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- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
Publications March 2015 AFP Exchange Well Said: Why Articulating Your Strategy Can Set You Apart. By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract—Senior finance managers now operate in an altered c-suite landscape. The executives reporting to the CEO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
bankers’ preferred conditions exist there. Revenues are sketchy, exchange rate risk is real, political uncertainties abound, and expertise is thin. Yet projects get funded and built. Capital lessons What can... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
signals, we consider the influence of singular sector-level triggers, which we call entrepreneurial beacons. We argue that the actions or outcomes of salient organizations attract and motivate entrepreneurs, thus increasing the rate of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
way for higher rates of customer acquisition and higher rates of repeat purchasing among existing customers in the direct channels in the long term. Our results are based on intervention analysis with a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
than country characteristics in explaining governance ratings variance. Our findings show that firms in emerging economies over recent years had more capability to rise above home-country peer firms in corporate governance View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
rate. Thus, at a certain level of mutual dependence, the more powerful actor obtains a greater share of a much smaller exchange surplus leading him or her to be worse off than he would be in an equal-power dyad. We support this prediction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
PlaNet Finance was a French NGO providing technical support and training services to microfinance institutions (i.e., institutions providing financial services to the poor) and other microfinance actors, rating of microfinance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Regression estimates suggest that the relationship between leverage, exchange rate depreciations, and corporate financial distress is time varying. A central finding is that firm size is correlated with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
with pesos in Argentina's banking system. By June 2012, AFIP had removed "saving" as a legitimate explanation. While the official exchange rate was approaching six pesos to the dollar, the black... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
of the financial scandals that propelled the recent economic collapse, Heese looked at enforcement by the Securities and Exchange Commission, asking why regulators were so amiss at monitoring firms' compliance with accounting standards.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
non-performing loans and an increase in interest rate spreads, suggesting that foreign concerns bought domestic banks that had been making loans with low interest rates to parties that had a low probability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
interest rate risk premium and a changing liquidity risk premium, and that the variability in the nominal bond risk premia reflects a changing inflation risk premium. We estimate significant time series variability in the magnitude and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
system of Asian currency pegs that some commentators dubbed “Bretton Woods II.” In 2006 Chinese holdings of dollars almost certainly passed the trillion dollar mark. (Significantly, the net increase of China’s foreign exchange reserves... View Details
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
quickly, and those agents choose the platform with a restricted number of candidates. This is because those agents value the higher rate of acceptance more than access to more candidates. In contrast, agents with higher outside option... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
information is to be exchanged over whiskey, let us get it rather than give it.” “An auditor is like a tailor: He can make a fat man look thinner or taller or younger.” “You will get nowhere if you do not inspire people.” “Always remember... View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
emerging markets sample. Also, the more-levered large firms are more vulnerable to exchange rate shocks than smaller firms with comparable levels of leverage. While this result holds for the average country... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
sell it." He uses as examples the fact that few people pay to have their name not listed in the phone book and the popularity of "free" computers -- where consumers get a computer in exchange for giving out personal information, agreeing... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
forecasted GDP growth rates for Japan by 0.5% for the first quarter of this year, and by more than 1.5% for the second quarter. The financial consequences are equally alarming. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average plunged 6.2% at the market's... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
of declining revenues and profits at Lind as exchange rates and the impact of the Great Recession took its toll on the firm. Without a quick solution, Lind could be pushed into bankruptcy. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
private and public sectors can tilt the odds back to our favor—and what victory would really look like. Unite the Fight On February 13, 2015, President Obama announced an executive order that encouraged the exchange of cyberattack data... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai