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  • 16 Jul 2014
  • HBS Case

Marketing Obamacare

unpacks Connecticut's winning strategy, which led to a sign-up rate of about 65 percent of uninsured in the state. Key to the effort, he says, was that the quasi-state agency Access Health CT (AHCT) put... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.

On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Utilities
  • 09 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

with the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis, private equity firms have higher quality accruals and a lower propensity to manage income than public equity firms. We further find that public equity firms report more conservatively, in line with their greater... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism

that up to 2 million people will lose their homes. The good news is that more recent proposals to license mortgage brokers and to require more disclosure by credit rating agencies and investment bankers will... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Finance; Management; Real Estate
  • 01 Jan 2007
  • News

Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968

United States specializing in sales promotion, design, and direct marketing. But WPP wasn't small for long. In 1987 Sorrell made an astonishing move. Using both debt and equity, he bought one of the most famous names in the business, the J. Walter Thompson Group... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

this sector. Part of my responsibility at the fund was to review the ESG ratings of companies in Asia that were potential investment targets of this new strategy. Once I was told who the target company was, I collected their current ESG... View Details
  • 19 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

settings include job agencies (whose customers include both job seekers and listers), realtors (whose clients include home sellers and purchasers), and auction houses (whose customers include buyers and sellers). Customers such as buyers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

staple. And the Japanese, buoyed by a strong economy and low interest rates at home, swept in to buy up trophy properties at almost any asking price. "The total effect of all that money and lack of focus on the intrinsic economics of... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate
  • 30 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 30

hazard. Our results have broad implications for regulation, financial auditing, and private credit- and quality-rating agencies in financial markets. Read the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1640638 The International Politics of IFRS... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

question of the dynamic between consumer protection and globalization. How do local consumer protections affect global free trade? Are there agencies that offer consumer protections on a global scale? A: Consumer market regulations matter... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

particular mechanism to address those voids: minority state ownership. Due to their minority nature, such stakes are less affected by the agency distortions commonly found in full-fledged state-owned firms. Using panel data from publicly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

Academic business research typically travels one-way. From government agencies, scholars gather and process data—say on workplace safety or environmental pollution—perform analysis, and publish the results. Rarely, however, do they take their findings back to the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 21 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609046 Note: Credit Rating Agencies Harvard Business School Note 209-056 The note examines the role of credit View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2015
  • News

Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery

local universities to teach students and others how to identify and fight corruption, to know their rights and get involved, and to use government hotlines to lodge complaints about bribery. The third program, Grassroots Governance, works with the second-largest... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 21 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

engine for innovation and job creation to drive competitiveness, while also providing a path to a prosperous lifestyle for countless American families. But today, small businesses are not creating these jobs at the rate that we need. The... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing
  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

matters for innovation, and therefore growth, because it enables the local entrepreneur to put equity into this cooperative venture, which mitigates an agency problem that would otherwise deter the foreign investor from participating. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

When Standard & Poor's Rating Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States from AAA to AA+ on August 5, it was a shot heard 'round the world. Stock markets plummeted,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

Ernesto SchargrodskyNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15602, December 2009 Abstract We study the re-arrest rates for two groups: individuals formerly in prison and individuals formerly under electronic monitoring (EM). We find that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

Airlines. Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation Are Changing Life on Earth by Juan Enriquez (MBA 1986) and Steve Gullans (Current) The authors survey how humans are changing the course of their evolution, seen, for example, in rising View Details
  • 09 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 9, 2010

legislative and regulatory calls for increased competition. The material entry of a third rating agency (Fitch) to the competitive landscape offers a unique experiment to empirically examine how, in fact,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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