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- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
experiments to test theoretical predictions of why adoption may be low. Insurance purchase is sensitive to price, with an estimated extensive price elasticity of demand between -0.66 and -0.88. Credit constraints, identified through the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
School Case 909-007 In 2008, the Japanese consumer payments landscape featured ongoing widespread use of cash, limited use of credit cards and rapid rise of e-money systems based on contactless technology embedded in cards and especially... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
popularization in banking in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. And my research seeks to bring these together in explaining the reasons for the expansion in access to financial services. Rohit Daniel Wadhwani My dissertation... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
academic cultures, structures, and traditions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51876 Innovation Network By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William Kerr Abstract—Technological progress builds upon itself with the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
community service projects such as serving as classroom aides in inner-city schools or assisting staff at neighborhood Boys and Girls Clubs. Expansion of the relationship over the ensuing decade found Timberland supplying City Year's... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
unprecedented expansion of higher education and, in the most recent time, efforts at reform and restructuring. Harvard has overhauled its undergraduate curriculum in a comprehensive fashion for the first time in 30 years. European... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
market funds, we show that funds with large exposures to risky Eurozone banks suffered significant outflows between June and August 2011. Due to credit market frictions, these outflows have significant spillover effects on other firms:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
these issues. Firms devote more external capital to finance their share repurchases than to avoid regular dividend cuts. Debt is the main source of capital used to externally finance payouts, particularly when credit market conditions are... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52102 forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Credit-Induced Boom and Bust By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Amir Kermani Abstract—Can a credit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
firms' geographic expansion across time and markets. Specifically, we build a model in which two firms that differ in their capabilities enter sequentially into two markets with different potentials for profit. The model is solved using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
major credit card company. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817015-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-026 Collective Academy No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
for the working class. First, welfare reformers in the interwar period embraced private credit as an alternative to an expansive welfare state. Second, U.S. organized labor in the wake of World War II... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
dollar lending more than euro lending in response to a shock to their credit quality. Because these banks rely on wholesale dollar funding, while raising more of their euro funding through insured retail deposits, the shock leads to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
that suppliers that extend significant amounts of trade credit hold private information about their trade partners. Trade creditors who are geographically closer or in similar industries tend to lend the most, suggesting that these are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
and a little understood provision in the federal tax code that is implemented at the state level, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). The relationship is complex because, while the federal government uses the CRA to control bank... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
Africa. Under the apartheid era, the economy was sheltered. Initially, in the 1920s, this had been under an import substitution strategy, but by the '70s and '80s, it was more of a self-defense mechanism. That led to South African corporations' ability to expand and,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
strategy as well as whether she is the right person to continue to lead the organization. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410013-PDF-ENG Executive Pay and the Credit Crisis of 2008 (B) Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
prevent the deepest recession in postwar history. A Crisis of Beliefs makes us rethink the financial crisis and the nature of economic risk. In this authoritative and comprehensive book, two of today’s most insightful economists reveal how our beliefs shape financial... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
telegraph, the radio, and so forth) that had been every bit as radical in their time as the Internet had become in ours. I argued that all of these technologies had gone through cycles of commercial expansion and political response and... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
of shopping malls across the country; Amazon's aggressive expansion of its Prime service; and tough times ahead even for venerable retailer Walmart. In short, retail is at an inflection point, even though ecommerce still makes up a... View Details