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  • 19 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

Evaluation, a paper published in 2011. “We know racism and sexism exist. The question is what can we do about it?” Parsons has made a habit of asking surprising questions about economic issues, looking at situations where small factors... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Information; Publishing
  • January 2008
  • Article

Entrepreneurship and Urban Success: Toward a Policy Consensus

By: Zoltan J. Acs, Edward L. Glaeser, Robert E. Litan, Lee Fleming, Stephan J. Goetz, William R. Kerr, Steven Klepper, Stuart S. Rosenthal, Olav Sorenson and William C. Strange
Like all politics, all entrepreneurship is local. Individuals launch firms and, if successful, expand their enterprises to other locations. But new firms must start somewhere, even if their businesses are conducted largely or exclusively on the Internet. Likewise,... View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Business Startups; Development Economics; Economy; Entrepreneurship; Policy; Taxation; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Business Processes; Expansion; Internet
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  • 2018
  • Chapter

The United States in Contemporary Perspectives: Evolving Forms, Strategy, and Performance

By: David J. Collis, Bharat Anand and J. Yo-Jud Cheng
BOOK ABSTRACT: In spite of surging interest in the business group organization among business scholars, economists, and historians in recent years, academic research on business groups has, to date, remained within the boundary of emerging markets. The major aim of... View Details
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    Trevor Fetter

    Trevor Fetter is a Senior Lecturer and the Henry B. Arthur Fellow on the faculty of Harvard Business School. He teaches two MBA required courses: Leadership and Corporate Accountability, and Financial Reporting and Control. At HBS he has also taught a Short... View Details

    • 13 Jan 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Private Equity and Industry Performance

    Keywords: by Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen & Per Strömberg
    • April 4, 2009
    • Article

    The Return of State-Owned Enterprises: Should We Be Afraid?

    By: Aldo Musacchio and Francisco Flores-Macias
    The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 has prompted many industrialized states worldwide to increase their stakes in private corporations. This wave of partial nationalizations has come amidst full-scale expropriations in developing countries such as Venezuela,... View Details
    Keywords: History; Private Ownership; State Ownership; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations
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    • October 2024
    • Teaching Note

    El Salvador: Launching Bitcoin as Legal Tender

    By: Laura Alfaro
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 322-055. In June 2021, Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, surprised the world with the announcement that the country would adopt bitcoin as legal tender, becoming the first nation to do so. Bitcoin was mostly used for trading and had... View Details
    Keywords: Bitcoin; Cryptocurrency; Currency; Financial Strategy; Economic Growth; Governance; Macroeconomics; Assets; Government Administration; Latin America; El Salvador
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    • 2008
    • Book

    On Competition

    By: M. E. Porter
    Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Competitive Strategy; Theory; Value Creation
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    • 2023
    • Book

    Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia

    By: Meg Rithmire
    Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies as well as some of the world's most durable authoritarian regimes. Many accounts of rapid growth alongside monopolies on political power have focused on crony relationships... View Details
    Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Systems; Crime and Corruption; China; Indonesia; Malaysia
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    • 15 May 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    How is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Compelling Natural Experiment

    Keywords: by Eric Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed & Charles Cohen
    • August 1977 (Revised February 1981)
    • Background Note

    Introduction to Balance of Payments Analysis

    By: Bruce R. Scott
    Minimal background to permit interpretation of positive or negative balances in the key summary accounts of a balance of payments statement; also to permit relating these balances and relevant supporting detail to a possible national development strategy. Designed for... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Development Economics; Planning; Accounting Industry; Canada
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    • 26 Mar 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Bloody Millennium: Internal Conflict in South Asia

    Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer
    • TeachingInterests

    Managing International Trade and Investment

    By: Dante Roscini
    Managing International Trade and Investment (MITI) is designed for students who expect to engage directly or indirectly in commerce and in strategic or financial investments across national borders. It covers concepts that are relevant to a number of operating and... View Details
    • October 2015
    • Case

    Clearwater Seafoods

    By: Forest L. Reinhardt
    Clearwater sought to market value-added shellfish products in a traditionally commodities based industry, while facing supply uncertainties and regulatory, environmental, and foreign exchange challenges. Clearwater harvested lobsters, clams, scallops, shrimp, and other... View Details
    Keywords: Agribusiness; Profit; Goods and Commodities; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Product Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Canada
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    • September 2010 (Revised December 2010)
    • Case

    Santander Consumer Finance

    By: J. Gunnar Trumbull, Elena Corsi and Andrew Barron
    A Spanish company has to decide if they should expand into the fragmented European consumer finance market and has to make important organizational strategy decisions in the midst of the world economic downturn that followed the 2007 U.S. credit crunch. Since 2002, the... View Details
    Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Financial Markets; International Finance; Personal Finance; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; European Union; Spain
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    • 29 Jul 2010
    • News

    Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award

    • 07 Feb 2020
    • News

    Women less inclined to self-promote than men, even for a job

    • 12 Jun 2009
    • Research Event

    Business Summit: Lawrence Summers on Market Capitalism’s Historic Opportunity

    Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 14, 2008 Speaker: Lawrence H. Summers, Director of the White House View Details
    • 24 Jan 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    What Do Development Banks Do? Evidence from Brazil, 2002-2009

    Keywords: by Sergio G. Lazzarini, Aldo Musacchio, Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello & Rosilene Marcon; Banking
    • 01 May 2006
    • What Do You Think?

    Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?

    Robbins expanded on this idea: "With regard to national security, pollution, energy policy, education, global warming, and other commons issues, it's hard to see how individual self-interest can add up to the community-wide base we... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett