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- 12 May 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Elusive Safety: The New Geography of Capital Flows and Risk
- 2018
- Book
American Capitalism: New Histories
By: Sven Beckert and Christine Desan
The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, huge industrial working class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal... View Details
Beckert, Sven and Christine Desan, eds. American Capitalism: New Histories. Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
- September 1997
- Background Note
Note on Political Risk Analysis
By: Debora L. Spar
Describes the emergence and subsequent decline of the political risk analysis industry. Discusses what political risk means for multinational firms and various ways in which firms have tried to analyze and grapple with these risks. View Details
Spar, Debora L., Heidi Deringer, and Jennifer Wang. "Note on Political Risk Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 798-022, September 1997.
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
emerging paradigms governing marketing in this new media environment. It concludes that while meaning-making remains the central purpose of marketing communication, the shift from broadcasting to interaction within digital communities is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607064 Ascent Media Group (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 607-080 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607080 Behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed—and What to Do About It Author: Josh Lerner Publication: Princeton University Press, forthcoming Abstract In response to the financial crisis, governments are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2024
- Working Paper
Trade Policy in the Shadow of Conflict: The Case of Dual-use Goods
By: Maxim Alekseev and Xinyue Lin
Policymakers increasingly use trade instruments to address national security concerns. This paper studies optimal policy for dual-use goods, items with both military and civilian applications. We begin by documenting that regulation and trade flows of dual-use goods... View Details
- August 2022
- Article
Availability of New Medicines in the U.S. and Germany From 2004 to 2018
By: Katharina Blankart, Huseyin Naci and Amitabh Chandra
Importance: Germany's unique approach to coverage determination and pricing has ensured that effective medicines remain on the market, often at prices reduced through negotiation. However, less is known about trade-offs of this approach with regard to initial... View Details
Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Price; Market Timing; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Germany
Blankart, Katharina, Huseyin Naci, and Amitabh Chandra. "Availability of New Medicines in the U.S. and Germany From 2004 to 2018." e2229231. JAMA Network Open 5, no. 8 (August 2022).
- September 2011
- Article
How Did Increased Competition Affect Credit Ratings?
The credit rating industry has historically been dominated by just two agencies, Moody's and S&P, leading to longstanding legislative and regulatory calls for increased competition. The material entry of a third rating agency (Fitch) to the competitive landscape offers... View Details
Keywords: Credit; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competition; Forecasting and Prediction; Theory
Becker, Bo, and Todd Milbourn. "How Did Increased Competition Affect Credit Ratings?" Journal of Financial Economics 101, no. 3 (September 2011): 493–514.
- November 2012
- Supplement
Shenzhen Development Bank (CW)
By: Yuhai Xuan
- November 1999 (Revised April 2002)
- Case
International Business Machines Corporation (B)
By: David F. Hawkins
IBM changes pension plan from a defined benefit plan to a cash-balance plan. Teaching purpose: To understand pension accounting. View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Transformation; Business Earnings; Private Sector; Personal Finance; Cash; Information Infrastructure; Taxation; Computer Industry; Accounting Industry
Hawkins, David F. "International Business Machines Corporation (B)." Harvard Business School Case 100-033, November 1999. (Revised April 2002.)
- October 2017
- Supplement
Snap Inc. Goes Public (B)
By: Lynn Sharp Paine and Will Hurwitz
Supplements the (A) case.
Snap Inc.’s chairman must decide how to address investor concerns about the company’s unprecedented plans to issue only non-voting shares in its upcoming IPO. View Details
Snap Inc.’s chairman must decide how to address investor concerns about the company’s unprecedented plans to issue only non-voting shares in its upcoming IPO. View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Going Public; Business and Shareholder Relations; Leadership; Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Venture Capital; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States; California
Paine, Lynn Sharp, and Will Hurwitz. "Snap Inc. Goes Public (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 318-049, October 2017.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890–1950
By: Aldo Musacchio
The early development of large multidivisional corporations in Latin America required much more than capable managers, new technologies, and large markets. Behind such corporations was a market for capital in which entrepreneurs had to attract investors to buy either... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Governance Controls; Contracts; Laws and Statutes; Ownership Stake; Brazil
Musacchio, Aldo. "Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890–1950." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-053, January 2008.
- 2003
- Chapter
Chains of Ownership, Regional Tax Competition, and Foreign Direct Investment
By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
Desai, Mihir A., C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. "Chains of Ownership, Regional Tax Competition, and Foreign Direct Investment." In Foreign Direct Investment in the Real and Financial Sector of Industrial Countries, edited by Heinz Herrmann and Robert Lipsey, 61–98. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2003.
- May 2017
- Case
ATH Technologies: Making the Numbers
By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard
An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth, 3) push to profitability, 4) relocation process, and 5) takeover by new management. At each stage, students must... View Details
Keywords: Balancing Innovation And Control; Performance Evaluation; Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Risk Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Profit; Geographic Location; Governance Controls; Innovation and Invention; Management Succession; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Simons, Robert, and Jennifer Packard. "ATH Technologies: Making the Numbers." Harvard Business School Case 117-012, May 2017.
- June 2003 (Revised July 2003)
- Teaching Note
India on the Move (TN)
Teaching Note for (9-703-050). View Details
- 2011
- Case
Wrapitup
By: W. Earl Sasser
A restaurant chain based in California offers made-to-order sandwich wraps using fresh, healthy ingredients. The founders of the company take a very active role in day-to-day business and tightly control every aspect of the restaurant operation from hiring store... View Details
- Editorial
How to Turn Around a Country
By: Paul Kazarian and George Serafeim
Change is hard. Especially trying to change an entire country and its public sector that consists of more than 650,000 employees and has an annual budget of approximately 80 billion euros. This is the case of Greece, once the fastest-growing eurozone country, which has... View Details
Keywords: Greece; Europe; European Union; Turnaround; Accountability; Sovereign Finance; Leadership; Corporate Accountability; Public Sector; Accounting; Economic Growth; Change; European Union; Greece
Kazarian, Paul, and George Serafeim. "How to Turn Around a Country." Kathimerini (January 19, 2016).
- October 2019
- Article
Partial Deregulation and Competition: Effects on Risky Mortgage Origination
By: Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani and Sanket Korgaonkar
We exploit the OCC's preemption of national banks from state laws against predatory lending as a quasi-experiment to study the effect of deregulation and its interaction with competition on the supply of complex mortgages. Following the preemption ruling, national... View Details
Keywords: Great Recession; Subprime; Complex Mortgages; Credit Supply; Household Debt; Preemption Rule; Competition; Mortgages; Government Legislation; Credit; Financial Crisis
Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Sanket Korgaonkar. "Partial Deregulation and Competition: Effects on Risky Mortgage Origination." Management Science 65, no. 10 (October 2019).
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
focuses on scaling a venture's sales process and provides a methodology for identifying core customers and some implications for governance criteria and potential product changes as well as sales management. Paper: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne