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- April 2004
- Article
Success That Lasts, 659X
By: Laura L. Nash and Howard Stevenson
Keywords:
Success
Nash, Laura L., and Howard Stevenson. "Success That Lasts, 659X." HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition Harvard Business Review (April 2004).
- March 8, 2004
- Article
Secret to Success: Go for "Just Enough"
By: Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson
Keywords:
Success
Nash, Laura, and Howard Stevenson. Secret to Success: Go for "Just Enough". Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (March 8, 2004).
- February 2004 (Revised March 2010)
- Case
Brazil 2003: Inflation Targeting and Debt Dynamics
By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
In October 2002, Brazilians elected a left-wing president, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, for the first time in that country's history. As markets faltered in response, Lula sought to reaffirm his commitment to fiscal discipline, a floating exchange rate, and inflation...
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Keywords:
Economy;
Inflation and Deflation;
Money;
Borrowing and Debt;
Policy;
Emerging Markets;
Brazil
Alfaro, Laura, Rafael M. Di Tella, and Ingrid Vogel. "Brazil 2003: Inflation Targeting and Debt Dynamics." Harvard Business School Case 704-028, February 2004. (Revised March 2010.)
- 2004
- Book
Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life
By: Howard Stevenson and Laura Nash
Stevenson, Howard, and Laura Nash. Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life. John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
- February 2004
- Article
Success That Lasts
By: Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson
Keywords:
Success
Nash, Laura, and Howard Stevenson. "Success That Lasts." R0402H. Harvard Business Review 82, no. 2 (February 2004): 102–109.
- October 2003 (Revised January 2016)
- Exercise
The BCPC Internet Strategy Team: An Exercise
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Laura Feldman
This short fictional case forms the basis of a team decision-making exercise. The case, inspired by a real decision facing a major telecommunications company, describes a cross-functional management team convened by the CEO for the purpose of developing a...
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Keywords:
Groups and Teams;
Decision Making;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Information Management;
Perspective;
Product Launch;
Internet and the Web;
Knowledge Sharing;
Telecommunications Industry
Edmondson, Amy C., and Laura Feldman. "The BCPC Internet Strategy Team: An Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 604-035, October 2003. (Revised January 2016.) (Six supplements available for Chris Berkowitz, Dana Jones, Jan Trow, Kim Wilson, Leslie Rhee, and Terry Maneri.)
- October 2003
- Article
Capture by Threat
By: Ernesto Dal Bo and Rafael Di Tella
We analyze a simple stochastic environment in which policy makers can be threatened by “nasty” interest groups. In the absence of these groups, the policy maker’s desire for reelection guarantees that good policies are implemented for every realization of the shock....
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Dal Bo, Ernesto, and Rafael Di Tella. "Capture by Threat." Journal of Political Economy 111, no. 5 (October 2003): 1123–54.
- Article
On the Political Economy of Temporary Stabilization Programs
By: Laura Alfaro
This paper provides a political economy explanation for temporary exchange-rate-based stabilization programs by focusing on the distributional effects of real exchange-rate appreciation. I propose an economy in which agents are endowed with either tradable or...
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Keywords:
Government and Politics;
Economy;
Balance and Stability;
Programs;
Currency Exchange Rate;
Cash;
Value;
Distribution
Alfaro, Laura. "On the Political Economy of Temporary Stabilization Programs." Economics & Politics 14, no. 2 (July 2002): 133–161.
- April 2002 (Revised September 2002)
- Background Note
Capital Controls
By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Laura Alfaro
Only in the waning years of the 20th century did international financial markets begin to enjoy the freedom from government regulation that they had experienced before the first world war. By 2002, international capital markets had grown to be enormous--$1.2 trillion...
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Keywords:
History;
Policy;
Business and Government Relations;
Change Management;
Cost vs Benefits;
Governance Controls;
Governance Compliance;
Emerging Markets;
Financial Markets;
Network Effects;
Banking Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Abdelal, Rawi E., and Laura Alfaro. "Capital Controls." Harvard Business School Background Note 702-082, April 2002. (Revised September 2002.)
- December 2001 (Revised March 2002)
- Compilation
"Doer's Profile" Donald John Trump (1946-)
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Laura L. Nash
Designed to facilitate a discussion of the nature of enduring success. Includes both biographical data and excerpts from autobiographical material.
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Keywords:
Success
Stevenson, Howard H., and Laura L. Nash. "Doer's Profile" Donald John Trump (1946-). Harvard Business School Compilation 802-137, December 2001. (Revised March 2002.)
- December 2001
- Compilation
"Doer's Profile" Jimmy Carter (James Earl, Jr.)
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Laura L. Nash
Designed to facilitate a discussion of the nature of enduring success. Includes both biographical data and excerpts from autobiographical material.
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Stevenson, Howard H., and Laura L. Nash. "Doer's Profile" Jimmy Carter (James Earl, Jr.). Harvard Business School Compilation 802-134, December 2001.
- December 2001
- Compilation
"Doer's Profile" Katherine Graham (1917-2001)
By: Laura L. Nash and Howard H. Stevenson
Designed to facilitate a discussion of the nature of enduring success. Includes both biographical data and excerpts from autobiographical material.
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Nash, Laura L., and Howard H. Stevenson. "Doer's Profile" Katherine Graham (1917-2001). Harvard Business School Compilation 802-136, December 2001.
- March 2001 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
Power to the States: "Fiscal Wars" for FDI in Brazil
By: Laura Alfaro, Yasheng Huang and Marios S. Kalochoritis
On January 6, 1999, Itamar Franco, the governor of the state of Minas Gerais, the second-largest state in Brazil, declared a 90-day moratorium on its debt payment to the federal government. The announcement triggered a run on the Brazilian currency, the Real, and...
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Alfaro, Laura, Yasheng Huang, and Marios S. Kalochoritis. Power to the States: "Fiscal Wars" for FDI in Brazil. Harvard Business School Case 701-079, March 2001. (Revised February 2004.)
- Comment
Comment on 'Integration, Interdependence and Regional Goods' by A. Bevilaqua, M. Catena and E. Talvi
By: Laura Alfaro
Alfaro, Laura. "Comment on 'Integration, Interdependence and Regional Goods' by A. Bevilaqua, M. Catena and E. Talvi." Economía: Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association 2, no. 1 (Fall 2001): 202–205.
- March 1998 (Revised April 1998)
- Case
Lehigh Steel
By: V.G. Narayanan and Laura Donohue
Lehigh Steel is a specialty steel manufacturer that plummeted from record profits to record losses in less than three years, driven by an inability to distinguish between profitable and unprofitable business. The scale and growth of service activities and overhead...
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Keywords:
Measurement and Metrics;
Product;
Cost;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Profit;
Accounting;
Corporate Finance;
Steel Industry
Narayanan, V.G., and Laura Donohue. "Lehigh Steel." Harvard Business School Case 198-085, March 1998. (Revised April 1998.)
- 1991
- Book Review
Review of Good Intentions Aside by L. Nash
By: Lynn S. Paine
Paine, Lynn S. "Review of Good Intentions Aside by L. Nash." Human Resource Planning 14, no. 3 (1991).
- Research Summary
Capital Controls, Risk and Liberalization Cycles (joint with Fabio Kanczuk)
By: Laura Alfaro
We construct an Overlapping-Generations model where agents vote on whether to open or close the economy to international capital flows. Political decisions are shaped by the risk over capital and labor returns. In an open economy, the capitalists (old) completely hedge...
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Debt Maturity: Is Long-Term Debt Optimal? (with Fabio Kanczuk)
By: Laura Alfaro
We model and calibrate the arguments in favor and against short-term and long-term debt. These arguments broadly include: maturity-term premium, tax smoothing, rolling over risk and the cost from defaulting. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion,...
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Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation
By: Laura Alfaro
In the past decade, foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries increased dramatically. We revisit sovereign debt sustainability under the assumptions that countries can accumulate reserves and borrow internationally using their own...
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Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India
By: Laura Alfaro
This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm size dynamics and reallocation of resources within industries. Following deregulation, resource misallocation declines, and the left-hand tail of the firm size...
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