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- March 2008
- Article
Market Reactions to Export Subsidies
By: M. A. Desai and James R. Hines Jr.
This paper analyzes the economic impact of export subsidies by investigating stock price reactions to a critical event in 1997. On November 18, 1997, the European Union announced its intention to file a complaint before the World Trade Organization (WTO), arguing that...
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Keywords:
Economic Systems;
Trade;
Development Economics;
Financial Markets;
Profit;
Taxation;
Volume;
Value Creation;
Market Design;
Business Subsidiaries;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Europe;
North and Central America
Desai, M. A., and James R. Hines Jr. "Market Reactions to Export Subsidies." Journal of International Economics 74, no. 2 (March 2008).
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age
audiences. “We knew we wanted to bring the distinctive features of the HBS classroom — real-world cases and problem solving, active learning, and peer engagement — online,” says Professor Bharat Anand, a member of the initial development...
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- March 2007
- Teaching Note
Canyon Johnson Urban Fund (TN)
Teaching note to 706442.
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- March 2010 (Revised May 2013)
- Supplement
Chile's Copper Surplus: The Road Not Taken (B)
By: Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini and Renee Kim
In 2009, Chile's Finance Minister Andres Velasco's fortunes had been reversed. His fiscal policy that had come under attack just a year ago had been used to finance a $4 billion fiscal stimulus package amid the global economic downturn. Velasco was now Chile's most...
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Keywords:
Developing Countries and Economies;
Financial Crisis;
Financial Strategy;
Financing and Loans;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Chile
Alfaro, Laura, Dante Roscini, and Renee Kim. "Chile's Copper Surplus: The Road Not Taken (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 710-020, March 2010. (Revised May 2013.)
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
Both of these factors change as the venture grows. As more people are hired and the founder begins sharing control with non-founders, and as the venture develops and formalizes systems and processes that make it less dependent on the...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
associate dean for Faculty Development and Research and faculty director of the Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability Project. “The national unemployment rate early in the pandemic had jumped to over 13...
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April White
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
among US millennials. Climate Change Challenges Facing the Real Estate Industry Arthur Segal and a Boston Properties EVP talk about the difficulty of financing development in coastal cities and the need to retrofit buildings to reduce...
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- September 2011 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Liberia
By: Eric Werker and Jasmina Beganovic
From 1989 to 2003 civil war raged in Liberia, causing GDP per capita to drop an unprecedented 90% from peak to trough. The roots of Liberia's conflict and economic decline are complex and intertwined, resting on over a century of discriminatory elite rule and twisted...
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Keywords:
War;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Financial Crisis;
Government and Politics;
Macroeconomics;
Liberia
Werker, Eric, and Jasmina Beganovic. "Liberia." Harvard Business School Case 712-011, September 2011. (Revised March 2014.)
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
participate in their own financial future. If I think about the people who make up Robinhood, it’s people who are humble, people who want to have an impact, and people who have a passion for the customers we are serving. We have scaled...
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- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
history. As the 68-year-old real estate developer navigates the central business district, he sketches an idiosyncratic map of the city—almost three decades of knowledge of what each piece of property used to be, what it could have been,...
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
and—inspired by a guest speaker, an electrical engineer who said he made $300 a week, a distant dream to a boy in his circumstances—an electrical engineer. But given his family's financial limitations, college was not a realistic hope for...
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- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
Zofnass Photo courtesy Paul Zofnass A longtime environmentalist, Paul Zofnass (MBA 1973) founded the Environmental Financial Consulting Group (EFCG) in 1990, after 17 years in finance at Citibank and at Oppenheimer (where he was managing...
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- December 2010 (Revised October 2021)
- Case
Silver Lake
By: David J. Collis and Elizabeth A. Kind
Dave Roux, co-founder and chairman of Silver Lake, a private equity (PE) firm specializing in technology investments, was meeting with the firm's investment committee via video conference to discuss options for Silver Lake's future growth. While the private equity...
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Keywords:
Growth and Development Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Private Equity;
Expansion;
Global Range;
Financial Services Industry
Collis, David J., and Elizabeth A. Kind. "Silver Lake." Harvard Business School Case 711-420, December 2010. (Revised October 2021.)
- 25 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal
think either we could hire more people to generate more ideas, or we could pursue auction deals. It takes time, though, to develop experience in this space, and I don't think we could hire enough people to View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
SCHARPF: Seeking cost-effective raw materials in Rwanda. Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA ’07) is on a roll. Determined to put her MBA skills to work addressing socioeconomic and public health problems in developing nations, she has launched a...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
A World of Information at Your Fingertips
database of 3.5 million companies, and Vault, a career development Web site. The service also provides seven business research sources without charge, including: databases from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge vault about building a business in a down economy, motivating the troops, and other current topics. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6232.html. Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting Standards? Why do...
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- March 2010
- Teaching Note
New York Life and Immediate Annuities (TN)
By: Julio J. Rotemberg and John T. Gourville
Teaching Note for [510040].
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- April 2002 (Revised October 2003)
- Case
Pension Plan of Bethlehem Steel, 2001, The
By: Peter Tufano
Bethlehem Steel's 2001 bankruptcy filing inspires an employee's daughter to evaluate her father's pension plan, weeks after September 11's tragedies exacerbated a weakening U.S. economy and just months before her father planned to retire. Battered equity markets and...
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Tufano, Peter, Zvi Bodie, and Akiko M. Mitsui. "Pension Plan of Bethlehem Steel, 2001, The." Harvard Business School Case 202-088, April 2002. (Revised October 2003.)
- August 1997 (Revised September 1997)
- Case
GMIMCo Venture Capital: September 1996
By: Josh Lerner, Peter Wendell and Catherine M. Conneely
Kathryn Stokel must choose between three venture capital groups (if any) in which to invest the pension fund of General Motors Corp. Each has distinct strengths and weaknesses.
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