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  • 16 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 16

further provide evidence that these effects are due to increased competition for local resources. China: The Indigenization of Insurance Authors:Elisabeth Köll and David Faure Publication:In World Insurance: The Evolution of a Global Risk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 31, 2006

capital are also important for the effect of FDI on economic growth. Download working paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W12522 A New Framework for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks of an Economy Authors:Dale F. Gray, Robert... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Placement - Doctoral

School Dissertation: Contests for Consumption: Empirical evidence from professional sports on contest theory” Advisors: Dennis Campbell (Co-Chair), Karim R. Lakhani (Co-Chair), and Srikant M. Datar Alexandra Scherf Accounting & Management, 2021 Placement: London School... View Details
  • April 2010 (Revised October 2010)
  • Case

Vale: Global Expansion in the Challenging World of Mining

By: Tarun Khanna, Aldo Musacchio and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
In 2009 the management of Vale, a Brazilian diversified mining company and the largest iron ore producer in the world, was under pressure from at least two fronts. First, the emergence of China as the most important consumer of iron ore in the last few years had... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Investment; Global Strategy; Risk Management; Market Entry and Exit; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Mining Industry; Brazil
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  • December 2011 (Revised May 2012)
  • Case

Heavy Metal (A): Baosteel Enters Brazil

What is Baosteel, a top Chinese steelmaker, doing in Brazil? The company is responding to the Chinese government's "go global" policy and to the possible rise in iron ore input costs. But steel mills are complex, capital-intensive projects, and Brazil is an emerging... View Details
Keywords: Global Business; China; Developing Countries; Latin America; Industrial Development; Strategy And Execution; Analysis; Industrial Analysis; Heavy Industry; Country Analysis; Brazil; Economic Analysis; Natural Resources; Infrastructure; Planning; Capacity Planning; Contingency Planning; Demand Planning; Competition; Core Competencies; Corporate Strategy; Strategic Positioning; Five Forces; Bargaining Power Of Suppliers; Globalization; Government and Politics; Policy; Emerging Markets; Foreign Direct Investment; Mining; Steel Industry; Mining Industry; China; Brazil
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  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

is particularly important for politically marginalized groups such as women, rural populations, and indigenous peoples; The Bank should provide adequate budgetary resources for participation and capacity building through all stages of... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 06 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

to prevent them. "The main conclusion from this whole stream of research is that investing in poverty reduction strategies not only has direct economic benefits but also political benefits," says Lakshmi Iyer, a Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Peter Tufano
Tufano’s research has focused on financial innovation and financial engineering—and for more than two decades, household finance. While he continues to study these topics, his current primary research is on the role of business in addressing climate change. With... View Details
  • January 2014
  • Article

Randomized Tax Enforcement Messages: A Policy Tool for Improving Audit Strategies

By: Dina Pomeranz, Cristobal Marshall and Pamela Castellon
Reducing tax evasion is a key challenge for governments around the world, particularly in developing countries. This paper presents a methodology to generate information to optimize audit strategies. Randomly selected taxpayers receive a deterrence message. Comparing... View Details
Keywords: Lawfulness; Taxation; Chile
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Crowdsourcing City Government: Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy

By: Edward Glaeser, Andrew Hillis, Scott Duke Kominers and Michael Luca
The proliferation of big data makes it possible to better target city services like hygiene inspections, but city governments rarely have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities could hire consultants, but a cheaper alternative is to... View Details
Keywords: User-generated Content; Operations; Tournaments; Policy-making; Machine Learning; Online Platforms; Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods; City; Infrastructure; Business Processes; Government and Politics
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  • 04 Mar 2009
  • Op-Ed

Credit is Not the Bogey

with a balance that they never pay off. For low-wage workers, credit has been the lifesaving crutch. So as we attempt to jump-start the economy of 2009, we should recognize both the risks and the advantages inherent in a robust credit... View Details
Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas & Eric S. Belsky; Construction; Real Estate; Financial Services

    W. Carl Kester

    Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; banking; education industry; financial services; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds)
    • 24 Oct 2006
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    First Look: October 24, 2006

      Working PapersManaging Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply Chain Planning Authors:Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson Abstract To date, little research has been done on managing the organizational and View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 18 May 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout?

    Keywords: by Felix Oberholzer-Gee & Joel Waldfogel; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting
    • 31 Oct 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Why the Largest Minority Group Faces the Most Hate—and How to Push Back

    systemic racism, the findings could inform policy approaches that prevent discrimination. Tabellini wrote the paper with Mina Cikara, associate professor of psychology at Harvard University, and Vasiliki Fouka, assistant professor of View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • 27 Jan 2009
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    First Look: January 27, 2009

    strategic choices that affect both the expected profits of the firm and their riskiness. Even if competition at first pushes the manager towards profit maximization as commonly argued, I show that further increases in competitive forces might as well lead him to take... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 06 Sep 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Excess Burden of Government Indecision

    Keywords: by Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff & Luis M. Viceira
    • 28 Feb 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

    lived through the end of history more than once, however, and policymakers continue to relearn old lessons about the difficulties of regulation and the risks of liberalization. The idea that capital ought to flow unrestricted across the... View Details
    Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
    • 17 Jul 2012
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    First Look: July 17

    buy or sell stock. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/07/what-good-are-shareholders/ar/1 Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival amid Political and Civil Violence Authors:Shon R. Hiatt and Wesley Sine... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 May 2007
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    First Look: May 22, 2007

      Working PapersGlobal Currency Hedging Authors:John Y. Campbell, Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract This paper considers the risk management problem of an investor who holds a diversified portfolio of global... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace