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      Do Strong Fences Make Strong Neighbors?

      By: Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
      Many features of U.S. tax policy towards multinational firms-including the governing principle of capital export neutrality, the byzantine system of expense allocation, and anti-inversion legislation-reflect the intuition that building "strong fences" around the United... View Details
      Keywords: International Taxation; Initial Public Offerings; Foreign Portfolio Investment; Policy; Taxation; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Initial Public Offering; Mergers and Acquisitions; Foreign Direct Investment; United States
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      Desai, Mihir, and Dhammika Dharmapala. "Do Strong Fences Make Strong Neighbors?" National Tax Journal 63, no. 4 (December 2010): 723–740.
      • 2010
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      Property Rights for Foreign Capital: Sovereign Debt and Private Direct Investment in Times of Crisis

      By: Louis T. Wells
      Keywords: Property; Rights; International Finance; Capital; Sovereign Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Financial Crisis
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      Wells, Louis T. "Property Rights for Foreign Capital: Sovereign Debt and Private Direct Investment in Times of Crisis." Chap. 12 in The Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy 2009-2010, edited by Karl Sauvant, 477–504. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
      • September 2010 (Revised May 2012)
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      Harvard Management Company (2010)

      By: Andre F. Perold and Erik Stafford
      In February 2010, Jane Mendillo, CEO of Harvard Management Company, was reflecting on the list of issues facing Harvard University's endowment in preparation for the upcoming board meeting. The recent financial crisis had vividly highlighted several key issues... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Higher Education; Asset Management; Financial Liquidity; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management; Education Industry; Financial Services Industry; Massachusetts
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      Perold, Andre F., and Erik Stafford. "Harvard Management Company (2010)." Harvard Business School Case 211-004, September 2010. (Revised May 2012.)
      • 2010
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      Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

      By: Nelson P. Repenning and Rebecca Henderson
      Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers"—delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer-term investments—makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive... View Details
      Keywords: Investment; Performance Improvement; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Management Practices and Processes; Revenue; Quality; Competency and Skills; Motivation and Incentives; Auto Industry; United States
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      Repenning, Nelson P., and Rebecca Henderson. "Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-033, September 2010.
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      Marginality and Problem-Solving Effectiveness in Broadcast Search

      By: Lars Bo Jeppesen and Karim R. Lakhani
      We examine who the winners are in science problem-solving contests characterized by open broadcast of problem information, self-selection of external solvers to discrete problems from the laboratories of large R&D intensive companies, and blind review of solution... View Details
      Keywords: Competition; Open Source Distribution; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Markets; Independent Innovation and Invention; Problems and Challenges; Research and Development; Gender; Science
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      Jeppesen, Lars Bo, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Marginality and Problem-Solving Effectiveness in Broadcast Search." Organization Science 21, no. 5 (September–October 2010): 1016–1033.
      • 2010
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      Report on the State of Available Data for the Study of International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment

      By: Robert C. Feenstra, Robert E. Lipsey, Lee G. Branstetter, C. Fritz Foley, James Harrigan, J. Bradford Jensen, Lori Kletzer, Catherine Mann, Peter K. Schott and Greg C. Wright
      This report, prepared for the Committee on Economic Statistics of the American Economic Association, examines the state of available data for the study of international trade and foreign direct investment. Data on values of imports and exports of goods are of high... View Details
      Keywords: Trade; Foreign Direct Investment; Price; Globalization; Policy; Information; Intellectual Property
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      Feenstra, Robert C., Robert E. Lipsey, Lee G. Branstetter, C. Fritz Foley, James Harrigan, J. Bradford Jensen, Lori Kletzer, Catherine Mann, Peter K. Schott, and Greg C. Wright. "Report on the State of Available Data for the Study of International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16254, August 2010.
      • July 2010 (Revised March 2012)
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      China 'Unbalanced'

      By: Diego A. Comin and Richard H.K. Vietor
      In 2010, Wen Jiabao looked back at the financial crisis with some satisfaction. Using aggressive fiscal and monetary policy, China had weathered the crisis successfully, growing 8.7% annually in 2010. Most of the unemployed workers had returned to work, often... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Trade; Currency Exchange Rate; Investment; Local Range; Growth and Development Strategy; Demand and Consumers; China
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      Comin, Diego A., and Richard H.K. Vietor. "China 'Unbalanced'." Harvard Business School Case 711-010, July 2010. (Revised March 2012.)
      • June 2010 (Revised September 2013)
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      IDFC India: Infrastructure Investment Intermediaries

      By: John D. Macomber and Viraal Balsari
      Indian financial intermediary matching international capital to local infrastructure decides how to balance range of services, risk-adjusted return, margin pressure, and nation building. IDFC was chartered with partial ownership from the Indian government to help... View Details
      Keywords: Investment; Infrastructure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; State Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; India
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      Macomber, John D., and Viraal Balsari. "IDFC India: Infrastructure Investment Intermediaries." Harvard Business School Case 210-050, June 2010. (Revised September 2013.)
      • 2010
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      Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance

      By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
      We examine in this paper the differential response of establishments to the global financial crisis, with particular emphasis on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in determining micro economic performance. Using a new worldwide dataset that reports the... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Local Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Production; Performance Evaluation; Networks
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      Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen. "Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-110, June 2010.
      • April 2010 (Revised March 2011)
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      Tata Nano The People's Car

      By: Krishna G. Palepu, Bharat N. Anand and Rachna Tahilyani
      The case explores how Tata Motors, India's largest automobile company, developed the Nano, the world's cheapest car. The case focuses on the translation of Ratan Tata's (chairman of Tata Motors) vision of a safe affordable car for the masses by Ravi Kant, managing... View Details
      Keywords: Price; Globalized Firms and Management; Disruptive Innovation; Emerging Markets; Business Processes; Quality; Competition; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; India
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      Palepu, Krishna G., Bharat N. Anand, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Tata Nano The People's Car." Harvard Business School Case 710-420, April 2010. (Revised March 2011.)
      • 2010
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      The Financing of R&D and Innovation

      By: Bronwyn H. Hall and Josh Lerner
      Evidence on the “funding gap” for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for underinvestment that exist even when externality-induced underinvestment is absent. We conclude that while small and new innovative firms experience high... View Details
      Keywords: Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Venture Capital; Corporate Finance
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      Hall, Bronwyn H., and Josh Lerner. "The Financing of R&D and Innovation." Chap. 14 in Handbook of the Economics of Innovation: Volume 1, by Bronwyn H. Hall and Nathan Rosenberg, 609–639. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2010.
      • February 2010
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      Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe (Abridged)

      By: Richard G. Hamermesh
      Shurgard, a U.S.-based firm that rents storage facilities to consumers and small businesses, is considering financing options for rapid expansion of its European operations. Five years after entering Europe, Shurgard Europe has opened 17 facilities in Belgium, France,... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Business Growth and Maturation; Multinational Firms and Management; Logistics; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Trade; Equity; Corporate Finance; United States; Europe
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      Hamermesh, Richard G. "Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 810-102, February 2010.
      • February 2010
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      Global Currency Hedging

      By: John Y. Campbell, Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros and Luis M. Viceira
      Over the period 1975 to 2005, the US dollar (particularly in relation to the Canadian dollar) and the euro and Swiss franc (particularly in the second half of the period) have moved against world equity markets. Thus these currencies should be attractive to... View Details
      Keywords: Currency; Equity; Financial Markets; International Finance; Investment Return; Globalized Markets and Industries; Risk Management
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      Campbell, John Y., Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros, and Luis M. Viceira. "Global Currency Hedging." Journal of Finance 65, no. 1 (February 2010): 87–121.
      • January 2010
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      Five and Six Dulles Station

      By: Arthur I Segel
      Cricket Real Estate Advisors needs to decide if they should invest in a proposed joint venture development with Buddy Holly & Associates. Holly is a successful northern Virginia office developer who plans to develop two buildings containing 232,750 rentable square... View Details
      Keywords: Valuation; Joint Ventures; Markets; Accounting Audits; International Finance; Agreements and Arrangements; Change; Strategic Planning; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Financial Management; Real Estate Industry
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      Segel, Arthur I. "Five and Six Dulles Station." Harvard Business School Case 210-047, January 2010.
      • 2010
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      Backlash to Arbitration: Three Causes

      By: Louis T. Wells

      There are at least three reasons for the current backlash among developing countries against the international regime that governs disputes between foreign investors and host governments. First is the inconsistency of the decisions rendered by arbitration panels... View Details

      Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Government Relations; Conflict Management
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      Wells, Louis T. "Backlash to Arbitration: Three Causes." Chap. 14 in The Backlash Against Investment Arbitration: Perceptions and Reality, edited by Michael Waibel, Asha Kaushal, Kyo-Hwa Chung, and Claire Balchin, 341–352. Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 2010.
      • 2010
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      Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture

      By: Laura Alfaro
      All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. International capital flows can significantly affect countries' development efforts and provide clear investment opportunities for businesses. During the 1990s and early... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations
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      Alfaro, Laura. Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, 2010.
      • 2009
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      Reorganize for Resilience: Putting Customers at the Center of Your Organization

      By: Ranjay Gulati
      In an era of raging commoditization and eroding profit margins, survival depends on resilience: staying one step ahead of your customers. Sure, most companies say they're "customer focused," but they don't deliver solutions to customers' thorniest problems. Why?... View Details
      Keywords: Competency and Skills; Customer Focus and Relationships; Profit; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Cooperation
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      Gulati, Ranjay. Reorganize for Resilience: Putting Customers at the Center of Your Organization. Harvard Business Press, 2009.
      • December 2009 (Revised April 2022)
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      Lyondell Chemical Company

      By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah Abbott
      Hit with an industry recession and the global financial crisis of 2008, in January 2009 LyondellBasell Industries AF S.C.A., one of the world's largest internationally diversified chemical companies headquartered in The Netherlands, placed its U.S. operations and a... View Details
      Keywords: Restructuring; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financing and Loans; International Finance; Crisis Management; Chemical Industry; Netherlands; United States
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      Gilson, Stuart C., and Sarah Abbott. "Lyondell Chemical Company." Harvard Business School Case 210-001, December 2009. (Revised April 2022.)
      • November 2009 (Revised January 2011)
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      International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

      By: Allen S. Grossman and Cathy Ross
      Dedicated to accelerating the development of a safe, effective, accessible, preventive HIV vaccine, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) pioneered ways of addressing the inadequate incentive structures that prevented progress toward vaccines for AIDS and... View Details
      Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Globalized Firms and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Business and Government Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Social Enterprise; Health Industry
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      Grossman, Allen S., and Cathy Ross. "International AIDS Vaccine Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 310-015, November 2009. (Revised January 2011.)
      • October 2009
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      Noble Group

      By: C. Fritz Foley, Michael Shih-ta Chen, Matthew Johnson and Linnea Meyer
      What role does trade finance play in facilitating global supply chain management? Richard S. Elman, founder and CEO of Noble Group Ltd., a global commodities trading company based in Hong Kong, must raise capital to support the firm's working capital and investment... View Details
      Keywords: Trade; Capital; Financing and Loans; International Finance; Globalized Firms and Management; Risk Management; Supply Chain Management; Hong Kong
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      Foley, C. Fritz, Michael Shih-ta Chen, Matthew Johnson, and Linnea Meyer. "Noble Group." Harvard Business School Case 210-021, October 2009.
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