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- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
then dominated by state owned companies. In some developing countries, officials were converted to the new beliefs. In other countries, officials were not so enthusiastic about the new ideology, but they found themselves cut off from other sources of finance as the... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
makes huge investments to acquire, develop, and market concepts with strong hit potential, and then banks on the sales of those titles to make up for the middling performance of their other content. Today's leading film studios,... View Details
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
stock and see if it is positive or negative.” Finance is another field in which Teodorescu predicts that machine learning will become more common, as banks and financial companies will use data about how customers use money to predict... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
Voids Authors:Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu Publication:The World Financial Review (May-June 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.worldfinancialreview.com/?p=483 Working PapersThe Institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
across the sands of the Sahara, it is formally located in Tunisia, or Algeria, or Libya, depending on to whom you talk or which way the winds are blowing. It is an ancient place, Partenia, a remnant of a world that hardly anyone can even... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
time. Book link: http://www.e-elgar-business.com/bookentry_main.lasso?id=12519 Small and Medium Firm Lending in Mexico: Lessons and Current Issues Authors:Rodrigo Canales and Ramana Nanda Publication:In Mexico Competitiveness Report 2009, edited by Ricardo Hausmann,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
producing analysis and interpretation, while operating in key decision-making fora. In the first bank ("Saxon Bank"), the risk function was successful in achieving such influence. The risk experts established a tight... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
If capitalism was a stock, the market would appear rather bearish on its future. Bank failures, economic crises, and middle-class riots across the globe appear symptomatic of large systemic weaknesses in the market system, highlighted by... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-103.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (A) Harvard Business School Case 107-055 In 1996, CEO Fernando Garcia Checa wanted to make customer analytics a part of Bancaja's new strategy. Bancaja, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?
idiosyncratic to one organization? All banks operating in a conventional format? All companies relying heavily on collaborative work? All companies with great cultures? Or is it applicable to all companies? Can a company managed from... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
Olson argued. "It became the dominant, unquestioned view," Trumbull says. Olson's beliefs have been popular with both liberals and conservatives, he observes. Liberals routinely believe that big banks and corporations control government... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
and develop a construction budget and financing plan. Students are asked to evaluate the prospective financials for this development and assess the viability of the development plan and its prospective returns. The case then ends with a change in the fundamental... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
insight from behavioral economists and organizational consultants is also included. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52264 December 2016 Journal of Business and Policy Research Corporate Sponsorship in Culture—A Case of Collaborative... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Entrepreneurial cognition and motivation frequently lay in individual, and very local, experiences, but many of the key pioneers were also highly globalized in their world views, with strong perception of how small, local efforts related... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
how you incentivize, can increase or deplete the amount of altruistic capital." Ashraf's interest in international field research sprouted from the realization that the people tasked with solving global problems aren't always in touch with the reality on the ground.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
of physical infrastructure and workforce education are the strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing important roles. Looking at the district-industry level, we find extensive evidence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
highlight some key recent findings and outline major gaps that we hope will be tackled in the near future. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52090 forthcoming World Bank... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
of the most successful and insightful leaders of our time, the CEOs from companies as diverse as Standard Chartered Bank, Infosys, Nokia, Cummins, IKEA, Tata, and Campbell's Soup. The authors reveal how these leaders from around the world... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/809068-PDF-ENG Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: Abridged Harvard Business School Case 110-011 Inspired by one of the few banks that successfully weathered the 2007-2009 credit crisis, the case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
Path and having been awarded a major World Bank grant, several challenges nonetheless remain including regional war and turmoil, sustainable funding, tensions over the Path's activities in Israel, and... View Details