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- March 1985 (Revised July 1986)
- Background Note
Foreign Operations Accounting and Analysis
By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: International Accounting
Hawkins, David F. "Foreign Operations Accounting and Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 185-063, March 1985. (Revised July 1986.)
- 29 Mar 2022
- News
Michael Brune’s Next Battle: Clean up Bitcoin
- November 2010
- Teaching Note
Databank in Africa (TN)
By: Jordan I. Siegel
Teaching Note for 708478. View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
HBS Club Meets U.S. Ambassador
Members of the HBS Alumni Association of Germany had a unique opportunity in September to meet with William R. Timken Jr. (MBA ’62), the current U.S. ambassador to Germany. Timken previously had a 43-year career at The Timken Co., a Fortune 500 enterprise employing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
Campbell (MBA '07) Courtesy Donovan Campbell One day in April 2007, my phone started ringing during a customer analytics class at HBS. I kept hitting silence, but the phone kept ringing. Thirteen calls and one very annoyed professor later, I got the hard news: The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
…and by Comparison
Last June, the MBA Class of 1958 celebrated its 50th Reunion. HBS professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser, one of five class members who became professors at the School (likely a record for any class), notes that because the class graduated at the midpoint of HBS’s life,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Holding Steady in the Wild Blue Yonder
The day after Northern Alliance troops rolled into Kabul as the Taliban withdrew without a fight, Secretary of the Air Force James Roche (DBA '72) cautioned CNN's Larry King, "This is going to go on for some time. And we can't be elated one day and depressed the next.... View Details
- March 16, 2023
- Other Article
How Putin Uses Hanoi’s 1960s Playbook to Divide the American Public on Foreign Policy
By: Jeremy Friedman
Friedman, Jeremy. "How Putin Uses Hanoi’s 1960s Playbook to Divide the American Public on Foreign Policy." Jurist (March 16, 2023).
- January 11, 2023
- Article
Russia and Ukraine Are Not Ready for Talks: But They Might Get There If Ukraine Keeps Winning
By: James K. Sebenius and Michael Singh
While there are many calls for negotiation between Ukraine and Russia to end their war, there does now (early 2023) not appear to be a zone of possible agreement (ZOPA), since each side's best no-agreement option ("BATNA") likely appears superior to any mutually... View Details
Keywords: Diplomacy; Agreements; Ukraine; International Relations; War; Negotiation; Ukraine; Russia
Sebenius, James K., and Michael Singh. "Russia and Ukraine Are Not Ready for Talks: But They Might Get There If Ukraine Keeps Winning." ForeignAffairs.com (January 11, 2023).
- January 1982
- Background Note
Exchange Rate Determination and Foreign Exchange Equilibrium Conditions, Study Note
By: Thomas R. Piper
Piper, Thomas R. "Exchange Rate Determination and Foreign Exchange Equilibrium Conditions, Study Note." Harvard Business School Background Note 282-052, January 1982.
- November 2021
- Article
The Nixon Doctrine and the Making of Authoritarianism in Island Southeast Asia
By: Mattias Fibiger
This article argues that the Nixon Doctrine was an instrument of authoritarianization in island Southeast Asia. It traces the formulation of the Nixon Doctrine and its implementation through foreign aid decisions, revealing that President Richard Nixon and his chief... View Details
Keywords: Diplomacy; Foreign Aid; Authoritarianism; Geopolitics; Nixon; International Relations; Policy; History; Southeast Asia; United States
Fibiger, Mattias. "The Nixon Doctrine and the Making of Authoritarianism in Island Southeast Asia." Diplomatic History 45, no. 5 (November 2021): 954–982.
- 2020
- Chapter
Reflections on Comparing China and India
By: Tarun Khanna
In this essay, the introductory chapter to an edited volume (Bajpai, Ho and Miller (edited), Routledge Handbook of China-India Relations, 2020), I reflect on two decades of my comparative scholarship on the trajectories of modern China and India, with a lens... View Details
Keywords: Country Analysis; Comparative Analysis; International Relations; Entrepreneurship; China; India
Khanna, Tarun. "Reflections on Comparing China and India." Chap. 1 in Routledge Handbook of China–India Relations, edited by Kanti Bajpai, Selina Ho, and Manjari Chatterjee Miller, 18–32. New York: Routledge, 2020.
- 2007
- Working Paper
How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
By: Eric D. Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed and Charles Cohen
We use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent by tracking its... View Details
Werker, Eric D., Faisal Z. Ahmed, and Charles Cohen. "How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-074, April 2007. (Revised December 2007, July 2008.)
- March 1993
- Article
On the Speculative Efficiency of the Foreign Exchange Market
By: K. A. Froot
Froot, K. A. "On the Speculative Efficiency of the Foreign Exchange Market." Cuadernos económicos de I.C.E. (March 1993): 7–30.
- 1990
- Chapter
Rediscovering Functions in the MNC: The Role of Expertise in Firms' Response to Shifting Exchange Rates
By: D. Lessard and N. Nohria
Lessard, D., and N. Nohria. "Rediscovering Functions in the MNC: The Role of Expertise in Firms' Response to Shifting Exchange Rates." In Managing the Global Firm, edited by Christopher A. Bartlett, Y. Doz, and G. Hedlund. London: Routledge, 1990.
- September 2002 (Revised April 2004)
- Background Note
A Note on Depositary Receipts
Provides an introduction to depositary receipts. Recently, these instruments have been used with increasing frequency by firms seeking to list their shares on stock exchanges in other countries, especially in the United States. Describes different types of depositary... View Details
Kuemmerle, Walter. "A Note on Depositary Receipts." Harvard Business School Background Note 803-026, September 2002. (Revised April 2004.)
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
economic shocks, corporate scandals, international competition, or technological disruptions. Zero-Sum Game: The Rise of the World’s Largest Derivatives Exchange by Erika S. Olson (MBA ’03) (Wiley) Olson, a former managing director at the... View Details
- 2012
- Working Paper
Unobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem
By: Faisal Z. Ahmed and Eric Werker
Autocrats experiencing a windfall in unearned income may find it optimal to donate to other countries some of the windfall in order to make the state a less attractive prize to potential insurgents. We put forward a model that makes that prediction, as well as the... View Details
Ahmed, Faisal Z., and Eric Werker. "Unobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-009, July 2012.