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Financing Constraints, Home Equity and Selection into Entrepreneurship

By: Thais Laerkholm Jensen, Søren Leth-Petersen and Ramana Nanda
We exploit a mortgage reform that differentially unlocked home equity across the Danish population and study how this impacted selection into entrepreneurship. We find that increased entry was concentrated among entrepreneurs whose firms were founded in industries... View Details
Keywords: Mortgage Reform; Home Equity; Financing Constraints; Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; Mortgages; Denmark
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  • June 2006
  • Case

Home Equity Protection

Nearly 70% of households in the United States own their own home and, yet, virtually no household is insured against a crash in housing values. Is there a market for an insurance product, home equity protection, that would provide this protection? Focuses on the... View Details
Keywords: Housing; Insurance; Product Design; Equity; Insurance Industry
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  • October 2020 (Revised July 2022)
  • Case

A Case in Point: Shared Home Equity

By: Daniel Green, Boris Vallee, Sid Beaumaster and Yang (Dolly) Yu
Keywords: Real Estate
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  • June 2022 (Revised February 2024)
  • Teaching Note

A Case in Point: Shared Home Equity

By: Daniel Green, Boris Vallee and Sean Bracken
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 221-026. View Details
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  • September 2022
  • Article

House Prices, Home Equity and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. Census Micro Data

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
During 1992-2007, house price growth is strongly correlated with local entrepreneurship. We show with Census Bureau data that most of this entry is related to construction and real estate; these entrants tend to be small and short-lived. Using a 1998 Texas reform that... View Details
Keywords: House Prices; Collateral Channel; Entry; Entrepreneurship; Housing; Real Estate Industry; Construction Industry
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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

House Prices, Home Equity and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. Census Micro Data

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
During 1992-2007, house price growth is strongly correlated with local entrepreneurship. We show with Census Bureau data that most of this entry is related to construction and real estate; these entrants tend to be small and short-lived. Using a 1998 Texas reform that... View Details
Keywords: House Prices; Collateral Channel; Entry; Demography; Mortgages; Entrepreneurship
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Home Bias at Home: Local Equity Preference in Domestic Portfolios

By: Joshua D. Coval and Tobias J. Moskowitz
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Local Range; Investment
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  • 06 Jan 2020
  • News

Home Grown

view (Granite Equity plans for businesses, including Granite Equity itself, to be sustainable for 100 years or more); and investment in community (often businesses owners or senior officials contribute to... View Details
Keywords: Finance
  • 11 Mar 2021
  • News

How to Promote Equity at Home as Moms Are Being Forced from the Workforce

  • 25 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

commercializing new biotechnology. This lack of technical capabilities led to two major acquisitions late in the twentieth century. In 1989 American Home Products acquired, for $666 million, 60 percent of the View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical
  • August 2018
  • Case

Enfoca: Private Equity in Peru

By: Victoria Ivashina and Jeffrey Boyar
This case follows Enfoca, Peru’s largest local private equity firm and its portfolio company Maestro, a leading player in Peru’s hardware retail market. Peru’s GDP growth between 2008 and 2014 was the highest of any Latin American country. Growth of the Peruvian middle... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Emerging Markets; Capital Markets; Transition; Strategy; Peru
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  • 26 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

outsourcing operation of General Electric and was the largest outsourcing operation in India. In 2005 GE decided to partially divest this subsidiary to a number of private equity players. By 2007, the firm was named Genpact and was... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 May 2020
  • News

Ensuring Student Equity

volunteers who pick up materials from NCCP’s office to assemble learning packets at home, then bring back the completed packets for the nonprofit to distribute to families. “We created a Volunteer from Home program that allows individuals... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 02 Feb 2012
  • Op-Ed

Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison

We have created a housing hybrid in America, refashioning the single-family home into a mini debtors' prison. Almost 11 million dot the landscape. In Las Vegas and Phoenix, over 50 percent of homeowners live in one. “Understandably, most... View Details
Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate
  • 18 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

In a first-ever look at the internal economics driving private equity partnerships, Harvard Business School researchers have found that many of these funds can be torn apart by greed among founding partners who take View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services
  • 11 Dec 2017
  • News

What equity means to your career and company

  • Web

About - Race, Gender & Equity

About The Race, Gender & Equity Initiative brings together a global, multidisciplinary community of Harvard Business School faculty, alumni, and students to champion projects and programs that advance understanding, generate tools and... View Details
  • Web

Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity

Education looks like in color-blind 'post-race' times, when racism is deemed to be 'off the political agenda'. From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher... View Details
  • Web

2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal Tools for Humanity: Rage and Love as Acts of Resistance and Renewal 4-5 May 2023 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Location: Harvard Business School Professors Robin Ely and... View Details
  • 19 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail

difference between a customer's decision to shop in a store rather than online. This is a key issue at a time when many potential customers will walk into a store, use their smartphone to snap a photo of a product they like, then return View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health