Publications

Educators

September 1983 (Revised July 1991)
Case

Orthoteks USA (A)

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Richard G. Hamermesh

A series on implementing strategy as the head of the U.S. subsidiary of a successful Swiss medical products firm. Traces the actions of the CEO over a four year period and highlights his negotiations with the Swiss parent and the way functional components of the... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Trade; Health Care and Treatment; Leadership Style; Agreements and Arrangements; Strategy; Health Industry; Switzerland; United States

Educators

15 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 15

the market by setting the welfare-maximizing level of trade when the difference in the degree of asymmetric information between buyers and sellers is significant. However, if... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 16, 2007

Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler Periodical:Journal of Economic Perspectives (forthcoming) Abstract Real investors and markets are too complicated to be neatly summarized by a few selected biases and trading... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

June 2004
Article

Market Liquidity as a Sentiment Indicator

By: Malcolm Baker and Jeremy Stein

We build a model that helps to explain why increases in liquidity-such as lower bid-ask spreads, a lower price impact of trade, or higher turnover-predict lower subsequent returns in both firm-level and aggregate data. The model features a class of irrational... View Details

Keywords: Markets; Financial Liquidity; Price; Trade; Sales; Equity; Information; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Accounting Industry

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April 2015
Tutorial

Introduction to International Macroeconomics

By: Laura Alfaro and Elizabeth A. Meyer

This tutorial is a web-based, interactive program which will provide students with an introduction to the basic principles of macroeconomics and international macroeconomics. View Details

Keywords: International Macroeconomics; International Economy; Current Account; Unemployment; Inflation; Monetary Policy; Fiscal Policy; Gdp; Macroeconomics; Money; Business Cycles; Inflation and Deflation; Trade

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Trouble Behind Livedoor

manipulating investors' ability to trade was an important aspect of price manipulation for many firms over the past few years. My research looks at how firms used stock splits to manipulate the float—the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology

31 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

total cost of care for this patient segment. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/118053-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-089 Maersk: Betting on Blockchain In March 2018, international shipping giant Maersk is... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Aug 2004
What Do You Think?

For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?

the wake of the scandals of the past few years is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Of the seventy-one sections of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

Working PapersRegional Trade Integration and Multinational Firm Strategies Authors:Pol Antrás and C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper analyzes the effects of the formation of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 2004
Article

Cross-country Technological Adoption: Making the Theories Face the Facts

By: Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn

We examine the diffusion of more than twenty technologies across twenty-three of the world's leading industrial economies. Our evidence covers major technology classes such as textile production, steel manufacture, communications, information technology,... View Details

Keywords: Technology Adoption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Development Economics; Human Capital; Government and Politics; Trade; Production; Information Technology; Steel Industry; Communications Industry

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22 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

clients' campaigns. This practice was institutionalized by an arrangement known as the "recognition system" between agencies and publishers, and administered by a set of trade associations. Among other... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

That’s why they are focusing now on issues like job creation, favorable trade relations, economic growth, and corporate tax reform that are essential for sustaining earnings growth and shareholder returns. Concerned about the future View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

27 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 27

Using a large sample of publicly traded U.S. firms over 16 years, we investigate the impact of corporate socially responsible (CSR) strategies on security analysts'... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Apr 2006
What Do You Think?

Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

and corporations. This is a far cry from the claims of the protesters at the World Trade Organization summits. Is it possible that globalization will be the catalyst that speeds up a process by which the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

April 1993 (Revised October 1996)
Case

ABB Deutschland (C)

By: Hugo Uyterhoeven

Addresses the results and the lessons from the German restructuring effort by focusing in detail on the relationship with the works council and the actions taken for power plants and power transformers, and the sales organization. Closes with a "second wave" of cost... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Trade; Cost Management; Leadership Style; Management Skills; Time Management; Relationships; Salesforce Management

Educators

August 1989 (Revised November 1994)
Case

Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.: Marketing Strategy for the European Market

By: John A. Quelch

Nissan executives are reviewing their European marketing strategy in light of the 1992 European Community (EC) market integration program and the likely end of bilateral import quotas on Japanese cars by some EC countries. Having recently established a manufacturing... View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Resource Allocation; Market Entry and Exit; Trade; Auto Industry; Japan; United Kingdom; Europe

07 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

this fact. "Where the consensus today is that eighteenth-century economists believed that free trade would bring peace and prosperity to all, the mainstream of political economy at the time was actually... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Article

U.S. Multinationals in British Manufacturing before 1962

By: G. Jones and Frances Bostock

This article presents a new database on U.S. multinationals active in British manufacturing between 1907 and 1962. Britain was the largest European host economy for U.S. direct investment in manufacturing and the second largest host worldwide. This article identifies... View Details

Keywords: Production; Trade; Foreign Direct Investment; Research and Development; Business Subsidiaries; Policy; Investment; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Great Britain