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    Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit

    We show that business development companies (BDCs)—closed-end funds that provide a significant share of nonbank loans to middle market firms—are very well capitalized according to bank capital frameworks. They have median risk-based capital ratios of about 36% and,... View Details
    • 10 Dec 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Vulnerable Banks

    Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Augustin Landier & David Thesmar; Banking; Financial Services
    • Research Summary

    A major area of Professor Torfason's research is the behavior of individual social network structures. He studies the violation of norms – specifically the use of excessive force in conflict situations – within the empirical context of a large online... View Details

    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks

    By: Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard Posner and Alvin E. Roth
    In the past, judges have often hired applicants for judicial clerkships as early as the beginning of the second year of law school for positions commencing approximately two years down the road. In the new hiring regime for federal judicial law clerks, by contrast,... View Details
    Keywords: Law; Education; Employment; Selection and Staffing; Marketplace Matching
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Bankruptcy and the COVID-19 Crisis

    By: Jialan Wang, Jeyul Yang, Benjamin Iverson and Raymond Kluender
    We examine the impact of the COVID-19 economic crisis on business and consumer bankruptcies in the United States using real-time data on the universe of filings. Historically, bankruptcies have closely tracked the business cycle and contemporaneous unemployment rates.... View Details
    Keywords: Bankruptcy; Financial Distress; COVID-19; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Crisis; Health Pandemics; United States
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    • 2022
    • Chapter

    Lessons Learned from Support to Business during COVID-19

    By: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Benjamin Iverson and Adi Sunderam
    The authors survey the new federal subsidies and loans provided to businesses in the first year of the pandemic—including the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, and aid targeted at specific industries such as airlines... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Small Business; Government Legislation; Policy
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    • February 2016
    • Case

    Banking and Politics in Antebellum New York

    By: David Moss and Colin Donovan
    After a long period of solid Democratic control, Whigs secured a majority of seats in the New York State Assembly in 1837, the same year that a major financial panic had crippled the banking system and shaken public confidence in the state's governance. The next year,... View Details
    Keywords: Governance; Central Banking; Ethics; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics; History; New York (state, US)
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    • 18 Nov 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying

    Keywords: by William R. Kerr, William Lincoln & Prachi Mishra
    • 11 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits

    profits and, by and large, paying a living wage to their editorial employees, the study notes. That stability also enabled the field’s moral calling to mature and develop like it never had before, with a belief in the mission of... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
    • October 2010 (Revised June 2014)
    • Case

    Volkswagen do Brasil: Driving Strategy with the Balanced Scorecard

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
    A new management team at VW do Brazil develops and deploys a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard to accomplish a turnaround and cultural change after eight consecutive years of financial losses and market share declines. The team uses the strategy map to align... View Details
    Keywords: Business Cycles; Developing Countries and Economies; Management Teams; Leadership; Balanced Scorecard; Strategic Planning; Balance and Stability; Motivation and Incentives; Communication Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Auto Industry; Brazil; Germany
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    • February 2009 (Revised March 2013)
    • Case

    Shanghai Diligence Law Firm (A)

    By: Robert G. Eccles and Catherine Zhang
    Shanghai Diligence Law Firm, started in January 2006, is a rapidly growing law firm in China's burgeoning legal services market. In addition to the usual challenges facing all professional service firms (picking and retaining talent and building a desired client... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Motivation and Incentives; Legal Services Industry; China
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    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    Wide Horizon

    There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details
    Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
    • 29 Nov 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

    reaction of advertisers today is more of a prelude to what might happen in the future. So far, we haven’t seen that many structural changes to the business yet, and the changes and experiments are rolling out progressively day by day. Gazette: What does Musk need to do... View Details
    Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology
    • 19 Dec 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022

    Stress) It's not about the bigger home or the better vacation. Financial stability helps people escape the everyday hassles of life, says research by Jon Jachimowicz. 3. Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
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    Leadership Initiative - Leadership

    she served for several years on the Advisory Board of Women in Animation, a non-profit organization striving to improve the representation and career opportunities for women in the animation industry. Currently she serves as a corporate advisor for View Details
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    2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

    Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability Project, have made tremendous strides in predicting financial market crashes, panics, and crises. Participants left this session understanding the state of the art in identifying financial market... View Details
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    Rigorous research, rooted in practice | About

    Race, Gender & Equity Social Enterprise Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability Case Method Project Creating Emerging Markets Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard Foundry Impact-Weighted Accounts Institute for Strategy and... View Details
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    Skydeck - Alumni

    the Workplace Katherine Switz (MBA 2000) on how her own experience with bipolar disorder led to forming the Stability Network, an advocacy and support group for working professionals An Environmental Epiphany Former energy executive Jules... View Details
    • 28 Nov 2023
    • Book

    Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

    Silverthorne: What skills do capitalists need to maneuver effectively in environments where laws may be absent, institutions are weak, and stability is more or less dependent on one person or party’s ability to hold power? Rithmire:... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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    Finance - Faculty & Research

    demand from abroad, encounter difficulties when confronted with the full range of evidence. We propose an explanation based on a decline in inflation and default risk. We show that a model with sovereign default captures the decline in interest rates, the View Details