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- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
Last winter, a senior admissions officer at Claremont McKenna College resigned, after admitting to inflating reported SAT scores of the incoming class for six years and sending the falsified reports to U.S....
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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 11 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams
sees their competitive advantage in product/engineering innovation and flexibility in having a small team. As regulation evolves in Europe, BTG Bioliquids is also looking at the U.S. market, due to the recent passage of the View Details
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
counterproductive response in many of us: “If the car is spinning out of control, it grips our jugular of emotion and makes this negative feeling course through our veins. We feel deflated View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
Corporate budgeting is a joke, and everyone knows it. It consumes a huge amount of executives' time, forcing them into endless rounds of dull meetings and tense negotiations. It encourages managers to lie...
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by Michael C. Jensen
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
ripple through the balance sheets of businesses and households alike. Indeed, after years of debate, Congress recently took aim at drug prices through provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act. But there are...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
he's wrong.' I did. The rest is history.” Investment outlook over the next five years: “It's hard to be bullish on the U.S. equity market, which continues to go up. We're not going to be in a permanent expansion with little inflation...
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- 19 May 2023
- Blog Post
Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change
geopolitical tensions around resources, technologies, and standards, which could undermine the economies of the developing world. Speakers in nearly every session mentioned the critical role of the Inflation...
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- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
Finance can be intimidating, and many business executives don’t even try to get their arms around it. But Harvard Business School Professor Mihir Desai says business leaders need to engage with the world of finance in order to succeed....
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by Dina Gerdeman
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
endowment assets for fiscal 2022, net of investment expenses and fees, was -1.8 percent, reflecting significant weakness in the equity and bond markets during the past year caused by persistent View Details
- July 2018 (Revised July 2018)
- Teaching Note
Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-041. This case concerns a complex potential energy infrastructure investment in Argentina by a global conglomerate shortly after Mauricio Macri (“Macri”) became President of Argentina in 2015. The central issues are (i) why was a country...
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- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
especially given the $783 billion in pump priming provided by the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act. “I hope these initiatives are successful in both accelerating the green transition and...
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- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
The Internet of Things (IoT) has been near the top of the technology-hype lists for years. In 2018, Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies ranked IoT platforms as cresting the “peak of inflated expectations” stage View Details
- 12 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict
Jeffrey Lees, a doctoral candidate in Organizational Behavior and Psychology at Harvard Business School. In actuality, most people have a wildly inflated sense of just how negative the other side feels,...
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by Michael Blanding
- June 2002 (Revised March 2003)
- Case
Bolivia: Globalization, Sovereignty, or Democracy?
By: Rafael M. Di Tella, Huw Pill, Miguel Lopez de Silanes Gomez, Cinthia Fernholz Violand and Ingrid Vogel
Describes the economic stabilization program implemented by the Bolivian government in 1985 to 1986 and its impact on the development process in Bolivia.
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History;
Programs;
Development Economics;
Inflation and Deflation;
Globalization;
Government and Politics;
Bolivia
Di Tella, Rafael M., Huw Pill, Miguel Lopez de Silanes Gomez, Cinthia Fernholz Violand, and Ingrid Vogel. "Bolivia: Globalization, Sovereignty, or Democracy?" Harvard Business School Case 702-086, June 2002. (Revised March 2003.)
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
The unparalleled size of Asia's markets has always caught the eye of multinational corporations. More recently, as government policies and cultural attitudes in the region continue to evolve, the strategies of multinational companies have...
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by Julia Hanna
- April 2011 (Revised May 2013)
- Case
South Africa (A): Stuck in the Middle?
By: Richard H. K. Vietor and Diego Comin
Fifteen years after ending apartheid, formal unemployment in South Africa was still at 24%. While the country had grown at 4 to 5% annually during the 2000s, the financial crisis set it back by 1 million more unemployed. Moreover, it seemed as if the nation were stuck...
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Financial Crisis;
Inflation and Deflation;
Policy;
Employment;
Wages;
Competition;
South Africa
Vietor, Richard H. K., and Diego Comin. "South Africa (A): Stuck in the Middle?" Harvard Business School Case 711-084, April 2011. (Revised May 2013.)
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
markets defied simple logic after the onset of Covid, quickly rallying to all-time highs in 2021. In 2022, the focus of policy makers has shifted from stimulating a pandemic economy to tightening financial conditions and combating View Details
- April 1997 (Revised February 2001)
- Case
Mexico in Debt
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Eilene Zimmerman
Describes Mexico's political and economic system in the 1960s and 1970s. Focuses on: 1) the causes of the debt crisis in 1982; 2) elements of President de la Madrid's restructuring efforts between 1982-88; President Salinas's attempts to complete restructuring and...
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Restructuring;
Economic Systems;
Financial Crisis;
Inflation and Deflation;
Macroeconomics;
Borrowing and Debt;
Government and Politics;
Mexico
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Eilene Zimmerman. "Mexico in Debt." Harvard Business School Case 797-110, April 1997. (Revised February 2001.)
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
7 percent, with lots of appreciation on top of that. Do you have concerns about Japanlike deflation in the United States? Some fear that with a very low inflation rate of 1.5 percent, the United States is in...
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Deborah Blagg