Fiscal Capacity - Publications - Faculty & Research

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
Book

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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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

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Colonial State: Fiscal Capacity Building and Forced Labor.” Marlous van Waijenburg : 2018: Winner of the International Economic History Association's triennial Dissertation Prize in the Twentieth Century... View Details

Research Summary

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

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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014

marketing systems, staff, and infrastructure to drive future enrollment growth as new capacity comes on line, total operating costs remained well controlled. As a result, the group’s fiscal 2014 margin... View Details

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From the CFO - Financial Report 2015

contribution was higher than initially planned. Executive Education faced residence and dining capacity constraints in fiscal 2015. The group successfully managed these challenges and delivered... View Details

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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016

collectively, are expected to climb 9 percent from fiscal 2016. This anticipated increase reflects higher mission-driven spending on core I.T. projects. Fiscal 2017 operating costs also reflect the opening... View Details

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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016

mission. The revenues from these sources in any given year are sensitive to trends in the economy and the capital markets. These trends remained favorable for a sixth consecutive year in fiscal 2016. As a result, the School’s total... View Details

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From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020

Financials From the Chief Financial Officer 3ms Our fiscal 2020 financial performance tells a story with two distinct chapters: July 2019 through mid-March 2020, when HBS enjoyed strong results and advanced its core educational and... 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
First Look

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

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

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

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

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

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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