Financing Policy - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 24, 2007

Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307069 Note on U.S. Public Education Finance (B): Expenditures Harvard Business School Note 307-070 Describes the cost structure and spending View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27

Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2182628 Government Green Procurement Spillovers: Evidence from Municipal Building Policies in California By: Simcoe, Timothy, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—We study how government green... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH LINKS SITE CREDITS GEORGES F. DORIOT Introduction EDUCATION Early Years at HBS Educating Leaders INNOVATION & VC Wartime Innovation ARD DEC View Details

14 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

detailed in Cohen’s new working paper, The Impact of Forced Migration on Modern Cities: Evidence from 1930s Crop Failures, co-written by HBS finance professor Christopher J. Malloy and Quoc Nguyen, an assistant View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 May 2014
Op-Ed

The Alibaba Effect

guessing among them and probably an eventual change in policies and views. Losing Alibaba really stung.) Alibaba was founded in 1999 in the city of Hangzhou in Zhejiang province in eastern China. In those early days, it was a small,... View Details

Keywords: by Bill Kirby & Warren McFarlan; Retail

10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

Enterprise Foreign Direct Investment, Finance and Economic Development By: Alfaro, Laura, and Jasmina Chauvin Abstract—Research has sought to understand how foreign direct investment affects host economies. This paper reviews the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 2008
Teaching Note

Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

Teaching Note for [708042]. View Details

Keywords: Mortgages; Debt Securities; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Central Banking; Policy; United States; Europe

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02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010

211-033 This case introduces students to the fundamental issues that managers face when deciding what international trade finance terms to use when transacting with other firms. In late 2009, Pam Arnold, the head of global credit at Belco... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 2005 (Revised December 2006)
Case

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

Keywords: Economy; Economic Growth; Demographics; Financial Condition; Inflation and Deflation; Banks and Banking; Borrowing and Debt; Macroeconomics; Policy; Government and Politics; Welfare; Health Care and Treatment; Japan

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13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

the process? Features such as “instant book,” allowing a buyer to sign up for a rental, say, without the seller’s prior approval, can reduce discrimination while increasing convenience; 3) Can we make discrimination policies more top of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2015
News

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

01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

a mix of both. Wherever clubs fall on this spectrum, having a strategy that recognizes the global importance of stars is critical to long-lasting financial success. August 2013 Journal of Finance A Comparative-Advantage Approach to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

2003
Report

UK Competitiveness: Moving to the Next Stage

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels

In October 2002, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) appointed Professor Michael Porter and his team to conduct a brief, three-month review of the existing evidence on UK competitiveness. The effort was funded jointly by the ESRC and the Department of... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Economics; Performance Productivity; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Research and Development; Competency and Skills; Investment; Assets; Corporate Strategy; Policy; Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; United Kingdom; United States

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09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

prevalent, and their use will likely receive greater scrutiny as policymakers try to understand the implications for competition. In their paper, MacKay and Brown suggest that one potential policy solution would be restricting the use of... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

02 Jul 2015
Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

they will be able to withdraw their funds at a later date—and at what exchange rate. This happened in Brazil in the early 1990s and in Argentina in the early part of this century, when similar desperate policies were enacted. The... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking

01 Mar 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

channels; The secret marketing vector that only cleantech companies can use; Harnessing utility companies to help you sell your product; How to establish your credibility; and Financing your sale. Forget It; What's the Point?: Letting Go... View Details

November 2001
Case

Tobacco and the Future of Rural Kentucky

By: Ray A. Goldberg and James M Beagle

Governor Patton decides how to use settlement funds to develop a long-term plan for Kentucky's tobacco producers and rural communities. View Details

Keywords: Financial Instruments; Social Issues; Laws and Statutes; Rural Scope; Policy; Business and Community Relations; Government and Politics; Kentucky

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April 1999
Case

French Pension System, The: On The Verge Of Retirement? (Abridged)

By: David A. Moss

Surveys the French pension system, its particular institutional characteristics, and some of the critical challenges and opportunities facing French reformers. Like almost every other industrialized country, France has a large pay-as-you-go public pension system that... View Details

Keywords: Retirement; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Economic Growth; Economics; Capital Markets; Wages; Public Administration Industry; France

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22 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

The Hedge Fund as Activist

to realize, the investment horizon of hedge funds makes them unsuitable overseers of management. Firms that would benefit from modest changes in operating policy or governance, or for which a reduction in CEO pay is to be desired, are not... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood; Financial Services