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- 12 Apr 2022
- Book
Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence
Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new...
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by Avery Forman
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
matter of months, topped an all-out market-share battle fueled with almost $1 billion in venture capital, provided 2 billion bicycle rides, soaked up the majority of the bike manufacturing capacity in all of China, and then, in July of...
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- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
The companies in each quad began the study period (1986 to 1996) in approximately the same fiscal condition. Yet their fortunes differed dramatically over the decade. One company in each foursome emerged as a winner—it consistently...
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Fouka and Kai Gehring) in 2018. Marlous van Waijenburg: 2018: Recipient of a MITRE Faculty Research Award for “Financing the African Colonial State: Fiscal Capacity Building and Forced Labor.” Marlous van...
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The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take...
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U.S. Business Immigration Overview - Alumni
green cards. If you have questions, please email our office. Common US Business Visas +–H-1 Temporary Specialty Occupation This is the most common business visa classification. However there is a quota on the number of new H-1B visas issued each year — 85,000 per View Details
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014
systems, staff, and infrastructure to drive future enrollment growth as new capacity comes on line, total operating costs remained well controlled. As a result, the group’s fiscal 2014 margin contribution...
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From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
contribution was higher than initially planned. Executive Education faced residence and dining capacity constraints in fiscal 2015. The group successfully managed these challenges and delivered...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016
mission. The revenues from these sources in any given year are sensitive to trends in the economy and the capital markets. These trends remained favorable for a sixth consecutive year in fiscal 2016. As a result, the School’s total...
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016
expected to climb 9 percent from fiscal 2016. This anticipated increase reflects higher mission-driven spending on core I.T. projects. Fiscal 2017 operating costs also reflect the opening of the Chao Center...
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From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020
Financials From the Chief Financial Officer 3ms Our fiscal 2020 financial performance tells a story with two distinct chapters: July 2019 through mid-March 2020, when HBS enjoyed strong results and advanced its core educational and...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
that by that point, we will have succumbed to a Keynesian style or demand-side crisis, where people and firms are actively scaling back spending because they’ve concluded that the economic future is bleak. If so, we’d want to be sure we have enough View Details
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-114.pdf Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930 Authors:André C. Martínez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio Abstract There is a large amount...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
creates a "fiscal risk management" motive: incremental spending that occurs when total government spending is already high is particularly unattractive. A first key insight is that the government's need to manage fiscal risk frequently...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
foreign investors, but when times are good, people tend to assume that they are everlasting. Sadly, reality isn't so compliant. During flush times, people borrowed excessively beyond their capacity to repay their debts, which is a common...
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by Zeenat Potia
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
as the state grew in the middle of the 20th century through the Great Depression and World War Two, and the advance of entitlements, we needed to fund those things and the fiscal capacity of the state grew....
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
industrial firm Ellaktor and Standard and Poor's shows. With the venture capital industry being underdeveloped, Greek entrepreneurs were also excluded from financing. (See here my view on increasing innovation capacity in Greece.) But...
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by George Serafeim
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
gross margin for retailers using historical data. We show that sales forecasts from this model are more accurate than consensus forecasts from equity analysts. Further, the residuals from this model for one fiscal year are used to predict...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
metrics. Unfortunately, the effects of different types of coupling are somewhat hard to distinguish. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52349 Bureaucratic Norms and State Capacity in India: Implementing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
explanatory factor is the impact that commodities have on the capacity to pay. We use a newly created database with state-level fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show...
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Martha Lagace