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  • 28 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

by the interaction of partner firms that does not necessarily accrue to any of them. The extent of "ambivalent value" is unclear, but its persistence, despite changing structural market features, promises to help sustain... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 2014
  • Book

Los Buenos Tiempos Son Éstos: Los efectos de la incursión de la banca extranjera en México después de un siglo de crisis bancarias [These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System]

By: Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio
This book is the Spanish edition of our award winning paper "These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 18713, January 2013. The book examines the effects of foreign bank entry into Mexico. Foreign banks... View Details
Keywords: Banks And Banking; Mexico; Commercial Banking; Foreign Direct Investment; Competition; Financial Markets; Banking Industry; Mexico
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  • 08 May 2019
  • News

Fellowships Enable Students to Broaden Their Impact

Rishabh Agarwal (MBA 2020) Rishabh Agarwal (MBA 2020) As a high-frequency trader in Chicago, Rishabh Agarwal (MBA 2020) worked the American markets from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., then the Asian markets from... View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 24 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

On August 15th, Aetna announced that it would reduce by 80 percent its participation in the Obama administration’s public exchanges for health insurance policies in 2017, citing significant financial losses. The move came just a few weeks... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health
  • 18 Dec 2019
  • News

Thinking Smart About Numbers

financially needy UK students to attend HBS. To celebrate 30 years and the 70 Fulbright tuition scholarships they’ve awarded since then, the British Friends and the HBS Club of London will hold a dinner in London on January 29, 2020. The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

that these spillover effects cannot be seamlessly offset, even though issuers are large, highly rated firms. Our results illustrate that instabilities associated with money market funds persist despite recent changes to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

New Releases

teachings of Muhammad prohibit Muslims from accepting or charging interest. As oil prices and the individual incomes of many Muslims in the Middle East skyrocketed in the 1970s, so too did the need for financial instruments that allowed... View Details
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

Abstract—General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the U.S. market fell from 62.6% to 19.8%, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. In this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Short Takes

They also must create value when their inputs and outputs are valued at prevailing market prices: otherwise they cannot stay in business. "Realistic assessments of a country's or firm's sustainability need to consider its economic... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 15 Nov 2020
  • News

Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS

Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Professor Mike Toffel lays out the scenario: JUUL is the e-cigarette market leader—its revenue grew from $200 million to $1 billion between 2017 and 2018. But... View Details
  • 07 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 7

response of the U.S. government to the excessive compensation of executives following the market collapse of 2008. In particular, the case focuses on the special committee that was formed to oversee and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Arthur J. Decio

    Decio transformed his family’s company from a small coach firm in a garage in Indiana into one of the three largest builders of manufactured homes in the United States. Under his leadership, Skyline grew to 25 companies with 3,500 employees in 12 states. In the... View Details
    Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
    • June 2007 (Revised January 2008)
    • Case

    The Vanguard Group, Inc. in 2006 and Target Retirement Funds

    By: Luis M. Viceira
    The Vanguard Group is one of the largest asset managers in the U.S., with over $1 trillion in assets, ninety percent of which are mutual fund assets, and more than 12,000 employees at year-end 2006. Vanguard has built a strong reputation as the manager of reference for... View Details
    Keywords: Asset Management; Investment Funds; Personal Finance; Brands and Branding; Retirement; Trust; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 01 Sep 2007
    • News

    Paulson Speaks on China at HBS

    intellectual property protection, and domestic consumption. In addition, Paulson said, the Chinese will not “be able to develop the financial markets and banks they want unless they have a currency that... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
    • 16 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings

    few years, he said, has permanently changed the financial markets and the idea of entrepreneurship. "I think the financial field is permanently warped, especially for... View Details
    Keywords: by Carrie Levine
    • 01 Feb 1997
    • News

    Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar

    areas of capital markets, financial services, and corporate finance. "New financial product and market designs, improved computer and telecommunications technology, and... View Details
    Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
    • 02 Dec 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News

    quarter earlier.) Despite disclosure legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley designed to ensure a transparent, level playing field, Cohen says that casting calls are a subtle but important way that companies influence the information they reveal to the market. "What we find... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
    • October 2011 (Revised March 2015)
    • Case

    SKS and the AP Microfinance Crisis

    By: Shawn Cole and Yannick Saleman
    SKS, India's leading microfinance firm, is challenged when politicians declaim microfinance as exploitation of the poor and severely restrict business practices. View Details
    Keywords: Microfinance; Government Administration; Policy; Capital Markets; Crisis Management; Poverty; Financial Services Industry; India
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    • 16 Feb 2017
    • News

    Saudi Stock Exchange Picks First Female Chair

    Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
    • 15 Oct 2001
    • Op-Ed

    Lessons from the Rubble

    unfold and at the continued horrors that any response will undoubtedly let loose. We know that the death toll is at least in the thousands, and that the financial toll will soar to tens of billions of dollars. There are other things,... View Details
    Keywords: by Debora L. Spar