War Financing - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 May 2020
Research & Ideas

China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers

that US companies have disproportionately borne the brunt of the increased tariffs on China, as the ongoing trade war nears the two-year mark. “The situation may get more pressing for some of these companies that will be hit with a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Jan 2016
First Look

January 12, 2016

as wholly separate, even as warring conceptions of the negotiation process—when, both analytically and practically, they are inherently linked. In addition, to the student or lay negotiator, "integrative" and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

unprecedented to have a large cohort of people all over the world start working remotely at the same moment. The only parallel I can think of is from World War II, when waves of women entered heavy manufacturing for the first time. This... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

CEO would turn to regarding acquisitions. Of course, his CFO would be pivotal. Continuing to map backwards from the CFO, we turned up an analyst in the finance department whom the CFO deeply respected and who would almost certainly do the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

with beating Microsoft. His battle was futile. He left the company as Novell began a long downward slide. The fighter pilot mentality of several U.S. airlines led to a price war in which billions of dollars were lost. Even in small... View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

Westinghouse, and AT&T), and Telefunken (a joint venture of the two European leaders, Siemens and AEG). After World War II knocked out Telefunken, RCA took the lead in commercializing television worldwide. It was then solely... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

05 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

than households. Once banks are forced to cope with that load of unpaid debt, historically, the consequences amplify, says Ivashina, the Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration and Finance Unit Head at HBS. “It tells you that... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

to Chu, himself a Wall Street refugee with grounding in consulting and buy-outs, microfinance has "a double bottom-line." It brings above-average returns for first-movers who tap into what finance specialists see as a new... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Founder of Modern Venture Capital

students. He realized his dream of establishing the first Master of Business Administration program in Europe by helping establish the European Institute of Business Administration. Doriot learned the art of bringing science and industry together in World View Details

Keywords: Education; Financial Services

1986
Book

Banking and Empire in Iran

By: Geoffrey Jones

This is the first of two volumes of a business history of a major British bank in the Middle East. Volume 1 traces the history of the bank from its foundation in 1889 as The Imperial Bank of Persia, through the years it was the state bank of Iran, and its development... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; International Relations; Business History; Economic History; Political History; War; Iran; Russia; Great Britain

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24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

and new construction. On the other hand, well-managed public-private partnerships, where the private sector funds, builds, and operates key public infrastructure, can shift the capital requirement from municipalities to the private sector. When there are adequate... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

relocation of resources in affected fund families and in the asset management industry in general, as well as decline in capital of issuers borrowing from money funds. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51404 forthcoming Review of View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

reversal of European integration already underway. The EU was created by people who had seen World War II and never wanted to see Europeans go to war with one another again. In the years since the Treaty of... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

21 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Going Negative in Political Advertising

race, the better-known John McCain used negative ads effectively to bury the better financed Mitt Romney in Florida. These negative ads were complimented by positive ads burnishing McCain's record. The ads ran in the final days before the... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

06 Dec 2011
Op-Ed

Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis

For the past 18 months, European policymakers have been trying to deal with a crisis that represents the biggest challenge to the European integration project since its creation after World War II. The very symbol of it, the euro, is... View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

would have a much greater psychological effect as well as a cleaner capital structure to attract follow-on financings by outside investors. Between 1988 and 1996, the organization invested in over one dozen companies. These covered a... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

The puzzle, they explain, has to do with the explanation for Japan's extraordinary economic success in the post-World War II period. The country was heralded around the world for creating what looked like "a new and superior form of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

24 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

Note on U.S. Public Education Finance (A): Revenues Harvard Business School Note 307-069 Describes the revenue structure of U.S. public education. Covers funding by federal, state, and local governments. Examines in detail two federal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II, by Iris Chang, is such a poignant book about the lesser known, perhaps, Holocaust of World War II, and helps me understand more about my own history and ancestry. I think... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8

PublicationsConcentrating on Governance Authors:Dalida Kadyrzhanova, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a novel trade-off view of corporate governance. Using a simple model... View Details