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  • 01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects

personal loss, patriotism, the importance of diversity, and how best to reach out to those directly affected by the attacks. Classroom discussions became even more challenging, as students struggled with uncertainty, grief, and anger.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
  • 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
  • 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
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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
  • 18 Oct 2011
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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
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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
  • 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
  • 12 Jul 2021
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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
  • 04 Jun 2025
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Slice of Life

the classroom. So I learned that in the lab and then bring it back and teach my students those things. DM: Talk to me about how you decided how to place Righteous Slice in the market. So what's your market differentiator? BC: My goal is... View Details
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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