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    Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets

    Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global economy, accounting for 31% of global GDP and more than 50% of global foreign direct investment in 2012. However, doing business in emerging markets remains subject to a high degree of "policy risk,"... View Details

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    Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

    Case | Faculty Research In 2024, FC Bayern Munich superstar Thomas Müller announced his retirement from German national football. His contract with Bayern Munich runs through the end of the 2024-25 season. In 2025, Müller reflects on his... View Details
    • 05 Sep 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

    forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior By: Baloria, Vishal P., and Jonas Heese Abstract—The media can impose reputational costs on firms because of its important role as an information intermediary and its ability to... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Do Information Frictions and Corruption Perceptions Kill Competition? A Field Experiment on Public Procurement in Uganda

    By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Francesco Loiacono, Edwin Muhumuza and Edoardo Teso
    We study whether information frictions and corruption perceptions deter firms from doing business with the government. We conduct two nationwide randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in collaboration with the national public procurement supervisory and anti-corruption... View Details
    Keywords: Knowledge Use and Leverage; Government and Politics; Crime and Corruption; Trust; Perception; Business and Government Relations
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    • December 2019
    • Case

    CME Group in 2019

    By: José B. Alvarez, Forest Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred
    Chicago-based CME Group is the world’s largest futures and options marketplace, with annual trading volume of over 4.8 billion contracts in 2018. This case is set in late 2019, as heightened perceptions of risk stemming from the U.S.-China trade war are driving record... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Markets; Risk Management; Futures and Commodity Futures; Trade; Price; Competition; Risk and Uncertainty; Competitive Strategy; United States; China; Brazil
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism

    By: Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
    N.S.B. Gras, the father of Business History in the United States, argued that the era of mercantile capitalism was defined by the figure of the “sedentary merchant,” who managed his business from home, using correspondence and intermediaries, in contrast to the earlier... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Systems; History; Business History
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    • August 2015
    • Article

    Dollar Funding and the Lending Behavior of Global Banks

    By: Victoria Ivashina, David S. Scharfstein and Jeremy C. Stein
    A large share of dollar-denominated lending is done by non-U.S. banks, particularly European banks. We present a model in which such banks cut dollar lending more than euro lending in response to a shock to their credit quality. Because these banks rely on wholesale... View Details
    Keywords: Banks; Global Banks; Credit Supply; Dollar Funding; International Finance; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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    Economics of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

    Designed for Harvard College sophomores.

    Course Description: Why do so many individuals choose to pursue entrepreneurship despite substantial risks? How do these entrepreneurs raise money to finance their ventures? And what is the impact of... View Details

    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Venture Capital
    • 2017
    • Chapter

    Entrepreneurship, Policy, and the Geography of Wind Energy

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    This study examines the geography of the global wind energy industry before 2000. Between 1980 and 2000, the global generating capacity of wind power grew from 13 megawatts to 17,400 megawatts, but two-thirds of that capacity was in Denmark, Germany, Spain, and the... View Details
    Keywords: Wind Power; Business And Government; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Geography; Business and Government Relations; Policy; Business History; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Asia; Europe; United States
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    • 04 Nov 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Making the Numbers? ‘Short Termism’ & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

    Keywords: by Hazhir Rahmandad, Nelson P. Repenning & Rebecca Henderson
    • Research Summary

    Social Networks and Unraveling in Labor Markets

    This paper develops a model of local unraveling (or early hiring) in entry-level labor markets. Information about workers' productivity is revealed over time and transmitted credibly via a two-sided network connecting firms and workers. While employment starts only... View Details
    • August 2018 (Revised July 2020)
    • Case

    Revenue Recognition at HBP

    By: Paul Healy and Siko Sikochi
    In early 2014, Paul Bills, CFO of Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), sat down with David Wan, the company’s CEO, to discuss budget preparations for the coming year. Bills noted that the performance of Corporate Learning, one of HBP’s three business units, would be... View Details
    Keywords: Accrual Accounting; Budgets and Budgeting; Revenue Recognition; Financial Reporting; Publishing Industry; Education Industry; United States
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    • March 2004 (Revised June 2006)
    • Case

    Journey to Sakhalin: Royal Dutch/Shell in Russia (A)

    By: Rawi E. Abdelal
    Operations of Royal Dutch/Shell in Russia included a strategic alliance with Gazprom, the country's natural gas monopoly, the development of the Salym oil fields in Siberia, and a small retail refilling network in St. Petersburg. Focuses on the Sakhalin II project.... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Energy Generation; Foreign Direct Investment; Lawfulness; Agreements and Arrangements; Alliances; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; Russia
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    • 08 Aug 2022
    • HBS Case

    Building an 'ARMY' of Fans: Marketing Lessons from K-Pop Sensation BTS

    phones, and some contracts contained no-dating clauses. Bang decided to take a more hands-off approach, with the belief that pop stars are human and could channel their personalities into their work and use it to connect with fans. BTS’... View Details
    Keywords: by Shalene Gupta; Media & Broadcasting; Music
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    Middle East & North Africa - Global

    Group AMANA: Built to Last By: Hise Gibson and Fares Khrais "The case chronicles the Bsaibes brothers’ journey in founding and operating Group AMANA; a contracting business founded in 1993, based in the United Arab Emirates with... View Details
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    3D Negotiaton

    By: James K. Sebenius

    In articles and books, often with David Lax, I have been developing a broad approach to effective negotiation that encompasses three "dimensions." In this "3D" approach, our first dimension — "tactics"-- is the most familiar territory. Tactics are the persuasive... View Details

    • 09 Jan 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism

    Keywords: by Rafael M. Di Tella, Juan Dubra & Robert MacCulloch; Energy; Utilities
    • Article

    Products to Platforms: Making the Leap

    By: Feng Zhu and Nathan Furr
    Following the path of companies such as Apple and Amazon, more and more firms are trying to become not just product purveyors but also platform providers, facilitating direct connections between customers and other groups. Although launching a platform can generate new... View Details
    Keywords: Product; Digital Platforms; Expansion
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    • February 2016
    • Case

    Debt and Democracy: The New York Constitutional Convention of 1846

    By: David Moss and Dean Grodzins
    On September 23, 1846, delegates to New York State's constitutional convention prepared to vote on a proposal that its principal proponent, Michael Hoffman, conceded would be “a serious change in our form of government.” The proposal would place tight restrictions on... View Details
    Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Governance; Laws and Statutes; Government and Politics; History; New York (state, US)
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      Dollar Funding and the Lending Behavior of Global Banks

      A large share of dollar-denominated lending is done by non-U.S. banks, particularly European banks. We present a model in which such banks cut dollar lending more than euro lending in response to a shock to their credit quality. Because these banks rely on wholesale... View Details