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  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

grant less credit, screen loans more intensively, and charge lower interest rate spreads. The cause is Mexico's weak contract rights environment. One would normally associate risk aversion with lower profits. We find, however, that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Nov 2020
  • News

The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

opportunity to start my own business. I actually wrote the business plan in one of my HBS courses as the final project. I then took this business plan to the bank and was able to secure a loan to start a real estate investment company... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Latin America's Decade

From his vantage point, Sicupira confirms that even in Brazil, the world's ninth largest economy and the powerhouse of Latin America with its 170 million people, capital is not easy to find. "In Brazil," he states, "there is a shortage of equity and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

private banker, and a Nobel-prize winning economist. They present different interpretations of the causes of the financial crisis and make proposals about how a similar crisis might be stopped in the future. The goal of the case is to provide View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

new bank will loan less than the original plan, and the construction budget has come in considerably higher. Students must evaluate the plan and prospective returns in light of this new information. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact

Bloom admits. "It's not difficult conceptually, but as a practical matter, it's challenging to conduct baseline surveys before an investment and to track and measure students for the years that follow." With that understanding, decisions... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

is considering launching a COVID relief van program to help carry oxygen and basic medicines to those in need. MAY 20 Students Fight COVID was started by 250+ MBA/MS 2023 admits from across the world, including HBS, with the aim to fight... View Details
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

them opportunities to learn. In this paper, we investigate how these two strategies may bring different productivity benefits over time. For our empirical analyses, we use two-and-a-half years of transaction data from a Japanese bank's home View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Making Change

advocacy, design, and construction services, micro Home Solutions works with communities, financial institutions, government, and multilateral agencies to address the housing needs of India's urban poor. MEHRA Photo courtesy of Rakhi Mehra In 2009, I was a second-year... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate
  • 04 Jun 2025
  • News

Slice of Life

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In 2018, Bill Crawford (MBA 2006) founded Righteous Slice, a pizza restaurant in Rexburg, Idaho that has been steadily earning critical acclaim. It has... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Balance Pouring yourself into a single full-time job is the riskiest move you can make. Your parents ’ advice to focus on one career path? It doesn’t work anymore, for reasons ranging from recessions to student View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

analysis that went into building the strategy. Students will gain exposure to concepts around firm strategy, portfolio construction, risk management, marketing, and impact investing. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

MyTime Ethan Anderson, the CEO of San Francisco–based e-commerce company MyTime, must decide on the company's growth strategy. MyTime’s first product was a website and mobile app that offered consumers a convenient way to book appointments with local merchants... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

discussed supporting innovation through a range of additional policy interventions, including tax credits, loan guarantees, IP policy, regulatory mandates, codes, and standards. It is critically important that these kinds of interventions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

particular setting. This paper exploits a plausibly exogenous change in the liability structure offered by a microfinance program in India, which shifted from individual to group liability lending. We find evidence that the lending model matters: for the same borrower,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

opportunity to bid for debt and equity claims on Plascar Industria e Comercio Ltda., the Brazilian subsidiary of the bankrupt global auto components company Collins & Aikman Corp. In evaluating this opportunity, students must analyze... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49819 Sharing Private Information with Customers: Strategic Default and Lender Learning By: Pérez Cavazos, Gerardo Abstract—I use a unique data set of loans to small business owners to... View Details
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

pivotal role in the industry during the 1970s by selling Iranian oil to Israel and South Africa. The case provides a means to explore the rationale and advantages of giant commodity traders, as well as enabling students to debate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Mar 2025
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What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details
Keywords: Finance
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

for the same borrower, required monthly loan installments are 11% less likely to be missed under the group liability setting, relative to individual liability. In addition, compulsory savings deposits are 20% less likely to be missed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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