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Multinationals' Need for State Protection: The Creation of the Swiss Investment Risk Guarantee in the 1960s
By: Sabine Pitteloud
This chapter focuses on the role of Industrie-Holding, the Federation of Swiss Industrial Multinational Companies, in the introduction of an investment risk guarantee during the 1960s. The chapter therefore contributes to a) the growing body of literature on how...
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Investments;
Multinational Companies;
Political Risk;
Business & Government Relations;
Investment;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Business and Government Relations;
Switzerland
Pitteloud, Sabine. "Multinationals' Need for State Protection: The Creation of the Swiss Investment Risk Guarantee in the 1960s." In Security and Insecurity in Business History: Case Studies in the Perception and Negotiation of Threats, edited by Mark Jakob, Nina Kleinöder, and Christian Kleinschmidt, 111–134. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2021.
- June 2022
- Case
Business Implications from Regulating Carbon Emissions in the EU
By: George Serafeim and Benjamin Maletta
In the beginning of the 21st century, the European Union (the EU) had led the global fight against climate change with a wide array of policy measures. The EU’s primary approach to climate policy had been taxation via the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU...
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Regulation;
Carbon Emissions;
Trade;
Sustainability;
Decarbonization;
Performance;
Climate Change;
Analysis;
Strategy;
Taxation;
Policy;
Environmental Regulation;
Industry Structures;
European Union
Serafeim, George, and Benjamin Maletta. "Business Implications from Regulating Carbon Emissions in the EU." Harvard Business School Case 122-106, June 2022.
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1982), and is a Certified Public Accountant. He is the Co-Chairman of Bain Capital, a leading global private investment firm based in Boston. Steve is also the View Details
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
inter-governmental regulation as powerful enough to offer some hope of containing the excesses of surveillance capitalism. When industrial capitalism was moderated we lived in a world where nation states still had much autonomy confronted by View Details
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
Institute/Taubman Center Policy Brief, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010. An abstract is unavailable at this time. Working PapersThe Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
multinationals doing business in emerging economies? A: Government relations are critical to business effectiveness in developed as well as in emerging economies. But, in emerging economies, where the public sector and...
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- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
Gerson Lehrman Group: Managing Risks Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy, and Sarah L. AbbottHarvard Business School Case 412-004 It was June 2011 and Alexander Saint-Amand,...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Financial Markets | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Research) https://www.library.hbs.edu/find/databases/pmr-journals-portfolio-management-research Full-text issues (current and archival) of quarterly publications covering research on global investment View Details
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Current Research
Information Dissemination in Capital Markets
Seeking to bridge economic theory and the role of individuals, Professor Brochet researches the transmission of information in capital markets. He has investigated the effects of information... View Details
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
capital firm Polaris Partners, and former executive at Pfizer, Schulman has worked in some 90 countries around the world. "The key to creating collaborative teams within diverse environments, is to find...
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by Michael Blanding
- March 2022
- Case
Copper Nationalization in Chile
By: Jeremy Friedman, John Masko and Jingyu Liu
In 1970 Chile became the first country to elect a Marxist president through open, multi-party elections in Salvador Allende. In his first year as president, Allende nationalized the copper industry, Chile’s largest export industry that was developed and owned by US...
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Nationalism;
History;
Political Elections;
Natural Resources;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
National Security;
Government Administration;
Government and Politics;
Chile
Friedman, Jeremy, John Masko, and Jingyu Liu. "Copper Nationalization in Chile." Harvard Business School Case 722-016, March 2022.
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
413-031 Talking Strategy at Greighton Partners Since its inception, London-based private equity firm Greighton Partners had managed over $15 billion in investor capital. The View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Program Policies - HBS Online
Investments Business Strategy Business Analytics CORe (Credential of Readiness) - Non-Credit Only Design Thinking and Innovation Disruptive Strategy Economics for Managers Entrepreneurship Essentials...
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- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
returned to campus for the Board’s annual fall meeting, which featured two days of engaging updates and lively discussions about the School’s work and its future. The HBS Alumni Board, whose members are...
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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets
economic development, economic institutions, emerging markets, foreign direct investment, globalization Interviews Dato' Sri Prof. Dr. TahirShinta KamdaniJaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala Dante Roscini MBA Class of 1952 Professor of View Details
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Courses - Private Capital Project
models such as venture capital, growth equity, and buyouts. Participants will study investment criteria, management strategies, and decision-making processes essential in the...
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- 17 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?
Ramesh Balwani, had long known that Theranos’ home blood test didn’t work, but misled investors to keep money flowing in. Holmes and Balwani are accused of defrauding patients, doctors, and investors of over...
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- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
universities and private companies to develop technologies important to Danish industry. We assess the effect of a unique mediated funding scheme that combines project grants with active facilitation and...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Confronting Climate Change - Business & Environment
scientists over 50 years ago — business is vital. Managers have a key role to play in confronting climate change in the market sectors in which they operate and in the political View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
productivity. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52141 Capturing Value from IP in a Global Environment By: Alcácer, Juan, Karin Beukel, and Bruno Cassiman Abstract—This...
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Carmen Nobel