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- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
makers are being put to the test once again. Flooding money markets on Sunday (3/13) with ¥15 trillion (about $183 billion) was a sensible first step by the Bank of Japan, but the real challenge lies ahead. Prime Minister Naoko Kan's...
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
Brexit is Not Better for Britain Britain rarely has referendums, and for good reason. They call for binary decisions on complex issues, and voters have all sorts of reasons for voting one way or another. It is unprecedented that British Prime View Details
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by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Applied Corporate Finance Investors as Stewards of the Commons? By: Serafeim, George Abstract—Over the past few years, there has been a significant increase in the number of initiatives seeking to mobilize investor voice towards positive...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
brands" and a "branded house." Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511039-PDF-ENG Note on International Trade Finance C. Fritz Foley, Matthew Johnson, and David LaneHarvard Business School Note 211-007...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
extend their education, and develop workplace skills. They also receive support in personal areas where they need it, such as mental health, addiction recovery, and parenting. A Partnership Is Born Anderson’s own path was shaped by her family environment. Growing up...
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- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710019-PDF-ENG Chile's Copper Surplus: The Road Not Taken (B) Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini, and Renee KimHarvard Business School Supplement 710-020 In 2009, Chile's Finance View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
(inflows minus outflows of private capital) are positively correlated with countries' productivity growth; (2) net sovereign debt flows (government borrowing minus reserves) are negatively correlated with growth only if net public debt is View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
where one applicant out of 10,000 got a job at MITI — to change their world view and do something different Change is starting to occur. Officials are quitting MITI and the Ministry of Finance early. Prime View Details
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
expose the banking system to free market forces We will have to see if Prime Minister Xi is prepared (to expose) China’s shadow banking and rumored zombie banks to such a discipline.” China should not be an economic enemy, Greg reminded...
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by James Heskett
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
FemTech space,” says HBSWANY board member Heather Myers (MBA 1992). “And many of them are in finance and health industries.” Avestria was launched in 2019 to seize the “huge opportunities to focus on women founders,” Greub says, adding...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Alumni Books Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil by Ali Al-Naimi (AMP 82, 1979) (Penguin UK) Until May 7, 2016, Ali Al-Naimi was the Saudi oil minister (and an OPEC kingpin), a position he held...
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- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
level of sustainable growth. The Report has been developed by Vietnam's Central Institute for Economic Management and the Singapore-based Asia Competitiveness Institute upon the request of Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai. View the...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Harvard Asia Law Society, East Asian Caucus at the John F. Kennedy School of Government Keynote speakers: Dr. Soon-Hoon Bae, former Minister of Information & Communication, South Korea, former chairman & CEO, Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd.;...
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- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
must be profitable to be sustainable. Second, the WDC would take the initiative to target projects in countries that have a good chance of success, where the government is hospitable, the local business community eager for partners, and where public funds or low-cost...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
sorrows.” Retired since 2013, Quainton now serves as a mentor, helping new ministers find their vocation and calling. “That’s a major satisfaction for me,” he says. “They don’t have any private sector experience and can have trouble...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
assistance. Back in Paris, he telephoned the Ministry of Finance to report he would not be making an offer; the factory was a disaster. No, no, he was told—we’ll help you. “I said well, if the minister of...
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- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
worthless. The farmer, who had no clear title, was unable to fight back. This experience, which demonstrated the importance of understanding the system that leads to poverty in the first place, was reinforced several years ago, when the World Bank sent me to Kazakhstan...
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by George C. Lodge
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
clamped down. A lot of constraints were put on growth of companies, until Rajiv Gandhi became prime minister in 1984. Before that, a lot of multinationals—Coca Cola, Pepsi—decided to leave because the government wanted them to give a...
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- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Common. Guests included Natalie Jaresko (Harvard Kennedy School, MPP 1989), Ukraine's Minister of Finance (2014-16); Oleh Khalayim (Harvard Kennedy School, MPA 2004), Portfolio Officer at the World Bank,...
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- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
concern of firms financing biotechnology research is that the R&D firms might use the funding to subsidize other projects or substitute one project for another. We develop a model based on the property-rights theory of the firm that...
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Martha Lagace