Likelihood Of Default - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2001
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Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues

acquisitions, while positive for the developing economies, puts a burden on Asian cultures to “bear the brunt of the change of ownership at local firms,” increasing the View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

17 Dec 2024
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Solving the Underemployment Crisis

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details

01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains

can help MBAs no matter what they end up doing. “You’ve got to make sure that you understand the likelihood of failure — no matter how smart or how good the plan is,” says Stig Leschly. “It takes a certain... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Mar 2023
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Is AI OK?

creditworthiness on purely financial and operational grounds, omitting the prejudice endemic among loan officers. The team used machine-learning techniques to sift through loan records from the Small Business Administration, identifying and weighting the factors that... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture

entrepreneurship as an intellectual onion -- you peel back layer after layer, never finding a core idea, and all you do is cry. Another colleague told me that the likelihood of getting promoted would be... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup

what’s out there to avoid any unpleasant surprises.” Besides similarity of name, search results incorporate information on industry sectors and trademark classes. “What trademark is about is the likelihood... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2016
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Ears to the Ground

coverage leads to better results, Clark says, and a greater likelihood of a city renewing its subscription. The ShotSpotter process begins with a gunshot, which activates its audio sensors. Data is sent to a... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer; photography by Vance Jacobs

02 Nov 2020
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The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

a timber farm. Many of my family members also worked in industries tied to food and agriculture. This background led me to study food and resource economics as an undergraduate, a field of study with a very... View Details

01 Jun 2002
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Books

also includes a section about Germany's similar experience with Internet commercialization, as well as contributions from ten industry participants and observers. “Unless fundamental changes are made,” Mills says, “another bubble is a certainty, with the View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup

to talk to Wasserman and started the conversation by saying that he was never going to be a founder. He wasn’t there to talk about how to get his great idea off the ground. The Founder’s Dilemmas course, he said, had changed his marriage. He was essentially taking all... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Kill Groupthink

or former college lacrosse teammates, you are limiting the likelihood of out-of-the-box ideas, Bouygues says. “What you want to think about is best-practice crossover across industries.” For a retail board,... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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AI Enhances Diagnostic Care

likelihood of an illness, and precision imaging that can detect abnormalities not visible to the human eye. Tantawy says that MRC, founded in 1989, uses advanced technologies to deliver the highest standards... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2008
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No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis

consumer deleveraging. This, in turn, has created defaults among financial institutions.” In this context, Kaplan maintains that the financial rescue plan was necessary but not sufficient by itself. “There has to be a second step, and it... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson;Martha Lagace; deregulation; moral hazard; the middle class; Finance

01 Dec 2009
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An Action Plan for Economic Recovery

financial products are systemically risky, like credit default swaps. What would you do? My proposal is just the opposite of the Treasury’s. I would put the Fed in charge of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Mar 2012
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The Accidental Innovator

Unfortunately, 99 percent of the viewers don’t know what an austerity program is, and 99 percent don’t understand what sovereign debt is or what it means to default on sovereign debt. I think Khan Academy... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

totaling $375 billion. Nine are large enough to be listed in the S&P 500. Wall Street goes shopping. Wall Street surveyed the mountain of defaulted S&L loans taken over by the federal Resolution Trust... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons

Edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Eduardo Recife Professor Nancy Koehn uses the perspective of time to tell the stories of ordinary people who, despite the odds, achieved extraordinary things. As these... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

01 Jun 2007
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Steve Schwarzman

low for financial defaults. So when someone asks whether we are going to have problems with increasing levels of defaults, I think it’s almost self-evident. Of course there will be higher levels View Details