Australia - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

that the poorest of the poor are included? A: Antares posits a model in which, in its purest form, the poor pay for what they get. Before you reject it out of hand, consider that other than in North America, Western Europe, and countries such as View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

23 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

pushed them to the forefront in this area. After that, individual countries such as Australia and Canada announced they would be converging with IAS soon. By this point, many countries have indicated they intend to be on IAS within the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services

01 Mar 2004
News

New Horizons for Iraq

The Lincoln anchored off the coast of Perth. Australia is not a major supply point, so we sourced all over the area, from Guam to Singapore. On some days the seas were so rough that we couldn’t receive supplies from shore. A C-5 cargo... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government

20 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 20

executive officer, on a visit to Pola's head office in Tokyo, heard news of critical comments about the company and animal testing in a Facebook post from a group in South Australia where the brand had been founded as a small biodynamic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

the same time noting their critical importance as engines of change to help the poor in the developing world. Fortunately, Craig Wilson of Australia was willing to join me. He has worked many years in developing countries, most recently... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Jun 2009
News

Letters to the Editor

put it: They pronounced it differently from Americans. Several hundred million people around the world speak English, and there are differences in pronunciation of a variety of words. I wonder what Wolfensohn’s erstwhile countrymen in View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

05 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

Experimentation In August 2017, Commonwealth Bank of Australia was looking for ways to differentiate itself from competing banks and was also trying to improve the financial well-being of its customers. One domain where this was... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

March 2004 (Revised October 2013)
Case

Innocents Abroad: Currencies and International Stock Returns

By: Mihir A. Desai, Kathleen Luchs, Elizabeth A. Meyer and Mark Veblen

What do international stocks contribute to the portfolio of a U.S. investor? How do currencies interact with stock price movements in determining the benefits of international diversification? This case helps students compare the risks and returns of foreign stock... View Details

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Educators

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17 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

tremendous pressures in terms of managing time and limited resources, but the particular circumstances of each business made for some specific challenges. Remi Escurel, CFO for Animal Health in Australia and New Zealand and regional CFO... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

or is the phenomenon evident in other developed economies-such as Australia? We assessed Australians' perceived and ideal wealth distributions and compared them to the actual wealth distribution. Although the United States and Australia... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

firms’ information environment by exploiting a quasi-natural experiment in the form of a reduction in litigation risk resulting from the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Morrison v. National Australia Bank. I first show that the ruling... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

Human Resource Management (HRM). Written by an international team of academics from universities in the UK, the US, Australia and New Zealand, it examines the problems and opportunities facing employers and employees. The book subdivides... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Jan 2016
Working Paper Summaries

The Globalization of Angel Investments: Evidence across Countries

Keywords: by Josh Lerner, Antoinette Schoar, Stanislav Sokolinksi & Karen Wilson; Financial Services

June 2021
Teaching Note

Michael Phelps: 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay'

By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Michael Norris

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 421-044. In 2020, Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 medals in various swimming events, was now retired. As he looked back on his 20+ year athletic career, he considered what had gone into making him the... View Details

Keywords: Mental Health; Talent and Talent Management; Training; Health; Success; Performance Improvement; Personal Development and Career; Family and Family Relationships; Sports; Competition; Sports Industry; United States; Baltimore; Arizona; Sydney; Athens; Beijing; London

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July 2020
Technical Note

Digital Natives Growing Without a Sales Force

By: Das Narayandas, Michael Norris and Amram Migdal

This brief case describes the rise of so-called digital natives (also called born-in-digital) in the 2000s and 2010s that successfully grew without a sales force. The case highlights the emergence of business-to-business Internet and cloud-based companies and their... View Details