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- 07 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 7
Building the Water Cube Robert Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, and Dilyana KaradzhovaHarvard Business School Case 410-054 Arup, an engineering firm, collaborated with PTW Architects and China Construction Design Institute to develop a design... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
federal court in New York City. Argentina categorically refused to negotiate with investors and halted payments to any creditor that rejected its offer. Investors who agreed to the exchange offer received... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets Authors:Pol Antras, Mihir Desai, and C. Fritz Foley Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines how costly financial contracting and weak View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
case:http://hbr.org/search/211107-PDF-ENG Jim Johnson's Re-election to the Goldman Sachs Board Srinivasan, Suraj, and Kelly BakerHarvard Business School Case 113-050 The case presents the opposition by a leading institutional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
and Entrepreneurship Institutional Innovation: Novel, Useful, and Legitimate By: Raffaelli, Ryan, and Mary Ann Glynn Abstract—This chapter advances the theoretical construct of institutional innovation,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607075 UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action? Harvard Business School Case 707-511 Marco Suter, Executive Vice-Chairman, UBS Board of Directors, carefully studied the chart on his desk. It... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
produce benefits, particularly in light of what's going on now in terms of a number of these privatized firms being de-listed? What is the role of institutional reforms in improving information and accountability?" Global View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
to the established players, and clearly isn't a sustaining technology to anyone else, go all out. There is great opportunity for institutions and innovative business models to coalesce and emerge as real disrupters, he concluded.... View Details
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
George Serafeim, and David Wood Abstract—A new generation of corporate reporting-integrated reporting-is emerging that will help investors and other key stakeholders such as employees, customers, suppliers, and NGOs develop a deeper and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
technologically advanced has led to sweeping sets of executive orders and institutional changes, especially in the US. Businesses need to understand that the policy tools in the US—including export controls, investment reviews, entity... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
innovations (for whom the price of failure tolerance is too high) can only be started by investors who are not failure tolerant. Since policies to stimulate innovation must often be set before specific investments in innovative projects... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
the “Infrastructure Paradox.” Investors have an easy explanation for the paradox: a lack of bankable projects. For bankers (admittedly a broad characterization), a “bankable” project has several characteristics: a clear source of... View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006
for peace, justice, and tolerable taxes. This paper defines capitalism as a system of indirect governance for economic relationships, where all markets exist within institutional frameworks that are provided by political authorities,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
rich-world domination over the poorer South or as a neutral mediator facilitating a tariff-free world of economic prosperity. This article instead analyses how the WTO has sought legitimacy for itself and for the underlying institution of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
monetize the value they would create? Would investors see as much potential in BCM as its founders? And how would the company's cash constraints impact the strategy in the current economic environment? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
Development and became the first institutional real estate investor in Colombia. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/212050-PDF-ENG OpCo / PropCo Valuation Retsinas, Nicolas P., Lisa Strope, and John C.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
another 30 years," says Lurtz, the Harvard-Newcomen Fellow at Harvard Business School. "How do you build these institutions that you need for market agriculture in a place where maybe there are laws on the books, but there's not much... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
Value Lab at the Digital Data and Design Institute at Harvard. The researchers found that PE investors often turn to digital transformation strategies and technology to help revamp portfolio firms, and this... View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
These changes did not—as often assumed—result in the decline of family businesses but instead gave rise to a different kind of competitive and internationally oriented "Mittelstand." The study integrates approaches from new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 6
Brochet, Francois, and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract—We examine which independent directors are held accountable when investors sue firms for financial- and disclosure-related fraud. Investors can name... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino