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  • September 2007
  • Case

Tetra Pak Argentina

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Gustavo A. Herrero
Deals with the hands-on management of a difficult situation facing the subsidiary of a multinational corporation (Tetra Pak) in a developing country (Argentina). The situation arises from a major economic, social, and institutional breakdown that jeopardizes the... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Crisis; Currency Exchange Rate; Sovereign Finance; Multinational Firms and Management; Crisis Management; Business and Government Relations; Argentina
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  • Teaching Interest

Managing International Trade and Investment

By: Dante Roscini
Managing International Trade and Investment (MITI) is designed for students who expect to engage directly or indirectly in commerce and in strategic or financial investments across national borders. It covers concepts that are relevant to a number of operating and... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Investment; Foreign Direct Investment
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Mexico's Financial Crisis of 1994-1995

By: Aldo Musacchio
This paper explains the causes leading to the Mexican crisis of 1994-1995 (known as "The Tequila Crisis"), and its short- and long-term consequences. It argues that excessive enthusiasm on the part of foreign investors, not based on Mexico's fundamentals, and weak... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Foreign Direct Investment; Banks and Banking; Government and Politics; Currency Exchange Rate; Banking Industry; Mexico
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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Dynamic Personalization with Multiple Customer Signals: Multi-Response State Representation in Reinforcement Learning

By: Liangzong Ma, Ta-Wei Huang, Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
Reinforcement learning (RL) offers potential for optimizing sequences of customer interactions by modeling the relationships between customer states, company actions, and long-term value. However, its practical implementation often faces significant challenges.... View Details
Keywords: Dynamic Policy; Deep Reinforcement Learning; Representation Learning; Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment; Latent Variable Models; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Foreign Direct Investment; Analytics and Data Science
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  • April 2017 (Revised February 2020)
  • Case

Restructuring Ukraine

By: Kristin Mugford, Seema Amble and Tian Feng
In June 2015, Ukraine found itself struggling with a volatile and devalued currency, dramatically diminished foreign reserves, and a projected financing shortfall of $40 billion. Ukraine’s new government sought to return the nation to stability following political... View Details
Keywords: Exchange Rates; Politics; Macroeconomics; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Restructuring; Economy; Currency Exchange Rate; Banks and Banking; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Bonds; Sovereign Finance; Capital Markets; Credit; Debt Securities; Financial Liquidity; Financial Markets; Government and Politics; Ukraine
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  • March–April 2015
  • Article

The Almighty Ruble

By: Debora L. Spar
At 1 AM Moscow time on December 16, Russia's central bank announced a massive hike in the country's interest rate, from 10.5% to 17%. It's not clear how Russian leader Vladimir Putin and his colleagues could realistically have expected to achieve anything by hiking the... View Details
Keywords: Monetary Policy; Economy; Policy; Currency; Interest Rates; Sovereign Finance; Russia
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  • 17 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto

want to consider doing so. Since the study suggests that crypto investing has edged into the mainstream, it means businesses are likely to see more consumer demand for spending of crypto as a currency in lieu of dollars and cents. Crypto... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

to corrupt behavior.   Working Papers Carry Trade, Reserve Accumulation, and Exchange-Rate Regimes By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Carry-trade activity and foreign participation in local-currency-bond markets in emerging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

invest in multiple foreign currencies. These cross country lending/borrowing operations create demand for currency hedges. A tightening of domestic monetary policy may drive a bank to lend more in a View Details
  • 29 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 29

  Working PapersSurviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance Authors:Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen Abstract We examine in this paper the differential response of establishments to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

insights into foreign policy, statecraft, and world order have been widely discussed. Yet surprisingly, until this book, his impressive achievements as a negotiator have escaped systematic analysis. While specific cases have been examined... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at home when domestic equity prices are higher, and invest abroad when foreign prices are higher. Funds see the industry P/E ratios of their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System - A Chronicle of the China Trade

of the China Trade Introduction Doing Business with China Augustine Heard & Co. The Canton Trade Commodities & Currencies Treaty Ports & Compradors Clippers & Steamships Exploring Trade Links Chinese Competition Expatriate Traders... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

given year. We provide a partial explanation for this statistic: a foreign aid windfall to poor, non-oil producing Muslim countries during the twin oil crises of the 1970s allowed the recipient states to become more repressive and stave... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/709495-PDF-ENG Wal-Mart's Use of Interest Rate Swaps Harvard Business School Case 108-038 "Wal-Mart's Use of Interest Rate Swaps" recounts Wal-Mart's use of interest rate swaps to hedge the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

orchestra as a soloist just within reach. But suddenly, his performance started to worsen. No amount of practice or specialized training helped. In fact, the harder he raged against his decline, the faster it inevitably came. He took a job teaching music and, to View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

the solution. However, commercializing the innovation may also stretch his organization too thin and bring his team into a business, the software industry, completely foreign to them. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509050 Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A1) Harvard Business School Case 109-013 Two activist investors, one a founder and one a hedge fund manager, seek to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Podcast - Business & Environment

customer demands for increased climate action. For transcripts and other resources, visit climaterising.org Making Infrastructure Climate Ready: Alice Hill, Council on Foreign Relations 19 JAN 2022 | Climate Rising In early 2021, a severe... View Details
  • 25 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

godlike powers or is putting you on. But there are patterns over time. For example, countries that are running large and ongoing current account deficits tend to see their currencies depreciate over time. This doesn't mean that the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne