Real Exchange Rate - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

Energy facility, when he suddenly had a brainstorm that he knew would help him as well as others solve an all-too-common problem. 1 Using the "gopher" technology that had long made the exchange of files and programs across... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner

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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction 1837: The Hard Times 1873: Off the Rails 1907: The Banker's Panic 1929: The Great Crash Crisis Leadership The... View Details

22 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

at varying horizons, and that the short-term nominal interest rate forecasts positively stock return volatility and exchange rate volatility. This paper presents evidence that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

spending needs as well as economic factors such as rising interest rates that affect different assets in different ways. Viceira's research analyzes asset allocation strategies for personal and institutional investors. He teaches... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

11 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

the pass-through of both gas prices and nominal exchange rate fluctuations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54935 forthcoming Consumption, Markets & Culture Big Data By:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Profile

Fangfang Wang

together and exchange insights.” “For me, as a young woman, it was hard to copy their leadership style,” says Fangfang. “I had to think about what kind of leader I wanted to be. Should I fit in by changing myself or should I provide an... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education; CPG

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

When Standard & Poor's Rating Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States from AAA to AA+ on August 5, it was a shot heard 'round the world. Stock markets plummeted,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

03 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising

functionality and status. Cultural exchanges. While advertising has always been part of popular culture, technology has increased the rate of exchange and competition for buzz. In addition to Dove's... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Publishing; Advertising

19 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

capabilities. Forecasts are generally associated with many of the factors that money managers rate as important in their assessments of analyst contributions, including industry growth and competitiveness, low-price strategy, strategy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Is This the Decade of the Investor?

employees and less than 3 percent to investors. Compared with the preceding decade of the 80s, customers enjoyed the benefits of low inflation while corporations suffered lower rates of increase in profits and investors received lower... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

February 2000 (Revised March 2001)
Case

Alphatec Electronics Pcl

By: Stuart C. Gilson, C. Fritz Foley and Perry Fagan

The newly appointed CEO of an important high-technology company in Thailand must lead the company through a complicated debt restructuring. Due to the collapse of the Thai currency, the company's debt burden, like that of most Thai companies, has skyrocketed because it... View Details

Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Valuation; Management Teams; Restructuring; Laws and Statutes; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Technology Industry; Electronics Industry; Thailand; United States

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Paul Luning

"For real impact, we're going to need business to effect change." While there, Paul completed a six-month externship with Current Energy, a Dallas enterprise that reduces energy usage within small businesses. "It's the... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

How to Close the Health Gap

higher rates in poor countries. You’ve heard of the wealth gap. Welcome to the health gap. The people who need the medicines most in the world are the least likely to receive them. “Now that we have such extraordinary capabilities, what... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2016
News

How DC is Taxing the Country

startup formation has been on the decline since the early 1980s; and real median household income is well below its peak in 1999. Most economic gains have gone instead to the wealthy and big businesses. Today’s 5.1 percent unemployment... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

02 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

its current status as a low-income country to a middle-income one by 2030. “The timeline could be two or three years, or a decade later” While the International Monetary Fund predicted the country could achieve 6-7 percent annual increases in View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

of these firms face various issues—including management of exchange rate risk, how to structure their internal capital markets, how to do capital budgeting worldwide, and how to respond to varying regulatory... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

01 Dec 2002
News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

with almost every market — public and private equities, fixed income, real estate — going up everywhere in the world, investors became overly confident and not in tune with how much risk they were embedding into their portfolios. What... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

Blog

When Generations Learn Together

one way for us to maintain our collegiality and grow together. He's working in private equity and that's about 20 percent of where I spend my time, so we often collaborate and exchange thoughts. Attending a program together was a way to... View Details

08 May 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Writing the Case for Public School Reform

The state of public education in the United States is a perennial hot-button topic, with rhetoric often outpacing any real sense of progress. The Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a 2003 joint initiative of HBS and Harvard's... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

16 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Delivering Solutions During a Crisis with Hans Kristian Furuseth (MBA 2019)

through crisis while operating an ecommerce organization during Brexit. With business in the UK and across the EU, Furuseth and his team had to adjust to foreign exchange rates and find ways to quickly cut... View Details

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