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  • 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-048.pdf The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship Banking Authors:Victoria Ivashina and Anna Kovner Abstract This paper examines the impact of leveraged buyout firms' View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale

capital for midsized companies. Because capital raising is controlled by the state, it tends to go to state-owned enterprises. That is a big problem for a lot of privately owned businesses and has created the shadow View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

Shadow of a Giant (A) Harvard Business School Case 609-002 As the only significant competitor to Intel Corporation in PC microprocessors, Advanced Micro Devices faced daunting investment choices. Not only did it have to fund... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate from the incumbent following increased service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

join the European Monetary Union in 1999. With strong unions, weak competitiveness, and a legacy of socialism, it could not compete with north-European countries. After borrowing extensively to fund deficits, Portugal went into debt crisis in 2011 and had to borrow... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010

education program has modest effects, increasing demand for bank accounts only for those with low levels of education or financial literacy. In contrast, small subsidies greatly increase demand. A follow-up survey confirms these findings,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

Frictions in Shadow Banking: Evidence from the Lending Behavior of Money Market Funds By: Chernenko, Sergey, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We document the consequences of money market fund risk taking during the European sovereign debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

of Buenos Aires’s population was foreign born, and it could be regarded as one of the world’s greatest global cities.” Today, the city is a decaying shadow of itself and Argentina as a whole has fallen prey to ineffective institutions,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2011
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Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

Froot, "all this is interesting and useful because it's a microcosm for the larger financial sector, made up of banks and shadow banks. We have a huge institutional setup for bearing these sorts of... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services
  • 01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

Loews Corp., Michigan State University, Cornell University’s Hotel School, Bank of Hawaii, HR Spinner, the NCAA, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles illustrate how effective teams drive progress in business, associations, and education. The six... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo

issues that came out of that bust. So they’re almost too conservative. They’re not investing in infrastructure as much as they could or should. I’ve literally called banks while working on real estate development projects, and they’re... View Details
Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

instead reflect more "top-down" interventions. We conclude with a discussion of some of the historical evidence on top-down interventions. Illicit Invention: Tracing Technological Development in the Shadow of the Law... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2022
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June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

research from Future Forum, a consortium by Slack, and global case studies from leading companies such as Levi Strauss & Co., Genentech, Royal Bank of Canada, and IBM, How the Future Works offers concrete solutions and practical steps for... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

Paul Healy, George Serafeim, and Devin Shanthikumar Abstract—Prior research on equity analysts focuses almost exclusively on those employed by sell-side investment banks and brokerage houses. Yet investment firms undertake their own... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-103.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsBancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (A) Harvard Business School Case 107-055 In 1996, CEO Fernando Garcia Checa wanted to make customer analytics a part of Bancaja's new strategy. Bancaja, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of an augmented investment Euler equation developed by Whited and Wu (2006). Using a large sample of U.S. firms during the period from 1995 to 2002, we find that the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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institutions (including banks and insurance companies). Still others focus on the behavior of financial actors and groups, particularly in the context of financial bubbles and crashes. Because the course highlights the origins of... View Details