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- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
analysts at Moody's had to decide whether to downgrade the country's sovereign long-term debt from Aaa to Aa1 or lower. Investor sentiment toward Iceland had changed radically in March, and the Moody's team...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
model is defaultable bank liabilities that provide liquidity services to households. The quality of the liquidity services provided by bank liabilities depends on their safety in case of default. Commercial bank debt is fully insured...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007
architecture." Because many of these crises involved defaults on sovereign bonds, an important component of the discussion revolved around the composition of international capital flows and sovereign View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Accounting Information as Political Currency
management can be used to mislead financial-statement users, including shareholders, debt holders, regulators, and so on. Q: Would your methods apply in countries other than the United States? A: The data...
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
indifference-pricing framework to value the systematic crash risk exposure of the collateral. We then apply Modigliani and Miller's (1958) Proposition Two (MM) to split the cost of bearing this risk between the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
“Loan officers seem to be having an important influence on mortgage outcomes.” “Loan officers seem to be having an important influence on mortgage outcomes,” Sunderam says. “The most surprising finding in the paper is the fact that minority officers are approving more...
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- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
support to for-profit social enterprises, in the form of a debt or equity relationship. The idea is to recover a portion of that investment, at least 1x or 2x, and cycle it back into supporting other...
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by Julia Hanna
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49779 Home Equity Finance and Entrepreneurial Performance—Evidence from a Mortgage Reform By: Jensen, Thais Laerkholm, Søren Leth-Petersen, and Ramana...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
dovetailed nicely with my role as senior associate dean for Planning and University Affairs. Q: It would seem that the timing was perfect given the many consumer credit and View Details
- 31 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest
Another tool to stimulate a distressed economy has made its way into the playbooks of central banks across the world. With quantitative easing, known as QE for short, a central bank makes it easier to borrow money by buying long-term...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2016
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March 1, 2016
successfully completed by thousands of students worldwide. It explains concepts in simple language with illustrative examples, provides review questions and quizzes after each chapter and section, contains...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
capacity and new products only when attractive, low-risk opportunities are identified and can be funded internally. The firm's culture of risk aversion extends to financing decisions with a clear preference...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
customers own their banking data and can designate it to be available to a third party. Open data and open banking are important so that data streams are available to multiple financial institutions View Details
- January 1994
- Exercise
Walt Disney Company's Sleeping Beauty Bonds
Walt Disney Co. issues a 100-year bond. This case describes the terms of the bond and immediate capital market reaction.
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Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Walt Disney Company's Sleeping Beauty Bonds." Harvard Business School Exercise 294-034, January 1994.
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
got a US government that lacks the latitude to move that it had in the 1980s: large government debts and obligations facing the US now threaten to crowd out the investments in infrastructure, innovation,...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
PublicationsThe Strategic Use of Brand Biographies Authors:Jill Avery, Neeru Paharia, Anat Keinan, and Juliet Schor Publication:Research in Consumer Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract We introduce the concept of a brand biography to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
everyone’s transactions, you could predict whether a particular customer is going to run themselves into debt and default in the future.” Machine learning is even being used to learn more about machines,...
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- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
built international political and military coalitions, and negotiated a U.N. Security Council Resolution authorizing "all necessary means" to eject Iraq from Kuwait. Only after these steps were...
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by James K. Sebenius
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
Valley, California, Western Technology Investment (WTI) specialized in a hybrid form of debt and equity financing for early-stage companies. Like traditional venture capital View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
CMBS represent a $550 billion market. It's hard to overestimate the impact of this market restructuring. In fifteen years, the public equity and debt markets for commercial real estate have gone from...
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