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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Invest in the New Abnormal
Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong The novel coronavirus did more than disrupt jobs, supply chains, and financial markets, says HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé. The pandemic has also upended how companies must engage with customers:... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. As a simple theoretical framework predicts, we find that leverage is inversely related to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Business Review 90, no. 12 (December 2012) Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/12/the-microwork-solution/ar/1 Are There Too Many Safe Securities? Securitization and the Incentives View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax
“Energy Sale” model in India. This model, also known as the “OPEX” model, shifts the performance risk of renewables from the corporations to CleanMax, allowing customers to pay only for energy consumed without upfront View Details
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
the World Trade Organization. C. J. Cullinane comments, "We need ... global guidelines and regulations as well as transparency." Jacoline Loewen, concurs, saying that "there may not be global rules for State Capitalism yet,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
to be a bit cautious, however. When the level of public debt is high, investors demand for short-term safe securities is most likely satiated, meaning that there is not much... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
proliferation of strategies, from those aggressively demanding change at targeted companies to others that function more like conventional value investors searching for underpriced View Details
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
demand for liquidity and immediacy into long-term lending of the kind that promotes growth and prosperity. And banks are the institutions with the expertise to do this. Thus banks had to find new ways to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50187 Capital Requirements, Risk Choice, and Liquidity Provision in a Business Cycle Model By: Begenau, Juliane Abstract—This paper develops a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model in which households' preferences... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
Arctic. There is a major anthracite coal reserve in northern Alaska, and if we’re going to burn coal anywhere in the world, that’s some of the best to use. Major development exploration is going on there now. Amid all this demand View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Books
demanding clients, tougher competitors, and associates with higher expectations than in the past. The authors present a broad framework suited to such complexity and identify four critical activities for... View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
Agricultural Advice: Technology Adoption, Diffusion and Sustainability By: Cole, Shawn A., and A. Nilesh Fernando Abstract—We examine the role of management in agricultural productivity by evaluating a mobile-phone based agricultural advice service provided to farmers... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
three-time increase in cov-lite issuance compared to a previous peak in 2007. We evaluate whether this development can be attributed to market overheating, increased borrower demand for cov-lite loans, or a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
banks, both large and small, from ever fully returning to the small business market. Cyclical Factors Linger From The Recession In the recent recession small-business sales were hit hard and may still be soft, undermining their demand... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
their interconnected early history. Even the 18th century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the 19th, they paradoxically sought to make the world safe for “capitalists.” The word “socialists” was... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
U.S. had already given away thousands of pills for doctors to run clinical trials. Once the full extent of the global thalidomide crisis became generally known, the U.S. Congress significantly reformed the country’s drug approval process... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
Lee For Jonas Lee (MBA ’93) and his investment firm, Redbrick Partners, the purchase, refurbishment, rental, and maintenance of hundreds of low-cost, single-family urban homes represent a terrific, overlooked market opportunity. “It’s a... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
demand and the profitability to engage in exports and R&D, thereby relaxing borrowing constraints and enabling more firms to overcome the fixed-cost hurdle for financing R&D. We decompose the effects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
lives of their men and women. In other words, the IDF is a factory for developing potential business leaders, with many of the kinds of leadership skills underscored at HBS. And those skills are much in View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
issues like gender, race, and religion, we are really talking about how we get along with others and how we create a world that is safe for difference." Slifka is working hard to create such a world. The... View Details