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- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
capital encourages business development." They gave a ranking of close to 6 before the crisis and 1.3 in 2014. To make things worse, credit rating agencies imposed filters that automatically downgraded ratings of Greek corporations... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
Before completing the personal survey, some participants took a test called "Phind the phishing emails," in which they viewed screen shots of email messages and identified them as "just spam" or "phishing"—the common cybercrime of masquerading as a trustworthy source... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA Course Number 2077 Professor Leslie Perlow Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits Paper Enrollment in this course, as of June 6, is now by standard lottery utilizing EC Toolkit. Please... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
scheduled to start by the end of 2016. “The Dandelion program is focused on building careers, resilience, and independence for the individuals involved,” Fieldhouse says. He credits his time at HBS—where he interacted with a diverse group... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
requires upfront capital investments. The more developed the local financial markets, the easier it is for credit constrained entrepreneurs to start their own firms. The increase in the number of varieties of intermediate goods leads to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
“The beauty of [video games] is that they have the ability to change your point of view or open your aperture without your ever knowing that’s what they were doing. You’re just having fun.” Bond credits working through that turmoil at... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
This is the first time in five years that the number has gone below 300. Together with the credit crunch, we are witnessing a plethora of potentially great opportunities but with a measly amount of capital to fund them. I have high hopes... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008
School Case 909-007 In 2008, the Japanese consumer payments landscape featured ongoing widespread use of cash, limited use of credit cards and rapid rise of e-money systems based on contactless technology embedded in cards and especially... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
Corps, we have a saying that goes, ‘Officers eat last.’ Whether in the literal sense, when it comes to standing in a meal line at dinner time, or in the metaphorical sense, when it comes to taking credit for a success, a leader must... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
grow their business. Stewart, an award-winning CFO and veteran entrepreneur, shares his expertise and insights to help entrepreneurs more fully understand how a bank thinks about them and their business as a credit risk and a loan... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
second of five children, growing up under apartheid in rural South Africa, she credits her parents with stressing the importance of education and for making her politically aware and proud of her Sotho heritage. With this strong... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
expansion of the earned-income tax credit, unification and simplification of various credits and deductions, and a new top bracket for individuals making more than $1 million would help enormously. How does Trump’s business background... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
But he credits a dedicated community of social workers, as well as his birth and adopted families, with helping him eventually flourish. That gratitude helped spark his career in community service and his deep interest in exploring how... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
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October 6, 2015
had no prior experience, were more likely to fail, and had lower performance than those who did not benefit from the reform. Our results provide evidence that despite asymmetric information and opacity in startup lending, banks' screening can play an important role in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
inspected employers experienced a 9.4% decline in injury rates (95% confidence interval = -0.177 to -0.021) and a 26% reduction in injury cost (95% confidence interval = -0.513 to -0.083). We find no evidence that these improvements came at the expense of employment,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
more productive, escaping the trap of all-consuming work. The second rule is to focus on the right thing. Embrace a framework for allocating your efforts. US President (and legendary General) Dwight D. Eisenhower is credited with one... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
"millions of people living and working in space." Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, has laid out plans to build a city of a million people on Mars within the next century. Both Neil deGrasse Tyson and Peter Diamandis have been given View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20
individuals. Financial inclusion could potentially help these individuals by increasing financial literacy, building credit records, improving savings rates, providing access to loans and other financial products, and, in general, by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009
to supply beef markets around the world, but it faced a perfect storm of rising feed and fuel prices, a global credit crisis, and industry analysts skeptical about the company's debt load. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace