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  • 2010
  • Casebook

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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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

include Burden Hall, the School's former auditorium that was decommissioned in 2017 and reimagined as Burden Park, a place for exchange and socializing, recreation, and respite. Other gifts from the Burden family include an endowed... View Details
  • 30 Jun 2022
  • HBS Case

Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?

classes left us energized, refreshed, stronger, and ready to take on anything,” Foley explained in Peloton’s 2019 registration filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But “we were often left without time, without options, and... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Media & Broadcasting; Health; Bicycle
  • 29 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

Few people see a relationship between tipping and bribing. But consider this: In places where people tip heavily, bribes are more likely to exchange hands as well. Research shows that there's actually a fine line between the socially... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

In Harmony

Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

argue that reserve accumulation by many countries may be the key factor underpinning the modern-day Triffin dilemma. See also companion piece, "The Country Chronologies to Exchange Rate Arrangements into the... View Details
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

were often the instruments used by governments to screen or monitor FDI flows. The world-wide controls over capital movements were related to balance of payments concerns and the system of fixed exchange View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

virtual currency including electronic payments. Since its inception in 2009 by an anonymous group of developers, Bitcoin has served tens of millions of transactions with total dollar value in the billions. Users have been drawn to Bitcoin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

forthcoming Review of Accounting Studies The Effect of Enforcement Transparency: Evidence from SEC Comment-Letter Reviews By: Duro, Miguel, Jonas Heese, and Gaizka Ormazabal Abstract—This paper studies the effect of the public disclosure of the Securities and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

Betfair was an underfunded second mover in the betting exchange space, it was able to attract punters at a much faster rate than the better-funded first mover, Flutter. Moreover, while Betfair and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 10 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 10

  PublicationsNonsimultaneous Chains and Dominos in Kidney Paired Donation—Revisited Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Duncan S. Gilchrist, Alvin E. Roth, and Michael A. Rees Publication:American Journal of Transplantation 11, no. 5 (May 2011) Abstract Since 2008 kidney View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 23 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 23

level of debt as a percent of nominal GDP; the interest rate; the inflation rate; the growth rate; and changes in the exchange rate if some debt is owed in a foreign currency. The note discusses how these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

or fail to analyze the utter breakdown in board governance and Enron's internal controls, and the failure of credit rating agencies to blow the whistle," he says. "They also overlook the collusion of investment banks in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

Financial Strategy ; Microfinance ; International Finance ; Currency Exchange Rate ; Profit Sharing ; Revenue ; Developing Countries and Economies ; Economic Growth ; Banking... View Details
  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309093 Chronology of the Asian Financial Crisis Harvard Business School Case 708-001 In July 1997, Thailand became the first Asian "tiger" economy to abandon its fixed View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jul 2023
  • News

The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
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Ways to Give Today - Alumni

which is to provide scholarships for German students in need to attend HBS. Gifts can also be made for the benefit of HBS. Alumni who reside in Germany can deduct the full amount of a contribution to the Foundation from his or her gross income. Since the marginal tax... View Details
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

failure and making it work for us. Why Startups Fail Professor Thomas Eisenmann (DBA 1998, MBA 1983) + More Info – Less Info Most startups fail. About two-thirds of venture capital investments do not earn a positive return. Surprisingly, late-stage startups fail at the... View Details