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11 Mar 2008
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Soak the Rich?

pay-as-you-go legislation. At issue was whether venture capital, private equity, and hedge fund partners should continue to pay the 15 percent capital gains tax rate on their earnings. Lawmakers had proposed treating their earnings as... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

2016
Working Paper

Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile

By: Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier and Dina Pomeranz

We test the impact of a peer group savings program on precautionary savings through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microcredit clients. The first experiment finds that the Peer Group Treatment, which combines public goal setting, monitoring in the group,... View Details

Keywords: Saving; Decision Making; Interest Rates; Planning; Performance Effectiveness; Economics; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Social Enterprise; Global Range; Chile

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01 Dec 2011
News

A Modest Tax Proposal

corporations from using their foreign profits to build facilities in the United States. Business interests are calling for a so-called tax holiday, in which American corporations would be allowed to transfer their foreign profits to their American bank accounts at a... View Details

Keywords: Robert C. Pozen; tax holidays

30 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

looking to do new deals. They’re just sitting on a ton of money.” During that period, global daily deaths had topped 9,000 for a second time as infection rates were soaring across the Americas. Almost all of the world’s 10 largest... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Banking

Larissa Bifano

systems, cellular networks, and options trading. Larissa has been recognized by The Legal 500 United States. She was recently named a top performing IP attorney by intellectual property company Patexia, Inc., noting a success rate in IPRs... View Details

Keywords: Legal

01 Dec 2018
News

Evergreen Business

this seasonal side business, where 99 percent of his customers leave with a tree—a sales rate few retailers can imagine. “Plus it’s Christmas, so everyone’s in a great mood.” View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

10 Aug 2015
News

Support for the Healers

health,” says Sandford, who joined Point of Care in 2014. “Their burn-out rates are high and getting higher.” Recent breakthroughs in life-saving medical interventions mean that “more patients are living longer with chronic conditions,”... View Details

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Shad Membership Eligibility | About

for the current rates and membership information Membership Refunds If for any reason it is necessary to cancel your membership or one of your services refunds can be requested at the Member Services Desk. Domestic Partner Shad Hall... View Details

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Awards | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Travel should be directly related to the project. Travel to or from non-project sites is not eligible for grant funding. Please note: Packaged deals for hotel/airfare/car rental are not fundable unless each component of the expense can be identified. For foreign... View Details

Fast Answer

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Tools

the thousands of indicators already available. Available data includes demographics, home sale statistics, health data, mortgage trends, school performance scores and labor data like unemployment, crime statistics and city crime rates... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Code Breakers

equip young women with the necessary skills for the work ahead. “Until we see women making it into positions of power at the same rate as men, we need organizations to help us navigate more challenging roads than the ones men have to... View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

Subprime Time

modesty for all concerned: the rating agencies, the banks, asset managers. And certainly the masters of the debt universe and the Ph.D.’s with their black boxes turned out to be fallible. You can look at this as a shakedown cruise of our... View Details

Keywords: Bruce Wasserstein, MBA '71; Finance

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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market

small lender rose to prominence around the turn of the twentieth century: the salary lender, or “loan shark.” One study of 1894 estimated that one in five American households owed money to one of these lenders. Because the legal lending View Details

01 Jan 2010
News

Susan L. Decker, MBA 1986

motivate them to see just how high they can jump by believing in them and giving them the freedom to perform.” Sue Decker’s successful Wall Street career began at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, where as an equity analyst, she consistently received the number one View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

India’s Oil

India’s finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram (MBA ’68), is presiding over an economy, Asia’s third largest, that’s chugging along nicely and projected to finish with a 7 percent growth rate this year. But as Chidambaram told Reuters... View Details

Keywords: Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

21 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 21

Convexity By: Hanson, Samuel Gregory Abstract—Most home mortgages in the U.S. are fixed-rate loans with an embedded prepayment option. When long-term rates decline, the effective duration of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) falls due to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

grade depending on their risk, which sets the interest rate for the loans. After the pre-screening, successful applicants are listed on the platform and some information is provided to investors to help them with their decisions.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

29 May 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?

than they otherwise might. Whether this leads to a higher standard of living than that of their European counterparts is debatable. But there is growing evidence that providing pleasant work environments, aided to some degree by new technology, has spearheaded the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

11 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

and approved, but when minority loan officers shepherd those applications, approval rates increase significantly, says Adi Sunderam, the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance at Harvard Business School, in the working... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

15 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

effectively within the newly merged entities. No PDF is available at this time. Reputation and Competition: Evidence from the Credit Rating Industry Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract Fair and accurate credit View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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