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  • 14 Mar 2019
  • News

The Merchant of Osaka

quandary. “You can’t stick your head up too high here. But if you keep too low of a profile, no one will find you. So I stay in the middle, and I keep on moving.” “You can’t stick your head up too high here. But if you keep too View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
  • 13 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 13

exposure to a well-diversified portfolio of hedge fund strategies. Second, it terms of its fees, the new DELTA strategy would charge investors relatively lower fees: 1% management fees plus 10% of performance over a cash hurdle (or, alternatively, a management fee of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

brand: What are people thinking? And you’d expect a much lower sensitivity to administration, to structure, to organizational dynamics, to long-term view, and to capital spending. The incoming president has a really good sense for what... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 31 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

investors to collect, analyze, and verify on their own, broadly. Having this type of standardized information freely available to all investors is invaluable for fixed income markets. Q: As you note, there are three parties involved in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

within markets: When sentiment is high, future returns are low on relatively difficult to arbitrage and difficult to value stocks. Private capital flows appear to be one mechanism by which sentiment spreads across markets and forms global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

"Pay our own way? No way." Not long ago, that was the mantra of many a proud nonprofit organization, living on the largesse of government grants and private donations. But with those income sources drying up, suddenly nonprofits... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jan 2006
  • News

Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969

focus from advising to investing in start-ups just as the UK and Europe embarked on major economic reforms. In addition, the U.S. venture capital industry got a huge boost when a 1978 clarification in the Employee Retirement Income... View Details
  • 09 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 9, 2016

local labor market design based on heterogeneity in local benefit generosity (defined as the percentage of household income recovered by the unemployment benefit), we estimate that a one standard deviation increase in generosity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

probably witness higher inflation. We also know that our entitlement policies are unsustainable, that our unfunded pension liabilities take their toll on millions of retired workers, and that those on fixed incomes are being clobbered by... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate
  • 02 Dec 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

and importing unskilled workers to keep costs low takes away the initiative for technological advances ." And Sam Heffner, invoking the noted economist, Milton Friedman, pointed out that "before he died, the great Dr. Friedman... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Q&A: Andrew Kendall

with New Hampshire Audubon to work on global conservation issues in Costa Rica. What are the keys to success in working on environmental issues in a developing country? Costa Rica is known for its environmental ethic, but even there you have to be especially sensitive... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Special Design Services; Professional Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

and Brooke Barton, 309-320. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007 Abstract After thirty years of development, commercial microfinance in the developing world—the provision of financial services to low income... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Dec 2016
  • News

The Dragon’s Tale

loose and left to go bankrupt and be restructured—while the government focused on larger enterprises. The transition to an export-driven, low labor-cost country was well under way by the turn of the century, as millions of workers moved... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 30 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 30

Experiment By: Cole, Shawn, Xavier Giné, and James Vickery Abstract—Weather is a key source of income risk, particularly in emerging market economies. This paper uses a randomized controlled trial involving a sample of Indian farmers to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315069-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-107 Affordable Housing and Low Income Housing Tax Credits in the United States This background... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

government bond yields, stabilized until the fall of 2008, when they showed dramatic declines. The paper asks to what extent short-term real interest rates, bond risks, and liquidity explain the trends before 2008 and the unusual developments in the fall of 2008. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

compliance. We first create an income and taxation environment in a laboratory setting to test for compliance with a "lab tax." Allowing a treatment group to express non-binding preferences over tax spending priorities leads to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

"marginal" grocery items, or grocery items that a customer does not typically buy. These findings are consistent with a simple mental accounting model but are not consistent with the standard permanent income or lifecycle theory... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

Wildebeest added: “There is a good case to be made that deficits from loose monetary policy are the actual cause of the ever-widening income disparity in the US and nearly every major economy.” (JohnfrmClevelnd reminded Wildebeest that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett