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  • 30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

credit and leverage, and expose the economy to major risks. Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer carefully walk readers through the unraveling of Lehman Brothers and the ensuing meltdown of the U.S. financial system and then present new... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

lead businesses to voluntarily provide information about the quality of their products. This theoretical prediction is based on unraveling arguments, which require that consumers hold correct beliefs about non-disclosed information.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

resolution to the rapidly escalating customer situation that motivated his trip, he finds himself facing distributed work, global collaboration, conflict, and management issues that are threatening to unravel his team. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!

increased workplace opportunities for blacks and women, and heightened job security and compensation for workers generally, things began to unravel in the 1970s. As the manufacturing sector declined and the country transitioned to a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 21 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

helping to finance that deficit. If those global imbalances are unraveled chaotically, the stirrings of a crisis of legitimacy for the free movement of capital would be strengthened. Hopefully these imbalances will not be resolved in a... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 01 Jun 2025
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Anheuser-Busch—formerly the home of America’s most popular brewery—watched as the company unraveled at the hands of globe-trotting financiers and progressive middle management. Rather than pursue shareholder profits, Anheuser-Busch... View Details
  • 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

success, and there can be marketplace failures. I'll discuss labor markets like the market for new economists as well as markets for new lawyers and doctors that have suffered from the unraveling of appointment dates to well before... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

authors map these trends and profile the battle between low-cost index and exchange-traded funds, on the one hand, and the higher-fee hedge funds and private equity, on the other. “I have no rituals for writing other than needing long periods of uninterrupted thinking... View Details
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

its currency. Investors started to flee Asia, and the crisis rapidly spread to other countries. Central banks spent billions of dollars to try and defend their currencies, only to seek emergency bailouts from the International Monetary Fund. This case presents a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

schools choose to display on their websites. First, the data strongly rejects patterns predicted by classic models of voluntary disclosure. In contrast with the traditional unraveling hypothesis, top schools are least likely to display... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

and banking crisis. The paper then explains how the crisis unraveled and describes the U.S. bailout of the Mexican government in 1995. Since the exchange rate crisis of December of 1994 then translated into a banking crisis in 1995, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

A may prefer to accept lower future profits in order to interact with a monopolist complement in B. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-009.pdf Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-Season College... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

can unravel the genetic code, we can measure tau neutrinos, but nope, the quality of this doctor or hospital is unmeasurable? I think these are very self-serving arguments. Q: Well, you almost automatically get transparency if you have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health