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Also during Year 3, all students complete a year-long capstone exercise at HKS.Participants generally complement their required and elective studies with two summer internships: either a policy, international development or social... View Details

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

Steve Rattner, who chaired the government task force, found the initial assessments of their needs woefully understated and badly documented, reflecting decades of lost market share and destroyed shareholder value. The deal that was... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

01 Sep 2004
News

Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)

The son of a small-town banker, Charlie Williams grew up in rural West Virginia, attended Washington and Lee University, and taught for more than 39 years at HBS. The School’s much-revered George Gund Professor of Commercial Banking, Emeritus, he saw 27 former students... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

October 2009 (Revised February 2014)
Case

The Kaesong Industrial Complex (A)

By: Dante Roscini, Eric Werker and Han-koo Yeo

Keywords: Country; Risk and Uncertainty; International Relations; Trade; Agreements and Arrangements; Policy; North Korea; South Korea

February 2006
Article

Writing the Rules of Global Finance: France, Europe, and Capital Liberalization

By: Rawi Abdelal

Keywords: International Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Capital; France; Europe

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01 Feb 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

farms of Europe and the US. It helps explain laws to protect small business from the ravages of the A&Ps and Walmarts. It increasingly drives politics as well as government policy. It is especially attractive at times of low growth... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

December 2003
Case

George Mitchell in Northern Ireland (B)

By: James K. Sebenius and Daniel F. Curran

Examines the strategies and tactics that U.S. negotiator George Mitchell used during his two-year tenure as chairman of the all-party talks in Northern Ireland. His efforts culminated in the signing of the historic Good Friday Accords. A revised version of an earlier... View Details

Keywords: Policy; International Relations; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Tactics; Northern Ireland; United States

01 Sep 2008
News

Letters to the Editor

late 1960s. Using ARD as a vehicle and organizing the financial support of some twenty international banks, General Doriot set up a holding company in Luxembourg called European Enterprises Development S.A., known under the acronym EED,... View Details

Keywords: Government; Government; Government; Government; Government

26 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes

party currently in power, Congress, in the form of the government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, does not have a clear successor PM-candidate. Parties are preoccupied with their own internal affairs and... View Details

Keywords: by Zeenat Potia

October 2014 (Revised February 2017)
Case

Europe, Russia, and the Age of Gas Revolution

By: Rawi Abdelal, Leonardo Maugeri and Sogomon Tarontsi

The 2014 Ukraine crisis once again exposed the mutually limiting knot—a web of commercial relationships and oil and gas pipelines—that historically tied the European Union and Russia closely. In this crisis, a familiar conundrum preoccupied minds in the corridors of... View Details

Keywords: International Relations; Business and Government Relations; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; European Union; Russia; Ukraine

January 2003 (Revised December 2003)
Case

Financial Performance Reporting

By: David F. Hawkins

Students must evaluate the Financial Accounting Standards Board/International Accounting Standards Board's tentative decisions on comprehensive income statements. View Details

Keywords: International Accounting; Income; Decision Making; Financial Reporting; Corporate Governance; Accounting Industry

2007
Chapter

Capital Flows in a Globalized World: The Role of Policies and Institutions

By: Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Vadym Volosovych.

Keywords: International Finance; Capital; Government and Politics; Policy; Financial Institutions

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01 Sep 2017
News

City of Dreams

that the mayor’s beach house was there on exactly the same basis.” At that point it was time to return to MIT, but Mawilmada believes the government eventually granted an upgrade to the settlement. That experience was a turning point.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Government; Government; Government; Government

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Media

This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

08 May 2019
Blog Post

In the Business of Flexibility

mothers themselves, Cheney and Davis both realize the value of flexible work situations. After years of national and international travel in their former careers, the former classmates began to craft more sustainable careers around family... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Nonprofit / Government

February 2023
Case

Nexus Market (A): Ukraine War Ripples into Silicon Valley

By: Tsedal Neeley and Jeff Huizinga

A Silicon Valley start-up executive must navigate tensions between its Ukrainian and Russian sub-contractors as war between the two countries rages. After war erupts between Ukraine and Russia, a team of subcontracted Ukrainian software developers threatens to cut ties... View Details

Keywords: International Relations; Problems and Challenges; Conflict and Resolution; Technology Industry; United States

February 2011 (Revised July 2011)
Supplement

Caterpillar, Inc. (C)

By: David F. Hawkins

IASB proposes new defined benefit plan accounting standard. View Details

Keywords: International Accounting; Governance; Compensation and Benefits; Standards; Manufacturing Industry; Mining Industry; Consumer Products Industry