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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
Smarter Risks in Business by Eileen C. Shapiro and Howard H. Stevenson (Portfolio/Penguin Putnam) Professor Stevenson and Shapiro (MBA ’81) show how to increase the odds on the business and life bets you choose to take, using a quick... View Details
- November 2010 (Revised July 2011)
- Supplement
Oriflame S.A. (B)
By: David F. Hawkins and Karol Misztal
Exercise for recording derivative hedging transactions, accompanied by a technical note on IFRS derivative accounting. View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; International Accounting; Currency Exchange Rate; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk Management; Standards; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Hawkins, David F., and Karol Misztal. "Oriflame S.A. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-051, November 2010. (Revised July 2011.)
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
corporations from using their foreign profits to build facilities in the United States. Business interests are calling for a so-called tax holiday, in which American corporations would be allowed to transfer their foreign profits to their... View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
interest rate risk premium and a changing liquidity risk premium, and that the variability in the nominal bond View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
Nicole Ledoux
returned stateside to help build a new sell-side fixed income rates business for State Street Global Markets, trading swaptions and FX options. Nicole enjoys advising students exploring various functions in entrepreneurship and finance,... View Details
- January 1995 (Revised May 1997)
- Case
Syscom Computers
By: Kenneth A. Froot, Peter Tufano and Chris L Marshall
Discusses a company deciding what it should do to manage its worldwide hedging operations. View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Currency Exchange Rate; Information Management; Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Operations
Froot, Kenneth A., Peter Tufano, and Chris L Marshall. "Syscom Computers." Harvard Business School Case 295-094, January 1995. (Revised May 1997.)
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
anticorruption ratings are domiciled in countries with low corruption risk ratings and strong anticorruption enforcement, operate in high corruption View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Fast Answer
U.S. economic data
Where can I find economic and business data for the U.S. (e.g., CPI, GDP, and other indicators)? Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) - Economic time series database of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Selected... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Brief: Bargaining for Better
Kathleen McGinn (photo by Tracy Powell) Kathleen McGinn (photo by Tracy Powell) By the time they reach eighth grade, about 61 percent of girls in Zambia have dropped out of school—a rate three times higher than their male counterparts.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
Professor Bill Poorvu recruited him to help manage a $27 million pool of capital in the newly formed Baupost. While the starting salary was an underwhelming $35K, it turned out to be the opportunity of a lifetime. In 26 years, Baupost has racked up an enviable 20... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
achieve actionable transparency by embedding their design in a centralized system with a shared design language and near-real-time updating, where everyone with an interest in improving the design has the right and the means to act on it.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
Buy, Lie, and Sell High by D. Quinn Mills Prentice Hall Any investor or person involved in America's financial-services industry will be interested in Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble. In... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
Medicare cannot directly monitor HAI rates and instead relies on providers accurately self-reporting HAIs in claims to correctly assess penalties. Consequently, the incentives for providers to improve service quality may disappear if... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
claim." When the global stock market and interest rates began to decline in 2000, many corporations faced a double whammy when returns on pension assets were well below expectations and pension... View Details
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
Donald Trump has not issued an official platform on student debt, although he has referenced reducing college costs and lowering interest rates on student loans. Hillary Clinton has offered a variety of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Buffett Preaches Investment Discipline
valuations," Buffett asserted that high interest rates were to blame for keeping the Dow Jones Industrial Average virtually unchanged between 1964 and 1981 despite a 370 percent increase in U.S. GDP during... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Kruti Patel Goyal (MBA 2004)
My parents were in the hospitality business. They owned a motel, so we grew up working at the business as well as living at the business. I remember vividly some moments of really intense stress. And it was because my parents took a lot of View Details
Keywords: Sarah Wyman
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
some of the interest rate risk. In the 1990s a couple of things happened that set the stage for where we are today: There emerged automated underwriting and credit scoring. All of a sudden the world of the... View Details
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
political risk influences the financing and operational decisions of U.S. multinational firms both at the subsidiary and firm-wide level. Several interesting results are emerging from this work—first,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
4%. In reaction to these dismal economic conditions, the Federal Reserve had steadily cut interest rates over a seven-month period, most recently lowering its key rate to 2.25%... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne