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- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
Recent high-profile financial meltdowns at Bitcoin, Celsius, and Terraform Labs, which together wiped out hundreds of billions in market value, helped trigger a flight from the cryptocurrency market, driving its value from $2.9 trillion... View Details
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
paradigm behind global value chains, generally a production network, suggests that firms should outsource to the countries with the lowest overall costs. (Firms could potentially source particular intermediate inputs from only one... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
between bundling and indirect network effects, we find that they act as substitute strategies, with a lower relative effectiveness for bundling when network effects are stronger. 2013 pub From Social Control to Financial Economics: The... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- Web
Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan, and Ilya A. Strebulaev. Robin Greenwood : Recipient of the Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Contributions to the HBS community in 2019 and 2021. Victoria Ivashina : Winner of the 2021 Journal of View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Publication:Review of Financial Studies 22, no. 10 (2009): 4129-4156 Abstract Many investors purchase their mutual funds through intermediated channels, engaging and paying brokers or View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)
stereotypes. I wasn’t going to be sitting quietly in the corner building the financial model, I was going to be at the center of the table debating ideas with a CEO. And at the same time, I realized that it was also my job to make sure... View Details
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
profit from their private information relating to a specific financial reporting element, goodwill impairments, prior to its incorporation by the equity market or recognition by the firm's accounting system. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Summer Associates | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
be accomplished and the resources necessary to complete the job Ownership of specific project(s) with deliverables Financial and time commitment from organization (see "Your Commitment" ) See past examples Preparing For & During The... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
particularly tough time. During the 1990s small investors lost out to professional financial firms that manipulated the market; this time they're likely to lose out—if they're not careful—to other sophisticated investors as well. The Next... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
intermediate cities. August 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives Entrepreneurship as Experimentation By: Kerr, William R., Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—Entrepreneurship research is on the rise, but many questions about... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
the current economic and financial crisis, countries around the globe are looking for ways to reignite economic growth. Traditionally, export-led growth has been perceived as one of the most promising pathways to do so. The experience of... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
source of the recent financial crisis. It may be more accurate, however, to say that a deregulatory mindset was an important source of the crisis—a mindset that, to a very significant extent, grew out of profound changes in academic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
Illustration by David Plunkert Here’s a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed “too big to fail,” hasn’t it implicitly guaranteed similar... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
Scharfstein: “Whenever you mix government guarantees with private, for-profit entities, those private entities put the government at risk.” Reforming the U.S. housing finance system remains perhaps the largest piece of unfinished business from the 2008–2009 View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
upfront capital investments. The more developed the local financial markets, the easier it is for credit constrained entrepreneurs to start their own firms. The increase in the number of varieties of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
requires upfront capital investments. The more developed the local financial markets, the easier it is for credit constrained entrepreneurs to start their own firms. The increase in the number of varieties of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Setting the Legislative Agenda
The Congressional Oversight Panel identified eight specific areas most urgently in need of reform and addressed each with recommendations: Identify and regulate financial institutions that pose systemic risk. Limit excessive leverage in... View Details
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
commented, "Operationally, profit as a final goal is probably impossible because of principal/agent problems and lack of information and knowledge. This makes intermediate targets that affect profit important." Steve Brogan,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Mortgage Finance edited by Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky (Brookings Institution Press) This book explores what caused the mortgage crisis and focuses on the future. The challenge remains the same: protect consumers, ensure fairness, and guarantee the View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
difference across innovation systems is whether disclosure is of intermediate progress and solutions or of completed innovations. We present experimental evidence that links intermediate versus final... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne