) Abstract When the world's largest...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
of the Tobin Project, a nonprofit research institute focused on catalyzing scholarship on important governmental problems. “The question is how to do that. My teacher, the Nobel economist James Tobin, told me that it’s better to build our...
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by Michael Blanding
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
western firms and universities, we test whether contextual knowledge is codified in the west by ethnic migrant inventors and spread by their ethnic networks. Our identification comes from an exogenous shock to the quota of H1B visas, and a list of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
Mosaic of Different Realities' A day after his inauguration as President of Mexico in 2012, Enrique Peña Nieto announced a Pact for Mexico—a slate of institutional reforms for education, energy, fiscal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
effect of the policy reforms on the entry of startups versus facility expansions by existing firms. We find that the deregulations reduced financing constraints, particularly among small startups, and improved allocative efficiency across...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
influence when the vast majority can't? The authors tracked 68 change initiatives in the UK's National Health Service, an organization whose size, complexity, and tradition can make reform difficult. They discovered several predictors of...
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Anna Secino
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
rural reform going to help or hinder CP's position in China, and was CP doing all it could to take advantage of these changes? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910418-PDF-ENG Todovino: Can Your Rival Be Your...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
fiscal obligations under bankruptcy-like proceedings. Many stakeholders felt hopeful that the Oversight Board could help Governor Ricardo Rosselló enact reforms that would improve public services, eliminate government waste, re-establish...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
multicultural social interactions in the context of negotiations, work teams, and global leadership. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50440 2015 Handbook of Qualitative Organizational Research: Innovative Pathways and Methods Studying...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
disruptors, produce profitable growth, and strengthen institutions at the community, national, and international levels. Publisher's Link: http://hbr.org/product/capitalism-at-risk-rethinking-the-role-of-business/an/13297-HBK-ENG...
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Sean Silverthorne