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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
South Africa Conference Preview
special interest tours - to big game reserves, bird sanctuaries, and golf resorts, for example - are also being planned. "Sub-Saharan Africa has been growing for the last seven years at a rate of 4 to 5... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
situation of being able to characterize their income separately depending on the audience. Something as simple as interest expense can be engineered to be an expense for tax authorities and a dividend for capital markets. This confusing... View Details
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
income taxes paid, up to the U.S. statutory rate. In effect, this means that Cummins will ultimately pay a total of the U.S. statutory rate on its overseas activities in lower tax countries and pay the local View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
fantasy but as a horror movie. "This season's biggest holiday extravaganza, 'The Polar Express,' should be subtitled 'The Night of the Living Dead,' " groused CNN reviewer Paul Clinton. "If I were a kid, I'd have nightmares," wrote Geoff Pevere in the Toronto Star.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
countries were pondering policies regarding a flood of guest workers, some legal and some illegal. These issues tend to arise at times of economic growth or stress. The differing rates at which countries emerge from the recent global... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
diminishing the return on lending in foreign currency. We show that, in response to domestic monetary policy easing, global banks increase their foreign reserves in currency areas with the highest interest View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market
operating as an ordinary pawnshop. But it boasted interest rates that were one half to one third of the legal rate charged by independent pawnbrokers. 29 Reformers initially... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Research Brief: Better to Be Safe with a Sorry
the phone, and a second where he prefaced the ask with, "I'm so sorry about the rain!" The first version produced a successful outcome only 9 percent of the time; the "weather apology" version had a success rate more than five times... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Loan Program Signals Breakthrough in MBA Financial Aid
tool to attract exceptional young leaders, particularly those from outside the United States," says James T. Millar (MBA '92), director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid. "No other business school offers anything like it." The new program includes a number of... View Details
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
innovation, organizations' designs, and the nature of organizational adaptation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-087WP.pdf Bond Risk, Bond Return Volatility, and the Term Structure of Interest View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
FAQs | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
amount indicated in the LRAP eligibility calculation is the true calculated amount of your student contribution. I have a variable interest rate loan. What happens when rates... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
was spurred by high profits. Typical cable systems outside the top 100 markets earned rates of return on net investment (before taxes and interest expense) over 40 percent. 9 Wired Cities: 1970-1975 (10)... View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- News
SVB Crash Analysis
Bank's Failure Say About the State of Finance? Silicon Valley Bank wasn't ready for the Fed's interest rate hikes, but that's only part of the story. In Working Knowledge, HBS professors Victoria Ivashina... View Details
- Fast Answer
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Tools
the thousands of indicators already available. Available data includes demographics, home sale statistics, health data, mortgage trends, school performance scores and labor data like unemployment, crime statistics and city crime rates... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
And the investor was lured into thinking that if the underlying asset was appreciating so quickly, any mistake would be camouflaged by that increase in value. What is your view of proposed remedies, such as freezing interest View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
affordable housing instead of allowing developers to build new higher-priced housing? If there was more high-priced housing in the market, wouldn’t other tiers become cheaper? —Gene Pao (MBA 1997) OAKES: We have to make it easier to build both market View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
Donald Trump’s administration is requiring hospitals to publish their charges in a way that consumers can easily understand, starting in January. The required information includes the rates hospitals negotiate with insurers. For their... View Details
- Profile
Paul Luning
reflect, expand my perspective, and meet new people." Initially, Paul didn't think of HBS as place for people interested in startups and clean technology. "But I came to the campus one week before the decision deadline – and I... View Details
- Profile
Mi Zhou
had little time for strategy. I helped him delegate authority and develop reporting relationships that would allow him to focus on the big picture.” Testing interests After five years with McKinsey, Mi found “what I really enjoy –... View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
Luca, whose past research has focused on platform design. For example, Luca and his colleagues reached out to online rating app Yelp several weeks ago to explore ways the company might help small businesses dealing with the crisis. Among... View Details