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- 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21
duration function as large-scale shocks to the quantity of interest rate risk that must be borne by professional bond investors. I develop a simple model in which the risk tolerance of bond investors is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
forth. It’s a well-known phenomenon that repurchase rates after the first transaction are lower than repurchase rates after several transactions. In other words, customers who make a few purchases are more... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Funding Circle, among others. It was a wide circle. These startups are part of a new ecosystem filling the void left by traditional banks that don’t want to lend to small businesses because they are too risky or because interest View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 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
- 06 Sep 2012
- News
Fashion-Forward
that is evolving with dizzying speed. In addition to original content (Amed employs a small team of international editors and freelance writers), the site offers an edited daily digest of five fashion-related stories from other publications. With a longtime View Details
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
growing academic interest in the influence of social networks on entrepreneurial successes and failures, Nanda says. As an example, he cites Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, a 1994 book by... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 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 Nov 2019
- News
It’s a Small World
at this interesting little company down the river—EF Education First—which is an under-the-radar, very interesting, privately held international education company that does languages, educational travel, cultural exchange, and academic... View Details
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-096.pdf Shamed and Able: How Firms Respond to Being Rated (Revised May 2008) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract We examine how firms respond to third-party View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
grade depending on their risk, which sets the interest rate for the loans. After the pre-screening, successful applicants are listed on the platform and some information is provided to investors to help them... View Details
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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
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
interested in discovering if this was an effective strategy, since a lot of people seemed to be doing it. Our assumption was that they think there's an advantage to doing it, given that it's such a common practice. And we found that it's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- June 2025
- Case
TfL Pension Fund and the 2022 Gilt Market Crisis
By: Emil N. Siriwardane, Vincent Dessain, Emer Moloney and Carlota Moniz
On September 27, 2022, Padmesh Shukla, CIO of the Transport for London (TfL) Pension Fund, was keeping a careful eye on the turmoil in the U.K. sovereign bond (or gilt) market. When the new government announced the largest tax cuts the U.K. had seen in half a century,... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Assets; Asset Management; Borrowing and Debt; Corporate Finance; Capital Markets; Equity; Financial Liquidity; Financial Instruments; Financial Strategy; Interest Rates; Governing and Advisory Boards; Crisis Management; Resource Allocation; Investment; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom; England; London; Europe
Siriwardane, Emil N., Vincent Dessain, Emer Moloney, and Carlota Moniz. "TfL Pension Fund and the 2022 Gilt Market Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 225-098, June 2025.
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Investment analyst reports (equity research reports) | Baker Library
employed by firms that may have an interest in selling securities; however, they can provide a useful model to students in understanding how investment professionals analyze an industry and what data points they find of most interest.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers
provide the diversity of employees that most leading businesses now recognize they need to be globally competitive. There are two trends in the United States that should be of interest to the business world. First, there is an increase in... View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
consumers to purchase more than one brand. When consumers purchase all varieties from which they derive non-negative net utility, there is no competition, so that each firm behaves like an unconstrained monopolist. When each consumer is View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
PublicationsDid Increased Competition Affect Credit Ratings? Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract The credit rating industry has historically been dominated by just two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
and asked each of the 177 team members to complete a brief electronic diary every day during the course of a creative project. “We wanted to observe creativity as it was happening within teams that are supposed to be doing creative work,” explained Amabile. One of the... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
global buyout fund: Bain Capital Fund XI. For the fund, Bain was offering its limited partners a choice between three different fee structures: first, a "conventional" fee structure of a 1.5% management fee with 20% carried View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne