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  • 22 Dec 2016
  • Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

working on as the head of the SBA and what I continue to write about today—access to capital. SBA’s flagship loan programs are made through more than 3,000 banks, where the private sector picks “winners and losers” and the government... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
  • 20 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

organizations, which often use capitated payments, and bundled payments. Nearly half (46%) of respondents say value-based contracts significantly improve the quality of care, and another 42% say value-based View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 21, 2010

Conflict: The Effects of Contract Structure Authors:Deepak Malhotra and Fabrice Lumineau Publication:Academy of Management Journal (in press) Abstract Leveraging a longitudinal dataset concerning 102 inter-firm disputes, we evaluate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50837 Covenant-Light Contracts and Creditor Coordination By: Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina Abstract—In 2015, 70% of newly issued leveraged loans had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 23

leads the loan syndicate (parent-financed deals). Bank-affiliated deals are similar in characteristics and financing to stand-alone deals but have worse outcomes if consummated during the peaks of the credit market. Parent-financed deals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

through a few months, when normalcy would resume. The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)—government-funded forgivable loans designed to help businesses pay their employees—would help them weather the storm. Six months later, there’s still... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service
  • 20 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

and Fundbox, which specialize in loans to small businesses, are also considering ways to support the sector. Renegotiate terms of contracts and debt. Owners should ask landlords for more time to pay their... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Food & Beverage
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

new debt, we interpret firm's switching from loans to bonds as a contraction in bank credit supply. We find strong evidence of substitution from loans to bonds at times... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses

to wait for payment for the work they had performed. With small businesses responsible for nearly $100 billion in contracts with the federal government, our goal was to get this cash to these small firms faster, so they could expand their... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

disaggregated measures that are incrementally informative but costly to contract upon. In such a setting, when do firms contract on aggregated rather than disaggregated performance measures? We show that at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2015
  • Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

But that hasn't happened. Why? To a large extent it is because of the inability of firms to obtain financing. All sources of financing collapsed in the country. With bank nonperforming loans to total gross View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14360 Stable Many-to-Many Matchings with Contracts Authors:Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and Markus Walzl Abstract We consider several notions of setwise stability for many-to-many matching markets with View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

framing an approach attractively, and generally being persuasive. In addition, it can include deciding who should make an opening offer and when, how high or low it should be, and the dynamics of successive counteroffers. The second dimension, drawing on trade and... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
  • 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

Hellenic Bottling Company) and the role of regulation in integrated reporting (Anglo-American). April 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Real Effects of Relational Contracts By: Henderson, Rebecca, Steven Blader, Andrea... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

would not be achieved even if the product offered a payout ratio comparable to U.S. insurance contracts. We present evidence suggesting that lack of trust, liquidity constraints, and limited salience are significant non-price frictions that constrain demand. We suggest... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

positive demand for external funds. Conditional on issuance of new debt, we interpret firm's switching from loans to bonds as a contraction in bank credit supply. We find strong evidence of substitution from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

information in lending decisions leads to worse credit outcomes when loan officers are busy or before weekends and national holidays; when loan officers had earlier non-banking and, in particular,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • August 2007
  • Teaching Note

Creditor Activism in Sovereign Debt: "Vulture" Tactics or Market Backbone (TN)

By: Laura Alfaro and Ingrid Vogel
Teaching Note to 706057. View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Financing and Loans; Bonds; Contracts; Investment Activism
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  • 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8

supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311135-PDF-ENG Penn Warranty Corporation Richard S. Ruback and Royce YudkoffHarvard Business School Case 212-007 Penn Warranty Corporation sold warranty contracts to the used-car market.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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