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  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

bias. Nine studies document this effect and provide insight into its psychological underpinnings. In Study 1, MBA students perceived their revised resumes to be of higher quality the more they differed from their original versions, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

particular setting. This paper exploits a plausibly exogenous change in the liability structure offered by a microfinance program in India, which shifted from individual to group liability lending. We find evidence that the lending model matters: for the same borrower,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

marketing pitch made to study participants by our project staff. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/nashraf/aamy_SavingsinTransnationalHouseholds.pdf August 2013 Journal of Finance Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

them opportunities to learn. In this paper, we investigate how these two strategies may bring different productivity benefits over time. For our empirical analyses, we use two-and-a-half years of transaction data from a Japanese bank's home View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27

changes in financing constraints. Cases & Course Materials Avid Radiopharmaceuticals and Lighthouse Capital Partners Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Ann LeamonHarvard Business School Case 810-054 In fall 2008, a venture lender must decide whether to make a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

grant less credit, screen loans more intensively, and charge lower interest rate spreads. The cause is Mexico's weak contract rights environment. One would normally associate risk aversion with lower profits. We find, however, that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

analysis that went into building the strategy. Students will gain exposure to concepts around firm strategy, portfolio construction, risk management, marketing, and impact investing. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

platform. Since 2014 the company has worked with institutional investors at scale. While the company assigns grades and sub-grades to each application using its own risk evaluation model, it also makes detailed data on each loan... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

discussed supporting innovation through a range of additional policy interventions, including tax credits, loan guarantees, IP policy, regulatory mandates, codes, and standards. It is critically important that these kinds of interventions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49819 Sharing Private Information with Customers: Strategic Default and Lender Learning By: Pérez Cavazos, Gerardo Abstract—I use a unique data set of loans to small business owners to... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

cycles. We estimate that over a typical U.S. monetary easing cycle, EME borrowers experience a 32-percentage-point greater increase in the volume of loans issued by foreign banks than do borrowers from developed markets, with a similarly... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Dec 2012
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HBS Cases: Against the Grain

Corruption doesn't announce itself with a capital C. It is subtler and thornier than that—as one HBS student found out the hard way during a recent summer internship in Tanzania. In a new case detailing his experience, the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

opportunity to bid for debt and equity claims on Plascar Industria e Comercio Ltda., the Brazilian subsidiary of the bankrupt global auto components company Collins & Aikman Corp. In evaluating this opportunity, students must analyze... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51989 forthcoming Review of Financial Studies The Political Economy of Financial Innovation: Evidence from Local Governments By: Vallée, Boris, and Christophe Perignon Abstract—We examine the toxic View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

for the same borrower, required monthly loan installments are 11% less likely to be missed under the group liability setting, relative to individual liability. In addition, compulsory savings deposits are 20% less likely to be missed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1

direct-selling cosmetics company involved in emerging markets exhibits significant foreign exchange risk exposure and profitability swings in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Students must review the company's use of derivative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

And—oh, yes—Rovell was just a kid in his teens. Nevertheless, he launched a business-of-sports talk show on Northwestern University's student radio station, WNUR. His "producer" (actually, a roommate) aggressively pursued... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 06 Oct 2015
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October 6, 2015

growth and low profitability. Students must determine the reasons for the rising bank borrowing, estimate the amount of borrowing needed, and assess the attractiveness of the loan to the bank. A rewritten... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

to teach but are largely silent on what to teach. Manufacturing Morals demonstrates how faculty and students are exposed to a system that operates on open-ended directives that require significant decision making on the part of those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

MyTime Ethan Anderson, the CEO of San Francisco–based e-commerce company MyTime, must decide on the company's growth strategy. MyTime’s first product was a website and mobile app that offered consumers a convenient way to book appointments with local merchants... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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