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  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

experience has been a mixed blessing. In Argentina, liberalization and opening to the world in the 1990s first produced growth, and then instability as the Asian financial crisis impacted the country. At the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2018
  • Supplement

African Bank Investments Limited (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
Less than a year after joining the board of African Bank Investments Limited (ABIL), the newest director finds himself in difficult discussions with other directors about removing the struggling company’s CEO. The case is set in South Africa in mid-2014 as shares in... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Personal Finance; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Insurance; Leadership; Management; Risk Management; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Africa; South Africa
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  • August 2010
  • Teaching Note

Vereinigung Hamburger Schiffsmakler und Schiffsagenten e.V.: Valuing Ships (TN)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert W. Sheen
Teaching Note for 210058. View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Crisis; Price; Financing and Loans; Contracts; Asset Pricing; Cash Flow; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Shipping Industry; Germany
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  • June 2010
  • Teaching Note

Sheikh Mohammed and the Making of "Dubai, Inc." (TN)

By: Anthony Mayo and Johnathan Cromwell
Teaching Note for 410063. View Details
Keywords: Balance and Stability; Growth and Development; Identity; Government and Politics; Infrastructure; Financial Crisis; Labor; Economic Systems; Culture; Managerial Roles; Local Range; Dubai
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  • 04 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 4

  Publications November 2014 Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias Los Buenos Tiempos Son Éstos: Los efectos de la incursión de la banca extranjera en México después de un siglo de crisis bancarias [These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

time," he remarks. "In my thesis, I analyzed why certain S&Ls adopted high-risk strategies while others did not and found that high leverage was an important consideration." As the S&L crisis passed and interest in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 09 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures

doesn't have a global perspective on access to resources. Its customers include Wal-Mart, Kmart, and Target; it has 60 percent market share in the U.S. But, like many Korean firms, Jinwoong financed itself with lots of debt from Korean banks. "The Asian View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

insight into perceptions of the company's conduct among a large cross section of employees around the world, and to benchmark themselves against other leading companies. When the global financial crisis hit,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Oct 2017
  • First Look

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

forthcoming New York: Palgrave Macmillan New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy By: Fredona, Robert, and Sophus A. Reinert, eds. Abstract—This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

Russia's Resurgent State Author:Rawi Abdelal Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 1 (January-February 2010): 125-129 Abstract The article discusses the effect of the global financial crisis of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 12, 2016

Business Is Broken By: Lorsch, Jay W., and Emily McTague Abstract—When organizations get into big trouble, fixing the culture is usually the prescription. That's what most everyone said GM needed to do after its recall crisis in 2014—and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2010
  • Case

Aaron's: Household Goods for the U.S. Base of the Pyramid

By: Michael Chu and Charles Augustus Smithgall IV
With $2.5 billion system-wide revenues, Aaron's, a major rent-to-own supplier to the U.S. base of the pyramid, continues to grow in the recession, but CEO R.C. Loudermilk, Jr. wonders how long the company can sustain the fast growth rate of its past. Founded in 1955,... View Details
Keywords: Fairness; For-Profit Firms; Renting or Rental; Financial Crisis; Demand and Consumers; Social Enterprise; Income; Goods and Commodities; Competitive Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Mission Possible

a manifestation of rekindled social idealism. HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, an SEI faculty member, has another explanation rooted in the nation’s ongoing leadership crisis in business and government. “If institutions don’t operate... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 21 Dec 2022
  • News

HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

the broader messages they send to the world Ukraine Crisis: Analysis by HBS Professor Deepak Malhotra and Jonathan Powell At an event held on March 2, 2022, Prof. Deepak Malhotra and Jonathan Powell provide a strategic analysis of the Ukraine View Details
  • December 2012 (Revised November 2014)
  • Case

W.R. Grace & Co.: Dealing with Asbestos Torts

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
A manufacturer of building products and specialty chemicals, W. R. Grace & Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001 in response to a flood of lawsuits alleging that its products contained asbestos, and had caused hundreds of thousands of people to contract... View Details
Keywords: Bankruptcy Reorganization; Business Failures; Environmental Regulations; Class Action Lawsuits; Natural Environment; Valuation; Health Disorders; Capital Structure; Restructuring; Lawsuits and Litigation; Chemicals; Crisis Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Legal Liability; Construction Industry; Chemical Industry; United States
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  • March 2005 (Revised April 2007)
  • Case

Comergent Technologies Inc.: Enterprise E-Commerce

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
Coming out of the 2001 high-tech industry recession, this venture capital start-up has to come up with a marketing plan to break even and grow. Its innovative e-commerce software provides unique customer relationship management solutions, but it has to convince... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Customer Relationship Management; Financial Crisis; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Business or Company Management; Marketing Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Software; Information Technology Industry
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  • 08 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

success cause this financial meltdown? Conversely, what role had foreign investors played in setting up the crisis by pouring short-term capital into Korea's partially and unevenly liberalized View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

a short, traditional text with a living website and cover such fundamental topics as accounting and tax, mortgages, capital markets, REITs and more. It also addresses the 2008 financial crisis and its impact... View Details
  • 18 Oct 2024
  • News

My Worst Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

medium of photography since the author first took up a camera. Falling Short: The Coming Retirement Crisis and What to Do about It by Charles Ellis (MBA 1963), Alicia H. Munell, and Andrew D. Eschtruth (Oxford University Press) A concise... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information