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- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
and residential real estate, which represent two-thirds of the assets of small-business owners and are often used as collateral for small-business loans, were decimated during the financial crisis. On the supply side, banks remain more risk averse in the View Details
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
securities are pooled and tranched. Their simulation uses pools consisting of 100 bonds with a five-year default probability of 5 percent and a recovery rate of 50 percent of face value conditional on default. Within each pool, the... View Details
- 21 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
The Power of Business in the Energy Transition
alongside recovery and recycling of minerals out of these existing waste streams, presenting opportunities for those willing to take a long-term view of value. The day closed with a case competition featuring budding companies engaged in... View Details
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
"identity"? Does this require yet one more intrusion by government into the private sector? In fact, is it even achievable in countries like the U.S. at this late date? Will such efforts result in the same slow responses to an economic crisis and sluggish... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
minute—and the decision of whether to ride it out and hope for a recovery or to blink and 'puke their position' (pardon the phrase but it's how actual traders describe it)—to be an extremely harrowing experience," says professor... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Professor of Business Administration, spoke with Fiba Group executives Hüsnü Özyeğin (MBA 1969) and Murat Özyeğin (MBA 2003) about opportunities that a post-pandemic recovery may present. And in July, Linda Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
health research grants. We support the AKC Companion Animal Recovery, an organization that focuses on providing lost-dog recovery services by maintaining a database for animals equipped with an ID microchip. The AKC also has a world-class... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
speed their recovery in a friendly, noninstitutional environment. The hospital’s advertising consists of word of mouth, and Shouldice’s popularity is such that former patients (“alumni”) return by the hundreds for reunions. The hospital... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
directors, we often discussed the reality that pushing rates up too precipitously would risk cutting off the recovery before we’re at full employment. I think Boston Fed economists would say that it would be great to operate in an economy... View Details
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
micro-economic strategies that give small businesses and entrepreneurs the resources they need to grow and create more well-paying jobs. One of the most critical of these is capital. As the pace of the recovery continues to be slow, we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Many observers say that job creation is the key to economic recovery in the United States. Can government investments in entrepreneurial ventures succeed in creating jobs? A number of variables need to come together to make it happen.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
million relief and recovery fundraising effort to a $50 million goal that will aid partner organizations in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, Newark, and Oakland. (Thanks to Owusu-Kesse’s seven-minute TED talk, HCZ raised $26... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
organizations, and local towns), garnering unforgettable lessons in crisis leadership, entrepreneurship, and economic revival. Some of their projects are documented in HBS cases written by Takeuchi in collaboration with students—such as Google Japan’s response and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
investors, or other members of development teams. Firing Back by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld (MBA ’78, DBA ’81) and Andrew Ward (HBS Press) The authors lay out a novel five-step recovery process to rescue a career: “Fight, not flight” (face the... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
of dollars every year. I estimate that liquidation is frequently chosen when a reorganization would have maximized total creditor recovery. I estimate that courts could dramatically improve creditor recovery by assigning liquidations... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
deep financial distress and had no choice but seek a foreign partner. Ghosn, who had never worked in Japan but had extensive experiences in other parts of the world, motivated the middle management at Nissan and transformed the culture of the company, leading to the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Web
Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
expansion for U.S. Steel, increased output of steel from foreign sources began to impact domestic markets. With their post-war economic recoveries well underway, Europe and Japan emerged as major competitors in the global steel market.... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
show that overall creditor recovery rates are higher, and unsecured creditor recoveries and post-bankruptcy survival rates are not different when bankrupt firms sell businesses as going concerns. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Pittsburgh had a second act (or third, counting the city's reversal from untenable air and water pollution levels in the 1940s). Pittsburgh's recovery offers a potential model for Detroit. It went on to become a technology hub, anchored... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
accelerates recovery rates to such an extent that it creates a treadmill situation—we have to run very hard just to stay even with existing production levels." Information technology is also used to sift through geological data in the... View Details