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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets | MBA
discussing Argentina’s skyrocketing inflation rate with students, Gerardo Lietz notes that they didn’t fully comprehend how it has affected the economy and consumer behaviors until they were in country. “They were surprised by the extent... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
create only the illusion of transparency - while delaying work. Donations yield reduced value because of inefficiency and security costs. A worse problem surrounds Madrid pledges. Pledges are not the same as cash, as Afghans found. View Details
- 20 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
Scaling Climate Tech Innovation with Lee Scott (MBA 2023)
commercialization and profitability, due to the high-interest rate environment over the last few years. It’s particularly hard to fundraise for technologies with a green premium that need to reach large-scale deployment before achieving... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
still some of that today. A lot of investors were not as familiar with private equity, so we needed to basically spend time just trying to explain what was going on. Private-equity firms have borrowed billions at low interest rates to buy... View Details
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The True Costs of Gig Work | Working Knowledge
tagged as necessities (such as housing, medical expenses, and groceries) or indulgences (such as gym memberships, leisure travel, eating out, or streaming services). The authors recruited 40 judges to categorize and rate necessities and... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
typically inadvertent nature of these incidences. The resulting higher settlement rate prevents additional legal action and significantly reduces social costs. Concentrated Capital Losses and the Pricing of Corporate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
effectively within the newly merged entities. No PDF is available at this time. Reputation and Competition: Evidence from the Credit Rating Industry Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract Fair and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
have capital requirements tied to the credit ratings of their investments. Conditional on ratings, insurance portfolios are systematically biased toward higher yield, higher CDS bonds. This behavior appears... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
advertising as well as other opportunities for multi-tasking while we await responses to our last click. Original Article We are witnessing a race to reduce the time required to fill the tank of a car with gasoline. Why, when Mobil introduced its Speedpass, allowing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
decade, according to the World Bank, an increase of more than 50 percent. The national unemployment rate has hovered under 5 percent, touching record lows. Income inequality—though still a major issue for the country—is dropping: Between... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
difference across innovation systems is whether disclosure is of intermediate progress and solutions or of completed innovations. We present experimental evidence that links intermediate versus final disclosure not just with quantitative tradeoffs that shape the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
example, because the data sources and credit histories that firms draw on in the West don't exist in emerging markets. Market research and advertising are in their infancy in developing countries, and it's difficult to find the deep... View Details
- 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
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
bonds. Insurance companies have capital requirements tied to the credit ratings of their investments. Conditional on ratings, insurance portfolios are systematically biased toward higher yield, higher CDS... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
Nobody questions that there's whopping gender imbalance in today's boardrooms, despite ample evidence that it makes financial sense to put women on the board. Companies with female board representation routinely outperform those with no women on the board, per a recent... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
focus exclusively on estimates of expected payoffs, such as credit ratings, without considering the state of the economy in which default is likely to occur. Such investors are likely to be attracted to securities whose payoffs resemble... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
Business School Case 817-051 Bootstrapping at Lightricks By August 2015, two-year-old mobile imaging software startup Lightricks had developed and released two best-selling paid mobile apps, grown to a team of 30, earned a revenue run View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
Convexity By: Hanson, Samuel Gregory Abstract—Most home mortgages in the U.S. are fixed-rate loans with an embedded prepayment option. When long-term rates decline, the effective duration of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) falls due to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
United States indicate that by age nine, African American and Hispanic students are 20 to 30 points below proficient cut off scores in math and reading. The high-school graduation rate in the 50 largest US cities is about 53 percent.... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
pension funds was infrastructure debt securities. Until recently, few Nigerian infrastructure securities had strong enough credit ratings to be investable by cautious pension funds. Infrastructure View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman