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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
balance sheet constraints and bond liquidity By: Johannes Breckenfelder & Victoria Ivashina SEP 2021 The authors explore the ties between bonds and individual dealers formed through home advantage and the persistence of previous... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
home. While both types of visits increased registration, home registration visits had a higher impact than information-only visits, indicating that both information costs and administrative barriers impede registration. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
struck effectively institutionalized corruption and slowed growth in the long-run. A second possible solution to the problem, of course, is to get another more powerful country to create the rule of law where it does not exist. The... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
gas started in 1933, when Hess’s father Leon bought a secondhand truck and began delivering fuel oil to homes in New Jersey. A thought leader for the energy industry, Hess serves on the board of trustees at the Center for Strategic and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
Ngoyi at the Fund for Export Development in Africa: creating sustainable development at scale. (Courtesy of Marlene Ngoyi) Born in Brussels to Congolese parents and raised in Gabon, Marlene Ngoyi (MBA 2009) has lived and worked in View Details
- 25 Oct 2010
- HBS Case
Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market
makes ideal Harvard Business School case material for teaching everything from multinational strategy to on-the-ground logistics. Marketing professor John A. Quelch recently introduced Tesco PLC: Fresh & Easy in the United States, developed from public sources.... View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
countries, we show that prosocial spending is consistently associated with greater happiness. To test for causality, we conduct experiments within two very different countries (Canada and Uganda) and show that spending money on others has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
is poised for a drastic, historic change, says Harvard Business School Professor Prithwiraj Choudhury. What’s more, the normalization of virtual work that began with the COVID-19 pandemic is creating meaningful perks for local economies, allowing View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
deeply about taking their team, company, community, or country to a different and better place. You could call this long-term thinking, but it’s more than that. There’s often a big dream, which sometimes seems impossibly grand, even... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?
Ramesh Balwani, had long known that Theranos’ home blood test didn’t work, but misled investors to keep money flowing in. Holmes and Balwani are accused of defrauding patients, doctors, and investors of over $700 million. At its peak in... View Details
- Profile
Yung Winata
that you admire the most today? My mother. Like so many hard-working immigrants in search of a better life for their families, she arrived in this country with no money and no one to turn to for help. She sacrificed for the limitless... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
this a priority, nagging them like worried grandmothers and sending chicken soup to their home offices if that is what it takes. Leaders also need to model self-care for their teams. Looking disheveled and exhausted in virtual meetings... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
to the inaccuracy of barrel bombs to examine the effect of having one's home destroyed on political and community loyalties. We find that refugees who lose a home to barrel bombing, while more likely to feel... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
incentivized to work through increased financial access, control, and literacy, Rigol explains, the sight of a woman working outside the home became more common—and the perceived social cost of a working wife decreased, even if a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?
the two countries have managed to alienate each other. It includes everything from blame about COVID-19 to suppression of minorities in China to the US policy toward Taiwan and “One China” to military action in waters adjacent to China to... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 06 Jun 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?
governments should stop the natural market dynamics, but . . . countries should (not) use the term 'level playing field' as an excuse for exploitation." Paul Jackson points out that "In this View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 May 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)
to school in the Midwest, that I slowly became aware of the ways people might see me and my culture differently. I realized there were a lot of people in my country and in the world who had never met a Chinese person before, and had no... View Details
- Profile
Peter Gumulia
access to high quality education for millions of Indonesians.” With support from the i-lab and Rock Center, Peter aspires to build an online English learning platform in his home country. “Indonesia is transitioning from a View Details
- 29 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
Job-hopping doesn’t benefit lower-level workers. Women in lower-level positions did not gain the same advantage over men that senior executive women did. Men still take home more. Salaries for men were still 14 percentage points higher... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz