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- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
When banks failed across the globe in 2008, the resulting financial crisis sent businesses into a tailspin. As lenders cut back dramatically, companies trying to recover had to scramble for financing required to generate new business and... View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
used my first summer internship to put my newly acquired skills to use. That summer, I worked at the Rwanda Development Board, a government agency whose mandate is to facilitate private investment into the country. While there I analyzed access to View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, edited by David Audretsch, Oliver Falck, and Stephan Heblich. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., forthcoming Abstract Financing constraints are one of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
companies their firms are issuing securities for—or hope to do business with. The research, "Playing Favorites: Financing Options Sway Analysts' Thinking," was published in the June 2004 edition of Investor Relations Quarterly.... View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of an augmented investment Euler equation developed by Whited and Wu (2006). Using a large sample of U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
expect bankers to have been less central than in Mexico and, perhaps, the United States. Second, I test if the availability of financing alternatives, like a well-developed bond market in Brazil, reduced the average importance of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
priority criteria, e.g., waiting time, medical urgency, etc., or a combination thereof. Rather than making specific assumptions about fairness principles or priority criteria, our method offers the designer the flexibility to select his desired criteria and fairness... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-006.pdf Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size Authors:William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We examine the effect of U.S. branch banking... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
- News
Putting a spell on theatergoers
old—while also keeping an eye on revenues—has been Horn's focus during his career in film and television. "The hardest part is finding that elusive balance between the pure creative sensibilities that would drive one to do certain things in making a movie, and the... View Details
- Profile
Ben Steiner
banks were getting sweetheart deals. I applied the financial modeling skills I learned at HBS to determine fair value. From the legal side, I worked on complicated analyses of congressional rules and contract law to understand the View Details
- Web
Venture Capital and Private Equity - Course Catalog
does not help build deal-execution skills; students instead should enroll in Entrepreneurial Finance , Private Equity Finance , or Venture Capital Journey . The course covers three broad categories: THE... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
considering the many different opinions for tackling the crisis, the multitude of parliamentary and electoral processes involved, and the constraints of treaties not designed to withstand these unprecedented stresses, the measures that... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- 06 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow
internship at DRK in part because it would allow me to explore an area of interest: food and nutrition in the United States. In the past, I may not have taken this problem-centric approach, as it always felt like there were too many practical View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
institutions. These institutions represent powerful constraints on the ability of the government to fund reforms, of firms to write contracts, and of citizens to enforce their basic rights. Borrowing to Live: Consumer and Mortgage Credit... View Details
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
generate growth include relaxing financing constraints for both large and start-up Greek companies and by attracting FDI by reducing political uncertainty and strengthening property rights. So Greece must... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
these companies. The traditional Xerox product—for instance, a copier—was designed so that it could be operated and serviced in almost any country in the world. This meant not only constraints on how the product was engineered but also... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
research in finance and economics. We propose two tests to evaluate how well measures of financial constraints actually capture constraints. We find that firms typically classified as constrained do not in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
brick-and-mortar stores, you can’t change shelf prices that frequently. With e-commerce, that cost disappears, and nowadays with better algorithms, it becomes even easier to change prices as often as possible. Another constraint has been... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow
internship at DRK in part because it would allow me to explore an area of interest: food and nutrition in the United States. In the past, I may not have taken this problem-centric approach, as it always felt like there were too many practical View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
tracking public funds. The firm’s findings, which were published in September by EY and the Official Monetary and Financial Institutes Forum, indicate that a blockchain-based public finance management system could save hundreds of... View Details