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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930

By: Andre C. Martinez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio
There is a large amount of literature that aims to explain what determines country risk (defined as the difference between the yield of a sovereign's bonds and the risk-free rate). In this paper, we contribute to the discussion by arguing that an important explanatory... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Sovereign Finance; Goods and Commodities; Risk and Uncertainty; Trade; Taxation; Cost of Capital; Revenue; Brazil
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  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

world. You better use it wisely. And the best thing that you can do is to lift people up and bring them together in bonds of happiness and love. And when we met each other and realized that we thought, wow, if we could join up forces... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • 08 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

concert. To some extent this is because of the balance required between two pairs of drives. The drives to acquire and to bond are in tension with each other because the first is competitive and the second cooperative. A major part of... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 21 Nov 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Decoupling Effect of Digital Disruptors

Keywords: by Thales S. Teixeira & Peter Jamieson
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Customers and Investors: A Framework for Understanding Financial Institutions

By: Robert C. Merton and Robert T. Thakor
Financial institutions have both investors and customers. Investors, such as those who invest in stocks and bonds or private/public-sector guarantors of institutions, expect an appropriate risk-adjusted return in exchange for the financing and risk-bearing that they... View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions
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  • Research Summary

Consumer-Brand Relationships

Susan M. Fournier is conducting extensive research into the relationships consumers form with brands. Her work builds on the premise that, although marketers espouse the notion of relationships in current thought and practice, none have theoretically maximized the... View Details
  • 26 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Lipstick Tips: How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing

bonding with these influencers,” Vettese says. “They have regular conversations back and forth, and they think of the influencers as being directly ingrained in their day-to-day lives.” Some of the most popular beauty influencers the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • 14 Mar 2023
  • In Practice

What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

rates, but most bank loans are mortgages, which tend to have fixed interest rates, and US Treasury bonds have fixed interest rates, too. Of course, because the interest payments are fixed, the value of these assets is sensitive to changes... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
  • 19 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022

even in a job you don't love. 9. Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together Rituals—even seemingly silly ones—help employees bond and add meaning to their work, says research by Michael Norton, Francesca Gino, and colleagues.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

guiding principle is that the team decides what the co-location schedule will be.” You Might Also Like: Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return Managers, Here’s How to... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 29 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

also tended to have higher rates of corruption. Tips and bribes can possess striking similarities that may lead to their positive association, the researchers report. "In a sense, both are gifts intended to strengthen social bonds... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

What Could Bring Globalization Down?

book about the banker Siegmund Warburg, who was a key proponent of globalization after 1945 and deserves much of the credit for the emergence of the Eurobond market, among other things. More generally, I am continuing to do research on the international View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Corporate Sponsorship in Culture—A Case of Partnership in Relationship Building and Collaborative Marketing by a Global Financial Institution and a Major Art Museum

By: Ragnar Lund and Stephen A. Greyser
Purpose: This paper examines cultural sponsorship from a partnership and relationship marketing perspective. It studies a case of how a partnership between two international institutions, a bank and a museum, adds value to both in terms of interaction with... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Partners and Partnerships; Marketing Strategy; Culture; Banks and Banking
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  • 23 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How to Brand a Next-Generation Product

you expect Rocky II to play off Rocky. But with James Bond movies, there's no reason to expect that the latest Bond movie [Quantum of Solace] has anything to do with the previous View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

the overall objectives of the firm in relation to customers, investors, and regulators. Now people are chosen to step into these roles and the organization is set in motion. What will happen in real time? Once on the job, the bonding... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

bankruptcy proceeding can have difficulty restructuring their public bonds. If such bonds are widely held, individual bondholders may be unwilling to make concessions, preferring to free ride off the concessions of others. Thus it will be... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
  • 09 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

accusations that it claimed to do something but then failed to deliver on it. This charge is called greenwashing when the claims are related to the environment, but similar charges are also being levied at firms that adopt codes of conduct for a range of other... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jun 2021
  • HBS Case

Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm

of passengers transported every year,” says Stuart Gilson, the Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who studied Carnival’s predicament. He points out that in March 2020, Carnival's bonds were... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Travel
  • 11 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

should keep in mind that they may bond more with employees if they clarify that it’s acceptable for workers to express themselves, even when they feel frustrated or discontent. After all, verbalizing those emotions is often discouraged at... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • July 1999 (Revised June 2000)
  • Case

Edward Jones

By: Michael E. Porter and Gregory C. Bond
Edward Jones is a leading, highly profitable retail brokerage firm with a unique strategy very different from those of its rivals. The case describes Jones's activities and allows a rich discussion of its positioning choices, supporting activities, and tradeoffs. Jones... View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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