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- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
external finance constraints is more pronounced for firms with higher degrees of informational opacity. Specifically, it is particularly strong for small firms, firms without debt ratings, firms that are not included in the S&P 500...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
debt, which means the loan repayments must come from project cash flows only. In municipally financed or public financed projects, a government entity is the borrower or the debt is backed by a government...
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- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
programming challenge. We find that greater amounts of new code and novel recombinations of others' code, in a contest submission, increases both the probability of achieving top rank and the subsequent...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23
evidence that borrowers, and particularly young borrowers, were less credit-constrained in markets where banks enjoyed more market power. Interest rates on consumer borrowing decreased more sharply with age...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4
act like debt during "normal times" but would convert to create capital should the bank hit a "triggering event." How should these instruments be designed? Can they be made attractive for both the bank View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
growth, stagnant GDP growth, and high public debt. As of early 2007, the country's global competitiveness has plummeted and its debt remains well above the level allowed by the...
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Martha Lagace
- 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
- 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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- 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
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
relies heavily on foreign debt. Access to such debt is suddenly curtailed when there is a downturn in market sentiment regarding the Icelandic economy as a whole. Students will reflect on the essential elements of a communications...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
it was all debt finance) or by accepting larger chunks of capital from a major global bank and a private equity firm, getting them much closer to the threshold but at the cost of significant dilution (35%)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
evolving structure of corporate debt markets—and given rise to new questions about the private and social costs and benefits of leverage and, in particular, the role of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007
cash-flow implications of a venture debt loan, and assess how much additional "runway" (months till cash runs out) the venture debt will provide. Students must also...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4
"going public" and "going private'" transactions. We then find that majority PE-backed private firms engage in less book-tax nonconforming tax planning than public years; nonetheless, they exhibit substantially lower...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007
shown to be associated with a 24% increase in US investors' equity FPI holdings. These results are robust to various controls, are not evident for debt capital flows, and are confirmed using an instrumental...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
bankruptcy vs. out of court restructuring, and dealing with negotiations between creditors. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/213008-PDF-ENG Preem (B) Bo BeckerHarvard Business School Supplement 213-014 Preem's creditors View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
particulars of your business is different depending on how prevalent bad affiliates are, the profit margins of bad affiliates, and what I call the discount rate of good affiliates—how quickly your good suppliers need to get paid. If they...
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- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
capabilities in maintaining and upgrading product portfolios through acquisition and divestiture. Acquisitions were financed almost wholly out of retained earnings and income...
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- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
framework—that lets executives map the institutional contexts of any country. Economics 101 tells us that companies buy inputs in the product, labor, and capital markets and sell their outputs in the...
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- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
debt and challenges in its restructuring. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210081-PDF-ENG Remaking Singapore Michael E. Porter, Boon-Siong Neo, and...
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Sean Silverthorne