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- March 2004 (Revised October 2013)
- Case
Innocents Abroad: Currencies and International Stock Returns
By: Mihir A. Desai, Kathleen Luchs, Elizabeth A. Meyer and Mark Veblen
What do international stocks contribute to the portfolio of a U.S. investor? How do currencies interact with stock price movements in determining the benefits of international diversification? This case helps students compare the risks and returns of foreign stock... View Details
Keywords: Diversification; International CAPM; CAPM; Home Bias; Currency Risk; Exchange Rate Risk; International Stock Market Returns; United States; Currency Exchange Rate; Stocks; Financial Markets; International Finance; Investment Return; Currency; Risk and Uncertainty; Emerging Markets; Investment Portfolio; Financial Services Industry; United States; Australia; Canada; China; Germany; India; Japan; United Kingdom
Desai, Mihir A., Kathleen Luchs, Elizabeth A. Meyer, and Mark Veblen. "Innocents Abroad: Currencies and International Stock Returns." Harvard Business School Case 204-141, March 2004. (Revised October 2013.)
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
Photos by Joe Szurszewski “What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.” That observation, attributed to Plato, is inscribed on the Athena Leadership Award that graces Barbara Nick’s home office in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet
within their own ranks. “What you really do need is knowledge of that specific industry, whether it's pharmaceutical or manufacturing or hospitality or rocket science.” The findings suggest an active market for CEOs, who are lured View Details
- 3 Jun 2023
- Talk
Health Care Innovation Opportunities Created by COVID-19 and How to Make Them Happen
The crush of patients created by COVID enabled the creation of sites for care outside the traditional hospital, such as retail pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers, telemedicine, and wireless sensors. Public policy mirrored these changes by... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; Insurance Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Health Care Innovation Opportunities Created by COVID-19 and How to Make Them Happen." Harvard Business School Alumni Reunion, Boston, MA, June 3, 2023. (Link to cases described in this talk.)
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
Many managers know that even when their firm launches a change initiative with great fanfare, it is tough to make the changes last. More often than not, employees wearily dismiss the initiative as another management fad. Soon enough,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19
initial focus of this coalition is to build an effective 360-degree COVID care solution including tele-consultation and home quarantine facilities. Raquel Schreiber (MBA 2021), Founder, Community V... View Details
- 12 Jul 2022
- News
Expanding the Power to Prosper
send money home to help their families, for example. The blockchain could change all of that though, and cryptocurrencies could empower anyone with a smartphone to have access... View Details
- 22 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
households to their companies,” Neeley says. “The least you can do is care about how they are.” While people may have hesitated to talk about their responsibilities at home... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- November 2022
- Teaching Note
Proximie: Using XR Technology to Create Borderless Operating Rooms
By: Ariel D. Stern, Alpana Thapar and Menna Hassan
Founded by Nadine Hachach-Haram in 2016, Proximie was a digital medicine platform that used mixed reality and a host of digital audio and visual tools to enable clinicians, proctors, and medical device company personnel to be virtually present in operating rooms (ORs),... View Details
- Summer 2008
- Editorial
Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations
By: James Feyrer, Bruce Sacerdote and Ariel Dora Stern
Only a few rich nations are currently at replacement levels of fertility and many are considerably below. We believe that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in household production and... View Details
Feyrer, James, Bruce Sacerdote, and Ariel Dora Stern. "Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations." Journal of Economic Perspectives 22, no. 3 (Summer 2008): 3–22.
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
their homes or at local restaurants around the world, MBA students working in the region during the summer between their first and second years have the opportunity to meet with alumni, forging connections... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities
Eurotrek. Commenting on WesTrek in the Harbus, Walter Jones (HBS '00), the event's cochair, said that "the Trek allows students to enter a self-guided tour of the home of key high-tech sectors." Trek... View Details
- 27 Jan 2010
- News
Ferran Adrià Comes to Harvard
- 26 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
How to Approach Your Equity Compensation
deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold equity you must consider: Tax and cash flows – Understand the cash outlay (including taxes) required to exercise your equity Opportunity costs – Given cash flow... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
restaurants’ commitment to customer and employee safety. Although necessary, protocols alone will likely not be sufficient to enable restaurants to meet the most important... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
read "Go home Googlers." It was a daily reminder, she says, that something was broken. That this great technological revolution just wasn't working for everyone. Today, Ingersoll works as COO of Code for America, a San Francisco-based... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
falter? What sets successful founders apart from those whose new ventures fail? Starting in 2008, I set out to interview hundreds of highly successful entrepreneurs in depth, hoping to reverse engineer what... View Details