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Global Business Course | HBS Online
business strategies that create and capture value. In Global Business, we learned about currencies, exchange rates, and tariffs, and it helped a lot. It’s one of the reasons Aphrodite supports 50 currencies now. Daniel DietzelCEO of...
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
national banks from state laws against predatory lending by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) as a quasi-experiment to study the effect of deregulation and its interaction with competition on the supply of complex...
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- November 2019
- Case
Edita: Making Choices in Uncertain Times
By: Caroline M. Elkins, Juan Alcácer, Alpana Thapar and Youssef Abdel Aal
After 15 years of steady growth and expansion, Edita, a leading Egyptian snack producer, faced a series of challenges in the wake of the Arab Spring. In January 2011, the Egyptian Revolution sparked political and economic turmoil that reflected the waves of protest and...
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Decision Making;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Economy;
Business or Company Management;
Price;
Crisis Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Distribution;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Business Strategy;
Expansion;
Currency;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Egypt;
Africa;
Middle East
Elkins, Caroline M., Juan Alcácer, Alpana Thapar, and Youssef Abdel Aal. "Edita: Making Choices in Uncertain Times." Harvard Business School Case 320-026, November 2019.
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
Institutional Investors Frame Their Losses: Evidence on Dynamic Loss Aversion from Currency Portfolios Authors:Kenneth A. Froot, J. Arabadjis, S. Cates, and S. Lawrence Publication:Journal of Portfolio Management (forthcoming) Abstract...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19
virtual currency including electronic payments. Since its inception in 2009 by an anonymous group of developers, Bitcoin has served tens of millions of transactions with total dollar value in the billions. Users have been drawn to Bitcoin...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
them. Our law schools need to do more in this area by offering courses in accounting, internal controls, and strategy. They are as important for a business lawyer as courses in civil procedure and evidence are to litigators. Practicing...
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Digital Resources | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Collections & Archives Special Collections and Archives Collecting Areas Digital Resources Digital Resources Bookmark This Digital Resources /find/collections-archives/special-collections-and-archives/collecting-areas/digital-resources...
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- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
that does not center on public destruction of value, a notion that managers reject in surveys. Supportive new tests involve nominal levels and changes of dividends per share, announcement effects, and reference point currencies of ADR...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
features? How do regulated intermediaries react to the deregulation of other lenders? The authors exploit the preemption of national banks from state laws against predatory lending by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) as...
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- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
result, we separate macro and micro. Someday, if we ever figured everything out, these things would come together. That's true in many areas of study. Q: What will executives and other business readers learn from the book? A: One of the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms
middlemen in the industry. The company works directly with Kenyan coffee cooperatives to source coffee beans that Kahawa roasts in San Francisco. Kahawa originally sold its beans to Bay Area offices, but when most of the region’s office...
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
launch of the eNaira, Nigeria’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), 2021. Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of a National Science Foundation Science of Science & Innovation Policy (Sci-SIP) Award for Assessing the Impact of Non-Practicing...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
Prysm Group Cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging technologies Prysm Group cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging...
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- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
companies' capabilities directly or by removing barriers that limit their abilities to translate these capabilities into valuable products or services for consumers on export markets. But there are other polices like currency...
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by Christian Ketels
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
77 percent of its profits from outside North America. But Goizueta's strategy soon ran into trouble, due in large part to the Asian currency crisis. By the end of 1999, when Douglas Daft took the reins, earnings had slumped, and Coke's...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Nigeria’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), 2021. Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of a National Science Foundation Science of Science & Innovation Policy (Sci-SIP) Award for Assessing the Impact of Non-Practicing Entities on U.S. Innovation...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
bid. The company that would become Roshan was granted a license in January 2003. At that point, the clock began ticking on an immediate goal: launching cell phone service in five Afghan cities by July. A Roshan billboard overlooks a street in the Mandawi Market View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
has declined since the early 1980s, driving down term premia. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-088.pdf Global Currency Hedging Authors:John Y. Campbell, Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Paulson Speaks on China at HBS
Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson (MBA 1970) told an HBS audience in May that in addition to China’s economic influence, its energy and environmental policies will have a far-reaching global impact for years to come. He also spoke of China’s need for reform and...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Over 50 and Job Hunting?
inventory their professional skills, attend relevant professional conferences and seminars, and study marketplace trends. “You can’t do anything about getting older,” she notes, “but you can stay in touch with the forces that drive your industry.” Technology is an...
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