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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
Getting Reality on the Table One of the country's foremost experts on money laundering and illegal flight capital, Raymond W. Baker (MBA '60) set out for Africa one year after graduating from HBS, seeking "a taste of international...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It (Princeton University Press), HBS finance and entrepreneurial management expert Josh Lerner...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money
corporations, and fake transactions. The practice bolsters international crime and terrorism and contributes to global inequality and poverty, he writes. A guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a senior fellow at the Center for...
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- 01 Jan 1978
- Conference Presentation
United States Aid and Foreign Direct Investment in Egypt
By: L. T. Wells Jr.
- Profile
Jessica Kramer
into finance, but into her own values. “I got a front-row seat to the financial crisis of 2008,” Jessica says. But even with the crisis aside, she began to wonder if finance was the right fit for her. “I saw that my boss was doing exactly...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Silver Lining
Despite the grim headlines, Sanjay Bhatnagar (MBA ’93) knows there’s a silver lining in Enron’s dark corporate cloud. In 1997, while supervising the company’s energy operations in South Asia, Bhatnagar worked with Andrea Miller, a member of Enron’s View Details
- January 1990
- Case
Citibank in Zaire (Abridged)
By: James E. Austin
Keywords:
Banks and Banking;
International Finance;
Banking Industry;
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Austin, James E. "Citibank in Zaire (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 390-098, January 1990.
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Lerner Honored for Research
Lerner The most esteemed international prize in entrepreneurship research was awarded in February to HBS professor Josh Lerner, author or coauthor of five books, including most recently Boulevard of Broken Dreams, the first in-depth...
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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Brazil Banks on Experience
of Goi ás as a member of a party that opposed Lula’s Workers Party. “Despite being a member of the outgoing governing party and making his career in international finance, Mr. Meirelles won points with Mr. da Silva partly because of his...
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Finance
- December 1978 (Revised December 1985)
- Case
Citibank in Zaire
By: James E. Austin
Keywords:
Banks and Banking;
International Finance;
Banking Industry;
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Austin, James E. "Citibank in Zaire." Harvard Business School Case 379-077, December 1978. (Revised December 1985.)
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alfaro Named Young Global Leader
HBS associate professor Laura Alfaro, an expert on international capital flows, foreign direct investment, and sovereign debt, has been named a Young Global Leader 2008 by the World Economic Forum. The honor recognizes the top 200 to 300...
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- November 2012 (Revised November 2013)
- Case
Persephone's Pomegranate: Crédit Agricole and Emporiki
By: Dante Roscini, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Jerome Lenhardt
In 2006 the French bank Crédit Agricole bought the Greek Emporiki bank, for €2.8 billion, at the peak of a bull market for bank takeovers. Six years, a major financial crisis, and €5.2 billion of losses later, in a context of great uncertainty in the European banking...
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Keywords:
Business and Government Relations;
Currency;
Development Economics;
International Finance;
International Relations;
Banking Industry;
Greece
Roscini, Dante, Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Jerome Lenhardt. "Persephone's Pomegranate: Crédit Agricole and Emporiki." Harvard Business School Case 713-055, November 2012. (Revised November 2013.)
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
questions about the future of dispersed ownership and the separation between management and ownership,” says Viceira. “The way we answer these questions may literally determine the future of capitalism.” Related Reading: Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal...
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- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
trend in global labor markets. In the end, students grapple with a very recent phenomenon for entrepreneurial companies—they may start global for the first phases of development and then consolidate into a single location, the opposite of...
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Marques Torbert
Although Marques Torbert is too well-mannered to say so himself, he projects an aura of potential that naturally attracts opportunities his way. “My family doesn’t have a background in business or finance or higher education,” Marques...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
an organization creates significant social value, we don’t care how it sustains itself — with internally generated surplus or with donor funds. Americans give roughly $300 billion a year to nonprofits, yet we really don’t know much about...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
microprocessors. Equally important, the idea of stock options for employees and the use of venture capital financing became a standard part of the nascent high-technology industry. As one of the founding fathers of venture capital - and...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
International Finance A Casebook by Mihir A. Desai (John Wiley & Sons) These case studies, by Associate Professor Desai, consider how major financial and investment decisions must adapt to the opportunities...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Oscar Winners
service." The three men—who have experience with tech companies such as Instagram, MakerBot, Microsoft, and Vostu, which Kushner cofounded—are backed by $40 million in venture capital. Said Nazemi, who first flashed his entrepreneurial...
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- August 2015
- Article
Dollar Funding and the Lending Behavior of Global Banks
By: Victoria Ivashina, David S. Scharfstein and Jeremy C. Stein
A large share of dollar-denominated lending is done by non-U.S. banks, particularly European banks. We present a model in which such banks cut dollar lending more than euro lending in response to a shock to their credit quality. Because these banks rely on wholesale...
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Keywords:
Banks;
Global Banks;
Credit Supply;
Dollar Funding;
International Finance;
Banks and Banking;
Banking Industry
Ivashina, Victoria, David S. Scharfstein, and Jeremy C. Stein. "Dollar Funding and the Lending Behavior of Global Banks." Quarterly Journal of Economics 130, no. 3 (August 2015): 1241–1281.