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- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
grant less credit, screen loans more intensively, and charge lower interest rate spreads. The cause is Mexico's weak contract rights environment. One would normally associate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
they best be addressed by individuals free to choose, communities (represented by governments) interested in influencing choice, or a combination of both? What do you think? Original Article With the death... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
about the bond market. We also discuss the implications of our model for forward guidance once the economy is away from the zero lower bound. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
income taxes paid, up to the U.S. statutory rate. In effect, this means that Cummins will ultimately pay a total of the U.S. statutory rate on its overseas activities in lower... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
has been the inability for folks to be able to manage their personal family lives with kids studying at home. Not everybody has a setup where partners are able to split the work. But outside of that, there’s the benefits View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
GAAP can wind up in jail or pay hefty fines. Its accounting principles are derived from an exhaustive public process overseen by experts in measurement, not like the stakeholders of present “transparency” who are View Details
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-096.pdf Shamed and Able: How Firms Respond to Being Rated (Revised May 2008) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract We examine how firms respond to third-party View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
joint decision of holding sovereign debt and reserves, we construct a stochastic dynamic equilibrium model calibrated to a sample of emerging markets. We obtain that the optimal policy is not to hold... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
global buyout fund: Bain Capital Fund XI. For the fund, Bain was offering its limited partners a choice between three different fee structures: first, a "conventional" fee structure of a 1.5% management fee with 20% carried... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety change when employers adopt ISO 9001. We analyzed a matched sample of nearly 1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
by maintaining a relatively large balance sheet, even when policy rates have moved well away from the zero lower bound (ZLB). In so doing, it can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
and $12 billion, which equates to between 1.3% and 8.7% of the stock of prepackaged software in private fixed investment in the United States and a very high rate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
promising and profitable. This should benefit small businesses who, despite having to deal with higher interest rates in some cases, could find more transparency in product and pricing options, View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
experiments, we show that participants rated sharks more negatively and less positively after viewing a 60-second video clip of swimming sharks set to ominous background music, compared to participants who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Lee Scott (MBA 2023) - Scaling Climate Tech Innovation
What were you doing prior to HBS? What made you decide to go to HBS? Before HBS, I worked on TPG’s impact assessment team, Y Analytics, focused on energy, agriculture, food, and industrial deals. I learned to think deeply about measuring the impact of mission-driven... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
Board of Governors to formulate monetary policy, ensuring that its policies take into account conditions in every state and across all economic sectors. Each Reserve Bank is supervised by a nine-member board View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
carefully analyzed their incentives but that we know little about the broader strategic dimensions of this market. The paper explores three related strategic dimensions of the certification market: the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
spend less, order a higher percentage of "should" items (e.g., vegetables), and order a lower percentage of "want" items (e.g., ice cream) controlling for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
innovation, organizations' designs, and the nature of organizational adaptation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-087WP.pdf Bond Risk, Bond Return Volatility, and the Term Structure of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
with lower quality ratings from the incumbents: rating levels went up, the correlation between ratings and market-implied yields fell, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne