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- 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
- Profile
Alika Phipps
Ratings and Capital Structure Advisory Group, “advising clients on the optimal capital structure to maintain a favorable credit rating. JP Morgan was a great experience. But although I gained a lot of expertise in finance, I was missing... View Details
- 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
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
settling in the first 30 days by 12 percent, and increased the amount of settlement revenue by 80 percent. Adding messages that also include a deadline increased the settlement rate by up to 19 percent, and the revenue by 130 percent.... View Details
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How One Coffee Shop Is Brewing Change for Business and Society | Working Knowledge
Richard S. Ruback. Roughly 6.5 million people in the United States have intellectual disabilities such as autism and Down syndrome, but less than 23 percent of working-age disabled women and men were employed in 2023, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
clear you can raise $4 billion for your next fund instead of the planned $1 billion. Professor of Management Practice Nabil N. El-Hage coauthored the case with HBS professor and Finance unit head Richard Ruback. “The case highlights some 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
- 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
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
benefited from investor interest in the Internet in Latin America. Through two rounds of funding, they have secured $60 million from foreign investors. Says Oxenford, "In our sector, U.S. financial insti-tutions have been fairly active,... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
Back, Moving Forward: A Review of Group and Team-Based Research, edited by Margaret A. Neale and Elizabeth A. Mannix, 359-381. Emerald Group Publishing, 2012 Abstract Purpose-We review how team members' identities and interests affect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Records an “Excellent” Year
$2.8 billion on June 30, 2007, contributed $7 million to revenue growth. The market value of the HBS endowment and current use funds has grown at a compound annual rate of 16.1 percent for the past five years. For the first time in the... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
and on and on and said this is not normal. This is a pattern of corruption. And it was shocking to me how much people—ultimately, many people ultimately said, I think I'd rather vote for Donald Trump than for someone like that. It was an View Details
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training
Many Zambian girls face major challenges early in life. They drop out of eighth and ninth grade at three times the rate of their male counterparts and contract HIV twice as often. Many will die due to complications associated with... View Details
Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn
- 17 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Is “Business as Usual” After September 11?
be subtle, but real. —Professor James Hesket Changes in organizations, according to respondents, will be subtle, but real. Perhaps the most interesting opinions on this topic were set forth by Niklas Arvidsson: "What will be the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
require three or four years of work experience," says Wheelwright. "In fact, we don't. We're interested in having more students consider coming to HBS directly from college; many of our alumni who did so say the experience helped them... 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
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
financial crises (we were lucky to have thought of that over a year ago), and on salesmen. There's been growing interest in the topic of salesmanship over the last several years. In 2008, the University of Reading hosted a conference... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
interested in the Wells Report, an NFL-commissioned probe into the alleged cheating, which was led by New York attorney Theodore Wells (HBS MBA’76). “We were looking for great examples in which to try out some analytics and analysis... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
economy.” They don’t know the inner workings, but “what are the interest rates?” They have high sensitivity to transactions and to partners, because everything’s a bespoke, one-off transaction. Typically, people like this also see the... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
requirements — the cushion against losses — for all financial institutions creating a mechanism to deal with those institutions regarded as too big to fail Thain characterized the crisis as a classic bubble “fundamentally fueled by monetary policy” that held View Details