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Help - Alumni

location: Try searching for alumni located in Hawaii. In the Directory type Hawaii in the location search box and click SEARCH. The default results display will be the list view. Click the Map icon above the results to see the Map view.... View Details
  • 2010
  • Other Unpublished Work

Why Takeover Vulnerability Matters to Debtholders

By: Joan Farre-Mensa
Recent work documents that firms that are more vulnerable to takeover have higher borrowing costs. This paper investigates the reasons behind this stylized fact. My results show that firms with few antitakeover defenses face a higher cost of debt because lenders are... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Borrowing and Debt; Cost; Equity; Banks and Banking; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution
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  • January 2008
  • Article

Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman and Willy C. Shih
Most companies aren't half as innovative as their senior executives want them to be (or as their marketing claims suggest they are). What's stifling innovation? There are plenty of usual suspects, but the authors finger three financial tools as key accomplices.... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Prejudice and Bias; Value Creation
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  • 2014
  • Teaching Note

Microfinance Services in Rural Areas--Farmers' Self-reliance Branch of CFPA Microfinance in Shangyi County (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Yang Siqun and Shen Meihua
Microfinance is introduced into China in the 1990s. It had gone through 3 phases since the beginning, namely the pilot phase when all Microfinance practices are sponsored by charity funds based on projects, the promotion phase when the government subsidized some... View Details
Keywords: Microfinance; Rural Entrepreneurship; Value Added; China; China
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Finance - Faculty & Research

Sovereign Default and the Decline in Interest Rates By: Max Miller , James D. Paron and Jessica Wachter 2025 | Working Paper | Faculty Research Sovereign debt yields have declined dramatically over the last half-century. Standard... View Details
  • October 2020
  • Case

HOPE and Transformational Lending: Netflix Invests in Black Led Banks

By: John D. Macomber and Janice Broome Brooks
Following the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day in 2020, the large US corporation Netflix elected to make a "transformational deposit" of $10 million into Hope Credit Union (HCU), a small Black led community development finance institution (CDFI) based in... View Details
Keywords: Banking; Rural Entrepreneurship; Economic Development; Black Entrepreneurs; Economic Growth; Credit; Banks and Banking; Entrepreneurship; Rural Scope; Development Economics; Race; Investment; Decision Making; Banking Industry
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  • 2014
  • Case

Microfinance Services in Rural Areas--Farmers' Self-reliance Branch of CFPA Microfinance in Shangyi County

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Siqun Yang and Meihua Shen
Microfinance is introduced into China in the 1990s. It had gone through 3 phases since the beginning, namely the pilot phase when all Microfinance practices are sponsored by charity funds based on projects, the promotion phase when the government subsidized some... View Details
Keywords: Rural Entrepreneurship; Value Added; China; Risk Management; Microfinance; China
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

through banner design to encourage acceptance of cookie tracking; (2) setting defaults when users dismiss banners; and (3) implementing consent decisions at the website versus browser level. Absent design manipulation, users accept all... View Details
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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Moody’s, or Fitch. [17] MBSs and CDOs are sold to investors all over the world, including pension funds, insurance companies, mutual funds, hedge funds, and other investment banks. [18] Investors can hedge their CDO or MBS exposure through credit View Details
  • 21 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppers

curbing spending habits just as the number of defaults on BNPL loans creep higher. Add in a potential recession and the authors question whether the model might prove to be riskier for consumers, investors, and retailers in the future.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Financial Services; Technology
  • 12 May 2021
  • Book

The Hard Truth About Being a CEO

About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: iStockphoto/LL28] What's the best management advice you've heard? Share your insights in the comments below. Book Excerpt Five Ways To Keep Connected By David Fubini CEOs can slip into an isolated... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 31 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World

commonsense default rather than sleeping late and eating berries? How did it become normal to work more than what is necessary for survival? This was one of the texts that helped canonize and codify the basic ingredients of capitalism.”... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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Target List: screen for companies by industry, location, and size

parameters around revenues or number of employees. Orbis defaults to Operating Revenue; click Edit to change criteria to other financial parameters or employee count.  Note you can enter ranges or select quartiles or Top X companies.... View Details
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss

Historically, men’s emotions have been labeled passion or dedication, whereas women’s emotions have been labeled hysteria. Because of those past characterizations, Wolf initially thought that men by default might be seen as more... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

That Was Then, This Is Now

It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details
Keywords: Photographed by Tony Deifell (MBA 2002); edited by Julia Hanna. Above: Heidi Brooks, photographed in 2003 and 2023.; life experience; family; leadership
  • 05 May 2022
  • HBS Case

College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need

Employers struggling to find workers during the current labor shortage might want to rethink their hiring criteria by taking a new look at job candidates who lack college degrees. American employers have routinely defaulted to requiring... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 25 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing

Consumers turning to fintech lenders are more likely to spend beyond their means, sink further into debt, and ultimately default more often than people with similar credit profiles borrowing from traditional banks, according to recent... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking
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Software Tools - Research Computing Services

Compute Cluster Software Tools 16ms A variety of applications and libraries are supported on the cluster by default . Additional software, including older versions of software, can selectively be "turned on" in a user's environment via... View Details
  • Web

Running a Program/Submitting a Job - Research Computing Services

variety of software is available on the cluster by default . These are augmented by an extensive set of software environments available through the Lmod software module system . Additionally, we offer users the ability to install their... View Details
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Bloomberg: corporate bonds

the main menu for the selected bond, note the ticker for future reference; e.g., GM8 1/4 07/23. To analyze bonds: Browse a bond's main menu or type a shortcut and hit GO: CDSW for credit default swap analysis DES for description HP... View Details