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01 Dec 2000
News

Latin America's Decade

to PCs and hence to the Net." Thus, Azuela expects the bulk of Internet growth will occur in the B2B sector and wireless applications. Auction house DeRemate.com, currently a leader in the region's consumer Internet sector, has a growth View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

12 Feb 2016
Op-Ed

The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills

States economy maintained a steady pace in job growth of about 2 percent a year. The US labor force participation rate reflected that, growing robustly for the four decades from 1947 to 1997. Around 2001, both those indicators of the... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Fuller and Matt Sigelman; Manufacturing; Electronics

30 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men

unattractive, and we also ran our own pilot study to ensure that the faces uniquely manipulated attractiveness." Each participant rated the investment potential of the venture on a scale of one to seven. As with the previous studies,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle

annually over the first eighty-five years of this century, have surged over the past decade to over 120 thousand per year. This does not appear to reflect the impact of changes in domestic patent policy, shifts in the success rate of... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner; Financial Services

Profile

Mariama Keita

effectively. GDP is about output and adding value. If we could go beyond farming cocoa to process it, we could expand our economic base. To take the next steps, we need a better understanding of fiscal powers such as adjusting interest View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Rent Out Your Ride

fleet. A users’ rating system encourages owners to keep cars clean and running well. To date, the service is available only in Boston and Cambridge. Said one owner, who makes about $200 a month from renting his vehicle after RelayRides... View Details

Keywords: car sharing; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

18 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

Marketing After the Recession

will bring greater commodity price and exchange rate predictability. Marketing will again come to the fore as a differentiator between successful businesses and also-rans. Join the discussion on Harvard Business Online. View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail

15 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Closing the ‘Intention-Action’ Gap

incorporate into their purchasing decisions. “With our pulp, we could source it at cheaper rates from companies that do not adhere to renewable forestry. However, we cannot buy or source – by doctrine – any pulp unless the company that... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Summit Sound Bites

too.” —Yong Tao, Chairman, Strategic Decision Resources Group “Executives who now make 350 times what the lowest worker in their firms make are behaving in an especially unbecoming way when they seek to explain that raising the top marginal tax View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Batteries and Chocolates

striptease parties; male faculty would occasionally and good-naturedly attribute female faculty members' teaching ratings to their physical features. It didn't really bother me, to be honest, and I settled quite happily into my own female... View Details

Keywords: Spar, Debora; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

Schargrodsky, 175-204. National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago Press, 2010 Abstract The study of how crime affects different income groups faces the difficulty that crime-avoiding activities vary across these groups. Thus, a lower victimization... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jul 2018
Blog Post

The Global Classroom: From Boston to Jakarta

to a global partner. So what did my FGI look like? I went to Jakarta, Indonesia, was partnered with a great group of people, and assigned to an interesting problem for a non-profit called the Tanoto Foundation. We were given the task to increase the exclusive... View Details

01 Mar 2007
News

Courting the Poor

procedure for credit approval, using nontraditional metrics to enable customers with lower, less easily established incomes (a pushcart vendor, for example) to make purchases. “Their loan repayment rates are the envy of the world, and the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; department stores; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2010
News

Slum for Sale

a potential rate of return as high as 40 percent, but there are significant hurdles to clear, too. For one, private investors could find themselves at the whim of the Maha-rashtra state government, which is itself often swayed by powerful... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

2010
Working Paper

Crashes and Collateralized Lending

By: Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford

This paper develops a parsimonious static model for characterizing financing terms in collateralized lending markets. We characterize the systematic risk exposures for a variety of securities and develop a simple indifference-pricing framework to value the systematic... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Cost of Capital; Credit; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Investment; Framework; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry

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01 Sep 2011
News

The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS

Henderson notes that there are about 200 HBS-authored cases on the environment extant, with more to come at the rate of about 30 to 40 a year. “We’ve launched several new MBA courses and are looking at how we can get more involved in the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

07 May 2019
News

How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal

Its forecasted revenue growth rate is more than 90 percent, and its pre-tax margins run between 80 and 90 percent of sales. The problem is that John is seriously considering selling McAfee to Symantec.” That didn’t happen, according to... View Details

20 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

Working PapersNone this week. Cases & Course MaterialsFemale Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries Harvard Business School Note 807-018 Examines the extent of and challenges facing female entrepreneurs in developing countries. There are higher View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Dec 2015
What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

and per-capita GDP), how well women negotiate for jobs and compensation, and even higher rates of infidelity for women, approaching those for men. So greater gender parity itself can affect behavior and success View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

income of the importing country. Because most low-income countries import the bulk of capital goods, our results provide suggestive evidence that capital goods are more expensive in poor countries, consistent with the conventional explanation regarding the low real... View Details