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- 21 May 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals
of their classmates by posting requests for help with concepts they don't understand. Their peers are given credit for reaching out to answer the call. The course will further bonding between students through required group projects that... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
effective bond between the interviewer and the manager, which sometimes led to answers that were both thoughtful and entertaining. (Responding to a question about staff retention, for instance, one manager said, "I spend most of my... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
Business School Case 213-008 High yield bond fund Proventus Capital Partners (PCP) has invested in underwater bonds issued by Preem, a large oil refinery. As maturity approaches, in the midst of financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
became the marker," Deighton says. These days, marketing mavens realize that social media is best at building emotional bridges with consumers, done by inviting them to be part of the process. And so they are hard at work inventing playful games and other activities to... View Details
- 25 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People
would choose only participants who don’t know each other, but that would be nearly impossible in some industries. Plus, deep relationships provide their own benefits, just not if you want to learn new skills. “Leaders must strike a balance between forming close View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
needs for flexibility if they have families—and help them bond with each other. The third is meaning. People want to do work that's meaningful, that they feel has a purpose. The company should be meaningful, and the company's... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
been watching the show long enough to notice a pattern in the self-doubt: The women tend to fret when they see the supposed man of their dreams bonding with women who are dissimilar to themselves. “One thing that’s commonly said is,... View Details
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
spread, defined as the spread of local currency bonds over the synthetic local currency risk-free rate constructed using cross-currency swaps. We find that local currency credit spreads are positive and sizable. Compared with credit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
adjusts the policy rate slowly in response to changes in its privately observed target. Such gradualism reflects an attempt to not spook the bond market. However, this effort ends up being thwarted in equilibrium, as long-term rates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
savings market, but they were reluctant to invest in risky new ventures. Custom and prudence dictated that the trustees of these firms confined their investments to high-grade bonds or blue-chip securities. [ARD's acting president Ralph]... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- August 1986 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Mike Finkelstein (B)
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Charles Bryan and Ken Leet
Following his successful turnaround of WTXX, Waterbury, Mike Finkelstein joined Odyssey Partners with a mandate to build a communications company. From 1982-1985, he acquired three more stations, financing each as an independent partnership. However, increasing... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Cash; Business or Company Management; Bonds; Cost vs Benefits; SWOT Analysis; Alignment; Acquisition; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Communications Industry
Baldwin, Carliss Y., Charles Bryan, and Ken Leet. "Mike Finkelstein (B)." Harvard Business School Case 287-021, August 1986. (Revised May 2005.)
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
argue that the puzzling combination of high-frequency excess sensitivity and low-frequency decoupling between short- and long-term rates can be understood using a model in which (i) shocks to short-term interest rates lead to a rise in term premia on long-term View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
capital encourages business development." They gave a ranking of close to 6 before the crisis and 1.3 in 2014. To make things worse, credit rating agencies imposed filters that automatically downgraded ratings of Greek corporations when Greek government View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51481 The Value of Trading Relationships in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ trading relationships shape their trading behavior in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
discuss intuition regarding which product categories likely lead to positive vs. negative values of concealment. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49531 Precautionary Savings in Stocks and Bonds By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
obligations (CDOs) and private-label mortgage-backed securities (MBS) backed by nonprime loans played a central role in the recent financial crisis. Little is known, however, about the underlying forces that drove investor demand for these securitizations. Using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2021 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
Making Impact Investing Markets: IFC (A)
By: Shawn A. Cole, John Masko and T. Robert Zochowski
In 2017, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) faced the first big investment decision in its new Scaling Solar project. Founded in 1956, IFC was an international investment body with national governments as shareholders, whose mission was to promote economic... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Equity; Bonds; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development; Emerging Markets; Non-Governmental Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Investment; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry; Energy Industry; Zambia
Cole, Shawn A., John Masko, and T. Robert Zochowski. "Making Impact Investing Markets: IFC (A)." Harvard Business School Case 221-061, March 2021. (Revised April 2021.)
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
activity. When our measure is high, safe bonds fall in value and risky assets rally, forecasting a boom in investment. Risk appetite is closely linked to investors’ expectations of future risk and rises following positive macroeconomic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
to drive shareholder value by improving operating performance. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216003-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-043 ICICI Bank and the Issue of Long Term Bonds No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
they felt was inadequately represented in the bond market. "We could see this macroeconomic storm on the horizon," says Higgins, whose previous experience at a global macro hedge fund proved valuable to the team. "But there... View Details