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- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
estate. Students are presented the opportunity to perform valuation analysis and compare two possible forms of financing for the potential acquisition: 1) traditional corporate debt and bond financing and 2) commercial mortgage-backed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
of the funds—at the state level the Massachusetts Transportation Authority will issue revenue bonds to finance construction. While it is true the cost of the project has risen from $2.2 billion in 1983 (not indexed for inflation) to $14.6... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
thousands of abandoned homes, needs more housing The Detroit economy was already wavering when the Cummings family arrived. By early 1992, Detroit’s debt rating would be cut to junk bond status. From an investor’s point of view, the city... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
Care Initiative; Leemore Dafny, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration; and Peter Barrett, an Executive Fellow at HBS and Partner at Atlas Venture. Panels discussed a wide range of topics including new business models in healthcare delivery, biotech... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
the disinterested shares. This article also identifies ways that the Delaware courts can encourage the use of these more potent devices when appropriate: through the threat of entire fairness review, the application of Revlon duties, and the weight given to the deal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
of kind of chemically bonding hydrogen and moving hydrogen in a safer and much more affordable way than moving hydrogen around as an explosive compressed gas, and therefore kind of enable green hydrogen as a fuel and as a feedstock for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
center field foghorn to celebrate Giants’ home runs, and hiring the Grateful Dead to sing the national anthem on Opening Day were among the innovations that caught fans’ attention the first year. With fan-friendly improvements and the off-season signing of slugger... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
be censored by the IMF for not supplying accurate data. Macri also signed an agreement with US hedge funds to settle a protracted dispute over the country’s failure to repay billions of dollars’ worth of bonds acquired at heavily... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Second, the correlation between bond yields and ratings fell. And lastly, negative stock price responses to announced rating downgrades are larger in absolute value (a downgrade in this weaker ratings... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
resulting wine. This decision is further complicated by the fact that ripe Riesling grapes can be vinified in two ways, resulting in two different styles of wine. Their relative prices would depend on the uncertain preference of consumers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
currency bond markets develop, a "pseudo-flexible regime," whereby a country accumulates reserves in conjunction with debt, to be the best policy alternative under real external shocks for emerging nations. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
part of Harvard's “American Secretaries of State Project” that Sebenius and Mnookin have co-directed since 2014 with Nicholas Burns (now U.S. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China). War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Abstract We analyze the optimal strategy of a high-quality incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
revenues. Those are generally backward-looking measures. Then there are share prices and market capitalization, which are forward-looking measures that anticipate the value of a firm. There may be some debate over what is important at a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
Working PapersIf You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? The Effects of Education, Financial Literacy and Cognitive Ability on Financial Market Participation Authors:Shawn A. Cole and Gauri Kartini Shastry Abstract Household financial market participation affects... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
Marshall took over in the early 1980s. Says Berg, "Considering OPMers' diversity - ages from 30 to 65, some with Ph.D.s, others without high-school diplomas, half from outside the United States, and in a wide variety of businesses ranging from $3 million to hundreds of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Sports in America have always had a magical, transcendent allure. Life may be ambiguous but slam dunks and touchdown passes create their own heroic reality and final truth at game's end. Sports are a bond that brings entire communities... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
boost earnings to meet earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a price to pay, with the cost in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
companies that can afford to buy that—but there aren’t millions. And it’s very difficult to price discriminate on something which is a physical asset that you sell. Because if you’ve got effectively the exact same box that you’re selling... View Details