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    Debora L. Spar

    Debora Spar is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society. Her current research focuses on issues of gender and technology, and the interplay between... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; broadcasting; communications; entertainment; federal government; health care; information; internet; music; pharmaceuticals
    • Research Summary

    Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt (with Fabio Kanczuk)

    By: Laura Alfaro
    Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. Some of the implications of this analysis, however, may not be generalized once one considers the joint decision to hold debt and reserves by a... View Details
    • 16 Jan 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Political Economy of “Natural” Disasters

    Keywords: by Charles Cohen & Eric D. Werker
    • December 2014 (Revised May 2019)
    • Case

    Bhutan: Governing for Happiness

    By: Sophus A. Reinert, Thomas Humphrey and Benjamin Safran
    Unique among the world’s countries, the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan had abandoned the traditional policy goal of increasing Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in favor of pursuing Gross National Happiness (GNH). Famously, Bhutan ranked highly on lists of the happiest... View Details
    Keywords: Happiness; Economic Growth; Governance; Cost vs Benefits; Bhutan
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    • August 2008 (Revised July 2009)
    • Case

    Gazprom (A): Energy and Strategy in Russian History

    By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Sogomon Tarontsi and Alexander Jorov
    Critics have accused Gazprom, the world's largest natural gas producer, of eschewing market principles in favor of the foreign policy priorities of the Russian government, ever since the energy giant cut off the supply to Ukraine in January of 2006. The purported... View Details
    Keywords: History; International Relations; Trade; Energy Industry; Russia; Soviet Union; Ukraine; Europe
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    • 26 Jun 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

    internal upheaval or violence. And, Abdelal contends, mainstream nationalists in Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine in the first post-Soviet decade had nearly identical ideologies and foreign policy goals. For... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace

      Juan Alcacer

      Juan Alcacer is the James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He joined HBS in 2007 and has taught the required MBA strategy course, an elective on Global Strategy and PhD courses in Strategy and International Business. Within... View Details

      Keywords: consulting; management consulting; telecommunications

        Leonard A. Schlesinger

        Leonard A. Schlesinger is Baker Foundation Professor at the Harvard Business School where he serves as Chair of the School’s Practice based faculty and faculty Chair of the MBA Field Global Immersion program. He has served as a member of the HBS faculty from 1978 to... View Details

        • October 2001 (Revised December 2001)
        • Background Note

        Extraterritorial Applications of Antitrust Law: U.S. and Japanese Approaches

        By: Guhan Subramanian and Michelle Kalka
        This case describes the differebt approaches the United States and Japan have taken to extend the jurisdiction of their antitrust laws to foreign companies. The section on the United States, in particular, focuses on the evolving logic of the Supreme Court in dealing... View Details
        Keywords: Laws and Statutes; Lawfulness; Government Legislation; Policy; Business or Company Management; Government and Politics; Pulp and Paper Industry; United States; Japan
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        • 17 Dec 2007
        • Research & Ideas

        The Rise of Medical Tourism

        countries that similar development made sense. So it's a tricky public policy issue. Q: How does growth in private hospitals affect public health care in India? A: There is an assumption in the view often expressed in the media in India... View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

          Richard F. Meyer

          Richard F. Meyer is Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Professor Meyer received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and spent the first ten years of his career in the Management Services Division of Arthur D. Little, Inc., serving as a... View Details
          • 2013
          • Working Paper

          Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences

          By: Eric D. Werker
          This extended memorandum identifies episodes of sustained double-digit growth in real GDP, defined as a compound annual growth rate of 10 percent or more over a period of 8 years or longer. Using a measure of real GDP reported in the World Development Indicators, we... View Details
          Keywords: Growth; Liberia
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          • 25 Apr 2014
          • Research & Ideas

          To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

          to collect on defaulted debt. In truth, most countries repay their debts, and sovereign default is far from the norm. At stake in the Argentina case is the idea that one should use foreign institutions and View Details
          Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
          • 2021
          • Book

          Global Goliaths: Multinational Corporations in the 21st Century Economy

          By: C. Fritz Foley, James R. Hines Jr. and David Wessel
          Globalization and multinational corporations have long seemed partners in the enterprise of economic growth: globalization-led prosperity was the goal, and giant corporations spanning the globe would help achieve it. In recent years, however, the notion that all... View Details
          Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Globalization; Economy; Economic Growth; Equality and Inequality; Employment; Policy
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            Arturo Acevedo

            Keywords: Steel and Mining
            • 24 Apr 2007
            • First Look

            First Look: April 24, 2007

            Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307069 Note on U.S. Public Education Finance (B): Expenditures Harvard Business School Note 307-070 Describes the cost structure and spending policies of... View Details
            Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
            • 28 Feb 2014
            • HBS Seminar

            Paula Stephan, Georgia State Univ and NBER

            • Research Summary

            Innovation and Productivity

            In this stream of research, Professor Steinwender examines how firms adjust their innovative behavior and productivity in response to changes in the external environment. Analyzing Spanish firm-level data, she finds that two mechanisms proposed in the economic... View Details

            • 2018
            • Book

            Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level

            By: James K. Sebenius, R. Nicholas Burns and Robert H. Mnookin (with a forward by Henry A. Kissinger)
            As professors and practitioners with careers devoted to negotiation, we are often asked “Who are the world’s best negotiators? What makes them effective?” Inevitably Henry Kissinger’s name comes up as an elite, if controversial, negotiator from whom we can learn a... View Details
            Keywords: History; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Personal Development and Career; Negotiation Style; United States
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            • 27 Sep 2006
            • Research & Ideas

            Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

            management and opportunities? What's the buzz? A: Some small businesses are concerned about how to find capital and partners. Some protected domestic companies are concerned about the government's growing interest in foreign direct... View Details
            Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne