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- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
Here's a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed "too big to fail," hasn't it implicitly guaranteed similar largesse for all such... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
end of the yield curve. Using data from 26 countries, the yield spread between 30-year and 10-year government bond yields is negatively related to the ratio of pension assets (in funded and private View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
financial product. The supply of venture capital is also likely to continue growing. Within the past two years, numerous pension funds have invested in private equity for the first time. Many experienced... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Abstract— We document a strong effect of pension and insurance company (P&I) assets on the long end of the yield curve. Using data from 26 countries, the yield spread between 30-year and 10-year government bond yields is negatively... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
out of the brinkmanship of the past weeks, but not after payments to the International Monetary Fund have been missed, and European funding has ended. These tactics have created high and unnecessary... View Details
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
activity," Nanda remarks. "Each approach has its own costs and benefits, whether it's a direct subsidy, a loan guarantee program, or a venture capital model where the government is a direct investor." In the future, Nanda... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
contrast, preferential treatment means being guaranteed results from the meeting, such as a partnership deal. While E-Loan executives in Europe got a chance to pitch a business proposal to Yahoo!'s site in the United Kingdom, they did not... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
Mozilo ... and 'Say on Pay' for All! (A) Harvard Business School Case 109-009 Union seeks to protect its pension funds through shareholder activism focused on corporate governance and executive compensation.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
fund the launch of nearly all start-ups. The founders' current income, cash reserves, credit card capacity, and "mortgagable" assets account for most of the early stage capital in the United States.2 Other forms of non-cash... View Details
- 31 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest
$76-billion increase in consumption among American homeowners. That’s laudable. When the authors dug deeper, however, they found that while QE freed up funds for those households that were able to take advantage of dramatically lower... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform
supplemental executive retirement plans, in which up to 100 percent of one's compensation can be deferred into a non-taxable account that gets a guaranteed return that's much higher than, say, the State Treasury View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
Most books about the nation's financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A financial industry veteran and chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm that oversees more than $170... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
Life-Cycle Funds Authors:Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract We investigate optimal consumption, asset accumulation and portfolio decisions in a realistically calibrated life-cycle model with flexible... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
to resign. Employees estimated Recruit would last another six months and began to look for other jobs. Recruit realized it could no longer guarantee employees lifetime employment, the standard for Japanese companies at that time. What it... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
FarriHarvard Business School Case 310-090 In late January 2009, Thomas Fekete, managing director at Barclays Wealth in London, redeemed the most illiquid positions in the so-called Wealth Absolute Return Fund (WAR), one of Barclays... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
as mutual funds and pensions that wanted to invest in those securities. Investment banks also provided advice on mergers and acquisitions. In the early 1980s the derivative markets were quite small and... View Details
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
(Abridged) Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance, seeks a venture capital investment to fund his firm. SKS, one of the largest and fastest growing microfinance institutions in India, is a profitable, for-profit institution with a social... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
acquisition and brand-building, products and services that are often free or deeply discounted, and abundant funding provided by exuberant capital markets."The problem," he says, "is that everyone understands the strategy,... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace