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- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
AFC. However, a broader set of emerging market countries show weaker liquidity, solvency, and profitability indicators. More countries are also in the Altman Z-score's “grey zone,” that is, at risk for corporate distress. Regression... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
terrorism. Bremer, who has also worked as a special or executive assistant to six secretaries of state, entered the private sector in 1989, becoming managing director of Kissinger Associates, a strategic consulting firm. In 2000, he moved to Marsh & McLennan to... View Details
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Closings - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
substantive close to the class, fearing that without some pulling-together of the class discussion, students may leave feeling confused, frustrated and perhaps demotivated. These competing views suggest that case instructors should take care to avoid the View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
perspective, he says the 2008 crisis can be seen through the lenses of bad beliefs and bad incentives—the latter being the idea that there was a common understanding of risk in the financial system, but people were motivated to ignore the... View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
interest tax deduction. Retsinas is a senior lecturer in real estate at Harvard Business School, director emeritus of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, and former Federal Housing Commissioner. Q: What factors have... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
sufficient to fuel international expansion. The author presents advice on overcoming the paradox but warns it can be a lengthy process. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2010/12/why-you-arent-buying-venezuelan-chocolate/ar/1# Bringing Ethics into Focus: How Regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55281 Fall 2018 Eighteenth-Century Studies Cosmopoleis: Empire and Capitalism By: Reinert, Sophus A. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55279 Issuer Default... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
PublicationsBarriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India Authors:Shawn A. Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert M. Townsend, and James Vickery Publication:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
(EH) in inflation-indexed (or real) bonds and in nominal bonds in the U.S. and in the U.K. We strongly reject the EH in inflation-indexed bonds and also confirm and update the existing evidence rejecting the EH in nominal bonds. This rejection implies that the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
individual's portfolio to his or her age (young investors should take more risk with stocks) and attitudes toward risk (conservative investors should hold more cash). Research done by Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online
organization for the business risks and opportunities created by climate change. 5 weeks 5-6 hours per week 3 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you earn .... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
moral hazard in the financial system to an entirely new level,” he warns. But Moss has a fix: The federal government should slap tough new regulations on all firms that pose “systemic risk” — the risk that a failure of one institution... View Details
- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
disasters all present significant risks for India’s sustained economic growth and the wellbeing of its population. As a coastal city with extensive area below sea level and already high ambient temperatures, Mumbai faces acute urban heat... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
they really need to be able to analyze what the chances are that the mortgage will be prepaid - in other words, what the risk is to them. What our analysis did, in addition to improving the means to price options, was to provide a way to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
and customer satisfaction, factors that contribute to revenue growth. So how can shareholders and other stakeholders know if a company’s commitment to a sustainable society is contributing to a sustainable strategy that will create value... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
explanatory factor is the impact that commodities have on the capacity to pay. We use a newly created database with state-level fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
IS FIRST Drilling down further into the data, they analyzed which factors determine which companies were most likely to be helped or hurt by such ties. First off, McDonald and his co-authors hypothesized that the biggest beneficiary would... View Details
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
"Regional Disadvantage? Non-Compete Agreements and Brain Drain," the researchers show that non-competes indeed factor into an inventor's decision to emigrate, within the United States, to states that disallow non-competes. "It's clear... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
small-business loan market was being mispriced and underserved,” says Sean, who serves as CEO (Kenny is COO). It’s an assumption that required finding early stage funding partners willing to take the risk necessary to validate the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Stevenson, conference chair and chair of the School's Entrepreneurial Management unit, will describe the key insights HBS has developed in fifty years of teaching entrepreneurship; Professor Teresa M. Amabile will report on her findings from an ongoing study of the... View Details