International Investment Barriers - Publications - Faculty & Research

April 2008 (Revised June 2008)
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Korea: On the Back of a Tiger (Abridged)

What caused the 1997 Korea crisis? Did the International Monetary Fund (IMF) help or hinder recovery? Did democracy help or hinder recovery? Seen as an economic miracle, Korea succumbed to the wave of currency crises sweeping Asia in late 1997. Did the same state-led... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Trade; Currency Exchange Rate; Foreign Direct Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Asia; South Korea

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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

into account external opportunities and threats, the availability of internal resources relative to requirements, the aspirations and values of senior management, and obligations to stakeholders and society. In the context of TEM, this... View Details

15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15

tranches. Overall, a one standard deviation reduction in average time on the market decreases the interest rate for institutional loans by over 30 basis points per annum. While this effect is significantly larger for loan tranches bought by structured View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Tata Hall | About

companies and employs more than 400,000 people. During Ratan Tata’s tenure, the business became globally focused, acquiring international brands such as Tetley, Jaguar Land Rover, a string of well-known luxury hotels, and Corus Group Plc,... View Details

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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

Administration Research Interests : capital markets , foreign direct investment , government and business , international finance Interviews Güler Sabancı Suraj Srinivasan Philip J. Stomberg Professor of... View Details

27 Sep 2010
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Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

deliver exceptional results, or else face some serious negative consequences. The pressure can come from any of three sources, or a combination: external evaluator/ultimate receiver of work (client, internal customer) View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

26 May 2022
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Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

Apple debuted new privacy measures that blocked law enforcement from accessing its customers’ data. “There is an opportunity to do work that is infused with moral purpose.” He said shareholders who were only looking for a return on View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

28 Mar 2024
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Rooms with a View

Alexander Mirza (MBA 1997) has spent two decades in the hospitality industry, opening and growing major hotel brands, including Hilton, Starwood, and Caesars, with locations around the world. And with each new project, Mirza faced the same primary challenge. “It didn’t... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Christina Gandolfo; Hospitality

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

overhead, and it was planning an additional layoff of 8,300 employees at the time Dunlap took over. At the same time it invested in new paper machines and attempted to consolidate its global position by acquiring several foreign... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria

20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

stores. Instead of simply reducing the number of new large stores entering a market, the entry barriers created the incentive for large retail chains to invest in smaller and more centrally located formats,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Nov 2022
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Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

briskly. “One person’s contribution is fodder for the contribution of the next 'player,' and fodder for the algorithm.” What’s new about TikTok is that it has significantly lower barriers to posting than its competitors. All you need is a... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

16 Jun 2021
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Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm

companies—over a prospective $4 billion to $6 billion debt investment in the company,” he says. Carnival also faced a flurry of lawsuits from passengers alleging that the company didn’t do enough to keep them safe. Slashing expenses to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Travel

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details

16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

brings together a prestigious group of international experts who were tasked with choosing, introducing, and commenting on seminal texts focused on creativity, invention, genius, and imagination from the period of 1850 to 1950. This... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Greenhill House | About

space for the Global Initiative , which was launched in 1996 to deepen the School’s long-standing focus on international course development and research by facilitating closer ties with companies, academic institutions, and alumni... View Details

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Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Innovation also holds the key to solving many of the world’s most pressing social challenges such as health care and improving the quality of the physical environment. The institute works with U.S. and international leaders to assess... View Details

06 Jul 2023
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Home Economics

partners. In recent years, governments and international organizations have shown a greater interest in addressing extreme poverty through investment in individuals, leading to a shift in Trickle Up’s... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

joining HBS. Omar Al Mulhem (MBA 2023, Section A), Summer Internship: Summer Associate, Sustainable Investing Team at BlackRock BlackRock is one of the world’s leading providers of investment, advisory and risk management solutions.... View Details

09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

required, there are a lot of coercive pressures that encourage firms to adopt. In the forest industry there is now a plethora of codes. The industry code has, not surprisingly, been critiqued as being more lax than codes created by NGOs. Similarly, in View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-117.pdf Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India Authors:Shawn Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert Townsend, and James Vickery Abstract... View Details