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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
new enterprise and foster its growth.[3] Through a partnership with John Wesley Durr in 1862, the brothers expanded their storage capacity and trading business, and Lehman, Durr & Co. soon ranked among the top cotton firms in the area....
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
Conditions and Your Business Understand the effects of taxation, government spending, and monetary policy on the business environment. Highlights Exchange Rates Hedging Exchange Rates with Bryan Hedging Exchange Rates with Christopher ShowHide Details Concepts View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
The companies in each quad began the study period (1986 to 1996) in approximately the same fiscal condition. Yet their fortunes differed dramatically over the decade. One company in each foursome emerged as a winner—it consistently...
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
from the UPS Endowment Fund at Stanford University for “Immigrant Group Size and Immigrant Assimilation” (with Vasiliky Fouka and Kai Gehring) in 2018. Marlous van Waijenburg: 2018: Recipient of a MITRE Faculty Research Award for “Financing the African Colonial State:...
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The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take...
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U.S. Business Immigration Overview - Alumni
green cards. If you have questions, please email our office. Common US Business Visas +–H-1 Temporary Specialty Occupation This is the most common business visa classification. However there is a quota on the number of new H-1B visas issued each year — 85,000 per View Details
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014
systems, staff, and infrastructure to drive future enrollment growth as new capacity comes on line, total operating costs remained well controlled. As a result, the group’s fiscal 2014 margin contribution...
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From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020
Financials From the Chief Financial Officer 3ms Our fiscal 2020 financial performance tells a story with two distinct chapters: July 2019 through mid-March 2020, when HBS enjoyed strong results and advanced its core educational and...
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From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
contribution was higher than initially planned. Executive Education faced residence and dining capacity constraints in fiscal 2015. The group successfully managed these challenges and delivered...
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016
expected to climb 9 percent from fiscal 2016. This anticipated increase reflects higher mission-driven spending on core I.T. projects. Fiscal 2017 operating costs also reflect the opening of the Chao Center...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016
mission. The revenues from these sources in any given year are sensitive to trends in the economy and the capital markets. These trends remained favorable for a sixth consecutive year in fiscal 2016. As a result, the School’s total...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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The Devil You Don’t Know
that by that point, we will have succumbed to a Keynesian style or demand-side crisis, where people and firms are actively scaling back spending because they’ve concluded that the economic future is bleak. If so, we’d want to be sure we have enough View Details
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
foreign investors, but when times are good, people tend to assume that they are everlasting. Sadly, reality isn't so compliant. During flush times, people borrowed excessively beyond their capacity to repay their debts, which is a common...
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by Zeenat Potia
- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
creates a "fiscal risk management" motive: incremental spending that occurs when total government spending is already high is particularly unattractive. A first key insight is that the government's need to manage fiscal risk frequently...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 14
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-114.pdf Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930 Authors:André C. Martínez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio Abstract There is a large amount...
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Martha Lagace
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Harvard Business School
difficult fiscal situation, however, the President and Council of Radcliffe College voted to terminate the program in 1953. Beginning in 1954, HBS decided to assume the educational component of the program and absorb some of the costs....
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- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
as the state grew in the middle of the 20th century through the Great Depression and World War Two, and the advance of entitlements, we needed to fund those things and the fiscal capacity of the state grew....
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12
explanatory factor is the impact that commodities have on the capacity to pay. We use a newly created database with state-level fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
industrial firm Ellaktor and Standard and Poor's shows. With the venture capital industry being underdeveloped, Greek entrepreneurs were also excluded from financing. (See here my view on increasing innovation capacity in Greece.) But...
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by George Serafeim
- 30 Apr 2019
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Leading Schools That Change Lives
restoring the school’s fiscal health, but also its reputation for serving those with less. The urgency of the school’s financial problems gave Kennealey leverage to move quickly on some key initiatives while building relationships and...
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