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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
competition, and offering resilience for economic downturns. "Any governance system is going to have to achieve these kinds of things," said Froot, noting that ineffective governance may have contributed to... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
is not much historical data and experience for managers to draw upon when developing or applying metrics, and many economic benefits of e-commerce projects are seen as difficult to measure. Further, the pace of change in e-business and... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
for claw-backs when investments go sour, and give executives significant equity stakes in their companies. “Two firms with compensation plans like I just described, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, both failed. So having the right compensation View Details
- 2005
- Working Paper
Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race
By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
The main arguments in favor of and against nominal and indexed debt are the incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against unforeseen shocks. We model and calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Taxation; Risk and Uncertainty; Inflation and Deflation; System Shocks; Developing Countries and Economies; Mathematical Methods
Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 05-053, January 2005. (Revised March 2010. Also NBER Working Paper No. 13131.)
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
highways versus 5 million in the US—is a significant barrier to economic growth. His advocacy for developing a South American Riverways System to facilitate trade and transit in Colombia and neighboring... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Financial System by David S. Scharfstein, as part of The Squam Lake Group (Princeton University Press) In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world’s leading economists — representing a broad spectrum of View Details
- 2007
- Book
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism
By: G. Jones and Rohit Daniel Wadhwani
These volumes demonstrates the importance of historical perspectives in the study of entrepreneurship. By exploring the role of entrepreneurship in the history of global capitalism, the authors show that historical knowledge can challenge widely accepted... View Details
Keywords: History; Diasporas; Economic Systems; Globalized Economies and Regions; Globalized Firms and Management; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
Jones, G. and Rohit Daniel Wadhwani, eds. Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007.
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
kinwun Summing Up: What are the Earmarks of a “New Economy?” Responses to this month’s column rightly focused on the need for measures and standards before deciding whether we are entering an era of social and economic change as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Article
Interorganizational Ties and Business Group Boundaries: Evidence from an Emerging Economy
By: Tarun Khanna and Jan W. Rivkin
Khanna, Tarun, and Jan W. Rivkin. "Interorganizational Ties and Business Group Boundaries: Evidence from an Emerging Economy." Organization Science 17, no. 3 (May–June 2006): 333–352.
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
the market. But when Lerner and Cao started analyzing the actual performance numbers, they saw that conventional wisdom had it wrong. "Reverse LBOs appear to consistently outperform other IPOs and the stock market as a whole. The positive returns appear to be... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
the risks are no longer connected to individuals who possess the incentive, power and capability to take action and manage the risks." Stephen Basikoti agreed, noting that "creditors have already shown themselves incapable of making better decisions by... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- December 1994 (Revised January 1996)
- Case
Constructing a Nation: The United States and Their Constitution, 1763-1792
By: David A. Moss
Examines the founding of the United States of America during the second half of the eighteenth century. Focuses on: 1) the reasons why the American colonists rebelled against Britain (1763-1774); 2) the problems the new nation confronted during the War of Independence... View Details
Keywords: History; Economic Systems; Laws and Statutes; Property; Government Administration; United States
Moss, David A. "Constructing a Nation: The United States and Their Constitution, 1763-1792." Harvard Business School Case 795-063, December 1994. (Revised January 1996.)
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
Corruption doesn't announce itself with a capital C. It is subtler and thornier than that—as one HBS student learned the hard way during a recent summer internship in Tanzania. In a new case detailing his experience, the student struggles to navigate the View Details
- August 2011
- Teaching Note
Jesse Holman Jones and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (TN)
By: Anthony J. Mayo and Johnathan Cromwell
Teaching Note for 406029. View Details
- 10 Apr 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: SELCO - Decentralized Renewable Energy to Develop While Decarbonizing
Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
book, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, Henderson says that we have failed to reenvision capitalism. It must be not only an engine of prosperity, she offers, but also a system that is in harmony with environmental realities,... View Details
- November 14, 2022
- Article
Policies for Adapting to the ‘New Normal’ of the Anthropocene
By: Andrew J. Hoffman, P. Devereaux Jennings and Nicholas A. Poggioli
Keywords: Natural Environment; Environmental Management; Economic Systems; Behavior; Technological Innovation
Hoffman, Andrew J., P. Devereaux Jennings, and Nicholas A. Poggioli. "Policies for Adapting to the ‘New Normal’ of the Anthropocene." Behavioral Scientist (November 14, 2022).
- March 2016
- Teaching Note
MasterCard: Driving Financial Inclusion
By: Sunil Gupta
Since joining MasterCard (MC) in 2010, CEO Ajay Banga had made advancing financial inclusion (FI)—bringing formal financial services to marginalized populations—an important goal for the company. In 2014, MC had entered a number of partnerships with governments and... View Details
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
the issue and influences their own hiring and promotion decisions. Peter Bowie underlined the point by saying, “Equal opportunity to be ‘selected’ is one of the keys to the solution.” A direct appeal to the economic interests of investors... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni and Students in Climate Networking Series: Boston
Commonwealth Fusion Systems use of magnets to build smaller and lower-cost fusion systems to Sagewell’s use of data analytics to deliver solutions for energy efficiency to Wyss’ ability to bridge the gap... View Details