Financing Policy - Publications - Faculty & Research

June 2009 (Revised May 2013)
Case

Australia: The Riches and Challenges of Commodities

By: Laura Alfaro and Renee Kim

Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd faced a daunting task that he never imagined he would have to face when he was elected two years ago. Australia at that time was poised to enter its 17th year of uninterrupted growth. Commodity exports were booming, largely driven... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Trade; Foreign Direct Investment; Policy; Crisis Management; China; Australia

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01 Dec 2009
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Prof’s Dream Comes True

Tufano Tax refunds can now be channeled into the purchase of U.S. Savings Bonds, a policy victory for HBS professor Peter Tufano (left), founder and president of the nonprofit Doorway to Dreams Fund (D2D) that has worked for years to... View Details

09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9

Peter Tufano, and Michael Hofmann Publication:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 10 (October 2009): 68-75 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Preview the article: http://hbr.org/2009/10/managing-risk-in-the-new-world/ar/1 Behavioral Aspects of Price Setting, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

October 2007
Teaching Note

Transforming Korea Inc: Financial Crisis and Institutional Reform (TN)

By: Laura Alfaro and Renee Kim

Teaching Note for 708007. View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Transformation; Policy; Development Economics; Investment Funds; International Finance; Financing and Loans; South Korea

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23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

to promote financial development. The evidence here includes country fixed effect regressions and an instrumental model inspired by Engerman and Sokoloff's (2002) work, which to our knowledge has not yet been used in finance and which... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jul 2015
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Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs

address the disproportionally male makeup of corporate boards. The code allows boards to implement their own gender-diversity policies and explicitly identifies merit as a consideration. Companies are not required to follow the code, but... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Goldman Sachs; Reuters; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Oct 2002
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Bozidar Djelic

relentless pressure from various political parties,” he says. “But that has not happened, in part I think because my team moves so fast. It's important to be in the driver's seat when you propose measures and set the economic policy... View Details

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Print View - Course Catalog

including climate models and projections, climate technologies and commercialization frameworks, climate financing strategies & structures, carbon markets, climate policy and global geo-politics - including... View Details

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Sustainability in the Transportation Industry

renew the California Transportation Plan (CTP), updating its models and policy considerations to reflect industry changes every five years. This document is envisioned as a reference for modelers and decision makers. It aggregates current... View Details

01 Sep 2012
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High Honors

“Englishnization” requirement—the subject of an HBS case study—includes programs designed to help staff pass proficiency tests. Admitting the policy is “drastic” and “controversial,” Mikitani says simply: “If we want to have one single... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance

01 Dec 2015
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Euro Vision

cities American startups are often geographically sorted by sector. Tech is in San Francisco, public policy is in DC, medical is in Orlando. And for a time, Europe was like that too, Rimer says: Israeli startups focused on security and... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer

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Tough Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

incorporating intellectual property concerns and “technoeconomic” forecasting Articulate paths to market and business models while accounting for tough tech value chains and competition Explore and negotiate strategic partnerships and investments Analyze the tough tech... View Details

21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

Opportunities: Optimal Taxation when Children's Abilities Depend on Parents' Resources Authors:Alexander Gelber and Matthew Weinzierl Abstract Empirical research suggests that parents' economic resources affect their children's future earnings abilities. Optimal tax... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2011 (Revised February 2015)
Teaching Note

Global Diversity and Inclusion at Royal Dutch Shell (A) and (B)

By: Sandra J. Sucher

Teaching Note for 610-056 and 611-051. View Details

Keywords: Policy; Cost; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Restructuring; Human Resources; Energy Industry; United States

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April 2013
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Europe: An Ever Closer Union?

By: Gunnar Trumbull, Jonathan Schlefer and Diane Choi

In 2010, the European Union faces the challenges of the global financial crisis. With 27 member states, each facing different challenges, can new EU institutions respond effectively? Will its new currency, the euro, survive? View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Money; Trade; Currency; Policy; Government and Politics; European Union

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December 2010 (Revised March 2011)
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The Euro in Crisis: Decision Time at the European Central Bank

By: J. Gunnar Trumbull, Dante Roscini and Diane Choi

This case traces the origins and evolution of the European Central Bank, with attention to its 2010 decision concerning the purchase of Greek sovereign debt. View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Currency; Central Banking; Financial Management; Sovereign Finance; Policy; Crisis Management; Europe; Greece

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Mariama Keita

With a degree in electrical engineering, Mariama Keita was well prepared for a career in telecommunications. "But I realized early on," Mariama says, "that I can have more impact as a finance person, someone with the... View Details

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Jason Sanders

course content not necessarily related to patients, such as finance and micro-economics. But these disciplines," Jason says, "can help healthcare managers think like managers in other industries. I want to apply good financial... View Details

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

pursue her passion in technology and risk not seeing her family for a long time; or visit her family in Canada or the U.K., and risk losing her livelihood. The question she posed: Would I be willing to sign the ‘no-to-immigration-ban’ petition? “It is a lazy person’s... View Details

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July 2005 (Revised December 2006)
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Japan: Deficits, Demography, and Deflation

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

By 2005, Japan's debt had risen to 163% of GDP. For more than a decade, the government had run huge deficits, trying unsuccessfully to stimulate economic growth. Interest rates, meanwhile, had been zero for years. But with slow growth and banks in crisis, nothing had... View Details