Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (44) Arrow Down

Show Results For

Page 1 of 44 Results →
  • December 2024
  • Article

Are Bankruptcy Professional Fees Excessively High?

By: Samuel Antill
Chapter 7 is the most popular bankruptcy system for U.S. firms and individuals. Chapter 7 professional fees are substantial. Theoretically, high fees might be an unavoidable cost of incentivizing professionals. I test this empirically. I study trustees, the most... View Details
Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Motivation and Incentives; Policy
Related
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

In the Red: Overdrafts, Payday Lending and the Underbanked

By: Marco Di Maggio, Angela Ma and Emily Williams
The reordering of transactions from “high-to-low” is a controversial bank practice thought to maximize fees paid by low-income customers on overdrawn accounts. We exploit multiple class-action lawsuits resulting in mandatory changes to this practice, coupled with... View Details
Keywords: Overdraft; Payday Loans; Excessive Fees; Underbanked; Underserved; Income; Personal Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Banks and Banking
Related
  • October 2021 (Revised May 2023)
  • Case

Project Maji: Pricing Water in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha and Esel Çekin
In July 2021, Sunil Lalvani, founder and CEO of Project Maji, a non-profit social enterprise headquartered in Dubai that had already provided sustainable, clean water solutions to 80,000 people living in rural communities across Ghana and Kenya, was facing an important... View Details
Keywords: Water; Pricing; Nonprofit Organizations; Projects; Price; Decision Making; Social Enterprise; Growth and Development Strategy; Equity; Green Technology; Social and Collaborative Networks; Africa; Dubai
Related

    airline price advertising violations

    Ever felt the "taxes" on air travel are unduly high? In other travel contexts (most notably, rental cars), genuine government-imposed taxes often approach or even exceed the amount payable to service providers. But when airlines quote fares, they sometimes include... View Details

    • February 2023
    • Case

    Roblox: Virtual Commerce in the Metaverse

    By: Ayelet Israeli and Nicole Tempest Keller
    In 2022, Roblox had 58.8 million daily active users, including over half of all children and teens under the age of 16 in the United States. Roblox, a free-to-use “co-experience platform”, allowed users to come together in immersive 3D experiences to socialize, work,... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Market Design; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Business Strategy; Economics; Economy; Economic Systems; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Digital Platforms; Markets; Price; Innovation and Management; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Video Game Industry; Technology Industry; United States; California; North America; South America; Asia; Europe
    Related
    • 17 Jan 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Price Coherence and Adverse Intermediation

    Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman & Julian Wright; Consumer Products

      platform strategy: getting started; confronting powerful intermediaries

      Digital platforms are attractive businesses because they create significant value and network effects protect competitive advantage. But they face considerable start-up challenges. Indeed, every platform is empty at the outset. And most platforms require multiple types... View Details
      • 2023
      • Working Paper

      Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy

      By: Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, Mitchell Hoffman and Benjamin Iverson
      In a randomized control trial (RCT) with U.S. small businesses, we document that a large share of firms are not well-informed about bankruptcy. Many assume that bankruptcy necessarily entails the death of a business and do not know about Chapter 11 bankruptcy, where... View Details
      Keywords: Small Business; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Knowledge Dissemination; Outcome or Result
      Related
      • Web

      Publications - Faculty & Research

      Migration Fear Is High." Research Policy 54, no. 1 (January 2025). December 2024 Article Are Bankruptcy Professional Fees Excessively High? By: Samuel Antill Chapter 7 is the most popular bankruptcy system... View Details
      • Web

      Faculty & Research

      climate governance will increasingly be seen as a core element of good governance. Citation Related Paine, Lynn S., and Suraj Srinivasan. "How Robust Is Your Climate Governance?" Harvard Business Review 102, no. 6 (November–December 2024): 86–95. Are Bankruptcy... View Details
      • 07 Apr 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: April 7, 2009

      experiences and debt loads. Specifically, individuals with lower levels of debt literacy tend to transact in high-cost manners, incurring higher fees and using high-cost borrowing. In applying our results to credit cards, we estimate that... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • Program

      Risk Management for Corporate Leaders—Virtual

      expose your company to excessive risk Use the three levels of risk hierarchy to build and integrate processes that anticipate, prioritize, and mitigate threats Learn how to overcome individual and organizational barriers to effective risk... View Details
      • Program

      Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management

      policies, and major programs of their organizations Participating organizations must be public-serving nonprofits, fully operational, and out of the startup phase; they typically have operating budgets in excess of $1 million Not... View Details
      • 21 Jul 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

      from other productive uses? Will the consumer "protections" and other limitations on bank fees ultimately reduce the availability of credit? Will capital requirements go too far? Will the Volcker rule be implemented in such a... View Details
      Keywords: by Staff
      • Web

      Finance - Faculty & Research

      Finance Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students December 2024 Article Are Bankruptcy Professional Fees Excessively High? By: Samuel Antill Chapter 7 is the most... View Details
      • Program

      Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation—Virtual

      in nonprofit organizations (typically with annual budgets in excess of $1 million) who are committed to improving performance measurement and management. Note that this program is focused on organization-level performance measurement and... View Details
      • 23 Jul 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Sam Walton: Great From the Start

      He could have added that he had not had a day's experience in running a business of any kind. He paid a price for this inexperience and excessive enthusiasm before his store even opened. He had selected the wrong store and paid too much... View Details
      Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Retail
      • Web

      Finance - Faculty & Research

      financial institutions, markets, and instruments contribute to this process. Our approach to research is distinguished by its unique combination of theory, empirical analysis, mathematical modeling, and field observations at companies. Recent Publications Are... View Details
      • Web

      1.5 Attendance - MBA

      include: Conference. Legal matters other than court summons or jury duty. Recruiting in excess of the allotted number of Excused Recruiting Absences per class and per term (see above). Travel disruption (e.g. cancelled flight).... View Details
      • 18 Oct 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: October 18

      Campbell, Asís Martínez Jerez, and Peter Tufano Publication:Journal of Banking and Finance (forthcoming) Abstract Using a new database, we document the factors that relate to the extent of involuntary consumer bank account closure resulting from View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne