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  • 02 Oct 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

specific use of the asset class when he observed that a possible use of Bitcoin could be “hedge funds betting on sovereign debt defaults.” Charles Sabatier III added that Bitcoin is the most secure financial network in the world. “The... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services
  • 12 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

five-legged cow; it doesn't really make sense. I think that Enron's pathologies are not unique, save in their collective occurrence and collective impact. Very few of us who engage in competitive endeavors... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 25

their career, want to run their own companies. This note looks at the funded search as a means to entrepreneurship through acquisition and describes the path to buy and run a business using debt and equity as a means of financing the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 23 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

whether it is in prize-linked or collectible savings. On the sociological end, our research with U.S. savings bonds has been eye-opening. It reveals an old-fashioned impulse lives on: to save on behalf of others. Savings bonds help... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 02 Jun 2011
  • What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

nation's debt? they are the ones who chose the representatives." As an alternative to insolvency, forgiveness of debt combined with other measures had appeal for several respondents. Yadeed Lobo, while entertaining the idea of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

  Publications August 2013 Harvard Business Review Press Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation By: Hill, Linda A., Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback Abstract—Why can some organizations innovate time... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 6

the absence of good news. This commitment provides the latter a greater incentive to collect information than a monitor holding the aggregate claim would have. Thus debt and equity are shown to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 22, 2015

2015 The $13 Trillion Question: How America Manages Its Debt The Optimal Maturity of Government Debt By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

to European banks, we evaluate a variety of interventions to reduce their vulnerability to fire sales during the sovereign debt crisis. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 18, 2006

debt needed to fund the transaction. Covers issues such as identifying and attracting bidders; dealing with the concerns of the managers of the selling company; negotiating issues in a definitive merger agreement; and post-sale issues.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

short-term debt financing, an attractive source of funding in good times but an accelerant of financial crises when things go bad. And we're getting closer to adopting a "resolution regime" that could enable regulators to wind... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate
  • 10 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 10

collective creativity and insight. These two divergent perspectives pose a paradox that has held the attention of scholars for many years. In response, researchers have marshaled evidence to specify the conditions under which diversity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

  Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a simple model of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.27.4.65   Working Papers Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances By: Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych Abstract—We decompose capital flows-both View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50814 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

models, and concrete steps to describe an element of what financiers, governments, and even households must do to combat climate change. Some are close to home, some are in emerging markets. All are in the built world of infrastructure, buildings, and property. OP-ED... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities
  • 08 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 8

Volosovych Abstract—We construct measures of net private and public capital flows for a large cross-section of developing countries considering both creditor and debtor side of the international debt transactions. Using these measures, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?

everyone’s transactions, you could predict whether a particular customer is going to run themselves into debt and default in the future.” Machine learning is even being used to learn more about machines, says Teodorescu, who points out... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology
  • 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

developing countries considering both creditor and debtor side of the international debt transactions. Using these measures, we demonstrate that sovereign-to-sovereign transactions account for upstream capital flows and global imbalances.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

Zeng found, is the amount of information available about loan applicants. When platforms share a lot of information about applicants with potential investors—data such as income, debt level, and credit history, and even whether the loan... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

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