International Financial Integration - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008

to the "Arauco: Forward Integration or Horizontal Expansion?" case. This short case looks at the company in late 2007 after it has decided to invest in a Brazilian joint venture involving forests, saw mills, and a paper mill.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Hayling Price

change While Hayling could make "compelling ethical and normative arguments for social and economic justice," he felt driven to go further, to learn how to "make a business case for change." He sees the joint MBA/MPP degree as a way to View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Financial Services

01 Jan 2004
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Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964

Remember that integrity counts. Make your ethical standards visible and consistent throughout your career." CURRENT READING Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow As U.S. Secretary of Commerce in 1992, Barbara Franklin reestablished... View Details

08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

empirical lacuna, we have developed a research program to measure the internal organization of firms—including their decentralization decisions—across a large range of industries and countries. Enamored with Scale: Scaling with Limited... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire

Charles J. Christenson Chuck Christenson, the Royal Little Professor of Business Administration and a specialist in management control, has been a member of the HBS faculty for 39 years. Throughout his career, he has been an innovative teacher who View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

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Israel - Global Activities 2020

the bank’s entry into online banking under Russak-Aminoach’s dynamic leadership. In 2017, five years into her tenure as CEO, she took a characteristically bold step and launched Pepper, Israel’s first completely mobile bank, as a stand-alone business with View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Removing Barriers

Anita Venkiteswaran (MBA 2012) Anita Venkiteswaran (MBA 2012), a principal at Focus Financial Partners in New York City, believes everyone qualified to attend HBS should have that ability, regardless of where they come from or their View Details

March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
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China: To Float or Not To Float? (D)- Bank of America's Strategic Investment in China Construction Bank

By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel

With its $3 billion investment in Chinese state bank China Construction Bank, Bank of America--the second U.S. bank behind Citigroup in terms of assets and market capitalization--was one of several foreign banks directly participating in China's banking sector reform.... View Details

Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Banks and Banking; Foreign Direct Investment; International Relations; Banking Industry; China; United States

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05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

multilateral, liberal rules for global finance. Instead, European policy makers conceived and promoted the liberal rules that compose the international financial architecture. Whereas U.S. policy makers have... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2005
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Do You Speak Business?

an international corporation by taking the best ideas from everywhere it has a presence and implementing them worldwide throughout its entire system.” Rohit Deshpandé also sees local context as integral to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

had the kind of in-depth look it deserves, yet it is at the core of a number of the problems we've seen. The board of directors and its compensation committee determine the compensation of the CEO in our system. Yet too many companies in this country have no View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

internal strategic resources, many companies continue to have outmoded strategic perspectives. There is a surplus of capitalchasing a scarcity of talented peopleand the knowledge they possess.— Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

15 Apr 2011
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Students Hear Wall St. Critics

Phil Angelides, a California state treasurer for eight years, is no stranger to big money and politics. But as chairman of Congress’s Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission looking into the 2008 Wall Street collapse, he was shocked. “I am no... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

25 Jan 2000
Research & Ideas

Strategic Alliances

organizations have as yet reached this level), "resources from both organizations have been mobilized and meshed to create a new set of services, activities, and resources unique to that collaboration," Austin notes. One example of this View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

were essential, and radical corporate social responsibility concepts were pursued by some firms. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53419 forthcoming Capitalism Beyond Mutuality New Prospects for Organizational Democracy? How the Joint... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 May 2020
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Better Than Cash

difficult to save money or establish a financial history. Goodwin-Groen’s career-long commitment to international development led her to start the Better Than Cash Alliance—now a consortium of 75... View Details

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

skills building boot camp, a global immersion field study, and a team-based entrepreneurial project designed to integrate knowledge from the first year curriculum—FIELD teaches students that what they have learned about business in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

06 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

01 Dec 2010
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Record Gift to HBS from India’s Tata Group

a gift of $50 million from the Tata Companies, the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, and the Tata Education and Development Trust, philanthropic entities of India’s Tata Group. The gift, the largest from an international donor in the School’s... View Details

Keywords: Tata Hall

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Consequences of Financial Models Anderson, James E. "Quotas as Options: Optimality and Quota License Pricing Under Uncertainty." Journal of International Economics 23, nos. 1-2 (August 1987): 21-39. Arrow,... View Details

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