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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
determined to revive Serbia's economy and one day see his country join the European Union. Not so long ago, Djelic, as a partner at McKinsey in Paris, was enjoying what he terms “a charmed and privileged existence” in the French capital.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
prescription for more commoditized products that can have little value-added and need to be produced in the countries with the lowest costs." Does Parker have something here? What's the downside to disruption in high tech? What do... View Details
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
What gave investors the confidence to risk their money? In a recent monograph, Musacchio reports that Brazilian companies were transparent about their operations, including the disclosure of executive compensation—something not even done... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
departure of more than 200,000 Huguenots at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes was a well-documented economic disaster for the kingdom of France, but the importance of these refugees to the countries where they settled is less known.... View Details
- Web
Exploring Trade Links in the Interior - A Chronicle of the China Trade
purchase of tea. “At first money went into the country to some extent in January, and more largely in February and March, and did not come back in the shape of tea till May,” Augustine Heard II wrote. “It was a great View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Paul’s Sabbatical Story: Hypothesis-testing by sabbaticals
that he’s willing to take risks to find out what he believes in. “Before my first sabbatical I was terrified that time off would lead me to fall behind in my career. After six sabbaticals I am confident that time off is what I need to be... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55004 Shifting Centers of Gravity: Host Country versus Headquarters Influences on MNC Subsidiary Knowledge Inheritance By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Mike Horia Teodorescu, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
The United States housing market is no longer the boat anchor dragging down economic growth. Data from the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices show that average home prices in an assortment of American cities have been on the upswing, increasing by almost 7 percent... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
increasing inequality, at least in the U.S. and U.K., has positioned those countries in excess of the "right amount." Among those supporting this view were Bob Dillon, who commented that "Greed seems to have overtaken some... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax
“Energy Sale” model in India. This model, also known as the “OPEX” model, shifts the performance risk of renewables from the corporations to CleanMax, allowing customers to pay only for energy consumed without upfront asset investment,... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
large due to either product characteristics or the distance between exporter and importer. Finally, we find that in countries with well-developed finance, total exports and the allocation of exports across importers are more sensitive to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
risk implied by the need to roll over its debt more often. We then extend the model to allow private financial intermediaries to compete with the government in the provision of money-like claims. We argue that if there are negative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
School MBA Elective Curriculum. Teams of HBS students have traveled to several developing countries to research prospects for private finance and delivery of solutions in traditional energy, renewable energy, urban transit, inter-city... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
a tough stance to renegotiate trade deals but does not really intend to disrupt the status quo of global trade and the free movement of capital, both of which have benefited this country immensely. Free trade has been in the DNA of the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
proposal involved changing a basic design feature of LinkedIn by allowing members to contact each other without intermediaries for a fee. Fewer members would avail themselves of this feature, but those who did would be willing to pay as much as $5-$15 per message. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
and teaching on risk management, we identify three categories of risk and elaborate on the ways companies can identify and mitigate them, with particular emphasis on strategy execution risks. Managing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- December 2010
- Article
Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race
By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
The main arguments in favor of and against nominal and indexed debt are the incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against unforeseen shocks. We model and calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Motivation and Incentives; Inflation and Deflation; System Shocks; Taxation; Risk and Uncertainty; Framework; Problems and Challenges; Interest Rates; Cost; Developing Countries and Economies; Service Operations
Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race." Journal of International Money and Finance 29, no. 8 (December 2010): 1706–1726. (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 05-053 and NBER Working Paper No. 13131.)
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
uses the K-means clustering technique to identify groups of customers who have purchased any number of 32 specific “deals” Booth offered over the year, differentiated by the wine varietal as well as its country of origin and a minimum... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- November 1999 (Revised April 2003)
- Case
Financing the Mozal Project
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Fuaad Qureshi
It is June 1997, and a team from the International Finance Corp. (IFC) is recommending that the board approve a $120 million investment in a $1.4 billion aluminum smelter in Mozambique, known as the Mozal project. Four factors make the investment controversial: it... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Capital Markets; Emerging Markets; Projects; Financial Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Developing Countries and Economies; Metals and Minerals; Financial Strategy; Government and Politics; International Finance; Infrastructure; Mozambique
Esty, Benjamin C., and Fuaad Qureshi. "Financing the Mozal Project." Harvard Business School Case 200-005, November 1999. (Revised April 2003.)
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
countries with weak legal institutions. By implication, these findings suggest that improvements in foreign firms’ information environment upon listing in the U.S., as documented in prior literature, stem in part from the greater... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel