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into firms that take fewer risks. Additional tests support altruism as the driving motive. Informal capital is thus a behaviorally distinct source of startup funding, shaped by relational and non-pecuniary objectives. Keywords: Early Stage Finance ; Informal Investment... View Details

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About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

measure investor sentiment or risk neglect and understand its influence on security prices? Do credit market conditions reveal bubbles? How are credit market bubbles different from equity market bubbles? Regulation and Monetary Policy... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

risk and the cost of equity (the beta anomaly): As firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. They find that... View Details

28 Apr 2003
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Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

question," says Steve Harris, vice president of ABS Consulting, Oakland, Calif. Risk can be viewed as the product of frequency times consequence. That means a high-frequency/low-consequence event, such as the regular fluctuation of... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

16 Apr 2020
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Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

efficiency and cost minimization shall be accompanied by more attention toward a diversification and also of the currencies used for transactions. Question: What are some implications for policymakers? Answer: Here there is role for local... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

Western firms sought access to resources, and they faced little political risk due to Western imperialism. The main risks were logistical due to infrastructure and technological inadequacies. During the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Dec 2005
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Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

Constance Bagley: Yes, I'd be happy to. The law offers a variety of tools managers can use to manage the firm more effectively. They range from contracts, which can be used to strengthen business relationships, allocate risk and reward,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

06 Oct 2003
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The Problem with Hedge Funds

claims to have but really doesn't—any more than the mutual funds had expertise in picking dot-com stocks. The banks argue that they have expertise allowing them to pick the better hedge funds in which to invest. And they provide statistical models that supposedly... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26

only when publicly disclosed fundamental signals have high precision; fundamentals are thus the sole driver of crises in low-precision settings. We affirm this proposition on 39 currency crises by exploiting a key publicly disclosed... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Mar 2007
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Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

foreigners. In the somewhat special case of Indonesia, the political crisis accompanying the Asian Currency Crisis meant that no increases in rates were granted; thus the state-owned power distributor simply could not pay what had been... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

of Financial Studies for "Regulatory Limits to Risk Management" (June 2023). 2023 Mark L. Egan : Winner of the 2023 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security for “Conflicting Interests... View Details

30 Mar 2003
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The Future of IT Consulting

an impressive education and training facility called St. Charles, outside of Chicago, which focuses on maintaining currency in the skill levels of their professionals, as well as providing a leading tool for equipping their professionals... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting

May 2021 (Revised September 2021)
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Accounting for Bitcoin at Tesla

By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Siyu Zhang

On February 8, 2021, Tesla revealed, through its 10-K filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), that it had purchased $1.5 billion of Bitcoin, totaling 7.5% of the company’s cash, and that it planned to accept payments in the cryptocurrency soon. These... View Details

Keywords: Bitcoin; Accounting; Currency; Communication Intention and Meaning; Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Emerging Markets; Risk and Uncertainty; Value Creation

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Kulp-Wright Book Award for When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager (Harvard University Press, 2002), presented by the American Risk and Insurance Association for the book considered to... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?

determining their influence, developing a communication management plan, and influencing stakeholders through engagement.” One difference between shareholder and stakeholder management may be in the identification of those carrying the greatest weight in a decision. At... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

that create and capture value. In Global Business, we learned about currencies, exchange rates, and tariffs, and it helped a lot. It’s one of the reasons Aphrodite supports 50 currencies now. Daniel Dietzel CEO of Aphrodite at Aphrodite... View Details

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

expensive natural disasters risk the planet on which we depend, and are already triggering immense geopolitical ramifications and population displacement amid costs to human health, food security, and water availability. Weigh that... View Details

20 Oct 2010
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Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

companies' capabilities directly or by removing barriers that limit their abilities to translate these capabilities into valuable products or services for consumers on export markets. But there are other polices like currency... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting” with Umit Gurun and Quoc Nguyen. Lauren H. Cohen : Invited to give a keynote address at the launch of the eNaira, Nigeria’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), 2021. Lauren H.... View Details

06 Dec 2011
Op-Ed

Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis

take a grim view. The EMU has had no fiscal solidarity, no fiscal discipline, and no lender of last resort. To regain a level of competitiveness comparable to Germany's, weaker European economies would have to suffer through a painful internal deflation, since a View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

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