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- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
highly attractive host economy over the following decade. There are major acquisition opportunities in, for example, the fragmented U.S. banking sector, and the probable further weakening of the dollar over the medium term will make U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
eight major North American and European financial services companies as well as an international internet survey in collaboration with journals and organizations. The present paper gives an overview of the initial findings of 61 interviews and highlights some of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
joining the battle against climate change will signal a significant shift in governance ideology for this highly regulated industry so critical to the global financial system. While global custody View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
What really fuels a boom-and-bust cycle in the modern global economy? It’s not always household debt, says a new paper that parses in-depth data across 115 countries. Instead, rising corporate debt may flash the clearest warning that a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
report from the Global Center on Adaptation suggests that more than $100 billion per year is needed to invest in infrastructure, weather forecasting, and protecting agriculture in Africa to address both poverty and climate stresses. Yet... View Details
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=972044 Corporate Governance at the World Bank and the Dilemma of Global Governance Authors:Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker Publication:The World View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
response people had with microfinance. The concept of giving a loan that could start as low as $125 to someone who is poor and then think of that as a viable business was once inconceivable. But today in Latin America, the banks that are... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
2015 Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile: Business Enterprises and Entrepreneurship By: Jones, G. Abstract—This book compares the effects of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey
of the costliest, according to an analysis of microdata from large retailers by Harvard Business School Professor Alberto Cavallo. In a forthcoming article in the Journal of Monetary Economics, Cavallo and coauthor Oleksiy Kryvtsov, senior research officer at the View Details
Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Working PapersFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test for political capture in a novel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- April 2009 (Revised November 2018)
- Case
Sanctuary Soft: International Expansion Strategies
By: Boris Groysberg, Geoff Marietta, Tim Marshall and Adam Hartley
Sanctuary Soft CEO Elizabeth Smalley faced increasing pressure from her primary investor to expand operations internationally. If successful, the expansion could enlarge Sanctuary’s customer base and enable the firm to better serve existing clients’ overseas offices.... View Details
Keywords: Global Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Labor; Laws and Statutes; Market Entry and Exit; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; China; India; Germany; United Kingdom; United States
Groysberg, Boris, Geoff Marietta, Tim Marshall, and Adam Hartley. "Sanctuary Soft: International Expansion Strategies." Harvard Business School Case 409-104, April 2009. (Revised November 2018.)
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
declining. Banking and other financial services are now more important to the national economy. Security forces initially fired upon demonstrators, but withdrew after President Obama intervened with a phone call to the king. Some... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Publications October 2014 Journal of International Economics The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen Abstract—The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
from the left and the right, set out to do just that. For the last two and a half years, we co-chaired the Commission's Mortgage Finance Reform Working Group. Remarkably, we saw consensus emerge from both parties on the goals of the new system. We made it as far as the... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
"We've wanted to learn about the challenges of the process and the challenges of companies in those markets trying to compete on a global platform. We are also curious how international companies have been able to intimate themselves into... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
Working PapersNone this week. Cases & Course MaterialsBundling the Contracts: TA-Energy Harvard Business School Case 807-075 Stimulates discussion of entrepreneurship in emerging economies, especially for entrepreneurs returning to their home countries to start... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
looking to do new deals. They’re just sitting on a ton of money.” During that period, global daily deaths had topped 9,000 for a second time as infection rates were soaring across the Americas. Almost all of the world’s 10 largest... View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
technology is revolutionizing the global banking and payment industry. It offers new opportunities for banks to provide added convenience to their existing customers in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
PublicationsGlobal, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment Authors:Malcolm Baker, Jeffrey Wurgler, and Yu Yuan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We construct investor sentiment indices for six major stock markets and decompose them... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
understanding of the process aspects of cross-border negotiation in general. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-077.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsCola Wars: Going Global Harvard Business School Case 709-451 This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace