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  • 24 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

given the government time to get solid growth underway. The country has invested seriously in its infrastructure, both physical and human. They have poured money into education, healthcare, water, roads, and the like. Botswana has been... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • April 2011 (Revised June 2014)
  • Case

Securities Lending After the Financial Crisis

By: Robert C. Pozen and Gayle Hameister
In April 2009, Wendy Jefferson had just returned to her office following a whirlwind day of meetings with her newest client, Star Advisor. Jefferson, a financial services consultant, was eager to dig into the information provided to her and her team about the Star... View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Debt Securities; Financing and Loans; Investment Funds; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources

Mortgage Debt on Homes Other Than Farm Homes at the Fourteenth Census, 1920 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1923). Ham, Arthur H. A Credit Union Primer; an Elementary Treatise on Cooperative... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Road Work

sales below pre-COVID levels, a figure that tracks closely with figures represented by small-business owners overall; yet only one in five of Camino’s members has received some form of government relief. “Credit models have been turned... View Details
Keywords: banking; LatinX; small businesses; COVID-19; Finance
  • 14 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 14, 2016

of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over accumulation of debt. Calibrating this parameter with values in the literature, the model can reproduce debt levels... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Apr 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Jan 2012
  • News

Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989

Anglo American, one of the world’s largest mining companies, Cynthia Carroll traveled to 14 countries, visiting mines and interviewing staff, meeting with government officials, and talking to miners and local community members. “I needed... View Details
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

The Credit Supply Channel of Monetary Policy Tightening and Its Distributional Impacts

By: Joshua Bosshardt, Marco Di Maggio, Ali Kakhbod and Amir Kermani
This paper studies how tightening monetary policy transmits to the economy through the mortgage market and sheds new light on the distributional consequences at both the individual and regional levels. We find that credit supply factors, specifically restrictions on... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Mortgages; Macroeconomics
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  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

the author’s debt to Belvedere College and the Jesuits as the great influence on his life philosophy and life choices. McEvoy also reflects on how Irish banks morphed from being customer oriented, conservative, dull, and profoundly honest... View Details
  • 03 Dec 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

thieves ...." Cole Woodson added, "The hope of nudging the economy in any direction is hoping for a miracle.... No securities of any type should even be allowed to be sold in the marketplace without government approval and some... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 25 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 25

  Publications 2006 pub Leviathan Evolving: New Varieties of State Capitalism in Brazil and Beyond By: Musacchio, Aldo, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—In this book we describe the transformation of state capitalism from a model in which View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

Pfizer, as well as nonprofits and international government agencies, the authors show how successful leaders of innovation don't create a vision and try to make innovation happen themselves. Rather, they create and sustain a culture where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Accounting Information as Political Currency

management can be used to mislead financial-statement users, including shareholders, debt holders, regulators, and so on. Q: Would your methods apply in countries other than the United States? A: The data used to construct earnings... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 29 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 29, 2016

a closer qualitative inspection of the “how-to” micromechanisms, and thereby advance a multidisciplinary research agenda. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50833 Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

when the ratio of government debt to total debt is higher; and ii) by firms with stronger balance sheets. Our theory provides a new perspective on the apparent ability of firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • News

HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures

technology to erase debt CEO and cofounder Rohan Pavuluri (AB 2018) was inspired to launch Upsolve, which helps low-income and working-class families overcome financial distress, after learning that a bankruptcy lawyer costs a prohibitive... View Details
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

place for permanent residents or poorly designed for families in a mass market. Finally, consider the costs of projects that more often than not go way over budget and then result in crushing long-term debt burdens. Montreal's Olympic... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports
  • 22 Apr 2015
  • Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

were unable to provide new loans to underwrite company growth. “The recessionary measures that were taken in Greece were not the cause of the crisis.” Even large companies that could ordinarily rely on public equity or debt markets... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • 09 Sep 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Nov 2014
  • News

Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years

Santiago Ocejo (MPH 2010/MBA 2014) wants to improve health care in Mexico. He always thought he would do that, one patient at a time, as a surgeon. But, today, the medical school graduate is a social entrepreneur, working with the Mexican View Details
Keywords: April White