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  • 09 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

Catalytic cracker and gas-to-liquids plant in Lake Charles, Louisiana. This $21 billion venture will be the single largest foreign direct investment in U.S. manufacturing history. The plants, on 1,600 acres adjacent to the company's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 1

majority sexual orientations in organizations. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Shifting%20Landscape%20of%20LGBT%20Org%20Research_0d247765-4372-49ed-9aae-dce41aef12b7.pdf August 2013 Foreign Affairs... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • February 2008 (Revised November 2011)
  • Case

The International Monetary Fund in Crisis

By: Rawi Abdelal, David Moss and Eugene Kintgen
When Dominique Strauss-Kahn became the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund in late 2007, he faced a number of significant changes. The organization had lost much of its legitimacy over the previous decade, and countries seemed increasingly reluctant to... View Details
Keywords: History; Globalized Economies and Regions; Problems and Challenges; Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Government and Politics; Financial Institutions; Business Strategy; Macroeconomics; Financial Services Industry
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  • February 1998 (Revised October 2002)
  • Case

Uganda and the Washington Consensus

By: Huw Pill and Courtenay Sprague
Under the direction of President Museveni, much of the world has heaped praise on Uganda for transforming its economy from devastation to growth and managing the ethnic and racial strife that has divided the country in the past. Following a decade of reforms, Uganda is... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Economy; Policy; Analysis; Development Economics; Borrowing and Debt; Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Uganda
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  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

when the sovereign is temporarily excluded from capital markets. Differently from previous analyses, we assume that in addition to accumulating international reserves, countries can borrow internationally using their own currency. As opposed to traditional sovereign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

Business School Case 719-417 National Australia Bank: Looking Out for the Customer After learning that most defaults were due to health, job, or marital problems, National Australia Bank revised its debt collection department to shift... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Nov 2021
  • HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

can make extreme means seem justifiable.” A company spiraling into debt France Télécom’s troubles started in the late 1990s, after the French government turned the national telephone monopoly into a publicly traded company, now known as... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

opportunity to bid for debt and equity claims on Plascar Industria e Comercio Ltda., the Brazilian subsidiary of the bankrupt global auto components company Collins & Aikman Corp. In evaluating this opportunity, students must analyze... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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 fair value of its fixed-rate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

"For instance, if you invested in an Islamic mutual fund, among those industries which would be barred from representation as funds would be the gambling industry. But gambling also relates to futures; it relates to currency hedging;... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

there's in fact no alternative to foreigners buying our assets, either debt or equity. As I said, if you're earning $100,000 and you're spending $106,000, you're going to have to borrow or draw down your... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

managers face here are many and varied. In a bankruptcy restructuring, for example, one obvious objective is to reduce the firm's overall debt load. However, cancellation of debt creates equivalent taxable... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
  • 05 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

traditional question of how the inflow of foreign workers affects native employment and earnings to explore effects on innovation and productivity, wage inequality across skill groups, the behavior of multinational firms, firm-level... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

2012. The projections appeared contrary to Hayman Capital's views on Japan, where the fund had built a bearish position. Japan had the world's highest debt burden, whether expressed as a percentage of GDP or government revenue. Guided by... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

east of the Mississippi. Green construction and green operations are the wave of the future and the United Sates is far behind Europe in this regard. Finally, American real estate investors have traditionally been pretty parochial compared to their View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate
  • 16 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

globalization and global value chains. But it does entail paying attention to potential bottlenecks, risk, and diversification of trade partners. Economic policy should also further try to foster local currency View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

more by intermediate objectives like generating jobs or creating export revenues to cover import costs or serve foreign debt obligations. There is nothing wrong with these objectives but they are neither... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 17 Jan 2023
  • Book

Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

procedures, foreign corrupt practices, and virtual currency. The book speaks to “how organizations are actually held criminally accountable,” says co-author Eugene F. Soltes, the McLean Family Professor of Business Administration at... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 15 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 15, 2006

  Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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