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06 Dec 2011
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http://hbr.org/product/flying-without-a-net-turn-fear-of-change-into-fuel/an/10297-HBK-ENG The Real Consequences of Market Segmentation Authors:Sergey Chernenko and Adi Sunderam Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We study the real effects of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

those odds, but it reduces them. Macroeconomists deserve a lot of credit for that. That said, excessively low interest rates during the boom years may well have helped to cause the crisis. So monetary... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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

March 2005 (Revised January 2006)
Case

Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Transactional and Translational Exposures

By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen

How should a multinational firm manage foreign exchange exposures? Examines transactional and translational exposures and alternative responses to these exposures by analyzing two specific hedging decisions by General Motors. Describes General Motors' corporate hedging... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Currency Exchange Rate; Expansion; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Financial Management; Investment Funds; Risk and Uncertainty; International Finance; Auto Industry

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01 Jun 2023
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Curb Appeal

repeatedly due to high costs and low participation. While the diversion rate climbed to 60 and even 80 percent in cities like Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, New York’s refused to budge. By the time Tisch took charge, DSNY... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

induces U.S. manufacturing firms to contract their operations along multiple margins of activity goes a long way toward explaining the response of U.S. innovation to the China trade shock. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51998... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Jun 2009
What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

What do you think? Original Article During the past several weeks, economists have begun to predict substantially slower growth rates for the world's economy into the foreseeable future. Characteristic of this is the reduction of roughly... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “By making it possible for the photographer to observe his work and his subject matter simultaneously, and by removing... View Details

September 2004 (Revised February 2007)
Case

Hedging Currency Risks at AIFS

By: Mihir A. Desai, Vincent Dessain and Anders Sjoman

The American Institute for Foreign Studies (AIFS) organizes study abroad programs and cultural exchanges for American students. The firm's revenues are mainly in U.S. dollars, but most of its costs are in eurodollars and British pounds. The company's controllers review... View Details

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Forecasting and Prediction; Revenue; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Currency; Currency Exchange Rate; Education Industry; North and Central America

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Kyalwazi (MD/MPP 2024) Leonard Nettey (MD/PhD) Social Enterprise Track Winner Empowering Black college students pursuing careers in health sciences. Pando Claire Wu (MBA 2023) Andrew Setiawan Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up & Crowd Favorite Winner Democratizing View Details

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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

that under-provision of credit due to excessive regulation posed a great threat to the financial system. Figure 6: In Your View, Do Any of the Following Pose a Threat to the U.S. Financial System? These two main concerns - political risk... View Details

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

in life. And that not only instilled values in me and my wife Susan, but has been passed on as our greatest legacy to our three sons. JH: Fascinated by airplanes and the power of flight, Peter Crisp (MBA 1960) credits his parents with... View Details

06 Nov 2008
Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

that enable them to do so. Hardly any politician has had the courage to call for restraint. Average household debt in the United States is currently 130 percent of average household income, up 20 percent since 2005 and double what it was twenty years ago. The U.S.... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

09 Jan 2020
Book

Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

a traditional business—the gym—into an $8 billion digital offering that pulled in more than $700 million in revenue during the last fiscal year. Foley credits the magic of today’s technology, including software, data, and communication... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

learned that its 20 percent interest rate was higher than average and that the card didn’t provide travel insurance. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/prRmhGSXiSbMwOabP4CL][/div] After qualified customers activated their View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

heterogeneous effects of globalization on the interest rate setting by microfinance institutions (MFIs) around the world. We consider MFIs as a mechanism to overcome the institutional void of credit for... View Details

11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

01 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

guessing a higher-quality rating than the actual quality rating." That would explain why information doesn't "unravel" according to game theory predictions, and why companies don't voluntarily release information even when... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Finance for "Financial Repression in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis" (February 2018) with Bo Becker. Elisabeth Kempf : Winner of the 2018 Best Paper Award at the Financial Research Association Annual Conference for “Partisan Professionals: Evidence from View Details

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

the failure of Long Term Capital Management, then in the late 1990s became major drivers of the market, having grown enormously. They are often close partners to the investment banks, because the funds are small money-management units with no View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

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