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  • 11 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 11, 2006

significantly narrowed the range of variation in beauty and hygiene ideals. Paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-056.pdf Nationality and Multinationals in Historical Perspective Geoffrey G. Jones This paper provides a historical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis

difficult decisions over what investments to keep and what investments to cut. How they made those choices and what effect they had on business and national recovery in the long run hasn’t been well understood, however. Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking
  • 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016

find that the effects are stronger among innovating Massachusetts firms, particularly those facing greater Wall Street scrutiny. The evidence is consistent with staggered boards improving managers' incentives to make long-term investments. Sovereign View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jun 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

early 1990s began raising awareness of the conflict in Sarajevo, playing live footage of the war during U2's Zooropa tour. After working to get eight industrialized nations in 1999 to agree to $100 million in African View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 02 Jul 2015
  • Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

debt and served as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in her native Costa Rica from 2010 to 2012. Europe Needs More Europe The game of brinkmanship that the latest Greek government has played... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

agreement to give ownership of the Canal back to Panama in the 1970s was not a gesture of magnanimity, but because the strategic and economic value of ownership had since disappeared. In a surprise to those who argued that it was impossible for a fledgling Latin... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50814 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

executive board of the Deutsche Bundesbahn and the Deutsche Reichsbahn from 1991 to 1994, Heinz Dürr played a leading role in unifying the East and West German railroads into one national system that is scheduled to be fully privatized in... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

was roughly half as large as prior estimates have suggested. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55509 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract— Recurrent concerns over View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 3, 2008

Rotemberg Abstract A model is developed where firms in a financial system have to settle their debts to each other by using a liquid asset. The question that is studied is how many firms must obtain how much of this asset from outside the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

moderate-income families. Low-risk and low-profile, savings bonds have been around for decades, offering the dual benefit of funding the national debt while acting as a savings vehicle for millions of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

price of Facebook,” says Viceira, “but when you look at national markets of developed economies, they all have utilities, airlines, manufacturing companies, telecom companies, so you might expect them to move together more than any... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

sketch some important implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select migrants for admission. Looking forward, the capacity of people, firms, and countries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

pay out capital also initiate debt or equity issues in the same year, resulting in 32% of aggregate payouts being externally financed. Most firms with simultaneous payouts and security issues do not generate enough operating cash flow to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

brokerages have signaled that they are not getting rid of these operations. In addition to the $1.4 billion conflict of interest settlement, the self-regulatory organizations that govern brokerages have issued new rules. The National... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

twentieth century, neither country would see such glory again. “Before 1914, [Argentina] was one of the most dynamic nations in the first global economy, attracting a record amount of foreign investment and massive inflows of immigrants,”... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

research in finance and economics. We propose two tests to evaluate how well measures of financial constraints actually capture constraints. We find that firms typically classified as constrained do not in fact behave as if they were constrained: they have no trouble... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

As today's fiscal deficit and dragging economy continue to cast long shadows, it's easy to forget much darker times in American history. Shortly after winning its independence from Great Britain, the United States was bankrupt. Individual states weren't required to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking
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