Exchange Rate Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

suggestions, including starting early (Kcorey: “How about connecting with youth at an earlier age who are interested in business?”), emulating efforts to bring women into management education (Roslyn Payne: “In the 1980’s when University... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

Abstract This paper examines the litigation of patents relating to financial products and services. I show that these grants are being litigated at a rate 27 to 39 times greater than that of patents as a whole. The patents being litigated... View Details

01 Mar 2010
Op-Ed

A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM

[process] will take enormous effort, ingenuity, and discipline along with massive investments.” No doubt Toyota will regain some of its lost market share in the short term, to the extent the automaker's production systems can respond by increasing production View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Auto

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

01 May 2006
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Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?

on the other hand, in a book Free to Choose, advocated a minimalist role for government, relying instead on lower tax rates to provide the wherewithal for Americans to decide for themselves how they wished to live and spend their... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It

accidents and their radiological health impacts. We can develop new tools and techniques for managing and securing radioactive materials as well as slashing storage requirements by burning waste in specialized reactors. But we’re under a... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy

01 Oct 2002
News

Banishing Balkan Ghosts

as a Nonprofit Management Fellow at a UN economic institute in Belgrade in 1990. “And with so many international students at the School, one truly becomes a world citizen through one's HBS friends.” Meanwhile, at the Kennedy School,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

21 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

more than $150 million in assets to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Such registration will subject these managers to regular reporting and inspections by the SEC, although these... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

creditors for quality reporting. In contrast, the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis posits that public equity firms, because their managers have a greater incentive to manage earnings, have lower... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 May 2008
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First Look: May 6, 2008

DVDs in one order and return them in the reverse order when should DVDs (e.g., documentaries) are rented before want DVDs (e.g., action films). This effect is sizeable in magnitude, with a 2% increase in the probability of a reversal in preferences (from a baseline... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

occupational ladder at a rate twice that of white men.” 34 No photographs of African Americans appeared in Paths of Opportunity in U.S. Steel , and few images of African American employees are seen in U.S. Steel corporate literature in... View Details

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

the Academy of Management Journal. The paper was featured in the Best Paper Proceedings of the 2004 Academy of Management Conference and of the 2003 Babson-Kauffman Research Conference. Sarah Jane Gilbert:... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

02 Sep 2018
News

Havana Rising

When hotel manager Alessandro Benedetti worked for Kempinski chain locations in Spain and Switzerland, morning meetings were a time to go over the numbers and discuss strategy for the days ahead. But ever since Benedetti moved to Havana... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

02 Sep 2021
News

Back to School

social and emotional needs of students. And we have guidance from the CDC, of course. The ultimate framework we’re working to create will empower districts to make the right decisions for what’s going on in their community, given transmission View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

16 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

Administration at Harvard Business School. “This is technology that's going to help us to abate these issues around energy and climate, and it's the best technology in that space.” The spectacular rise of sustainable investing Almost 33 percent of the $51.4 trillion in... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015

(e.g., 5 to 1 or 60 to 1, Studies 1A, 1B, and 1C). Lower pay ratios improve consumer perceptions across a range of products at different price points (Studies 2A and 2B), increase consumer ratings of both firm warmth and firm competence... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

avoidance at portfolio firms as an additional source of economic value. We document that PE-backed portfolio firms engage in significantly more nonconforming tax planning and have lower marginal tax rates than other private firms.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

spatial—that would normally separate them from their employees. They do so by cultivating the art of listening to people at all levels of their organization, and by learning to talk with those people in ways that are personal, honest, and authentic. Conversational... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

they would flatter rather than intimidate women. Constructing and maintaining a cosmetics counter in a department store was expensive, as were hiring and training sales representatives, buying advertising space, creating window displays, and running regular promotions.... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail

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Pricing Strategy: Monetizing and Growing the Business - Course Catalog

appropriate for students who see themselves in careers where they will be directly responsible for setting the revenue policies and top-line growth of a product or service, as well as for senior management roles that involve setting... View Details

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