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- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Case 709-017 Despite a tradition of high household savings, Japan has supported a dynamic and technically sophisticated consumer-lending sector. The high profitability of the sector has periodically attracted interest from domestic banks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
the deflation that had plagued Japan since around 2000 and to increase the Japanese growth rate. The first of this three-pronged approach consisted of appointing a central bank governor who committed himself to raising the inflation rate and who vastly expanded the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
strategically use product complexity to cater to yield-seeking households by making product returns more salient and shrouding risk. We find four empirical results consistent with this view. First, we show that structured products with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
place, and did you always want to be an entrepreneur? Caren Kelleher: My love of music, and I'd say entrepreneurship, started very young. I grew up in a household full of music. My dad was a real rock-and-roll guy, and started teaching me... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
Personally, how do you feel you changed when you made that transition? Sulyman: I think it really opened my mind. I was very sheltered growing up in Lagos, Nigeria. Very loving parents, grew up in the household of five people, two... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
accounting and discuss the intended purposes of the balance sheet and income statement (with particular attention to net income). Students will also have a chance to review the business model of Berkshire... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
mortgage brokers, hedge funds, private-equity funds, off-balance sheet structured-investment vehicles, and a booming market in opaque derivatives, especially credit-default swaps, he continues. By the summer of 2007, the Treasury... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
themselves by dutifully pumping all their profits back into the firm. By 1986, RCA's balance sheet was in shambles, and its consumer electronics division and NBC were sold to General Electric. The company... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
three-part interview with Harvard Business School Marketing professors Rajiv Lal and José B. Alvarez, they discuss who is winning this revolution and which brands appear to be losing ground. Sean Silverthorne: Among the retailers you have found to be most successful in... View Details
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
institutions that did not contribute to the recent crisis? Whatever the impact, regulators also have to be careful not to be "fighting the last war." Today, we face a new battle. The household and government sectors are... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- Web
2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Iowa Dr. Beth A. Livingston is the Ralph L. Sheets Associate Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business, an internal advisor with the Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest, a NIOSH Center... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
telecommuting, gender-related pay gaps, a household division of labor that still saddles women with a disproportionate share of caretaking chores, and the question of religious expression in the workplace. Read the article:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
responded to changes in OTA and streaming options. We find little evidence of households weighing relative content offerings/quality when choosing their means of video provision during the timespan of our data. This last finding has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
emerging market corporate balance sheet indicators have not deteriorated to AFC crisis-country levels. However, more countries are close to or in the “vulnerable” range of Altman’s Z-score, and average... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
a way for managers to balance the analytical side of their work with the human side and find a sound way forward when analysis falls short. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50601 forthcoming Patent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=206075 PublicationsAre Hedge Fund Fees a Bargain? And Other Conundrums of Balancing Active and Passive Management Authors:Randolph B. Cohen and Kerry J. Stirton... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
trauma edged in too: The King George Hotel, just next door, sold for a song in 2017, when Eurobank was unloading foreclosed properties to bring down the balance of its nonperforming loans. “Forty-three million euros, it was the best offer... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
for the addition to the company's balance sheet of a significant amount of new debt and a reshaping of the capital structure. While leveraged buyouts had been used in Europe for several years, this was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
are parked at all the Walmarts in the world, so hedge funds can [then] long or short the stock without waiting for the quarterly reports. It’s another way to monetize those images.” Balance sheets can take... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
post-GFC, emerging market corporate balance sheet indicators have not deteriorated to AFC crisis-country levels. However, more countries are close to or in the “vulnerable” range of Altman’s Z-score, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne