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- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
and thereby decrease the interest rates on their municipal bonds. Health care obligations to retired employees are the hidden bombshells of municipal finance. Any changes in such obligations will be politically controversial. Be that as... View Details
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
book is obsolete in an era where the greatest value a partner provides is in the ideas they possess and not the wage rate they pay. Partners must be encouraged to share ideas, which can only be accomplished if they share in the spoils... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
crucially, by selling billions of dollars of bonds to the People’s Bank of China, the United States has been able to enjoy significantly lower interest rates than would otherwise have been the case. Welcome to the wonderful dual country... View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
this question. These firms constitute significant fractions of economic output and investment in most large economies, suggesting that they could create significant economic linkages. Aggregate measures of rates of return and investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Firms Respond to Being Rated Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
ad platform can offer, an advertiser may forego use of an ad platform that the advertiser otherwise finds profitable. Mergers between ad platforms can increase advertiser welfare if the resulting click-through rate and volume of traffic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
replace food, shelter, clothing, etc.," Gary Myers raises an issue that might warrant further discussion. While he points out that information leads to improvements in the efficiency with which goods are produced, he then goes on to say, "At some point, the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015)
variable rate loan. In 2020, my wife and I had finally built a bit of an emergency fund, even as our family had grown. With the economic uncertainty of a wild year and the buffer of our emergency fund in place, we decided to do a lump... View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Blog Post
A PRIDE Farewell
LGBTQ+ prospective students which yielded a registration-to-attendance conversion rate 2x that of comparable programs. Hosted the first oversubscribed LGBTQ+ Student Visit Day. Hosted exclusive LGBTQ+ leader fireside chats with Barry’s... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
Fundación, which is rated number one among all Mexican NGOs for efficiency by philanthropic watchdog Filantrofilia, has distributed $11.7 million in grants and loans. The selection criteria are simple: Mexican students accepted to a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
List: Ratings Pioneer Turns 20 In 1995, before people “googled” or “yelped,” Angela Hicks (HBS, 2000) was establishing her Angie’s List as a pioneer in the accumulation and dissemination of consumer rating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
entrepreneus. Sean Silverthorne: First off, can you summarize your previous research findings? Maria Roche: Our first finding is that an increase in the unemployment rate is associated with a substantial rise in the share of entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
optional "QuickMatch" feature, which lets you rate other members on a scale of one to five. If you bestow a four or five rating on someone's profile, that member will receive an automatic message... View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
Luca, whose past research has focused on platform design. For example, Luca and his colleagues reached out to online rating app Yelp several weeks ago to explore ways the company might help small businesses dealing with the crisis. Among... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
reviews from Yelp.com, we construct an adjusted average rating and show that even a simple algorithm can lead to large information efficiency gains relative to the arithmetic average. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
tax rates at high incomes are lower than in standard analysis and closer to those observed in policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-064.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsHome Depot and Interconnected Retail José... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
as some people are asking, the [Federal Reserve Bank] were to delay raising U.S. interest rates on the basis that China’s deceleration will induce a global slowdown. That decision would clearly have an effect on this economy. Q: What are... View Details
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
reducing banks' leverage reduces the risk and cost of equity but does not change the weighted average cost of capital, and thus the rates for borrowers. We confirm that the equity of better-capitalized banks has lower beta and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
workplace in the early 1990s, BigAC found discrepancies between its own hiring rates and promotion rates for women. At the CEO's prompting, an initial analysis phase focused on the question, "Why are... View Details
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
considerable experience but in other industries. The increase in investment rates does not affect the success of these transactions adversely to a significant extent. These findings are consistent with the view that venture capitalists... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace