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intended to intrigue audiences and lend legitimacy to the dubious product. Here, the dance is presented to potential consumers as the “Ghost Dance” and associated, given the branding, only with Kickapoo, lacking specificity, accuracy, and... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
same behaviors described as “random behaviors.” Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51401 Financial Regulation in a Quantitative Model of the Modern Banking System By: Begenau, Juliane, and Tim Landvoigt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-042.pdf Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations Authors:Ufuk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
talk about how Liberty actually can support mitigation and adaptation and what that looks like in real terms. Tim Sweeney: We have risk engineers on staff. And so even when new construction projects are happening now, we lend our risk... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
into a much-needed windfall for a host of cash-strapped nonprofits. Since cofounding Working Assets in 1985, Laura Scher has helped the company channel nearly $20 million to organizations such as Greenpeace, Oxfam America, Amnesty... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
government agency that delivered benefits to veterans through offline channels required a DD 214—and an in-person visit—in order to prove their status and to claim benefits. "The current status quo is horribly unjust to veterans," said... View Details
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
Cases & Course MaterialsBMW's Project Switch (A): Importers vs. National Sales Companies Harvard Business School Case 509-023 BMW is faced with potential channel conflicts across several EU country markets. The case highlights BMW's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
concern. While operating in Chapter 11, the company pays no interest on its pre-petition debts, freeing up cash that can be reinvested in the business. Moreover, any new money that the company borrows during bankruptcy must be repaid ahead of most other debts, which... View Details
- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
the Goldsmith Fellowship, I hope contribute to a community of practitioners dedicated to innovating and scaling social change interventions,” he said. Danno Lemu. A joint degree student at HBS and HKS, Danno’s career has spanned housing and community development. At... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
RETSINAS: Too many people began to regard their homes as a guaranteed high-return investment. We just got carried away,” observes Nicolas Retsinas, a lecturer in real estate at HBS, whose distinguished career in housing, community development, and View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
compromise. Disappointment can be channeled to reach a more satisfactory outcome. Before disappointment becomes regret, ask plenty of questions to assure yourself that you’ve explored all options. And don’t close the deal too early; you... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
same way. A home mortgage is a simple example of how our work is commonly applied. Most mortgages allow the homeowner the option to prepay the mortgage before its term is up. That option to prepay has a value, and banks need to know how... View Details
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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 Banking (New York City: Division... View Details
- 08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010
the extent of investor protections across countries, since that is the main channel through which legal origin affects financial development, and shows that all the evidence supports the idea of relative convergence in corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
Purchase the case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208081 PublicationsFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Elections, Banks, and Agricultural Lending in India Author:Shawn A. Cole... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract It is well known that the divergence between control rights and cash-flow rights is associated with firm value. In this paper, we identify an important channel through which the divergence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
companies to source capital — the equity markets exited this business for the most part when oil prices fell to such low levels in 1997 and 1998, and banks slowed down their lending as well." "If smaller... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
September 2008, just one of its ten non-executive directors had any recent banking experience. He had joined the board five months before Lehman went bust. The backgrounds of Lehman’s independent directors were hardly suited to overseeing... View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
media usage had declined among Americans less than 35 years old, and the only age group using Facebook more were people 55 or older, according to Edison Research.) As a marketing medium, online channels were cluttered and increasingly... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007
firm-size distribution and de jure and de facto measures of international capital integration. We then explore causal channels through which foreign capital may encourage entrepreneurship. We find evidence that entrepreneurial activity in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace