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Capital ; Management ; Macroeconomics ; Governance Controls ; Mathematical Methods Citation Read Now Related Acosta-Henao, Miguel, Laura Alfaro, and Andrés Fernández. "Sticky Capital Controls." Art. 104104. Journal of International... View Details

• July 1988 (Revised May 1989)
• Background Note

On the Economics of a Parking Garage

By: David E. Bell

Introduces notions of cash flow, net present value, and internal rate of return by estimating the profitability of a parking garage. View Details

Keywords: Business Earnings; Corporate Finance; Auto Industry; Service Industry

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Bell, David E. "On the Economics of a Parking Garage." Harvard Business School Background Note 189-004, July 1988. (Revised May 1989.)

• December 2022
• Article

Cost Standard Set Program: Moving Forward to Standardization of Cost Assessment Based on Clinical Condition

By: Anna Paula Beck da Silva Etges, Richard D. Urman, Anne Geubelle, Robert Kaplan and Carisi Anne Polanczyk

This communication announces the International Cost Standard Set Program. Its goal is to establish global standardized frameworks for measuring the costs of treating specific clinical conditions. A scientific committee, including 16 international healthcare cost... View Details

Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Value-based Health Care; Cost; Health Care and Treatment; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Industry

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da Silva Etges, Anna Paula Beck, Richard D. Urman, Anne Geubelle, Robert Kaplan, and Carisi Anne Polanczyk. "Cost Standard Set Program: Moving Forward to Standardization of Cost Assessment Based on Clinical Condition." Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research 11, no. 17 (December 2022): 1219–1223.

• 2014
• Working Paper

Savings in Transnational Households: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador

By: Nava Ashraf, Diego Aycinena, Claudia Martinez A. and Dean Yang

While remittance flows to developing countries are very large, it is unknown whether migrants desire more control over how remittances are used. This research uses a randomized field experiment to investigate the importance of migrant control over the use of... View Details

Keywords: Migration; Remittances; Intrahousehold Allocation; Savings; Immigration; Diasporas; International Finance; El Salvador

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Ashraf, Nava, Diego Aycinena, Claudia Martinez A., and Dean Yang. "Savings in Transnational Households: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 20024, March 2014. (Review of Economics and Statistics, accepted.)

• March 2005 (Revised July 2007)
• Case

Capital Controls in Chile in the 1990s (A)

By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel

In 1991, Chile adopted a framework of capital controls focused on reducing the massive flows of foreign investment coming into the country as international interest rates remained low. Capital inflows threatened the Central Bank's ability to manage the exchange rate... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Capital; Governance Controls; Business and Government Relations; Chile

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Alfaro, Laura, Rafael M. Di Tella, and Ingrid Vogel. "Capital Controls in Chile in the 1990s (A)." Harvard Business School Case 705-031, March 2005. (Revised July 2007.)

• June 2014
• Case

The Kursk Submarine Rescue Mission (Multimedia)

By: Anette Mikes and Tom Ryder

During a military exercise in August 2000, a state-of-the-art Russian nuclear submarine, the Kursk, sank in the Barents Sea, triggering global media attention and an international rescue effort.
In addition to Russia's Northern Fleet, two other organizations got... View Details

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Mikes, Anette, and Tom Ryder. "The Kursk Submarine Rescue Mission (Multimedia)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 114-708, June 2014.

• 2016
• Working Paper

Henry Kissinger's Negotiation Campaign to End the Vietnam War

By: James K. Sebenius and Eugene B. Kogan

President Richard M. Nixon was elected in 1968 with the widespread expectation that he would bring about an end to the costly and unpopular war in Vietnam. The task largely fell to National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger. When the negotiations began, North Vietnam... View Details

Keywords: Kissinger; Negotiation; Negotiation Campaign; Bargaining; Diplomacy; Coercive Diplomacy; Multiparty Negotiations; Dispute Resolution; Mediation; Negotiation Process; War; Negotiation Types; International Relations; Negotiation Deal; Viet Nam; United States

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Sebenius, James K., and Eugene B. Kogan. "Henry Kissinger's Negotiation Campaign to End the Vietnam War." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-053, December 2016.

• 15 Aug 2014
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Getting a handle on inversion

• October 2011 (Revised December 2013)
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Lehman Brothers and Repo 105

By: Anette Mikes, Gwen Yu and Dominique Hamel

The collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 was the largest bankruptcy in US history. The case examines the economics of the off-balance sheet transactions Lehman undertook prior to the collapse, and highlights the corporate governance challenges in situations where firms... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Policy; Accounting Audits; Corporate Governance; Financial Instruments; Risk Management; Financial Services Industry

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Mikes, Anette, Gwen Yu, and Dominique Hamel. "Lehman Brothers and Repo 105." Harvard Business School Case 112-050, October 2011. (Revised December 2013.)

• 10 Dec 2008
• Working Paper Summaries

Market Reaction to the Adoption of IFRS in Europe

Keywords: by Christopher S. Armstrong, Mary E. Barth, Alan D. Jagolinzer & Edward J. Riedl; Banking

• August 1996 (Revised May 1997)
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First Investments, Inc.: Analysis of Financial Statements

By: David F. Hawkins

A summer intern is asked to perform a financial value analysis of a company's financial report for the period 1987-1994. View Details

Keywords: Analysis; Financial Statements

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Hawkins, David F. "First Investments, Inc.: Analysis of Financial Statements." Harvard Business School Case 197-010, August 1996. (Revised May 1997.)

• March 1996
• Case

Ernst & Young United Kingdom (A) (Abridged)

By: John J. Gabarro and Samantha Graff

Intended to be a robust example of the challenges encountered during the early stages of a large-scale organizational transformation effort in a professional service firm. Describes a massive change program initiated and led by the new managing partner along with a... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Leading Change; Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Restructuring; Problems and Challenges; United Kingdom; London

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Gabarro, John J., and Samantha Graff. "Ernst & Young United Kingdom (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 496-049, March 1996.

• 20 Oct 2016
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• 13 Oct 2016
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Wells Fargo Boss Stumpf Resigns

• 2013
• Working Paper

Network Effects in Countries' Adoption of IFRS

By: Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten

If the differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology, the rule of law, etc.), why did several countries rapidly, albeit in a staggered manner, adopt IFRS over local standards in the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Network Effects; Standards; Adoption; Value

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Ramanna, Karthik, and Ewa Sletten. "Network Effects in Countries' Adoption of IFRS." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-092, April 2010. (Revised July 2013.)