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    Stefan H. Thomke

    Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; automobiles; automotive; banking; biotechnology; chemical; computer; defense; electronics; health care; high technology; home video games; information technology industry; manufacturing; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; plastics; semiconductor; service industry; telecommunications; video games
    • October 2003 (Revised January 2004)
    • Case

    The 2001 Crisis in Argentina: An IMF-Sponsored Default? (A)

    By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
    At the end of 2001, Argentina's economy and society both appeared on the verge of collapse. Furious about controls imposed on the convertibility of their bank deposits into cash (the "corralito") and huge proposed government spending cuts amidst high unemployment and... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Banks and Banking; Problems and Challenges; Decision Choices and Conditions; Currency Exchange Rate; Economy; Government Administration; Crime and Corruption; Argentina
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    • 08 Jun 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: June 8

    Product Market Competition Lead Firms to Decentralize? Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 100, no. 2 (May 2010) Abstract There is a widespread sense... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace

      The Big Ditch

      On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. The Canal's creation is often seen as an example of U.S. triumphalism, but... View Details

      • September 2022 (Revised January 2023)
      • Case

      York Capital CLOs and WorldStrides International

      By: Victoria Ivashina and William Vrattos
      The case follows the debt restructuring of WorldStrides International, a travel program provider in the education market, after the onset of COVID-19. The pandemic severely impacted the travel industry, creating challenges for many companies like WorldStrides, which... View Details
      Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Debt Restructuring; CLO; Compliance; Debt Securities; Financing and Loans; Decision Making; Travel Industry; Education Industry
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      Railroads and the Making of Modern China

      My current book project is entitled Railroads and the Making of the Modern China and explores China’s economic and socio-political transformation from the last decades of the empire to the present using railroad infrastructure as a focus. Based on a large... View Details

      • 01 May 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose

      Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
      • 31 Jan 2007
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Behavioral Decision Research, Legislation, and Society: Three Cases

      Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
      • 06 Dec 2013
      • HBS Seminar

      Sifan Zhou, Fellow, Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and PhD Candidate, SUNY Albany

      • September 2000
      • Case

      Japanese Financial Crisis and the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, The

      By: Malcolm S. Salter and Andrew Eggers
      Illustrates the failure of Japan's banking elite to adjust to new economic conditions. View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Behavior; Japan
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        Deepak Malhotra

        Deepak Malhotra's teaching, research and advisory work is focused on negotiation, deal-making and conflict resolution. In 2020, Deepak was named MBA Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants. He has won... View Details

          Lauren H. Cohen

          Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

          Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
          • March 2011 (Revised March 2012)
          • Case

          Fraunhofer: Innovation in Germany

          By: Diego A. Comin, J. Gunnar Trumbull and Kerry Yang
          Fraunhofer is one of the largest applied research organizations in the world. With 17,000 employees and a 1.6 billion euros budget, Fraunhofer has 60 institutes in Germany that cover most fields of science. The case examines the consequences that Fraunhofer has for the... View Details
          Keywords: Economy; Entrepreneurship; Financial Markets; Government and Politics; Labor; Markets; Outcome or Result; Research and Development; Competitive Strategy; Germany
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          • 21 Feb 2008
          • Working Paper Summaries

          Do Legal Origins Have Persistent Effects Over Time? A Look at Law and Finance around the World c. 1900

          Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio; Legal Services
          • 2007
          • Working Paper

          Acting Globally but Thinking Locally? The Influence of Local Communities on Organizations

          By: Christopher Marquis and Julie Battilana
          We develop an institutional theory of how local communities continue to matter for organizations, and why community factors are particularly important in a global age. Since globalization has taken center stage in both practitioner and academic circles, research has... View Details
          Keywords: Geographic Location; Local Range; Globalization; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Community Relations; Power and Influence
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          • 08 Nov 2024
          • Op-Ed

          How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

          African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
          Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy
          • 2012
          • Chapter

          Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and Political Economy in the Accademia dei Pugni in Austrian Lombardy, 1760–1780

          By: Sophus A. Reinert and Jani Marjanen
          This essay focuses on the Accademia dei Pugni, or The Academy of Punches, a celebrated institution which flourished for a few years in 1760s Austrian Milan, and its journal Il Caffè (1764–1766). It does so to revisit one of the cardinal questions... View Details
          Keywords: History; Culture; Economic Systems
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          Overview

          Professor Sawyer’s research focuses on U.S. political economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, concentrating on the development of competition policy and the administrative state. While the conventional history of U.S. competition policy portrays the... View Details

          • 29 Apr 2020
          • Book

          The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

          Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
          Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
          • January 2012 (Revised June 2013)
          • Case

          Pioneers in Colombia

          By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Lisa Strope
          In 2011, Equity International made a $75 million equity investment in Bogota-based real estate company, Terranum Development and became the first institutional real estate investor in Colombia. View Details
          Keywords: International Investment; Real Estate; International Finance; Private Equity; Emerging Markets; Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Real Estate Industry; Colombia
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