Real Interest Rate Risk - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

were going to succeed and prosper needed to manage risks better, have a stronger sense of purpose to motivate their employees, and satisfy a public already agitated about scandals such as Enron in the corporate world. What I didn't see... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Business and government officials arrived in force to talk up India’s growth, exceeding an annual rate of 6 percent for the last fifteen years. GDP growth hit 7.6 percent in 2005... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2019
News

The One That Got Away

percent or more. But VCs and entrepreneurs are human—and with the US startup failure rate hovering at around 60 percent (according to a 2015 Cambridge Associates study) those home runs are far from the norm. That makes it even more... View Details

18 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

development interests on asset management, risk management for global investment, and negotiation and deal structuring. He also served in a variety of leadership roles: as chair of the Finance Unit... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

03 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

grant less credit, screen loans more intensively, and charge lower interest rate spreads. The cause is Mexico's weak contract rights environment. One would normally associate View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jan 2016
First Look

January 26, 2016

rate of 37% is fairly close to the model's estimated welfare-maximizing taxation rate of 42%. Reducing corruption provides the largest potential impact for welfare gain through its impact on the uses of tax... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Dec 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Enterprise examines the foundations of bold yet reasonable action. Make Work Fair: Data-Driven Design for Real Results By Iris Bohnet and Siri Chilazi (MBA 2016) Harper Business To make organizations more fair, many well-meaning... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

5.6 billion people—by 2050), but consume 60-80 percent of the world's annual energy usage. Vast amounts of natural resources are also used each year in building new cities and expanding existing ones through real estate development and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

actions (distribution browsers with PC purchases) increase the rate of diffusion of browsers into the population, the strategic actions (distribution or restrictions on distribution in the case of Netscape) are twice as important as... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

compensation. We would note similar problems if we were to look at auditors, at investment analysts, at rating agencies, at virtually every aspect of the governance system in our economy. It's not true of every one of every kind of... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

Web

Online Dynamic Teaming Course | HBS Online

real challenges of being a leader. I loved the frameworks and the case study model of the course, and I thought the course was very manageable on top of a full-time job." Abby Katz Senior Marketing Manager at Mavrck Effectively lead... View Details

19 Aug 2024
News

Quantum Leap

mechanics and at which SEEQC’s chips become fully operational. Of particular interest to Levy, however, is the jumble of room-temperature hardware and wiring that sits next to the refrigerators and communicates with the quantum chips... View Details

05 May 2020
News

“Walking a Tightrope”

the country. When I first went to Yamhill, I just assumed that people there were a little bit more easygoing. I assumed that they had such a great life because they had many, many acres of land which, you know, when you’re born and raised in Manhattan, that's a View Details

28 Feb 2025
News

Joy to the World

But he credits a dedicated community of social workers, as well as his birth and adopted families, with helping him eventually flourish. That gratitude helped spark his career in community service and his deep interest in exploring how... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Back to the Future

term. So interested was the public in its findings and analysis, the book became a widely praised New York Times bestseller. It was also “a model of what university research and monograph writing on a major question of policy should be,”... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Dec 2010
News

This Is What I Do

“With the MJFF sharing some of the initial risk in funding projects,” Hood explains, “the hope was that if positive outcomes emerged, industry would get involved where it might not have before and would take it the rest of the way. So... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; Health, Social Assistance; Accommodation; Hospitality; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

the importance of delivering a consistent message to different stakeholders, and the risks and rewards of introducing external financial information into a firm's planning and operations activities. Martha Lagace: What important themes do... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

29 Mar 2016
First Look

March 29, 2016

customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect... View Details