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- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
paper specifies and estimates a model in which the nominal term structure of interest rates is driven by four state variables: the real interest rate, temporary and permanent components of expected... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
When Standard & Poor's Rating Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States from AAA to AA+ on August 5, it was a shot heard 'round the world. Stock markets plummeted,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
significantly increased the returns on capital. However, contrary to what economic theory might lead us to expect, the cost of capital as measured by long-term real interest rates has not increased, but... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
income of the importing country. Because most low-income countries import the bulk of capital goods, our results provide suggestive evidence that capital goods are more expensive in poor countries, consistent with the conventional explanation regarding the low View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
its current status as a low-income country to a middle-income one by 2030. “The timeline could be two or three years, or a decade later” While the International Monetary Fund predicted the country could achieve 6-7 percent annual increases in View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
answers depend on the platform. Some products help those who need the most help. Some help only those who have little trouble interacting in the real world anyway. And some platforms offer certain features that help those who need it... View Details
- 08 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Writing the Case for Public School Reform
The state of public education in the United States is a perennial hot-button topic, with rhetoric often outpacing any real sense of progress. The Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a 2003 joint initiative of HBS and Harvard's... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
indivisibility of residential real estate that prevents homeowners from deleveraging when property values decline and homeowner equity deteriorates, conspire to create a "ratchet" effect in which homeowner leverage is maintained... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
assignment of students into business school sections that have varying numbers of classmates with prior entrepreneurial experience. We find that the presence of entrepreneurial peers strongly predicts subsequent entrepreneurship rates of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
the end is better products and services. According to Bob DeNoble, "... information is a tool to help get the real work done. It enables us to produce food, clothing, and shelter, run our transportation and banking systems, and keep... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
Outcome measures top the list, with 60% of respondents saying they are extremely important. This survey suggests that many in health care see value-based reimbursement as a real solution to the nation’s current health care crisis.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
telecoms, commercial real estate, and more. Harvard Business School students visit the Reppie Waste to Energy Plant, the first waste-to-energy project in Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Credit: John Macomber We have conducted several... View Details
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
Summing Up Less is increasingly more, at least in the minds of customers, according to nearly every respondent to this month's column. However, some cite product complexity as the cause of rising real and psychological consumer... View Details
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
and Australia; and industries include automotive, hospitality, real estate, manufacturing, and finance. Their biggest concerns fell into five categories: Cash flow and liquidity. “Payments [were] not coming in, but we had to make our... View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
and $12 billion, which equates to between 1.3% and 8.7% of the stock of prepackaged software in private fixed investment in the United States and a very high rate of return to the original federal investment in the Internet. We argue that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
There's a classic cartoon plot device that represents a struggle with temptation. A tiny angel pops up on the conflicted character's left shoulder, urging him to follow the path of righteousness. A tiny devil sits on his right shoulder, pressing him to give into his... View Details
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
Advertising Authors:Kireyev, Pavel, Koen Pauwels, and Sunil Gupta Abstract As firms increasingly rely on online media to acquire consumers, marketing managers feel comfortable justifying higher online marketing spending by referring to online metrics such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
of the current seven individual tax brackets with three brackets, with rates at 12 percent, 25 percent, and 35 percent. A 20 percent corporate tax rate, down from 39.1 percent. Establish a 25 percent rate... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
goal of residency training. The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani Publication:In The View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
fossil fuels and releasing CO2 emissions at rates that by 2100 will far outstrip the cumulative amount of atmospheric CO2 needed to increase the average world temperature by 2 degrees Celsius—if not 6 degrees. And after 2100, the world... View Details