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  • 22 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

Mexican government reversed long-standing policies and allowed foreign banks to purchase Mexico's largest commercial banks and relaxed restrictions on the founding of new, foreign-owned banks. The result has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2009
  • Article

Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt

By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's willingness-to-pay incentive problems, reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels. In addition, assuming... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Motivation and Incentives; Decisions; Emerging Markets; Balance and Stability; Earnings Management; Policy; Interest Rates; International Finance; Cost
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    Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets

    Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global economy, accounting for 31% of global GDP and more than 50% of global foreign direct investment in 2012. However, doing business in emerging markets remains subject to a high degree of "policy risk,"... View Details

    • 20 Oct 2010
    • Op-Ed

    Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

    compete directly with foreign peers, implicitly pitting different business environments against each other, not just firms. In the local sectors, the competition is only between firms that are all exposed to the same business environment... View Details
    Keywords: by Christian Ketels
    • September 2009 (Revised December 2009)
    • Case

    The Future of Iraq Project (A)

    By: Noel Maurer and Sogomon Tarontsi
    In March 2009, the government of Iraq decided to hold its first oil field auctions. The auctions were for service contracts on the country's southern oil fields; the winner would obtain the right to produce oil above a certain target for a fixed fee. The bidders... View Details
    Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Foreign Direct Investment; Policy; Auctions; Production; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; Iraq
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    • Research Summary

    Research and Publication Interests

    Michelle Craig McDonald is currently writing a Harvard Business School case study on the impact of the International Coffee Act on small producers. She is interested in early American economic development, especially the role of foreign trade and re-exported... View Details
    • 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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    • 01 Jan 2020
    • What Do You Think?

    Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?

    recipients are not highly paid (regardless of talent), saying that “green card data show the following percentages of foreign workers at Levels I or II making below-median wages (for a given region): Amazon 91%; Facebook 91%; and Google... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
    • September 2012 (Revised August 2015)
    • Case

    Shanghai Pharmaceuticals

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Natalie Kindred
    Shanghai Pharmaceuticals (SPH), a vertically integrated Chinese pharmaceutical conglomerate, was considering its strategic options in the context of a rapidly evolving industry, policy, and economic environment. The company—essentially a collection of subsidiaries... View Details
    Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Conglomerates; Vertical Integration; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mergers and Acquisitions; Consolidation; Health Care and Treatment; Global Strategy; State Ownership; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; Shanghai; United States; Europe
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      Mihir A. Desai

      Mihir A. Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard... View Details

      • 2007
      • Working Paper

      Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt

      By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
      Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However, given the sovereign's willingness-to-pay incentive problems, reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels. In addition, assuming... View Details
      Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Liquidity; International Finance; Emerging Markets; Mathematical Methods
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        Andy Zelleke

        Andy Zelleke is the MBA Class of 1962 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. A member of the General Management unit, he is the Faculty Chair of HBS’ Middle East & North Africa Research Center.

        Since Spring 2021, Dr. Zelleke has taught “Unpacking... View Details

        Keywords: federal government; professional services; defense; financial services
        • 08 Aug 2006
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Managing Governments: Unilever in India and Turkey, 1950–1980

        Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones
        • Research Summary

        International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship (joint with Andrew Charlton)

        By: Laura Alfaro
        We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Researchers have stressed the role of new firm activity and economic dynamism on growth. Yet, the empirical effects of international capital... View Details
        • 2009
        • Working Paper

        Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act

        By: Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley and Kristin J. Forbes
        This paper analyzes the impact on firm behavior of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings by U.S. multinationals. The analysis controls for endogeneity and omitted variable bias by using... View Details
        Keywords: Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Taxation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Behavior; United States
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        • March 2021 (Revised May 2021)
        • Case

        ALDDN: Advancing Local Dairy Development in Nigeria

        By: Meg Rithmire and Debora L. Spar
        In 2020, Ndidi Nwuneli, founder and CEO of Sahel Consulting in Nigeria, faced a thorny set of problems. Her firm partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in a large project to develop the local dairy industry as a way to facilitate equitable growth and... View Details
        Keywords: Animal-Based Agribusiness; Food; Rural Scope; Growth and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Equality and Inequality; Food and Beverage Industry; Consulting Industry; Nigeria
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        • 22 Jan 2007
        • Research & Ideas

        The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

        followed by people who are 100 miles away, and so forth in concentric circles. My research on ethnic networks suggests this channel facilitates faster knowledge transfer and faster adoption of foreign technologies. For example, if the... View Details
        Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer
        • 11 Mar 2014
        • First Look

        First Look: March 11

        evolution of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in host countries over time. We argue that a change in the policy environment in a host country presents an MNE with two sets of interrelated decisions. First, the MNE has to decide whether to... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 2019
        • Report

        U.S. Nuclear Energy Leadership: Innovation and the Strategic Global Challenge

        By: Joseph B. Lassiter III
        Throughout 2018, the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center convened a “Task Force on US Nuclear Energy Leadership,” which comprised civilian and military experts in foreign policy, defense, and nuclear energy. Senators Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)... View Details
        Keywords: Nuclear Energy; Environment; Energy Sources; Energy; Energy Generation; Energy Conservation; Energy Policy; Global Range; Energy Industry
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        • 16 Jan 2007
        • First Look

        First Look: January 16, 2007

          Working Papers"Don'ts" And "Do's": Insights from Experience In Mitigating Risks Of Western Investors In Post-Communist Countries Authors:Charalambos A. Vlachoutsicos and Paul R. Lawrence Abstract No abstract available. Download the paper:... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace