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- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
think that could end up blowing a hole in revenues in ways we don't fully understand. The third big risk is probably that these pieces of legislation are very hard to pass. This could be a once in a 30-year opportunity. As a result,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
things like “strategy,” “focused activity level,” and “crisis response,” performance was dramatically improved when study subjects worked in the optimal conditions (with high rates of ventilation and low concentrations of carbon dioxide... View Details
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
realized bond risk and bond return volatility. The yield spread appears to proxy for business conditions, while the short rate appears to proxy for inflation and economic uncertainty. A decomposition of bond... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
the need for increased upfront financing, but this protection lowers the real option value of the new venture. In equilibrium, financing risk disproportionately impacts innovative ventures with the greatest... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Paul Luning
"For real impact, we're going to need business to effect change." While there, Paul completed a six-month externship with Current Energy, a Dallas enterprise that reduces energy usage within small businesses. "It's the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
Professor Bill Poorvu recruited him to help manage a $27 million pool of capital in the newly formed Baupost. While the starting salary was an underwhelming $35K, it turned out to be the opportunity of a lifetime. In 26 years, Baupost has racked up an enviable 20... View Details
- April 2009
- Teaching Note
First National Bank's Golden Opportunity (TN)
By: Shawn A. Cole
Teaching Note for [208072]. View Details
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
premia, real interest rates and inflation. The variation in investment opportunities is captured by a flexible vector autoregressive parameterization, which readily... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
When Standard & Poor's Rating Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States from AAA to AA+ on August 5, it was a shot heard 'round the world. Stock markets plummeted,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
of risk talk the CRO can enable the real work of risk management to take place not in his own function but in the business. In both cases, facilitation involved a significant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
interest rate risk premium and a changing liquidity risk premium, and that the variability in the nominal bond View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
analysis is substantially valid, it raises some interesting questions about productivity, growth, and investment in the information economy. The first, of course, is whether unusually high rates of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Why You Might Want to Say Goodbye to the Annual Performance Review | Working Knowledge
employees seeking advancement by moving to new organizations rather than climbing the internal ladder. Over the last decade, the annual quit rate—a key indicator of voluntary turnover—has steadily increased, peaking during the “Great Resignation” period of 2021 to... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
paper specifies and estimates a model in which the nominal term structure of interest rates is driven by four state variables: the real interest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
Viceira Publication:In Global Perspectives on Investment Management: Learning from the Leaders, edited by Rodney N. Sullivan, 145-157. CFA Institute, 2006 Abstract The "traditional" approach to designing policy portfolios assumes that expected returns, risk,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Investment Management and Capital Markets - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Investment Management and Capital Markets Course Number 1446 Professor Luis Viceira Associate Professor Emil Siriwardane Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 sessions Exam IMCM is suitable for all students interested in gaining a... View Details
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
arguments about whether sea level rise is human caused or even if it’s real; we just need to invest with the probabilities in mind the same way we make risk management decisions under uncertainty about View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
diversity, equity, and inclusion.” It was also found that quit rates varied among and within industries. For example, JetBlue’s quit rate was twice as high as Southwest Airlines’. Another important influence... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
as some people are asking, the [Federal Reserve Bank] were to delay raising U.S. interest rates on the basis that China’s deceleration will induce a global slowdown. That decision would clearly have an... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Exploring in a Passion Safe Environment
landscape and ecosystem, and develop an understanding of various corporate structures / lifestyle including business “vocabulary”. They’ve taught me that it’s not okay to tell my classmates to, Drop and give me 50! when they use the wrong View Details