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  • 30 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

addressable market of $280 billion. That’s music to the ears of small businesses. Indeed, our research shows a sizeable credit gap exists for small businesses, particularly for loans under $100,000, which is the size that over 60 percent... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services
  • 24 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 24, 2008

log variance of income per worker. This figure should be compared to the 42% success rate of the usual model. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14060 Bounded Decision Making: From Description to Improvement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Aug 2024
  • In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

and the International Economy Unit. Elisabeth Kempf: Political views shape economic outlook Political views influence the perception of economic reality among finance professionals. In a study linking credit View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 01 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

lays policies that have been proposed to deal with either the consequences or the causes of the crisis. These include policies for reforming the supervision of the financial system, changing bankruptcy rules and regulating mortgage finance. Some attention is paid to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

  Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated (revised) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 16, 2016

forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Who Neglects Risk? Investor Experience and the Credit Boom By: Chernenko, Sergey, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—Many have argued that overoptimistic thinking on the part of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

watching television can deliver higher than expected audiences at lower cost-per-thousand impressions. Brands with deep pockets may be able to negotiate favorable advertising rates and lock them in for several years. If you have to cut... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 25 Feb 2025
  • Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Lee Scott (MBA 2023) - Scaling Climate Tech Innovation

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
  • 05 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 5

bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for reaching for yield among insurance companies, the largest institutional holders of corporate bonds. Insurance companies have capital requirements tied to the credit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Next Level

trajectory, The threat is to any company in the industry: If someone else is improving at a faster rate than me, even if I’m better than them today, I won’t be better than them tomorrow.” The company acquired gaming studio Activision... View Details
Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

and a little understood provision in the federal tax code that is implemented at the state level, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). The relationship is complex because, while the federal government uses the CRA to control bank... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

leverage and reforming the credit rating system. The Case Against A Systemic Risk Regulator In a lengthy minority dissent, the oversight panel's two Republicans, Texas Congressman Jeb Hensarling and former... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • Web

Training Course in Personnel Administration - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: Harvard Business School About Faculty & Research MBA Doctoral Executive Education Alumni Building the Foundation: Business Education for Women at Harvard University: 1937-1970 Baker Library Home The Exhibit Oral Histories Research... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?

20th century at best, if not the first half of the 20th century,” Eykher says. To address the issue of trust, the Open Mineral team verifies the identity of every member and only accepts companies with a good history; they require transactions to be supported by... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Crash Pad

When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford; illustrations by Kathleen Fu; building coversion; housing crisis; innovation; real estate; Real Estate
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Vivek Ranadivé

a $15 billion market cap and a $300 million revenue run rate per year, TIBCO is one of the fastest-growing software companies ever. Like any corporate executive, Ranadivé is concerned with the dollars-and-cents valuation of his company... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Telecommunications; Information; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 26 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

When participation costs are large relative to the volume of traffic an ad platform can offer, an advertiser may forego use of an ad platform that the advertiser otherwise finds profitable. Mergers between ad platforms can increase advertiser welfare if the resulting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

requirements, reorienting the discussion around housing finance reform from keeping mortgage credit cheap to ensuring financial stability, and instituting measures that compel asset managers to compete on the true value of the services... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Launching Tech Ventures Course Number 1757 Senior Lecturer Jeffrey Bussgang Senior Lecturer Allison Mnookin Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Project Career Focus Launching Technology Ventures (LTV) is designed for... View Details
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-040.pdf Financial Guarantors and the 2007-2009 Credit Crisis Authors:Daniel Bergstresser, Randolph Cohen, and Siddharth Shenai Abstract More than half of the municipal bonds issued between 1995 and 2009... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne