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  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

individuals in Great Britain, Canada, France, and Germany, all countries with universal health care systems. At the national level, reductions in medical care are related to the degree to which individuals must pay for it, and within countries are strongly associated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

uncertainty, and macroeconomic shocks affect the risk properties of U.S. Treasury bonds? The exposure of U.S. Treasury bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average over the period... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

    P.F. Chang's

    Excited yet apprehensive after being named CEO of P.F. Chang's beginning July 1st, 2020, Damola Adamolekun was well aware of the extraordinary challenges facing the firm. The closure of businesses deemed "nonessential" owing to the COVID-19 pandemic had... View Details
    • March 2025
    • Case

    Silicon Valley Bank: Gone in 36 Hours

    By: Jung Koo Kang, Krishna G. Palepu, Charles C.Y. Wang and David Lane
    This case examines factors contributing to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in March 2023, an event as unpredicted as it was quick. SVB funded nearly half of all U.S. venture-backed startups and at the end of 2022 held $173 billion in deposits, largely... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting Standards; Bank Runs; Financial Accounting; Financial Reporting; Social Media; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Investment Portfolio; Interest Rates; Debt Securities; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Statements; Risk Management; Failure; Fair Value Accounting; Credit; Corporate Governance; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; United States
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices

    By: Ishita Sen, Umang Khetan, Jane Li and Ioana Neamtu
    We study the extent of interest rate risk sharing across the financial system using granular positions and transactions data in interest rate swaps. We show that pension and insurance (PF&I) sector emerges as a natural counterparty to banks and corporations: overall,... View Details
    Keywords: Interest Rates; Investment Funds; Banks and Banking; Insurance; Investment Banking; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • Fall 2017
    • Article

    Strengthening and Streamlining Bank Capital Regulation

    By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel Gregory Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein and Adi Sunderam
    We propose three core principles that should inform the design of bank capital regulation. First, wherever possible, multiple constraints on the minimum level of equity capital should be consolidated into a single constraint. This helps to avoid a distortionary... View Details
    Keywords: Banks and Banking; Capital; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Banking Industry
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    • 27 Apr 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: April 27

    expenditures. In doing so, we show that fiscal spending shocks appear to significantly dampen corporate sector investment and employment activity. These corporate reactions follow both Senate and House committee chair changes, are present... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 21 Feb 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Do Legal Origins Have Persistent Effects Over Time? A Look at Law and Finance around the World c. 1900

    Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio; Legal Services
    • August 2023 (Revised October 2023)
    • Case

    Beyond the Barricades: Chile 2023

    By: Debora Spar, Willis Emmons, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Ruth Costas
    Chile, often considered among Latin America's greatest economic success stories, suffered a shocking wave of protests in October 2019, as its citizens demanded reforms across healthcare and education systems, and protested inequality and rising costs of living. As... View Details
    Keywords: Government Administration; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Public Opinion; Equality and Inequality; Public Administration Industry; Chile; Latin America; South America
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    • July 2008
    • Article

    Crime and Punishment in the 'American Dream'

    By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
    We observe that countries where belief in the "American dream" (i.e., effort pays) prevails also set harsher punishment for criminals. We know that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc). Our objective... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Economic Systems; Values and Beliefs; Law Enforcement; Mathematical Methods; Personal Characteristics; United States
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    • December 2018
    • Article

    Introduction to Argentine Exceptionalism

    By: Edward L. Glaeser, Rafael Di Tella and Lucas Llach
    This article is an introduction to the special collection on Argentine Exceptionalism. First, we discuss why the case of Argentina is generally regarded as exceptional: the country was among the richest in the world at the beginning of the 20th century, but it... View Details
    Keywords: Argentine Exceptionalism; Economic History; Economy; History; Argentina
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    The Need for Speed: Effects of Uncertainty Reduction in Patenting

    By: Mike Horia Teodorescu
    Patents are essential in commerce to establish property rights for ideas and to give equal protection to firms that develop new technologies. Young firms especially depend on the protection of intellectual property to bring a product from concept to market. However,... View Details
    Keywords: Startups; Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning; Patents; Business Startups; Risk and Uncertainty; Outcome or Result; Green Technology Industry
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Lessons Unlearned? Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets

    By: Laura Alfaro, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari and Ugo Panizza
    This paper documents a set of new stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility for emerging market firms following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Corporate debt vulnerability indicators during the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Debt; Financial Fragility; Firm-level Data; Large Firms; Emerging Markets; Borrowing and Debt; Corporate Finance; Financial Condition
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    • Research Summary

    Get in Line: Chapter 11 Restructuring in Crowded Bankruptcy Courts

    This paper tests whether Chapter 11 restructuring outcomes are affected by time constraints in busy bankruptcy courts.  On average, total bankruptcy filings rise by 32% during economic recessions, leaving bankruptcy judges with far less time per case exactly when... View Details
    Keywords: Bankruptcy; Restructuring; Financial Distress; Insolvency and Bankruptcy
    • 2018
    • Book

    A Crisis of Beliefs: Investor Psychology and Financial Fragility

    By: Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer
    The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Although the government rushed to rescue other financial institutions from a similar fate after Lehman, it could not prevent the deepest recession in postwar history. A... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Fragility; Economic Risk; Investor Behavior; Behavioral Economics; Financial Crisis; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Investment; Values and Beliefs; United States
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    • April 1999
    • Article

    Diversification Strategies of British Trading Companies: Harrisons & Crosfield c1900-c1980

    By: G. Jones and Judith Wale
    This article examines the diversification strategies and organisational competencies of Harrisons & Crosfield, a British-based multinational, between 1900 and 1980. There is an accumulating body of case study evidence on the historical evolution of British... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Diversification; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competency and Skills; Great Britain
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    • November 2006
    • Case

    Organics: Coming Center Stage?

    By: James E. Austin and Reed Martin
    The organics movement has certainly come a long way. From hippie farming communes and a scattering of natural food stores in the 1960s, organics outgrew its origins as a counterculture curiosity of the 1970s to become the fastest growing segment of the food industry in... View Details
    Keywords: Food; Supply and Industry; Consumer Behavior; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    • 30 Apr 2024
    • Book

    When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

    decisions that were so clearly disastrous not only for workers and others exposed to asbestos but for the company itself. Shortly thereafter, in 1982, with its asbestos-related liabilities projected to exceed its assets, Johns-Manville View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 14 Feb 2018
    • HBS Seminar

    Ruomeng Cui, Emory University

    • June 2019 (Revised February 2020)
    • Case

    Eric Hawkins Leading Agile Teams @ Digitally-Born AppFolio (A)

    By: Tsedal Neeley, Paul Leonardi and Michael Norris
    Eric Hawkins, director of engineering at AppFolio—a digital technology firm that offered cloud-based business software to small and medium sized companies—was shocked by an unusual request from his senior leadership team. Could Hawkins and one of his agile teams build... View Details
    Keywords: Values; Agile; Vision; Corporate Culture; Leadership; Values and Beliefs; Organizational Culture; Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Transformation; Technology Industry; United States; California
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