Ratings - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jun 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly

Keywords: by Malcolm Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler; Banking; Financial Services

Research Summary

Reforming Social Science

Social science research affects all of us. When researchers learned organ donation rates are higher in countries where human organs are automatically available for donation unless you specifically “opt-out” of the system, as opposed to countries like the U.S., where... View Details

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

investment. As a consequence, that same year Kauffman ranked Miami at 36 among major cities for growth entrepreneurship due in part to the city’s low rate of startup expansion. Some women struggled to sell their ideas in a place... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

01 Jan 2013
News

André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973

every year since its inception, is the only firm of its kind in Brazil that has been awarded an MQ1 rating by Moody's. Jakurski, who serves as managing director, focuses on fixed income, equity, and currency trading in global markets and... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

fact that most customers who defected from a particular bank gave "interest rates" as the reason for switching banks seemed to suggest that their original bank's interest rates were not competitive. However, his additional... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

04 Feb 2014
What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

recorded voice thanked me for cooperating and assured me that the poll would take only two minutes. The first question was, "On a scale of 1 (low) and 5 (high) how would you rate your overall experience?" I pressed the "1" on my phone.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Oct 2006
What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

strong emphasis on education. They suggest that China's dependency ratio will peak at about one dependent to 2.6 workers in the next few years. After that, the effects of encouraged reductions in the birth rate will mean that fewer... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Sep 2003
News

Larry Murphy

managed and which customers rate as a top Disney offering. “We considered joint ventures with established cruise lines, but to do it the Disney way, we realized we had to own and run it ourselves.” Murphy, a Beverly Hills resident, has... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Accommodation; Hospitality

16 Aug 2018
News

Working with a Giver’s Spirit

Philippine tech incubator behind a number of remarkable companies, including Ayannah, which uses social media and mobile platforms to provide digital commerce and payment services to the world’s unbanked; PawnHero, an online pawnshop that allows people to borrow... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

between homeownership rates among Black and white people, with white people owning more than 85 percent of household wealth and Black people owning less than 5 percent. Nonetheless, says Abdelal, Baltimore has an unusually troubled... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

for tax purposes. India residents are being charged the current India GST rate (18% as of 1/26/24). The tax collected is passed on to the government of India through Harvard University. Is financial aid available? As of April 2024, HBS... View Details

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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

to rate their workplaces on the prevalence of these masculinity contest norms, and found that the more a workplace endorsed these norms, the more likely alumnae were to have experienced verbal harassment, a result that holds true when... View Details

23 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

Consumer bankruptcies usually climb alongside unemployment rates as filers seek to discharge debt and get a fresh start, write the authors of the new working paper Bankruptcy and the COVID-19 Crisis. “Historically, the number one cause of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

27 Oct 2015
News

Sweet Success

York chefs. “We had all this land, with about 20,000 old-growth sugar maples and red maples,” relates Turner. “Big picture, this was 2009 and we were newcomers in a rural area where the unemployment rate was 15 percent. We wanted to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

in the mid-1990s. I was paid a flat rate of $10 to hose down the dirt and debris in eight car wash bays with a high-pressure spray gun. It was an especially dirty job when the Jeeps and pickups came in after “mudding,” or driving off-road... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

to dig in and figure out what their real needs are and their pain points." The Problem With Wizzit WIZZIT entered the mobile banking market in 2004 because the mobile phone penetration rate in South Africa was almost 100 percent,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

31 Oct 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints?

Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa & Alexander Ljungqvist

04 Nov 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Do We Chase Stars?

data for 1988 through 1996. It includes ratings before and after an analyst's transfer from one investment bank to another as well as the results of extensive interviews over several years of study. Among other things, they found that... View Details