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- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
Empirical Analysis of Mobile Money Agents in Africa By: Balasubramanian, Karthik, and David F. Drake Abstract—The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks ("mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the developing world. The resulting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
accounting response be to the imposition of foreign currency controls? Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111030-PDF-ENG WildChina: Taking the Road Less Traveled Mukti Khaire, Daniel J. Isenberg, Victoria Song,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
for bonds, but it is also correlated with larger discount rate risk for bonds. The short rate forecasts only the discount rate component of bond beta. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lviceira/bbeta20100210-all.pdf The Euro as a Reserve View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
during the AFC. Regression estimates suggest that the relationship between leverage, exchange rate depreciations, and corporate financial distress is time varying. Also, a central finding is that firm size is correlated with corporate distress and, further, that View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
still the world's currency of choice. The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors Author:William R. Kerr Publication:In Economics of Agglomeration, edited by Edward Glaeser. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming. (Harvard...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
disruptive innovation has gained considerable currency among practitioners despite widespread misunderstanding of its core principles. Similarly, foundational research on disruption has elicited frequent citation and vibrant debate in...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
neurodiversity. Questions for managers to ask: How am I doing, and how can I do better? How are my people doing, and how might I help? How do I manage my team? And how can I have a greater impact? Unlocking the Customer Value Chain: How Decoupling Drives Consumer...
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- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
that does not center on public destruction of value, a notion that managers reject in surveys. Supportive new tests involve nominal levels and changes of dividends per share, announcement effects, and reference point currencies of ADR...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Regression estimates suggest that the relationship between leverage, exchange rate depreciations, and corporate financial distress is time varying. A central finding is that firm size is correlated with corporate distress and, further, that View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
organizational condition is the decoupling of masculinity and competence. Whereas most dangerous workplaces conflate stereotypical masculine traits (being brave, tough, and strong, for example) and competence, displays of masculinity held little View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
post-merger integration in a cross-border acquisition, and more general issues related to currency hedging and international taxation. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusiness.org/search/210017/ Shenzhen Development Bank Harvard...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
control and grew at impressive rates, becoming one of the richest of developed countries. Yet competitiveness in its non-mining sectors declined. Since the financial crisis, additional challenges associated with climate change, minerals taxes, migration, and an...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
Solana reflects. Ruwende notes that for most Africans, "it is extremely difficult, given earning levels, inflation, interest rates, and currency devaluation" to save the amounts necessary to matriculate at HBS. "I think the sheer...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
denominated in local currency with credit assurances taking the place of sovereign guarantees. Other entities took different approaches to raising capital for infrastructure in this market. Africa Plus Partners (Africa Plus), for example,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
symbiotic economic relationship that has developed between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America. The entry of Chinese labor into the world economy has significantly boosted the returns on capital relative to the returns on labor. At the same...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
certainly skill sets of currency that are required to navigate most of those roles. And so, it is important to us—and gen AI is obviously a current example—it is important to us to have some connective tissue around skills and learning,...
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- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
Its currency only grew with the 2012 publication of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic Monthly article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” followed by Sheryl Sandberg’s (MBA 1995) 2013 book, Lean In. This conversation was born out of a...
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international, macroeconomic, and political phenomena matter. Understanding the genesis of financial and currency crises, stock market booms and busts, social and labor unrest, the rise of populism, and major swings in politics and...
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