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Australia: materias primas y competitividad
Alfaro, Laura; Vietor, Richard H.K.; Russell, William; White, Hilary; Sheldahl-Thomason, HavilandCase HBS-713S07EconomicsEn los últimos decenios, Australia se ha ocupado de los beneficios y costos de repetidos auges mineros-inflación, una burbuja inmobiliaria, un déficit en cuenta corriente y la creciente dependencia de China. Entre 1996 y 2007, sin embargo, Australia tenía la mayor parte de estos problemas bajo control y creció a un ritmo impresionante, convirtiéndose en uno de los más ricos de los países desarrollados. Sin embargo, la competitividad en sus sector...Starting at €8.20
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Before You Split that CEO/Chair (Spanish version)
Pozen, Robert C.Article HBS-F0604JLeadership and People ManagementWhat's the rationale for dividing the roles of chairman and CEO? Studies show that, usually, doing so has no effect on the company's performance.Starting at €8.20
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Arm Yourself for the Coming Battle over Social Security (Spanish version)
Pozen, Robert C.Article HBS-R0211CEconomicsThe U.S. Social Security system is in deep trouble--and that's not just bad news for your friends and family. It's also bad news for your company. Unless the Social Security system is changed, by 2041 the system will be utterly insolvent. In the next decade, the very prospect of the rising deficit will mean serious pressure on recent tax cuts, higher long-term interest rates, increased pension-funding costs, and other punishing conditions for U.S...Starting at €8.20
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Mexico's Energy Reform
Vietor, Richard H.K.; Sheldahl-Thomason, HavilandCase HBS-717027-EEconomicsEnergy - both petroleum and electricity - had been terribly managed for decades in Mexico. The two national monopolies - PEMEX and CFE - were inefficient, overstaffed, corrupt, rife with subsidies, and losing money. Finally, in 2012, President Enrique Pena Nieto announced his intent to drastically reform both. Over the next two years, the Mexican constitution was amended, and a dozen implementing laws were passed, to break up the CFE, reorgani...Starting at €8.20
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Mexico: "A Mosaic of Different Realities"
Vietor, Richard H.K.; Sheldahl-Thomason, HavilandCase HBS-717051-EEconomicsA day after his inauguration as President of Mexico in 2012, Enrique Pe a Nieto announced a Pact for Mexico - a slate of institutional reforms for education, energy, fiscal policy, telecommunications, banking and antitrust. These initiatives, enacted over the next several years, were designed to alleviate a host of historic problems that had held back Mexico's economic development. By 2017, although the President's popularity was at an all-time ...Starting at €8.20
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Saudi Arabia: Vision 2030
Vietor, Richard H.K.; Sheldahl-Thomason, HavilandCase HBS-718034-EEconomicsSaudi Arabia's King Salman faces several challenges, both domestic and foreign. Domestically, he need to build the country's economy to accommodate a "youth bulge" while balancing between liberals and conservatives. And he needs to diversify the economy away from its reliance on oil. Internationally, he must cope with the Arab Spring, with war in Syria and Yemen as well as the threats from Iran and ISIS and continuing friction between Palestinian...Starting at €8.20
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Lisbon Revisited
Alfaro, Laura; Sheldahl-Thomason, HavilandCase HBS-718039-EEconomicsStarting at €8.20
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Renegotiating NAFTA
Alfaro, Laura; Sheldahl-Thomason, HavilandCase HBS-318143-EKnowledge and CommunicationStarting at €8.20
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Is It Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis
Pozen, Robert C.Article HBS-R0911G-EFinanceWhen the credit markets seized up in 2008, many heaped blame on "mark to market" accounting rules, which require banks to write down their troubled assets to the prices they'd fetch if sold on the open market - at the time, next to nothing. Recording those assets below their "true" value, critics argued, drove financial institutions toward insolvency. Proponents of marking to market, on the other hand, said it exposed executives' bad decisions. I...Starting at €8.20
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The Case for Professional Boards
Pozen, Robert C.Article HBS-R1012B-ELeadership and People ManagementWhen the world's largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States reeled from the blatant failures of corporate governance at Enron and WorldCom, Congress passed the famous Sarbanes-Oxley Act to prevent such failures from happening again. The new rules loo...Starting at €8.20