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- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
level of debt as a percent of nominal GDP; the interest rate; the inflation rate; the growth rate; and changes in the exchange rate if some debt is owed in a foreign currency. The note discusses how these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
or fail to analyze the utter breakdown in board governance and Enron's internal controls, and the failure of credit rating agencies to blow the whistle," he says. "They also overlook the collusion of investment banks in... View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
PublicationsNonsimultaneous Chains and Dominos in Kidney Paired Donation—Revisited Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Duncan S. Gilchrist, Alvin E. Roth, and Michael A. Rees Publication:American Journal of Transplantation 11, no. 5 (May 2011) Abstract Since 2008 kidney View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?
Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
book, which grew out of background notes Moss wrote for his MBA students, is a nontechnical, accessible explanation of broad concepts such as "output," "money," and "expectations"—as well as more specific ones ranging from real View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
data reveal that the transition from fixed to flexible exchange rate arrangement due to the Bretton Woods agreement is more nuanced than previously described. The authors also... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- Op-Ed
Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services
If professional service leaders wish to scale up their enterprises, they must first answer a critical question: Why? How would scale provide an advantage for my firm? Scale can benefit a professional service firm in four ways: Cost economies. If a firm incurs... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda
- Web
Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
Financial Strategy ; Microfinance ; International Finance ; Currency Exchange Rate ; Profit Sharing ; Revenue ; Developing Countries and Economies ; Economic Growth ; Banking Industry ; Financial Services... View Details
- 25 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?
reasonable profits and reduced Hepatitis C, and rates of which are expected to fall by 86 percent between 2020 and 2030, according to Egypt’s Ministry of Health. This real-world example demonstrates how a business model can help Big... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
large due to either product characteristics or the distance between exporter and importer. Finally, we find that in countries with well-developed finance, total exports and the allocation of exports across importers are more sensitive to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
given to applications, the coarseness of rating patterns, and the sellers' dynamic certification strategies. In the model, certifiers respond to the sellers' desire to get a chance to be highly rated and to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Derivatives and Swaps (1) Credit (8) Crime and Corruption (43) Crisis Management (51) Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues (23) Culture (10) Currency Exchange Rate (3) Currency (12) Curriculum and Courses... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
advertising agency services and the slow pace of change over several decades. We model an agency's decision as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing a relationship with an agency and pecuniary economies of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
of countries with deteriorated corporate financial fragility indicators (Altman’s Z-score). Firm size plays a critical role in the relationship between leverage, firm fragility, and exchange rate movements... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big
After a rough 2022, the $1.2 trillion global cryptocurrency market is still going strong, though its value is down by more than half from its 2021 peak of $3 trillion. Last year saw the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX and an... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 25 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Collaborating Across Cultures
helps cross-cultural creative collaboration." Testing Cultural Metacognition In the first of three studies, the researchers asked 43 middle-level managers enrolled in an executive MBA course to complete a questionnaire to rate their own... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Aug 2010
- News
A Lonely Crusader
municipal bond insurer, MBIA, is the subject of a new book, Confidence Game. MBIA’s stellar financial performance and rock-solid triple-A rating masked the firm’s growing fragility as it ventured deeper and deeper into insuring... View Details
- 13 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?
Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 28 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels
terms of business outcomes, they're not developing the best customer relationships they could.” Companies that fix disparities in their service delivery are likely to boost customer satisfaction and loyalty, say Feldberg and Kim in the... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds