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- 25 Oct 2012
- HBS Seminar
Andy McAfee, MIT
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
booms, we have seen the impositions of tougher standards by venture capitalists when examining whether to fund or refinance companies, a decrease in the valuations assigned to these firms, and a slowing of the frenetic pace of investment....
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- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
unintentionally undermined the intended admissions policy—led to the elimination of Boston’s walk zones. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52937 May 2017 American Economic Review Stable View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
Unlearned? Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets Emerging markets are contending with a worrisome slowdown in economic growth accompanied by the build-up of corporate debt. Is Greed Ruining Private Equity...
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- 2023
- Working Paper
Detecting Structural Breaks in Inflation Trends: A High-Frequency Approach
By: Alberto Cavallo and Gaston Garcia Zavaleta
We combine standard structural-break methods with high-frequency data to identify shifts in inflation trends. We use this approach to study the inflation dynamics of 25 countries from January 2022 to April 2023 and find evidence of a broad-based slowdown in about half...
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Cavallo, Alberto, and Gaston Garcia Zavaleta. "Detecting Structural Breaks in Inflation Trends: A High-Frequency Approach." Working Paper, May 2023. (Preliminary draft.)
- 2009
- Report
Nordic Globalization Barometer 2009: Global Pressure—Nordic Solutions?
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Less than a year after the first Nordic Globalization Barometer has been launched, the state of the world economy has changed dramatically. A deep financial crisis is taking its toll on investors, borrowers, and the financial institutions that serve them. A deep...
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Keywords:
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
Financial Crisis;
Financial Markets;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Competitive Strategy;
Scandinavia
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Nordic Globalization Barometer 2009: Global Pressure—Nordic Solutions?" Report Series, Nordic Council of Ministers, 2009.
- 11 May 2016
- News
World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer
Reacting to a spate of nations adopting negative interest rates—essentially charging depositors for parking their money—World Bank Vice President and Treasurer Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990) told Bloomberg News that the policy could weaken banks....
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- February 2002 (Revised September 2002)
- Case
Competition in Japanese Financial Markets, 2002
By: Tarun Khanna and Louis P. DiLorenzo, Jr
In early 2002, Japan, the world's largest economy, had been mired in a decade-long recession. A range of stimulus packages had failed to work their magic. The "Big Bang" financial deregulation reforms announced in 1998 had not quite produced the economic boom that the...
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Competition;
Investment Banking;
Financial Markets;
Globalization;
Financial Crisis;
Commercial Banking;
Banking Industry;
Japan
Khanna, Tarun, and Louis P. DiLorenzo, Jr. "Competition in Japanese Financial Markets, 2002." Harvard Business School Case 702-455, February 2002. (Revised September 2002.)
- July 2002 (Revised September 2002)
- Case
Competition in Japanese Financial Markets, 2002 (Abridged)
By: Tarun Khanna
In early 2002, Japan, the world's largest economy, had been mired in a decade-long recession. A range of stimulus packages had failed to work their magic. The "Big Bang" financial deregulation reforms announced in 1998 had not quite produced the economic boom that the...
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Competition;
Financial Markets;
Global Strategy;
Financial Crisis;
Banks and Banking;
Banking Industry;
Japan
Khanna, Tarun. "Competition in Japanese Financial Markets, 2002 (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 703-407, July 2002. (Revised September 2002.)
- December 2017 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Globalization Past, 1850–1914 (A)
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Federica Gabrieli
On the evening of 3 August 1914, British Foreign Secretary Lord Edward Grey contemplated whether to advise King and Parliament to declare war on Germany in the wake of the country’s invasion of Belgium or to stay out of what quickly was becoming a world war triggered...
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Keywords:
The World;
The Rise And Fall Of Globalization;
World War;
Globalization;
War;
Economics;
Trade;
Business Cycles;
Economic Growth;
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
Society;
History;
Values and Beliefs;
Macroeconomics
Reinert, Sophus A., and Federica Gabrieli. "Globalization Past, 1850–1914 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 718-023, December 2017. (Revised January 2024.)
- 2022
- Working Paper
The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the U.S. Economy
By: Joe Long, Carlo Medici, Nancy Qian and Marco Tabellini
This paper studies the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese immigration to the United States after 1882, across U.S. counties between 1870 and 1940. We find that the Act reduced labor supply for both the Chinese and other groups (i.e., white and...
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Immigration;
Growth;
Productivity;
Business History;
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
Business and Government Relations;
Prejudice and Bias;
Government Legislation;
United States
Long, Joe, Carlo Medici, Nancy Qian, and Marco Tabellini. "The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the U.S. Economy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-008, March 2022.
- December 2017
- Supplement
Globalization Past, 1850–1914 (B)
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Federica Gabrieli
Supplements the (A) case.
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Keywords:
The Rise And Fall Of Globalization;
World War;
The World;
Business Cycles;
Economic Growth;
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
Macroeconomics;
Trade;
Values and Beliefs;
Globalization;
War
Reinert, Sophus A., and Federica Gabrieli. "Globalization Past, 1850–1914 (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 718-030, December 2017.
- 07 Jul 2020
- News
Predictable Financial Crises
- August 2002
- Case
Trilogy University
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Michael Paley
In early 2001, Trilogy Software faced a slowdown in its business, a large number of unsuccessful customer deployments, and an overall weakening in the enterprise software market. In response, the company revamped its business model and restructured the organization....
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Design;
Alignment;
Restructuring;
Organizational Structure;
Change Management;
Business Strategy;
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
Information Technology Industry
DeLong, Thomas J., and Michael Paley. "Trilogy University." Harvard Business School Case 403-012, August 2002.
- April 2009 (Revised January 2011)
- Case
Gucci Group: Freedom within the Framework
By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, Elena Corsi and Vincent Marie Dessain
Gucci Group's CEO had to decide if his decentralized management style was the most effective philosophy in an economic downturn. The sharing of customer information across units and its use in the creative process are key initiatives analyzed in the case. CEO Robert...
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Keywords:
Customer Relationship Management;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Knowledge Sharing;
Leadership;
Management Style;
Management Systems;
Brands and Branding;
Apparel and Accessories Industry
Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis, Elena Corsi, and Vincent Marie Dessain. "Gucci Group: Freedom within the Framework." Harvard Business School Case 109-079, April 2009. (Revised January 2011.)
- January 2019 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
KITEA (A): Democratizing Furniture in Morocco
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in 2013 as Amine Benkirane, founder and CEO of the leading Moroccan furniture company KITEA, contemplates the loss his company has incurred for the first time in its 20-year history. The case then describes KITEA’s origins and provides a detailed...
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Keywords:
Retail;
KITEA;
Furniture;
Furniture Industry;
Entry Strategy;
Responding To Entry;
Localization;
Competitive Interaction;
Private Sector;
For-Profit Firms;
Business Model;
Business Strategy;
Strategic Planning;
Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Adaptation;
Corporate Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Retail Industry;
Africa;
Morocco
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "KITEA (A): Democratizing Furniture in Morocco." Harvard Business School Case 719-420, January 2019. (Revised January 2021.)
- November 2018
- Case
Yatooq: Longing for Arabic Coffee
By: Mark Roberge, Gamze Yucaoglu and Samer Al-Rachedy
As one of the few female entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia, Lateefa Alwaalan had been trying to produce the perfect cup of Arabic coffee for over a decade. In 2007, she began testing various coffee blends, which she later branded Yatooq, the Arabic word for “craving” or...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurial Sales;
Entrepreneurial Selling;
Entrepreneurial Marketing;
Barrier To Entry;
Business Start-ups;
Yatooq;
Entrepreneurship;
Private Sector;
For-Profit Firms;
Business Strategy;
Patents;
Business Startups;
Strategic Planning;
Competitive Strategy;
Adaptation;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Strategy;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Saudi Arabia;
Asia
Roberge, Mark, Gamze Yucaoglu, and Samer Al-Rachedy. "Yatooq: Longing for Arabic Coffee." Harvard Business School Case 819-075, November 2018.
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
instability, and a global economic slowdown? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710046-PDF-ENG The Precautionary Principle Michael W. Toffel and Nazli Z....
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
location-which lies about 1,800 miles north of Toronto—a destination for ecotourists, will offer an economic boon to the area, and will forever alter the way the world thinks about the Arctic. “It turns...
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- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
Research. The paper was coauthored by Andrei Shleifer, the John L. Loeb Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and Jakob Ahm Sørensen, a doctoral fellow at the Copenhagen Business School. Avoiding the...
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