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- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
Hare said, “Should we do better in investing in people? They’re an asset of course we should!” Guy Higgins and Lewisman agreed, with conditions: “ (as with the GI Bill) make the offer to men and women who have some life experience and... View Details
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
contribute to this gap, Mills says, and it's where she's focusing some of her early attention. "For the bankers, there's the cost of making the loan, the fact that we have fewer banks now than we did before 2008, and the toll that the recession took on the... View Details
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
not had lower costs of equity (lower stock returns), consistent with a stock market anomaly previously documented in other samples. A calibration suggests that a binding 10 percentage point increase in Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208025 Silic (A): Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS Harvard Business School Case 108-030 A French real estate firm must choose to report its primary View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
only 910,000 homes on the market remained unsold nationwide, an all-time low. And Zillow, the online real estate sales platform, recently revised its 2022 forecast upward, predicting home prices will surge 16 percent nationwide. The... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
claim." When the global stock market and interest rates began to decline in 2000, many corporations faced a double whammy when returns on pension assets were well below expectations and pension liabilities rose by much more than... View Details
- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
growth, beginning at the provincial level to conform with announced national goals; an economy that is propped up by foreign investment; and a country that is actually using less and less energy—energy use being a reasonably reliable indicator of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
the job, having access to independent, high-quality research from outside sources can make a real difference both in developing good policies and in getting broad-based support for their implementation.” Researchers and Regulators The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
transfer ownership to assets like digital art and music tracks, and also help make it clear who the owners are, so they can coalesce into communities. Moreover, NFTs are programmable—which makes it possible to expand their features and... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53587 The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity By: Alfaro, Laura, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, and Yanping Liu Abstract—We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part One]
Internet was a huge asset because it meant that I could work with global teams on the ground in many parts of the world. Then my team conducted over 300 interviews in about 80 companies, primarily in North America, Europe, and Asia. I... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
theoretical and empirical investigation of the risks of globally diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds and of optimal intertemporal global portfolio choice for long horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and transitory discount rate shocks... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
we could add real value by seeking to develop a comparative perspective on the two countries around the theme of how they had been impacted by globalization over the last 100 years. Both countries had rich historiographies, but they had... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
LauHarvard Business School Case 212-026 ATR KimEng is a Philippino asset management business. It is making an important decision on its own strategy going forward: should it stay independent or be taken over by a large bank in the region.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
to use credit to build assets and finance consumption. Moving Forward explores what caused the crisis and, more important, focuses on the path ahead. The challenge remains the same as ever: protect consumers, ensure fairness, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
in figure 1-2 of the real CG movie-making process. Since innovation is a problem-solving process, it's really about searching for a solution by creating and testing a portfolio of ideas. It often takes time even to frame a problem in the... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
indivisibility of residential real estate that prevents homeowners from deleveraging when property values decline and homeowner equity deteriorates, conspire to create a "ratchet" effect in which homeowner leverage is maintained... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
bottleneck. Historically, prize-based contests have had striking success in attracting unconventional individual who can overcome difficult challenges. To determine whether this approach could solve a real big-data biologic algorithm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
capitalists. He cofounded BlackRock in 1988 and has grown it into the world’s largest money manager with more than $6 trillion in assets under management. Yet many other fund managers, private equity executives, and activist investors... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
allowing bonds to be rolled over into private sector retirement accounts; and generally making it easier to purchase bonds by expanding distribution to outlets such as the post office and Wal-Mart. "The federal government spends $350 billion each year on View Details