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  • 17 Feb 2023
  • News

Now at Harvard Business School: The South Sea Bubble, 1720: Narratives of the First International Crash

  • September 2004
  • Article

Decomposing the Persistence of International Equity Flows

By: Kenneth A. Froot and J. Tjornhom Donohue
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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  • December 2010
  • Article

Management and the Financial Crisis (We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us...)

By: William A. Sahlman
The financial crisis of 2008-2009 has revealed that our broad model of corporate governance is broken, independent of the shortcomings in the regulatory system. Managers and boards of directors in scores of systemically important firms failed to protect employees,... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Human Capital; Ethics; Policy; Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis; Finance; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • 15 Jul 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices

Keywords: by Pol Antras & C. Fritz Foley; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • Research Summary

Creating Trust in International Joint Ventures in Asia: An Empirical Comparative Study

In the wake of the currently ongoing financial crisis in Asia, we anticipate a rapid increase of international joint ventures between Asian and Western firms. However, so far, the sources of success in international joint ventures have not been well understood. Why do... View Details
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Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog

advantage. We will consider how various organizations of labor markets, financial markets, and regulatory regimes, for example, create opportunities and barriers for multinational firms. Second, we will focus on the more informal domestic... View Details
  • July 1996 (Revised December 2001)
  • Case

Becton Dickinson--Designing the New Strategic, Operational, and Financial Planning Process

By: Robert L. Simons, Antonio Davila and Afroze A Mohammed
Describes management's attempts to design and install a sophisticated planning and control system in an international company as it changes its strategy. Issues of strategy implementation, accountability, and performance measurement are at the core of the analysis, as... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Business or Company Management; Corporate Accountability; Governance Controls; System; Performance Evaluation
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  • 26 Nov 2019
  • News

Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time

Source: Greenwood Source: Greenwood Professor Robin Greenwood notes that faculty members across Harvard have long been exploring the behavioral perspective on financial market bubbles and financial crises.... View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
  • 25 Mar 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

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

Keywords: by Juan Alcacer & Minyuan Zhao; Technology
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

or corporate advisor, this course will equip you with the tools to formulate, communicate, and drive strategies based on financial factors." Dates & Eligibility No current course offerings for this selection. Starting Apr 16 8 Weeks... View Details
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Financial Management of Smaller Firms - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Financial Management of Smaller Firms Course Number 1452 Baker Foundation Professor Richard Ruback Professor of Management Practice Royce Yudkoff Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam Career Focus This course is... View Details
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Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, Joshua Hurwitz, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
We compare the liquidity that six developed countries have built into their employer-based defined contribution (DC) retirement schemes. In Germany, Singapore, and the UK, withdrawals are essentially banned no matter what kind of transitory income shock the household... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Financial Liquidity; Retirement; Canada; Germany; Australia; United Kingdom; United States; Singapore
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  • April 1998 (Revised January 2005)
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Bahtulism, Collapse, Resurrection? Financial Crisis in Asia: 1997-1998

By: Huw Pill and Donald H. Mathis
Describes, in detail, events precipitating crises. Provides both conventional and new explanations of crises. Presents a chronology of crises as the events unfold, and a brief summary of four particular countries (Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand) and their... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Crisis Management; International Finance; Development Economics; Thailand; Malaysia; South Korea; Indonesia
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    Getting the Most Out of Financial Incentives for Weight Loss

    The use of employer-sponsored, incentive-based programs for weight loss is growing. This growth is likely to accelerate in the coming years due to a provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which allows employers to use a greater proportion of... View Details

    • 2010
    • Article

    The Effect of Financial Development on the Investment Cash Flow Relationship: Cross-Country Evidence from Europe

    We investigate financing constraints in a large cross-country data set covering most of the European economy. Firm-level investment sensitivity to cash flow is used to identify financing constraints. We find that the sensitivities are significantly positive, on... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development; Development Economics; Investment; Cash Flow; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Relationships; Economy; Financial Markets; Business Subsidiaries; Capital Markets; Assets; Financing and Loans; Europe
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    • 01 Apr 1998
    • News

    Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International

    outside the banking system. BancoSol's success has spawned competitors in both the nonprofit and formal financial sectors that are eager to serve microentrepreneurs. Every Bolivian political party now includes microenterprise as part of... View Details
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    Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

    Business, Government & the International Economy Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2025 Working Paper Turning Away from the State: Trade Shocks and Informal Insurance in Brazil By: Paula... View Details
    • 05 Nov 2019
    • News

    Can the Robin Hood Army Grow with Zero Financial Resources?

    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance

    By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
    We examine in this paper the differential response of establishments to the global financial crisis, with particular emphasis on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in determining micro economic performance. Using a new worldwide dataset that reports the... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Local Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Production; Performance Evaluation; Networks
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    • 25 Apr 2014
    • News

    Keeping an iron grip on Nigeria's financial markets

    Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990) has been leading the transformation of Nigeria's capital markets, improving their integrity and regulatory framework, since becoming director-general of the country's Security and Exchange Commission in 2010.... View Details