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- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
determinant of their severity. The Empire Struck Back: Sanctions and Compensation in the Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938 Author:Noel Maurer Publication:Journal of Economic History (forthcoming) Abstract The Mexican View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
connections with various nonmining quarters of Chilean life, including the financial, industrial, and legal sectors. These players' support for Kennecott strengthened its BATNA. In contrast, while Chile's BATNA — expropriating the mine —... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
War I, the management of political risk became a central concern for firms operating internationally. These risks were on many levels, from expropriation to exchange controls and other economic policies. The issue is explored in multiple... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
like A. Lange & Söhne., founded in 1845 in the village of Glashütte, Germany. It began making precision pocket watches that eventually became world famous. After World War II, the East German country expropriated the company and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
results of additional tests are consistent with the risk of expropriation being a barrier to information disclosure about firm performance. In contrast, we find no evidence that disclosure of government payments is related to proprietary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
cause of a combined economic stagnation and social backwardness that only socialism could cure. In the early and mid-1950s this would lead to the expropriation of the property or exile (to Hong Kong and overseas) of China's business... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
"nanopayments" to all of us who supply valuable information gratis to Facebook and other information exchanges that have expropriated value from both the employed and unemployed of our society. Are productivity increases... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
the first world war, German assets in India were expropriated under the Trading with the Enemy Act 1914. The British Empire operated internment camps in New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, and India. The largest Indian camp was located at... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
royalty rates would not be a cure-all. Not only would such discussions raise antitrust concerns about collusion, but as the authors explain in the paper, "price discussions within the standard setting process run the risk of View Details
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
activity is not the risk of technological expropriation by local partners but the demands of external funders who require MNC participation to ensure value maximization by local entrepreneurs. The model demonstrates that weak investor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
party can expropriate a large fraction of the profits before default becomes likely; with high leverage, even small acts of expropriate can cause the project to default and, at least temporarily, cease... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
Tintaya copper mine has long been a source of intense conflict between local community members and mine operators. The mine, which was owned and managed first by the Peruvian state and later by BHP Billiton, stands on 2,300 hectares of land View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
can induce a controlling shareholder to list equity. Higher valuations support listings associated with greater agency costs. We test the predictions that follow from this idea on a sample of publicly listed corporate subsidiaries in Japan. When there is greater scope... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
across all contexts of innovation, our goal is to develop a more generalized account of what drives the process of innovation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-096.pdf Much Ado About Nothing: Expropriation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
direct investment (FDI) flows arise endogenously when monitoring is nonverifiable and financial frictions exist. The mechanism generating MNC activity is not the risk of technological expropriation by local partners but the demands of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312029-PDF-ENG Willy Jacobsohn and Beiersdorf: Managing Expropriation and Anti-Semitism Geoffrey G. Jones and Christina LubinskiHarvard Business School Case 811-060 This case examines the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
dissertation, the World Bank, the International Corporate Governance Network, the OCDE, and so on were promoting this principle as a way to overcome the abuses of managers or controlling shareholders who expropriated small shareholders or... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
expropriated American investments, but in almost every case the U.S. government's employment of economic sanctions or covert action obtained market value or more in compensation-despite the growing strategic risks. The advent of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
exacerbated by the fact that in many instances AES' primary customer is the government, which is also in charge of law-making. For example, AES' management team has encountered expropriation risks in Venezuela, collection problems in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
expropriation processes, or financial crisis. Silverthorne: Who should be reading these interviews? What will they learn? Khanna: Academics for sure, for their research. Several have started mining the extensive transcripts as data, for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne