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    The Psychosocial Value of Employment

    In settings where employment opportunities are scarce, the inability to work may generate psychosocial harm. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh. We engage 745 individuals in a field... View Details
    • 02 Nov 2016
    • Op-Ed

    Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses

    the cash flow edge. One aspect of this cash flow formula is the extent of time that small businesses wait for or don’t receive payment from the companies they supply. Insufficient or delayed financing is the second-most common reason for... View Details
    Keywords: by Karen Mills
    • Teaching Interest

    Overview

    By: Leemore S. Dafny
    U.S. Healthcare Strategy

    The U.S. healthcare sector accounts for 17 percent of GDP, and encompasses a diverse set of industries with public, nonprofit, and for-profit buyers and sellers. There are significant concerns about high and rising spending, and... View Details
    Keywords: Healthcare; Health; Healthcare Reform; Life Sciences; Health Industry; United States
    • 01 Dec 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto

    • 25 Apr 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

    Editor's note. Argentina is in the midst of a continuing saga regarding its 2002 default on its sovereign debt, a case that the US Supreme Court will decide soon. HBS finance professor Laura Alfaro, who served from 2010 to 2012 as Minister of National Planning and... View Details
    Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
    • 03 Dec 2008
    • What Do You Think?

    Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

    harmed by our own worst instincts." Dan Wallace proposed: "I like 'nudge' solutions, and one approach here might be to provide a 100 percent mortgage interest deduction for people who put 20 percent down on a home, and ratchet the deduction down for people... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    An Anatomy of Crypto-Enabled Cybercrimes

    By: Will Cong, Campbell Harvey, Daniel Rabetti and Zong-Yu Wu
    The advent of cryptocurrencies and digital assets holds the promise of improving financial systems by offering cheap, quick, and secure transfer of value. However, it also opens up new payment channels for cybercrimes. Assembling a diverse set of public on- and... View Details
    Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Crime and Corruption; Technology Adoption; Currency; Policy
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    • 17 Feb 2016
    • Blog Post

    Through The Eyes of The Patient: A Recap of The 13th Annual Health Care Conference

    from both for-profit and non-profit companies, from investors to startups to Fortune 50 companies, as well as members of the media, academics, public policy advocates, and research organizations, under the unifying theme “Through the Eyes... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care
    • 22 May 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers

    cars, for instance. Source: “Second Change: Life Without Student Debt” by Marco Di Maggio, Ankit Kalda, and Vincent W. Yao. All of these results show that policy interventions in the student loan market should not be considered a zero-sum... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 04 Nov 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Multi-Sided Platforms

    Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Julian Wright
    • 16 Feb 2016
    • First Look

    February 16, 2016

    later in the day, test performance decreases by 0.9% of a standard deviation (95% CI: 0.7%–1.0%). However, a 20–30 minute break improves average test performance by 1.7% of a standard deviation (95% CI: 1.2%–2.2%). These findings have two important View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Policymakers Improve health care access, eliminate regulatory barriers to VBHC, solve interoperability, and accelerate value-based payment programs. Value-Based Health Care Organizations Since the introduction of value-based health care... View Details
    • 03 Oct 2023
    • HBS Case

    Layoffs Can Be Bad Business: 5 Strategies to Consider Before Cutting Staff

    unavoidable. In such situations, companies can mitigate the hidden costs if executives develop specific policies to follow in downsizing and make everyone aware of the company’s approach and its commitment to acting fairly for all... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Telecommunications; Technology; Financial Services; Manufacturing
    • 17 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    ‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto

    $45,000 or less accounted for another 20 percent of the transactions. This shows, Di Maggio says, that the crypto market consists of “average US investors that are using crypto as an alternative asset class in their portfolio.” Impact of COVID-19 stimulus Fiscal View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • Web

    Help - Alumni

    information. Alumni may also send an e-mail to section and classmates by using the E-mail My Class tool: Please note the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy . I am not an HBS Alumnus, how can I get contact information for HBS alumni?... View Details
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    Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    Info Do Fire Sales Create Externalities? By: Sergey Chernenko & Adi Sunderam DEC 2018 How do cash policies affect stock returns? A mutual fund that uses its cash reserves to accommodate outflows will lower the volatility of its underlying... View Details
    • 31 Jul 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences

    Keywords: by Eric D. Werker
    • Web

    FAQs - Alumni

    confirmation email or contact alumni@hbs.edu . When registration is open, the cancellation policy will be listed in the confirmation email and on your class page at reunions.hbs.edu . Please note: cancellation and refund requests will not... View Details
    • 14 Mar 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, March 14

    abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52217 2016 Monetary Policy Through Asset Markets: Lessons from Unconventional Measures and Implications for an Integrated World Forward Guidance in the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Dec 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: December 16

    growth, and the estate tax. The treatment has large effects on views about inequality but only slightly moves tax and transfer policy preferences. An exception is the estate tax-informing respondents of the small share of decedents who... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne