International Capital Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

October 2011 (Revised March 2015)
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SKS and the AP Microfinance Crisis

By: Shawn Cole and Yannick Saleman

SKS, India's leading microfinance firm, is challenged when politicians declaim microfinance as exploitation of the poor and severely restrict business practices. View Details

Keywords: Microfinance; Government Administration; Policy; Capital Markets; Crisis Management; Poverty; Financial Services Industry; India

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01 Dec 2010
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Record Gift to HBS from India’s Tata Group

28 publicly listed Tata enterprises, with a combined market capitalization of some $100 billion. Tata Group companies, taken together, had total revenues of $67.4 billion in 2009–10, 57 percent of which... View Details

Keywords: Tata Hall

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Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners - Recruiting

Partners (ACP) as a Summer Associate in New York. ACP, a philanthropy-backed investment firm, dedicates itself to catalyzing climate-related infrastructure projects in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). The firm operates... View Details

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

workplace. Across six studies, we found convergent evidence that emotional acknowledgment led to greater perceptions of costliness, and in turn, to higher evaluations of trust.” Working Papers Deregulation, Market Power, and Prices:... View Details

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107060 International Capital Markets and Sovereign Debt: Crisis Avoidance and Resolution Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

that were required in the system were missing. There was a fragmented, highly complex, deeply inconsistent regulatory structure." As part of firms' efforts to deploy capital and seek higher returns, the mortgage View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

12 Jan 2015
News

Good Investments

poor communities was transformational for Rodríguez: “I made a decision that I didn’t want to be a spectator to poverty anymore.”) The IPO was a high-profile demonstration of the duo’s long-held vision. “It showed us that mainstream View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; impact investing; ideas; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

Horace C. Wright

Wright spent 44 years with the company and led it through its transition from the small Chicago Flexible Shaft Company to its present incarnation as Sunbeam Corporation. Under his leadership, Sunbeam dramatically expanded its home appliance View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

12 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 12

China's burgeoning agriculture market with its unstated obligation to provide guidance and expertise in food safety, technology, and jobs for rural farmers while still competing against the growing cadre of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2012
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Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home

president of its Americas division, a post he’s held since 2005. Believed by many to be on course to be Ford’s next CEO, Fields has had a rich apprenticeship. After graduating from Rutgers University, he joined IBM in sales and marketing... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

27 Oct 2021
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HBS Impact Investing Fund Course: An Experiential Education in Social Financing

barriers to capital, with the dual goals of making profits and creating social change. Entrepreneurs of color in Massachusetts have an unmet capital demand in the order of $574 million annually, according to The Boston Foundation and... View Details

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Managing & Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India

– India. Relevant sources include: The Financial Express and India Today. Emerging Markets... View Details

Jul 2014
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The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game

been slow to recover from a recession and credit crisis that hit them especially hard. This lag has prompted the question, "Is there a credit gap in small business lending?" This paper compiles and analyzes the current state of access to bank View Details

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Impact Stories - Business History

Capitalism Re: Ai Hisano Expanding Horizons Re: Melanie Sheehan Chandler’s Legacies Re: Xavier Duran Intriguing Questions Re: Aditya Todi Business and Society Re: Melanie Sperling Platform for Dialogue Re: Sudev Sheth History's Guiding... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Faculty Books

choosing group members, establishing norms, and dealing with conflicts to evaluating progress and deciding when it’s time to restructure. Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn... View Details

Keywords: Professor Bill George; Professor Joseph L. Bower; Professor Herman B. Leonard; Professor Lynn S. Paine; Professor Howard Stevenson; Professor Noam Wasserman; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

another of your working papers, "Globalization as Market Integration and the Future of International Business," you mention that horizontal multinational enterprises that engage in replication are... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Incubators

How can I find incubators or accelerators? Seed-DB: A database of accelerators and their companies. Much of the data comes from CrunchBase. International Business Innovation Association: s useful information about and for incubators... View Details

02 Mar 2023
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Carbon's Second Act

a circular carbon economy using humankind's CO2 emissions or the CO2 that's already in the air. DM: The aspirations and energy are important. But getting these big plans into action requires not just new ideas or the capital to support... View Details

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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

globalization and their effects. It discusses how the increasing integration of international trade and of the global capital markets can affect the economic performance and... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

years later, both camps benefit enormously from their close ties: the mutual fund is America's investment vehicle of choice, with one in three U.S. households owning a stake in the industry's $5.5 trillion in assets. "By making the View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services

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