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  • 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55402 The Creation and Evolution of Entrepreneurial Public Markets By: Bernstein, Shai, Abhishek Dev, and Josh Lerner Abstract—This paper explores the creation and evolution of new stock View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-034.pdf Tax Policy and the Efficiency of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad Authors:Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. Abstract Deferral of U.S. taxes on foreign source income is commonly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Building Effective Relationships Across Cultures

Trust is the foundation of any successful collaborative relationship. In my first stream of research, I draw on the basic distinction between cognition-based versus affect-based trust– that is, trust from the head versus trust from the heart – to better... View Details

    Richard F. Meyer

    Richard F. Meyer is Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Professor Meyer received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and spent the first ten years of his career in the Management Services Division of Arthur D. Little, Inc., serving as a... View Details
    • 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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    • February 2017 (Revised December 2018)
    • Case

    From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem (Abridged)

    By: Elie Ofek and Margot Eiran
    In June 2016, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel’s strong innovation track record and the country’s reputation as the “start-up nation.” Despite the economic miracle the country had wrought since its founding, he... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Management; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Economy; Equality and Inequality; Israel
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    Overview

    By: Ethan C. Rouen
    Relying on empirical archival methodologies—as well as techniques in data science—to develop and structure new sources of data by which to approach questions of looming disclosure changes, Professor Rouen has focused on one of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s... View Details
    • 08 Jan 2008
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    First Look: January 8, 2008

    hyperbolic discounting and shows in the field that the impact of intrapersonal conflict can be large in magnitude. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-099.pdf How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 25 Jul 2006
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    First Look: July 25, 2006

    206-046 Using a comprehensive and simple example of a firm exposed to foreign exchange risk, interest rate risk, and commodity price risk, shows how to use corporate-value-at-risk to measure and manage a... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • August 2021 (Revised November 2021)
    • Case

    The NCB Capital Turnaround: Waking the Sleeping Giant

    By: Sandra J. Sucher, Gamze Yucaoglu, Shalene Gupta and Fares Khrais
    The case opens in 2019, five years after, Sarah Al Suhaimi, CEO of NCB Capital (NCBC), the investment arm of Saudi’s largest bank, NCB, took the helm. Having successfully turned the business to make it the market leader, she was contemplating her next steps as... View Details
    Keywords: Turnaround; Investment Banking; Financial Institutions; Change Management; Leadership; Business Model; Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Management Teams; Asset Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Saudi Arabia
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    • 03 Nov 2009
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    First Look: Nov. 3

      Working PapersContracting in the Self-reporting Economy (revised) Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Richard Sansing Abstract This paper examines the effect of accounting on the use of intellectual property. We analyze the licensing of intellectual property in View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 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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    Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

    optimal export taxes depend on a trade-off between the good's military centrality and its distortion centrality. Military centrality is a network-adjusted sales share to the foreign military; distortion centrality reflects taxation... View Details
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    Curriculum - Case Method Project

    after Reconstruction formally ended, and that ultimately went to the U.S. Supreme Court. The prosecution of two black defendants before all-white juries at the state level—and the unprecedented intervention of a federal judge—provoked... View Details
    • 20 Dec 2016
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    December 20, 2016

    Non-Repatriation of Foreign Cash Negatively Affect U.S. Firms’ Operations? Evidence from Product Market Competitiveness By: Alhusaini, Badryah, Rick Laux, Henock Louis, and Anywhere Sikochi Abstract—Cash holdings provide the crucial... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 23 Aug 2011
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    First Look: August 23

    level of debt as a percent of nominal GDP; the interest rate; the inflation rate; the growth rate; and changes in the exchange rate if some debt is owed in a foreign currency. The note discusses how these... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • July 2018 (Revised July 2018)
    • Teaching Note

    Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina

    By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
    Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-041. This case concerns a complex potential energy infrastructure investment in Argentina by a global conglomerate shortly after Mauricio Macri (“Macri”) became President of Argentina in 2015. The central issues are (i) why was a country... View Details
    Keywords: Argentina; Argentine Exceptionalism; Infrastructure Finance; Investing; Finance; Inflation and Deflation; Government and Politics; Energy Generation; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Argentina; South America
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    Placement - Doctoral

    University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, Business Economics and Public Policy Department, Assistant Professor (2024) Dissertation: Essays on State Interventions and Market Outcomes in Developing Economies Advisors: Ariel Pakes (Chair)... View Details
    • Web

    Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    prices. The authors use arbitrage activity in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets to characterize the frictions and constraints facing intermediaries. They show that at least two types of... View Details
    • 05 Sep 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Global Currency Hedging

    Keywords: by John Y. Campbell, Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros & Luis M. Viceira; Financial Services