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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research
307–347. Liz Truss and the Thatcher Legacy: Markets and Fiscal Dominance in the United Kingdom By: Rafael Di Tella May 2025 | Teaching Note | Faculty Research Citation Purchase Related Di Tella, Rafael. "Liz Truss and the Thatcher Legacy:... View Details
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Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
capacity of firms in terms of skills, capabilities and management practices. Fiscal Policy: Effective public spending aligned with revenues over time Monetary Policy: Low levels of inflation Economic... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
capacity. We can see that only about 83 percent of the customer service department's practical capacity was actually put to productive use during the first fiscal quarter. Activity Unit Time (minutes)... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 12 Apr 2022
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Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence
Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
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Finance - Faculty & Research
considering whether to extend the pilot to all customers and what the effects on other parts of the organization might be. For example, the pilot had prompted TagHive to increase the capacity and responsibilities of its customer support... View Details
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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
enterprise and foster its growth. [3] Through a partnership with John Wesley Durr in 1862, the brothers expanded their storage capacity and trading business, and Lehman, Durr & Co. soon ranked among the top cotton firms in the area. When... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
The companies in each quad began the study period (1986 to 1996) in approximately the same fiscal condition. Yet their fortunes differed dramatically over the decade. One company in each foursome emerged as a winner—it consistently... View Details
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Faculty Research Award for “Financing the African Colonial State: Fiscal Capacity Building and Forced Labor.” Marlous van Waijenburg : 2018: Winner of the International Economic History Association's... View Details
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The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
Highlights Exchange Rates Hedging Exchange Rates with Bryan Hedging Exchange Rates with Christopher Show Hide Details Concepts Fiscal Policy Monetary Policy International Influences Labor Productivity Featured Exercises Current Accounts,... View Details
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US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni
cards. If you have questions, please email our office. Common US Business Visas + – H-1 Temporary Specialty Occupation This is the most common business visa classification. However there is a quota on the number of new H-1B visas issued each year — 85,000 per View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
could lead to substantial growth.” But new research suggests that small businesses are far more fiscally conservative than banks realize. In fact, firms with up to 10 employees hold back spending on their revolving credit lines to create... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
that by that point, we will have succumbed to a Keynesian style or demand-side crisis, where people and firms are actively scaling back spending because they’ve concluded that the economic future is bleak. If so, we’d want to be sure we have enough View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
creates a "fiscal risk management" motive: incremental spending that occurs when total government spending is already high is particularly unattractive. A first key insight is that the government's need to manage fiscal risk frequently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-114.pdf Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930 Authors:André C. Martínez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio Abstract There is a large amount... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
foreign investors, but when times are good, people tend to assume that they are everlasting. Sadly, reality isn't so compliant. During flush times, people borrowed excessively beyond their capacity to repay their debts, which is a common... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
as the state grew in the middle of the 20th century through the Great Depression and World War Two, and the advance of entitlements, we needed to fund those things and the fiscal capacity of the state grew.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
industrial firm Ellaktor and Standard and Poor's shows. With the venture capital industry being underdeveloped, Greek entrepreneurs were also excluded from financing. (See here my view on increasing innovation capacity in Greece.) But... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
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Management Training Program: 1945 - 1955 | Baker Library
administrative level and the need for graduate business education for women. From the findings, it was recommended that the Management Training Program continue. (4) Confronted with a difficult fiscal situation, however, the President and... View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2
gross margin for retailers using historical data. We show that sales forecasts from this model are more accurate than consensus forecasts from equity analysts. Further, the residuals from this model for one fiscal year are used to predict... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace