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  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

September 2021 Alumni Books

entrepreneurs is Mary Kay Ash, a legend as a glass-ceiling breaker and a woman who built a very successful business with a go-to-market strategy of direct selling. Unlike Mary Kay Ash, however, not all aspiring business owners are willing... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 06 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

and Harold Zhang, set out to derive rules for optimal asset location behavior for investors with these individually managed retirement accounts. Two results came out of this work: First, the optimal strategy is to preferentially locate... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

existing neighborhoods would improve the supply problem, which is driving our strategy to help owners add second units. That approach requires significant political will and a “Yes In My Backyard” (YIMBY)... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • June 24, 2016
  • Other Article

Why Brexit Is a Big Deal

By: John A. Quelch
The consequences of yesterday's vote by the British people to leave the European Union will be far-reaching, but there is no reason for global markets to panic.
Brexit is a vote against the European Union. Once heralded as the engine of a one-for-all and... View Details
Keywords: British Vote; Brexit; European Union; Impact; Historical Result; Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms; Disruption; Transition; Volatility; Decision Making; Globalization; Government and Politics; History; Leadership; Outcome or Result; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; European Union; Republic of Ireland; United Kingdom
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  • March 1992 (Revised November 1992)
  • Case

Lockheed Aeromod Center, Inc.

By: Timothy A. Luehrman
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Lockheed Corp. has an $11 million expansion underway in South Carolina. The company must decide how best to take advantage of the opportunity to issue tax exempt debt. Specifically, the decision involves choices about the maturity and... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Decisions; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Strategy; Taxation; Opportunities; Expansion; Valuation; South Carolina
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  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

the price of capital across countries. This strategy is motivated by the fact that most countries import the bulk of machinery equipment from a small number of industrialized countries. We find the price of imported capital goods to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2011 (Revised March 2012)
  • Case

Fraunhofer: Innovation in Germany

By: Diego A. Comin, J. Gunnar Trumbull and Kerry Yang
Fraunhofer is one of the largest applied research organizations in the world. With 17,000 employees and a 1.6 billion euros budget, Fraunhofer has 60 institutes in Germany that cover most fields of science. The case examines the consequences that Fraunhofer has for the... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Entrepreneurship; Financial Markets; Government and Politics; Labor; Markets; Outcome or Result; Research and Development; Competitive Strategy; Germany
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  • October 2024
  • Teaching Note

El Salvador: Launching Bitcoin as Legal Tender

By: Laura Alfaro
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 322-055. In June 2021, Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, surprised the world with the announcement that the country would adopt bitcoin as legal tender, becoming the first nation to do so. Bitcoin was mostly used for trading and had... View Details
Keywords: Bitcoin; Cryptocurrency; Currency; Financial Strategy; Economic Growth; Governance; Macroeconomics; Assets; Government Administration; Latin America; El Salvador
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Positioning The Nation State

By: John A. Quelch and Katherine E. Jocz
Having a clear, differentiated positioning gives a country an advantage in attracting investment, business and tourism, and in building markets for its exports. Countries like Greece, Spain and Chile are successfully repositioning themselves using coordinated marketing... View Details
Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Country; Product Positioning; Global Strategy; Government and Politics
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  • 24 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Debora L. Spar

In the long run, even the most fundamental innovations have a way of being influenced by government, says Harvard Business School professor Debora Spar. That's why business leaders need political skills, too. Silverthorne: In Next: The... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape

political complexities pose significant challenges. Prior to our immersion, our research pointed to a few central tensions that made it challenging for the agricultural sector to decarbonize. Firstly, land ownership is highly fragmented,... View Details
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

parts. Implications for diversity research are discussed.   Working PapersUnobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem Authors:Faisal Z. Ahmed and Eric Werker Abstract Autocrats experiencing a windfall in unearned income... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

Profiles from the Class of 2005

places like HBS are fortunate,” she says. “We have a responsibility to take on issues we see around us. Wherever I am, I like to identify problems — or voids — and work with others to create structures and channels for addressing them.” Health care, education, and... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Julia Hanna; James E. Aisner; Graduate profiles; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 30 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 30, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51574 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation and default modified to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

School Case 806-073 Follows the growth of an entrepreneur from his early startup activities. As the company evolves from 1998 to 2005, looks at key decisions and turning points as AtHoc's strategy adapts in response to changing market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2018
  • First Look

March 13, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54177 Countering Political Risk in Colonial India: German Multinationals and the Challenge of Internment (1914–1947) By: Lubinski, Christina, Valeria Giacomin, and Klara Schnitzer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 28, 2016

businesses. The strategy literature uses real option theory to explain the transition to scale, but does not consider the complex relationships between corporate ventures and their parent organizations. By comparing six longitudinal cases... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

licensed software, including games. Discusses Warner Bros.' online distribution strategy as well as the negotiations between BitTorrent and the Movie Picture Association of America and Warner Bros. that ultimately led to Warner Bros.'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

Strategic Management of Product Recovery

By: Michael W. Toffel
Manufacturers of an expanding range of durable products are facing regulatory and market pressures to manage the products they manufactured upon their end of life (EOL). In part, this attention is motivated by a growing number of countries—especially across Europe and... View Details
Keywords: Product; Environmental Sustainability; Cost Management; Government Legislation; Logistics; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Europe; Asia; United States
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  • 17 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

generates interest on YouTube, you'll get this viral effect where everybody has to see this particular video. In the political realm, Barack Obama has been able to raise money with a kind of a viral marketing. He creates a certain... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing