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  • 06 Sep 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

international conservation and pool funds for the development of alternative energies. Others largely see opportunity in what is happening. Remco de Ket's question reflects this view: "Perhaps running out of oil isn't such a bad... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 21 Aug 2015
  • Blog Post

My Fear of Student Debt: Funding the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

How do you decide whether taking on student debt outweighs the professional and personal benefits of graduate school? This decision was hard for me. I spent four years after my undergraduate studies working for low pay at non-profits... View Details
  • 14 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

money demand could explain up to approximately half the growth of ABCP in the mid-2000s. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/money_20140929_6871f5d1-2375-4716-a7c5-8b94d7541b54.pdf   Working Papers Government View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Fintech Borrowers: Lax-Screening or Cream-Skimming?

    Financial markets have recently witnessed a disruptive force: the rise of online intermediaries and, more generally, fintech companies, i.e., firms that apply technology to improve financial activities. Fintech companies have targeted the consumer credit market,... View Details

    • 28 Jan 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

    often provided in a top-down manner. The second difference is the nature and extent of openness to outside influence and foreigners. Foreign direct investment pours into China. India has embraced foreign direct investment much less, for good and View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 21 May 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

    averages implies that a company with a bad year would usually improve the following year even without an inspection. "When they do find a problem, it's not entirely obvious that it wouldn't resolve itself anyway," he says. Toffel has long... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 07 Oct 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: October 7

    thousands of pages of safety regulations. For those with poor safety practices, OSHA inspections can result in penalties and bad press that risk impugning the company's reputation. Both of these accounts suggest that for managers, the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 10 Mar 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    A Reexamination of Tunneling and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods

    Keywords: by Jordan I. Siegel & Prithwiraj Choudhury
    • December 2014
    • Article

    The Discipline of Business Experimentation

    By: Stefan Thomke and Jim Manzi
    The data you already have can't tell you how customers will react to innovations. To discover if a truly novel concept will succeed, you must subject it to a rigorous experiment. In most companies, tests do not adhere to scientific and statistical principles. As a... View Details
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    • April 2019 (Revised December 2021)
    • Case

    Sears: The Demise of an American Icon

    By: Kristin Mugford and Sarah L. Abbott
    In 2019, ESL Investments’ $5.2 billion offer to purchase Sears Holdings out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, was accepted, despite opposition from the company's unsecured creditors and other parties. ESL, which was led by Eddie Lampert, had acquired a stake in Sears following... View Details
    Keywords: Bankruptcy; Reorganization; Bonds; Restructuring; Business Divisions; Transformation; Fairness; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Governance; Motivation and Incentives; Retail Industry; United States
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      The Discipline of Business Experimentation

      The data you already have can't tell you how customers will react to innovations. To discover if a truly novel concept will succeed, you must subject it to a rigorous experiment. In most companies, tests do not adhere to scientific and statistical principles. As... View Details
      • 28 Jul 2015
      • First Look

      First Look: July 28, 2015

      tend to be more extreme (favorable or unfavorable) than other reviews, and the prevalence of suspicious reviews has grown significantly over time. Second, a restaurant is more likely to commit review fraud when its reputation is weak, i.e., when it has few reviews, or... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 15 Jan 2019
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

      workout plan, enabling more than 90% to meet their payments and get back to good credit standing, while saving the bank more than $80 million in bad debt annually. Purchase this... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • January 2008
      • Article

      Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things

      By: Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman and Willy C. Shih
      Most companies aren't half as innovative as their senior executives want them to be (or as their marketing claims suggest they are). What's stifling innovation? There are plenty of usual suspects, but the authors finger three financial tools as key accomplices.... View Details
      Keywords: Investment; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Prejudice and Bias; Value Creation
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      • 2025
      • Working Paper

      Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit

      By: Sergey Chernenko, Robert Ialenti and David Scharfstein
      We show that business development companies (BDCs)—closed-end funds that provide a significant share of nonbank loans to middle market firms—are very well capitalized according to bank capital frameworks. They have median risk-based capital ratios of about 36%... View Details
      Keywords: Financing and Loans; Capital; Credit; Financial Institutions
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        Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit

        We show that business development companies (BDCs) — closed-end funds that provide a significant share of nonbank loans to middle market firms — are very well capitalized according to bank capital frameworks. They have median risk-based capital ratios of about 36% and,... View Details
        • 03 Nov 2008
        • HBS Case

        Economics of the Ethanol Business

        to corn prices, but at the expense of exposure to the oil market." Risky Bet On Oil With oil prices currently at record levels, that doesn't seem like such a bad tradeoff to make. But Reinhardt points... View Details
        Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Energy
        • 26 Feb 2008
        • First Look

        First Look: February 26, 2008

        principal can set its payment delay to deter bad-type agents and to attract solely or primarily good-type agents. Through the savings from excluding bad agents, the principal can increase its profits while offering increased payments to... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 26 Feb 2013
        • First Look

        First Look: Feb. 26

        IFRS as well. The EU-the IASB's main backer-is embroiled in a debt crisis that divides it; Britain-the strongest voice for IFRS in the EU-flirts with an EU exit. And China remains silent. Adding to these issues are longstanding concerns... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 19 Mar 2007
        • Research & Ideas

        Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

        for the next few years—maybe larger, maybe smaller (barring some catastrophe). Thus, net foreign debt will rise. Thus, the dollar will weaken. Thus, there will be upward pressure on real interest rates thus, thus, thus. These are then... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne