Publications

January 1999 (Revised September 2004)
Background Note

International Entrepreneurship: Managing and Financing Ventures in the Global Economy - Overview

International Entrepreneurial Finance is the study of allocation of scarce resources by and to entrepreneurs in international settings. This note provides an overview of "International Entrepreneurial Finance," a second-year MBA course developed and taught at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Finance

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Finance & Accounting track. Introduction to Financial Accounting LIMITED TIME ONLY Extra learning at no extra cost. Enroll now and unlock a GenAI Bonus Bundle featuring complimentary lessons on AI fundamentals.... View Details

20 Jul 2022

International Perspective Series: Financing the MBA

Join a member of the HBS MBA Financial Aid team to learn about funding opportunities for international students at HBS as well as information on the visa process. View Details

February 2001
Article

The Portfolio Flows of International Investors

By: K. A. Froot, P. O'Connell and M. Seasholes

Keywords: Asset Pricing; Equity Investment; Forecasting and Prediction; Behavioral Finance; Stocks; Investment Return; Market Transactions; Performance Expectations; Personal Characteristics; Financial Services Industry

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People - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

economics at Columbia Business School. Professor Di Maggio’s current research focuses on financial intermediation with a particular focus on how new technologies have disrupted financial markets and its... View Details

February 2018 (Revised October 2019)
Case

Steinhoff International and the Stock Exchange

By: Siko Sikochi and Austin Lim

Nicky Newton-King, the Chief Executive Officer of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), was put in a difficult position. A scandal had broken out at Steinhoff, a JSE-listed company, under her watch and there were calls to suspend listing of the company securities from... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Financial Reporting; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Markets; Corporate Governance; Retail Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Distribution Industry; Africa; South Africa

February 2011
Article

Dividend Taxes and International Portfolio Choice

By: Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala

This paper investigates how dividend taxes influence portfolio choices, using the response to the distinctive treatment of a subset of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA) of 2003. An open-economy after-tax capital asset... View Details

Keywords: Dividends; Portfolio Choice; Taxes; Tax Treaties; Foreign Portfolio Investment; Taxation; Lawfulness; Economy; Price; Equity; Stocks; Investment Portfolio; Opportunities; Behavior; United States

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2010
Working Paper

Local R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages

By: Juan Alcacer and Minyuan Zhao

This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in highly competitive technology clusters, where much of the world's R&D takes place. The leading players in these clusters are multi-location firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide.... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Industry Clusters; Research and Development; Competitive Advantage; Semiconductor Industry

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November 1993 (Revised July 1995)
Background Note

Introduction to Transnational Financial Statement Analysis

By: David F. Hawkins

Keywords: International Accounting; Financial Statements

12 Jul 2021

International Perspective Series: Financing Your Degree

Join members of the HBS Financial Aid team to learn about funding opportunities for international students at HBS as well as information on the visa process. View Details

20 Nov 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

previously been employed, was now the director of the newly-formed Airbel Innovation Center, an internal team focused on bringing human centered design and innovation to the humanitarian space. With the help of Harvard’s Summer Fellows... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

2017
Chapter

Globalization in Historical Perspective

By: Pankaj Ghemawat and Geoffrey Jones

This chapter explores the role that firms have played over time in promoting international trade and investment. It takes a chronological perspective and is organized around a first wave of globalization from the mid-nineteenth century until the 1920s and a second wave... View Details

Keywords: International Business; International Marketing; History; Marketing; Investment; Trade; Globalization

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

types of effects. See Victoria’s other research here , Luc’s other research here , and Enrique’s other research here . More Info Predictable Financial Crises By: Robin Greenwood , Samuel G. Hanson , Andrei Shleifer & Jakob Ahm Sørensen... View Details

December 2008
Case

Merrimack Tractors and Mowers: LIFO or FIFO?

By: William J. Bruns Jr., Sharon Bruns and Susan S. Hameling

At Merrimack Tractors and Mowers in 2008, product manufacturing costs are increasing faster than competitors' costs, and as a result earnings are likely to fall below those reported in 2007. The company president and the company controller have discussed this problem,... View Details

Keywords: International; Financial; Reporting; Standards; Inventory; Business Ethics; Assets; Valuation; Ethics; Taxation; Financial Reporting; Manufacturing Industry