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Will Greece Survive the Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

Second, by the end of January 2012, it must obtain further installments of the remaining 120 billion Euros of the bailout packages. Finally it must honor its commitment to elections on February 19, 2012. But there is very little margin for error.

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Still Many Ways to Skin a Capital Cost

Harvard Business Review

As the treasury manager in Verizon's corporate finance department, he saw the research as an opportunity to gain valuable benchmarking information about how the CAPM is currently being used by his fellow practitioners. One of the architects of the survey, Mark Scott, is also one of its beneficiaries. Follow her on Twitter: @JuliaKirby.

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The End of Economists' Imperialism

Harvard Business Review

Two recommendations I've gotten from Harvard government professor Dan Carpenter : Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance , by Sociologist Greta Krippner, and The New Global Rulers: The Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy , by political scientists Tim Büthe and Walter Mattli.).

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. In light of this history, many observers suspect that the new NIEO-style demands of 2012 are just more of the same, and will meet with the same outcome.

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The Sad Truth Behind Growing Clashes at the WTO

Harvard Business Review

Before the financial crisis ushered in the current global economic downturn, there was a strong intellectual consensus among mainstream economists and policymakers about the merits of free trade. At the current rate, 2012 will easily see more disputes than in the two previous years combined.

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5 Ways U.S. Hospitals Can Respond to Medicare’s Mounting Costs

Harvard Business Review

Intense pressure from the $719 billion Medicare program on the finances of U.S. hospitals from treating Medicare patients escalated sharply in 2012, when Congress included Medicare in its budget sequester, and they have remained high since. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images. hospitals promises to worsen in the years ahead. The losses of U.S.

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End the Chaos: A Better Approach to Business Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

As she navigated through spreadsheets and dashboard screens — each created by a different person for a different purpose — the only constant was the title of the report, "2012 Actuals." — and come to a consensus-based decision. Our business units are all trying to do the same thing with different tools," she says.