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  • 24 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

begin to create new models of development. Certainly, political stability, of the type that is appearing in Uganda, Rwanda, Namibia, and elsewhere, will be a major boon for development. So will realistic development policies and a more... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • September 2010
  • Case

Angola and the Resource Curse

By: Aldo Musacchio, Eric D. Werker and Jonathan Schlefer
Since emerging from decades of conflict in 2002, Angola has been growing at a scorching double-digit rate, led by its oil industry. But the nation remains beset with seemingly intractable problems: immense inequality, low life expectancy, a non-diversified economy, and... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Institutions; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Government Administration; Emerging Markets; Natural Environment; Angola
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  • August 2015
  • Article

Hospital Board and Management Practices Are Strongly Related to Hospital Performance on Clinical Quality Metrics

By: Thomas C Tsai, Ashish K. Jha, Atul A. Gawande, Robert S. Huckman, Nicholas Bloom and Raffaella Sadun
National policies to improve health care quality have largely focused on clinical provider outcomes and, more recently, payment reform. Yet the association between hospital leadership and quality, although crucial to driving quality improvement, has not been explored... View Details
Keywords: Hospitals; Quality; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Practices and Processes; Service Delivery; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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    Jerry R. Green

    Jerry R. Green

    David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

    John Leverett Professor in the University

    Harvard University

     

    Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; education industry; insurance industry; professional services
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Currency Hedging in Emerging Markets: Managing Cash Flow Exposure

    By: Laura Alfaro, Mauricio Calani and Liliana Varela
    Foreign currency derivative markets are among the largest in the world, yet their role in emerging markets in particular, is relatively understudied. We study firms' currency risk exposure and their hedging choices by employing a unique dataset covering the universe of... View Details
    Keywords: Foreign Currency Hedging; FX Derivatives; Foreign Currency Debt; Currency Mismatch; Trade Credit; Currency; Cash Flow; Emerging Markets
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    • 02 Nov 2016
    • Op-Ed

    Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses

    months some compelling data have been released that give us more insight into cash flow dynamics of America’s small businesses. This month’s JPMorgan Chase Institute’s Cash is King: Flows, Balances and Buffer Days report showed that on... View Details
    Keywords: by Karen Mills
    • Career Coach

    Wendi Zhang

    development policies and analysis in the public sector. Wendi attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she received Bachelor of Science degrees in both Mathematics and Management Science, along with minors in Economics... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Angel Investing; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Real Estate; Social Enterprise; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship; Technology
    • Research Summary

    Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt (with Fabio Kanczuk)

    By: Laura Alfaro
    Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. Some of the implications of this analysis, however, may not be generalized once one considers the joint decision to hold debt and reserves by a... View Details
    • 2020
    • Discussion Paper

    Acting Now While Preparing for Tomorrow: Competitiveness Upgrading Under the Shadow of COVID-19

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Peter Clinch
    This paper aims to provide policy makers, especially those focused on the longer-term growth potential of their countries, with an initial framework to think about their action priorities in the context of the overall COVID-19 response. Our focus is on the... View Details
    Keywords: Competitiveness; COVID-19 Pandemic; Competition; Government Administration; Health Pandemics; Economy; Supply Chain; Safety
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    • 23 Jun 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: June 23, 2015

      Publications Forthcoming National Bureau of Economic Research Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 16 By: Lerner, Josh, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://papers.nber.org/books/lern15-1 2015... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 Oct 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: October 22

    Journal of International Business Studies Language as a Lightning Rod: Power Contests, Emotion Regulation, and Subgroup Dynamics in Global Teams By: Hinds, Pamela J., Tsedal Neeley, and Catherine Durnell Cramton Abstract—Through an... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 17 Dec 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    The Rise of Medical Tourism

    there was still a lot of room for growth. India has had a unique competitive advantage as a result of this deeper pool of technical knowledge and the fact that it is simply a large country and has more people. I would expect to see View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
    • October 2017
    • Article

    American Danger: United States Empire, Eurafrica, and the Territorialization of Industrial Capitalism, 1870–1950

    By: Sven Beckert
    During the last third of the nineteenth century, a debate emerged in a number of European countries on the “American danger.” Responding to the rapid rise of the United States as the world’s most important economy, some European observers feared their nations’... View Details
    Keywords: Atlantropa; Colonial Expansion; Economic Nationalism; Second Great Divergence; Economics; Global Range; History; United States; Europe; Africa
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    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Joshua Lev Krieger
    In examining the competitive dynamics of R&D strategy, Josh has become particularly interested in how the introduction of new knowledge generated by rivals impacts the direction of R&D efforts. Understanding how new information alters project portfolio decisions is... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Fairness and Efficiency in Resource Allocation

    In studying the relationship of fairness and efficiency, Professor Trichakis takes the novel approach of looking at varied industries for unifying factors, and he pays special attention to inequities by incorporating both quantitative work in social welfare and the... View Details

    • 2009
    • Report

    State of the Region Report 2009: Boosting the Top of Europe

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels
    The 2009 State of the Region Report, the sixth in this series of annual evaluations of competitiveness and cooperation across the Baltic Sea Region, provides a perspective on the radical change in the economic climate of the Region over the last year. The Report puts... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; Baltic Countries; European Union
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      regulating — and competing with — decentralized software platforms

      New platforms reinvent traditional markets as varied as transport, short-term accomodations, and media.  (Consider Uber, Airbnb, and YouTube.)  With new business models come new questions of regulation which Edelman and coauthor Damien Geradin assess in View Details
      • March 1992 (Revised June 1993)
      • Case

      Lada do Brasil

      By: James E. Austin and Helen Shapiro
      In an effort to capitalize on the entrepreneurial opportunity presented by the Brazilian government's trade liberalization, a Panamanian automobile trading company launched a business of importing the Russian made Lada cars into Brazil. The company confronts a complex... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Transformation; Economics; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Capital; Policy; Competition; Auto Industry; Brazil
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      • 2010
      • Working Paper

      Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors

      By: Rebecca Henderson and Richard G. Newell
      A combination of concerns about climate change and energy security has recently led to significant increases in public funding for energy R&D. Some commentators are suggesting that these increases need to be sustained, and are advocating for increases of as much as... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Research and Development; Pollutants; Climate Change; Energy Industry
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      • September 2022
      • Article

      The Power and Limits of Expertise: Swiss–Swedish Linking of Vehicle Emission Standards in the 1970s and 1980s

      By: Mattias Näsman and Sabine Pitteloud
      Recent decades have witnessed increased public concern about vehicle emissions and growing frustration with political inaction and business preferences for the status quo. This article provides historical perspective on such regulatory dynamics by analyzing the Swiss... View Details
      Keywords: Business And The Environment; Business And Society; Emission Reduction; Automobiles; Standard Setting; Norm-enforcement; Regulation; Expertise; Experts; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Regulation; Standards; Auto Industry; Switzerland; Sweden
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