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Deborah A. Farrington

wish you had a boy?” he would laugh and reply “I wouldn’t know what to do with boys! I love my girls!” In fact, his optimism and encouragement coupled with his connection to Wall Street instilled a financial curiosity in Farrington that was View Details
  • 07 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India

electrification of vehicles, including scooters and auto-rickshaws, has marked it as a trailblazer in clean energy alternatives. With a successful Series A funding round that drew powerhouse investors like Sequoia Surge and Exfinity... View Details
  • 19 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

New South Wales. Local Construction of a Global Standard: Foreign Share Ownership and Workplace Gender Diversity in Japan explains that historically, the Japanese corporate structure has made it difficult for women to enter into... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
  • 10 Nov 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones

stock valuation President Trump’s executive order in June suspending new work visas barred nearly 200,000 foreign workers from entering the United States and prevents American companies from hiring skilled immigrants using H-1B or L1... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 29

movement morphed into a violent, deadly confrontation in January, culminating in February in mass slaughter, an overthrow of government, foreign invasion, and international crisis. The four months that shook Ukraine is a case study on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Letters to the Editor

special interests, particularly as they corrode the tax code? Unless both sides of the equation, revenue and expense, are questioned on the issue of fairness, I’m digging my tax heels in. Brian Mullen (MBA 1980) Lawrence, NY Investors... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Sole Mates

economy to a market economy. Many foreign investors have expressed renewed interest in Mongolia due to its rich natural resources (e.g., copper, gold, coal, uranium) and its strategic geographic location... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government
  • 14 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 14

governs disputes between foreign investors and host governments. First is the inconsistency of the decisions rendered by arbitration panels established under bilateral investment treaties, investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Africa's Way

exports to the rest of the continent are up, and foreign investment has increased. Although progress is sometimes disappointing and many challenges are still ahead, South Africa is nonetheless seen by View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
  • 01 Jan 2006
  • News

William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958

both saw an opportunity for a new kind of research geared toward the professional investors who were on the rise at mutual and pension funds. At the time, institutions accounted for less than 25 percent of equity ownership, but the way... View Details
  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

  Publications August 2013 The Industrial Policy Revolution I: The Role of Government Beyond Ideology Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal By: Alfaro, Laura, and Andrew Charlton Abstract—In this paper we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

Economics 1, no. 1 (December 2009) Abstract Much of empirical corporate finance focuses on sources of the demand for various forms of capital, not the supply. Recently, this has changed. Supply effects of equity and credit markets can arise from a combination of three... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

http://wber.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/12/09/wber.lhs031.short?rss=1 Do Analysts Add Value When They Most Can? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs Authors:Feldman, Emilie R., Stuart C. Gilson, and Belén Villalonga Publication:Strategic Management Journal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

  Publications March 2015 Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic Foreign Direct Investment: Effects, Complementarities, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

success cause this financial meltdown? Conversely, what role had foreign investors played in setting up the crisis by pouring short-term capital into Korea's partially and unevenly liberalized financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 4

to geographically limit the reach of the U.S. antifraud regime. The Court thus excluded the overwhelming majority of investors in U.S.-listed foreign firms from the protection of the U.S. civil liability... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

headquarters are large (255 median staff for a 20,000 FTE MNC) and European headquarters smaller (124). Implications are drawn that countries will lose activities if domestic firms are acquired by foreign MNCs, and that MNCs need to allow... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 10

losing 1 billion of dollar reserves in one month, the Argentine government began imposing a series of currency controls, limiting the ability to buy foreign currency. As of October 2011, Argentina's tax collection agency AFIP had been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

hyperbolic discounting and shows in the field that the impact of intrapersonal conflict can be large in magnitude. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-099.pdf How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

by national policy than they were by informal, local business deals. As Lurtz writes in her research summary, "Here coffee emerged in the hands of a diverse body of participants. Alongside foreign merchants and migrant planters, local... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness