State Capitalism - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

chose to host conference calls in English, placing themselves on shaky linguistic ground. The recent working paper Capital Market Consequences of Non-Plain English in Conference Calls of Foreign Firms appears to be one of the first... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

June 2024
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Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project

By: Richard S. Ruback, Matthew Preble, Ruth Page and Dave Habeeb

Vinalhaven is an island community located approximately 12 miles off the coast of Maine. The island has a year-round population of about 1,300 people as of 2022, with an additional 3,000 people who reside on the island in the summer months. The two largest industries... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Natural Resources; Natural Environment; Weather; Sustainable Cities; Forecasting and Prediction; Construction; Property; Infrastructure; Capital Budgeting; Projects; Project Finance; Negotiation; United States; Maine

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01 Feb 2002
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Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story

that chance. What are some of that story's highlights? One striking aspect is that by the mid-1980s, the United States had almost entirely lost both the computer and the consumer electronics industries before it recovered in computers... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

November 2013
Teaching Note

A.J. Washington: Retaining an NFL Star

By: Andrew Wasynczuk and Karen Huang

A.J. Washington explores the early phase of a contract negotiation between a professional football team and its star quarterback. This case illustrates the challenges associated with negotiation for human capital. Specifically, it explores the tension between... View Details

Keywords: Compensation; Human Capital; Negotiation; Sports; Compensation and Benefits; Sports Industry; United States

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10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

privatization garners attention in industries whose importance, infrastructure, and enormous capital needs once put them under the comfortable control of their governments. Historically, observed HBS professor Richard Vietor in his... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation

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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog

Morgan Stanley, Bain Capital, TPG, Blackrock, State Street) are establishing sustainability investment practices, and developing products to meet the demands of capital owners, including pension funds,... View Details

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Fanele Mashwama

regulation. In the first, he is looking at episodes of capital flight in emerging markets and the way that the currency composition of firm liabilities can have serious ripples effects in times of turbulence. “Firms in emerging markets,... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

School’s Financial Picture Brighter than Expected

research initiatives, including the new FIELD course required of all first-year students. And it increased investment in capital projects. For example, $16 million went to renovating the former WGBH building at 125 Western Avenue, now... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2004
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Emmons Heads Christensen Center

In addition, the center will conduct and disseminate research on best practices and innovations in case-method pedagogy, and serve as a convener for symposia on teaching and learning. Funding for the center has been an important goal of the School’s ongoing View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2004
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The Inner-City Advantage

for business prospects outside of real estate, Lloyd M. Metz (MBA ’96) of ICV Capital Partners recommended investments based on intellect rather than physical capital, such as health care and software. Ventures that have low distribution... View Details

Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference; Howard; Naylor; Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 10

Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310090-PDF-ENG Milliway Capital & Martin Smith: November 2008 G. Felda Hardymon, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, and Ann LeamonHarvard Business School Case 810-088 Martin Smith, a recent... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

parents are all engaged in debating both sides of the issue. What would be the fairest solution? Or in Yokohama, Japan. In March 2003, a 22-year-old teaching English at a local junior high school is watching television with other staff members when news breaks that the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Mar 2007
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Faculty Books

Capital Rules by Rawi Abdelal (Harvard University Press) How and why did the world shift from an orthodoxy of free capital movements in 1914 to capital controls in 1944 and... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

24 Apr 2014
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Expanding the reach of business from Silicon Valley to the global arena

Valley with Draper Gaither & Anderson, the first venture capital company in the West. He later started Sutter Hill Ventures, where he served as the senior partner until joining the Export-Import Bank. Draper also started the first venture... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Around the World

People like me who were born in places like India and came here to study didn’t plan to go home.” What a difference a few decades have made. Tectonic shifts in geopolitics and business have profoundly reshaped thinking about management education. China, under Deng... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2016
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Rethinking Housing in the Motor City

partner of Rheal Capital Management, a New York-based investment management firm. Among its first investments was a codevelopment deal for a mixed-use project in Detroit’s Brush Park neighborhood north of downtown. Scheduled to break... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 2011
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My First HBS Class

slip into communications jargon, my only takeaways — are Professor Abdelal’s comment that the model of U.S. capitalism operative for the past ten to fifteen years is going away, and this gnomic formula: I = (S)+(T+G-TR)+(M-X). Given my... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

18 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

growth, voting rules, and media consumption, vs. individual factors, such as race and education. We use individual-level panel data covering the vast majority of the U.S. voting-age population from 2008 to 2014 and track changes in movers’ behavior as they cross View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Managing & Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India

href="https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990149981700203941/catalog">States of India (CMIE): India state level statistics (users must registers at the site for full access). View Details

29 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

at the individual level. We discuss the implications of our results for the study of learning as well as for providers and consumers of outsourced services. Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation Authors:Golosov,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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