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- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
View, California-based medical device company had been cash flow positive for seven consecutive quarters with annual revenues over $70 million. Since 2007, it had shipped well over 1.5 million of its...
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Sean Silverthorne
- January 2005 (Revised October 2005)
- Case
Private Capital and Public Policy: Standard & Poor's Sovereign Credit Ratings
By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Christopher Bruner
Describes Standard & Poor's sovereign credit ratings business. Provides background on the history of credit ratings agencies, the meaning of credit ratings, the expansion of the sovereign ratings business over recent decades, and the market for credit ratings. Also,...
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Sovereign Finance;
History;
Policy;
Business and Government Relations;
International Finance;
Country;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Capital Markets;
Debates;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Abdelal, Rawi E., and Christopher Bruner. "Private Capital and Public Policy: Standard & Poor's Sovereign Credit Ratings." Harvard Business School Case 705-026, January 2005. (Revised October 2005.)
- 2017
- Chapter
Upgrading Regional Competitiveness: What Role for Regional Governments?
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The literature on the competitiveness of locations has traditionally focused on countries. Over the last decade, however, subnational regions have gained increasing attention both as a level of analysis and as a level for policy making. This chapter aims to explore...
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Competitiveness;
Regions;
Economic Policy;
Competition;
Geographic Scope;
Governance;
Economy;
Policy
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Upgrading Regional Competitiveness: What Role for Regional Governments?" Chap. 22 in Handbook of Regions and Competitiveness: Contemporary Theories and Perspectives on Economic Development, edited by Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson, 501–517. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.
- February 1999 (Revised March 2001)
- Background Note
Offshore Corporations: A Brief Introduction
Examines activities of offshore financial centers. The text documents the growth and uses of offshore corporations.
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Kennedy, Robert E., and Brian Irwin. "Offshore Corporations: A Brief Introduction." Harvard Business School Background Note 799-119, February 1999. (Revised March 2001.)
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
II, hundreds of billions of federal dollars flowed through agencies like the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, the...
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- April 2010
- Case
Jones Electrical Distribution
By: Thomas R. Piper and Jeffrey DeVolder
Jones Electrical Distribution is faced with a need for increased bank financing due to its rapid sales growth. Students must determine the reasons for the rising bank borrowing, estimate the amount of borrowing needed and assess the attractiveness of the loan to the...
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Financial Analysis;
Forecasting;
Financing;
Bank Loans;
Growth Management;
Cash Flow;
Financing and Loans;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Distribution Industry
Piper, Thomas R., and Jeffrey DeVolder. "Jones Electrical Distribution." Harvard Business School Brief Case 104-179, April 2010.
- 28 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Real Estate
Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event:...
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- February 2023
- Teaching Note
Bangladesh: Into the Maelstrom
In the fall of 2018, Rohima Begum considered her options as the small island, or “char,” on which her family’s house rested slowly but inescapably eroded into the mighty Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh. Should she move to another island or into the city on the...
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- April 1998
- Case
Responding to 21st Century Financial Crisis
By: Huw Pill
During the 1990s, financial crises appear to have been almost annual events. Examples abound: the collapse of S & Ls in the United States; currency mayhem in Europe; Mexican devaluation and banking crisis; Japanese banks teetering on the verge of default; currency and...
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Pill, Huw. "Responding to 21st Century Financial Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 798-090, April 1998.
- 14 Feb 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Capturing Value from IP in a Global Environment
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
model reconfigurations. We consider three business models: the proprietary model (where all software modules offered by the firm are proprietary), the open source model (where all modules are open source), and the mixed source model (where a few modules are open). When...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
congestion at airports and in the air. In Equitable and Efficient Coordination in Traffic Flow Management, a paper recently accepted for publication in Transportation Science and coauthored with Cynthia Barnhart View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS to Host Venture Capital Forum for Women
the investment channels for women entrepreneurs and to facilitate the flow of deals. "In the last few years we have seen a tremendous increase in the numbers of women launching...
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Finance
- September 1999 (Revised November 2002)
- Background Note
Indian Software Industry in 2002, The
The Indian software industry, growing at more than 50% per annum and largely dependent on exports of services and products, is one of the few industries in that country considered to be globally competitive. This note allows a discussion of the uses and limits of...
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Geographic Location;
Competition;
Applications and Software;
Globalization;
Information Technology Industry;
India
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "Indian Software Industry in 2002, The." Harvard Business School Background Note 700-036, September 1999. (Revised November 2002.)
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In...
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- November 1998 (Revised July 2000)
- Case
Deere & Company: Sustaining Value
By: Malcolm S. Salter and Marlowe Dayley
The question facing Deere & Co. is whether or not to adopt some of the organizational technologies of private equity investors (decentralized equity holdings, use of leverage to control the disposition of cash flows, the externalization of the capital budgeting...
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Budgets and Budgeting;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Cash Flow;
Private Equity;
Wealth;
Adoption;
Manufacturing Industry
Salter, Malcolm S., and Marlowe Dayley. "Deere & Company: Sustaining Value." Harvard Business School Case 899-001, November 1998. (Revised July 2000.)
- March 1990 (Revised May 1993)
- Case
USSR--1990
Describes the political, economic, and social development of the USSR from 1921-90. Particular emphasis is placed on 1) institutional change, 2) the costs and benefits of central economic planning, and 3) the political economy of perestroika under Mikhail Gorbachev....
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Emmons, Willis M., III. "USSR--1990." Harvard Business School Case 390-155, March 1990. (Revised May 1993.)
- 24 May 2018
- Blog Post
Win/Win Board Assignments: Expert Advice from Board Recruiter Julie Norris
For many successful business people, retirement (or the advanced stages of their careers) is not a time to abandon old interests, but an opportunity to create new successes on the foundations of previous...
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- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
explosion of trade and capital flows created a world that looked in many ways like ours. Yet even in the early 20th century, there remained tensions of increasing inequality...
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by Staff;
Auto;
Aerospace;
Chemical;
Consumer Products;
Electronics;
Energy;
Industrial Products;
Manufacturing;
Shipping;
Transportation
- 2009
- Working Paper
The CHAT Dataset
By: Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn
This note accompanies the Cross‐country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an unbalanced panel dataset with information on the adoption of over 100 technologies in more than 150 countries since 1800. The data is available for download at:...
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Comin, Diego A., and Bart Hobijn. "The CHAT Dataset." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-035, November 2009.