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Harvard Business School Statement of Purpose Recommendation Letters Standardized Tests Research Community Anil Doshi Technology & Operations Management Filippo Mezzanotti Business Economics Sarah Wolfolds... View Details

    Michael Beer

    MICHAEL BEER

    Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

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    HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research

    way of supporting employees' well-being, drawing on case studies about people who have been deeply affected by mental illness. Did You Hear What I Said? How to Listen Better by Michael Blanding 06 NOV 2023 | Research & Ideas People who... View Details
    • January 2019 (Revised January 2022)
    • Case

    Chinese Infrastructure Investments in Sri Lanka: A Pearl or a Teardrop on the Belt and Road?

    By: Meg Rithmire and Yihao Li
    In 2015, a surprise presidential election result seemed to imperil Chinese investments in Sri Lanka, which were associated with China’s Belt and Road Initiative to build global infrastructure. In the previous decade, China had undertaken two major projects in the... View Details
    Keywords: Belt And Road Initiative; Investment; Infrastructure; China; Sri Lanka
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      Dutch Leonard

      Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details

      Keywords: education industry; federal government; health care; nonprofit industry; state government

        Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development

        We investigate the role of deeply-rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development within African countries. We combine information on the spatial distribution of ethnicities before colonization with regional variation in... View Details

        • May 2023
        • Article

        Political Ideology and International Capital Allocation

        By: Elisabeth Kempf, Mancy Luo, Larissa Schäfer and Margarita Tsoutsoura
        Does investors' political ideology shape international capital allocation? We provide evidence from two settings—syndicated corporate loans and equity mutual funds—to show ideological alignment with foreign governments affects the cross-border capital allocation by... View Details
        Keywords: Capital Flows; Syndicated Loans; Mutual Funds; Partisanship; Polarization; Elections; Political Ideology; Banks and Banking; Institutional Investing; Behavioral Finance; Decision Choices and Conditions
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        • 2018
        • Working Paper

        Black Out-Migration and Southern Political Realignment

        By: Leah Boustan and Marco Tabellini
        Can emigration from less democratic and economically less developed areas induce political and economic change? We study this question in the context of the second Great Migration of African Americans (1940–1970), when more than 4 million blacks left the U.S. South and... View Details
        Keywords: Great Migration; Immigration; Race; Government and Politics; Economics; United States
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        • January 1999 (Revised June 2006)
        • Case

        Advanced Technologies, Inc.

        By: Thomas R. Piper
        The CEO of a semiconductor equipment manufacturer is assessing the financial forecasts and financing plan prepared by the chief financial officer. Continued rapid growth will create substantial financing pressures, especially if profitability fails to recover and/or if... View Details
        Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Earnings Management; Financial Condition; Financial Reporting; Risk and Uncertainty; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Outcome or Result; Growth and Development; Crisis Management; Profit; Financial Strategy; Semiconductor Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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          Josh Baron

          Dr. Josh Baron is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a part of the Strategy Unit. In the MBA program, he teaches in the Required Core Strategy course as well as elective courses on Ownership and Leading a Family Business. He... View Details

          • 17 Aug 2018
          • News

          How your peers can help your start-up

          • April 1997 (Revised February 2001)
          • Case

          Mexico in Debt

          By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Eilene Zimmerman
          Describes Mexico's political and economic system in the 1960s and 1970s. Focuses on: 1) the causes of the debt crisis in 1982; 2) elements of President de la Madrid's restructuring efforts between 1982-88; President Salinas's attempts to complete restructuring and... View Details
          Keywords: Restructuring; Economic Systems; Financial Crisis; Inflation and Deflation; Macroeconomics; Borrowing and Debt; Government and Politics; Mexico
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            The Skills Gap and the Near-Far Problem in Executive Education and Leadership Development

            Executive development programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven on one side by the proliferation of a new technological, cultural, and economic landscape commonly referred to as "digital distruption" and on the other by a widening gap between... View Details
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            Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market

            By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
            Reaching for yield—the propensity to buy riskier assets in order to achieve higher yields—is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyzes this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for... View Details
            Keywords: Fixed Income; Reaching For Yield; Financial Intermediation; Insurance Companies; Insurance; Assets; Bonds; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management; Insurance Industry
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            • 07 Aug 2018
            • First Look

            New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

            or partners whose nonverbal behavior was unknown; these expectations of cooperative intent increased negotiators’ own cooperation. Study 4 uses an economic game to demonstrate that handshaking increased... View Details
            Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
            • June 2000
            • Case

            Hollydazzle.com

            This case describes the unique underlying economics of a start-up Internet retailing company. It highlights the fact that costs in that setting have a component that varies with volume and thus seriously impacts profitability. View Details
            Keywords: Cost Accounting; Internet and the Web; Business Startups; Retail Industry
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            • 2012
            • Article

            Global Policy for Local Livelihoods: Phasing Out Mercury in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining

            By: Kristin Sippl and Henrik Selin
            This article uses a behavioral economics lens to identify the challenges the United Nation's Minamata Convention is likely to face in addressing the problem of mercury pollution from gold mining. View Details
            Keywords: Mining; Pollutants; Problems and Challenges; Policy; Global Range
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            • October 1984 (Revised May 1990)
            • Case

            NIKE (A)

            Describes the history of Nike, its economic strategy, and the industries in which it competes. The teaching objective is to ask the student to identify and evaluate Nike's economic/technical strategy. View Details
            Keywords: Information Technology; Business History; Supply and Industry; Financial Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry
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            • 28 Oct 2014
            • News

            Tax Avoidance and Living the Dream