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- 07 Jan 2009
- News
Czar Power
- 04 Feb 2011
- News
Turning on the lights
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
The Mess in Los Angeles Points to Trouble for Democrats
- 09 Jun 2020
- News
Brands under pressure to make a stand on racism
- 19 Nov 2019
- News
The Unexpected Benefits of Pursuing a Passion Outside of Work
- 15 Feb 2018
- News
Warren Buffett’s Mosquito
- 11 Jul 2016
- News
Big U.S. investors strive for edge in private CEO meetings
- 03 Feb 2016
- News
Ethical investing - putting your money where your mouth is
- 18 Feb 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
A Preliminary Framework for Product Impact-Weighted Accounts
- July 2004 (Revised October 2018)
- Case
Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century
By: Geoffrey Jones, Elisabeth Koll and Alexis Gendron
This case examines the role of Jardine Matheson, a trading company founded by two Scottish merchants, in the opium trade between India and China during the nineteenth century. The two Opium Wars fought between Western powers and China, which sought to stop opium...
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History;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Ethnicity;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Groups and Teams;
Trade;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
China;
United Kingdom
Jones, Geoffrey, Elisabeth Koll, and Alexis Gendron. "Opium and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth Century." Harvard Business School Case 805-010, July 2004. (Revised October 2018.)
- Program
Driving Digital Strategy
Summary Technology, like a relentless force of nature, is reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. It poses a threat to those who resist and fail to adapt. But it also presents unparalleled opportunities to those audacious enough to...
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- 26 Apr 2023
- In Practice
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
cognitive work. Many people in such roles have been insulated from automation and globalization. That is about to change. The change is likely to follow a path similar to one a character in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises used to...
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- 02 Jul 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Mums the Word! Cross-national Effects of Maternal Employment on Gender Inequalities at Work and at Home
- 2020
- Working Paper
Mortgage Prepayment, Race, and Monetary Policy
By: Kristopher Gerardi, Paul Willen and David Hao Zhang
Over the period 2005 to 2015, Black borrowers paid more than 40 basis points higher mortgage interest rates than Non-Hispanic white borrowers. We show that the main reason is that Non-Hispanic white borrowers are much more likely to exploit periods of falling interest...
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Mortgages;
Consumer Behavior;
Race;
Ethnicity;
Equality and Inequality;
Policy;
United States
Gerardi, Kristopher, Paul Willen, and David Hao Zhang. "Mortgage Prepayment, Race, and Monetary Policy." Working Paper, September 2020.
Networks as Covers: Evidence from an On-line Social Network
This paper proposes that networks can act as covers which allow actors to participate in markets while maintaining a plausible excuse that they are not. Such covers are most valuable to actors in long-term relationships, as those who are already...
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- 30 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why Anger Makes a Wrongly Accused Person Look Guilty
that when people see anger as a sign of guilt, they are often jumping to the wrong conclusion. “It’s actually more likely to be a sign of innocence than of guilt,” John says. “It seems to be inherently more aggravating to be accused of...
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by Michael Blanding
- June 2014 (Revised July 2014)
- Background Note
An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance—2014 Update
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Carla Chavich and Aldo Sesia
Provides an introduction to the fields of project finance and infrastructure finance, and gives a statistical overview of project-financed investments over the years from 2009 to 2013. Examples of project-financed investments include the Kashagan oil field development...
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Globalization;
Capital Expenditures;
International Finance;
Data;
Financial History;
Economic Development;
Corporate Governance;
Contracts;
Industry Analysis;
Banking;
Capital Investments;
Municipal Finance;
Project Finance;
Infrastructure;
Investment;
Projects;
Trends
Esty, Benjamin C., Carla Chavich, and Aldo Sesia. "An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance—2014 Update." Harvard Business School Background Note 214-083, June 2014. (Revised July 2014.)