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01 Jun 2011
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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

October 2022
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Sovereign Risk, Currency Risk, and Corporate Balance Sheets

By: Wenxin Du and Jesse Schreger

We provide a comprehensive account of the evolution of the currency composition of sovereign and corporate external borrowing by emerging markets from 2003 to 2017. We show that a higher reliance on foreign currency debt by the corporate sector is associated with... View Details

Keywords: Currency; International Finance

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Summer 2013
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Nuclear Negotiations With Iran

By: Paul R. Pillar, Robert Reardon, James K. Sebenius and Michael K. Singh

Paul Pillar and Robert Reardon challenge the analysis and substantive policy inputs that Sebenius and Singh developed for their article "Is a Nuclear Deal with Iran Possible? An Analytic Framework for the Iran Nuclear Negotiations" (International Security 37, no. 3... View Details

Keywords: Nuclear Proliferation; Zone Of Possible Agreement; ZOPA; International Relations; Negotiation; Iran; United States

03 Apr 2024
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All In, Everybody In: Community at HBS

October 2017
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The Revolutionary Roots of Russian Foreign Policy

By: Jeremy Friedman

Russia continues to be caught between a need to integrate itself into the West and a desire to maintain its independence from the West. View Details

Keywords: International Relations; History; Russia

November 1993 (Revised July 1995)
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Introduction to Transnational Financial Statement Analysis

By: David F. Hawkins

Keywords: International Accounting; Financial Statements

January 1997 (Revised December 1998)
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Note on the Balance of Payments

By: Louis T. Wells Jr.

Describes the construction of the balance of payments and defines frequently used measures taken from the balance of payments. View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; International Finance

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19 Sep 2022
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Behind the Scenes of Writing a Case Study: How can start-ups in emerging markets compete against established global giants?

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Kanwaljit Bakshi

work. "The models of law enforcement and international public policy are not strategic by nature," she explains. "There are no other Harvard MBAs working there. Just having that perspective has been very valuable both to me... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

July 17, 2024
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The Case for Inclusive Alliances: America Must Rediscover the Ideological Flexibility That Helped It Win the Cold War

By: Jeremy Friedman

Keywords: International Relations

2012
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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

Keywords: International Finance; Non-Renewable Energy; International Relations; Economics

23 Jun 2022
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Student Perspectives from MENA and Central Asia

07 Mar 2013
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Private firms playing major role against cyberattacks

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1989
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Minguo shiqi Zhongwai jingji jishu hezuo: Meigo zhanshi shengchan quwentuan huan Hua, 1944-1946 [Sino-foreign Economic and Technical Cooporation in Republican China: The U.S. War Production Mission to China, 1944-46]

By: William C. Kirby

Keywords: History; International Finance; International Relations; Cooperation; Developing Countries and Economies; China; United States

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Avi Kremer

He can no longer walk, talk, or swallow, but Avi Kremer (MBA 2007) won’t let that slow down his pursuit of a cure for ALS, a progressive neurodegenerative disease. As founder of Prize4Life, the nonprofit he launched in 2006 with HBS classmates and professors, Kremer... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Entrepreneurship

2020
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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

2007
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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

Keywords: International Finance; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Asia