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- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
good projects and good returns. Esty's interest in project finance evolved out of his doctoral thesis on risk-taking in the savings and loan (S&L) industry during the 1980s. "I have been intrigued with high View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
associated with a decrease in non-performing loans and an increase in interest rate spreads, suggesting that foreign concerns bought domestic banks that had been making loans with low interest rates to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
marketing pitch made to study participants by our project staff. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/nashraf/aamy_SavingsinTransnationalHouseholds.pdf August 2013 Journal of Finance Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
businesses. They also distributed shares of the bank to the state governor or made a loan to the local state government—with the understanding that it most likely would not be repaid. A number of countries have experienced political... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- March 1985 (Revised November 1988)
- Case
Precision Parts, Inc. (A)
Contains a description of a decision confronting two entrepreneurs in mid-1981. They are considering purchasing a small manufacturer of precision electromechanical parts. Among the issues in the case are the following: 1) Should Taylor and Grayson buy Precision Parts,... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Cost vs Benefits; Investment Return; Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Risk and Uncertainty; Outcome or Result; Manufacturing Industry
Sahlman, William A. "Precision Parts, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 285-131, March 1985. (Revised November 1988.)
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset on the universe of corporate loans for 2003–2013 to identify bank-specific shocks for each year using methods from the matched employer-employee... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
simultaneously manage the seemingly contradictory dualities of the job: integrating direct decision-making with indirect levers like strategy and culture, balancing internal and external constituencies, proactively pursuing an agenda while reacting to unfolding events,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Capital Management was evaluating the purchase of a pool of U.S. residential mortgages. The firm had formed an investment vehicle to acquire troubled residential mortgages from banks and other motivated sellers. The idea was to purchase mortgage View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
careful not to squeeze people. When the network asked if he could find a radar gun, he didn't ask, "What's in it for me?" Likewise, when the officer asked for baseballs, Lucci didn't say, "You can have them if you'll loan... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
must face tough regulation going forward, including strict limits on overall leverage and short-term debt. Under the new reform legislation, regulators will be empowered to rein in the largest financial institutions in precisely these... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
reducing banks' leverage reduces the risk and cost of equity but does not change the weighted average cost of capital, and thus the rates for borrowers. We confirm that the equity of better-capitalized banks has lower beta and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
revolutionary, rather than evolutionary, innovation. This note outlines a process for studying extreme consumers-consumers who fall in both tails of a normal distribution of customers-with needs, behaviors, attitudes, and emotions atypical of the average customer.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
J. Davis, John Haltiwanger, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner, and Javier Miranda Abstract Private equity critics claim that leveraged buyouts bring huge job losses. To investigate this claim, we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
debt, which means the loan repayments must come from project cash flows only. In municipally financed or public financed projects, a government entity is the borrower or the debt is backed by a government guarantee. In the case of the Big... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
whether or not employees are selected via channels that are likely to sort on the alignment of their preferences with organizational objectives. I find that employees selected through such channels are more likely to use decision-making authority in the granting and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
trust, the two sides may circumvent the intermediary to avoid the intermediary’s fees. We investigate the relationship between increased trust and disintermediation by leveraging a randomized control trial on a major online freelance... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
Market Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl B. Diether, and Christopher J. Malloy Periodical:Journal of Finance 62, no. 5 (October 2007) Abstract Using proprietary data on stock loan fees and quantities from a large institutional investor, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
advisor reactions to one of the most widely recommended advice-seeking strategies: seeking advice from multiple advisors to leverage the wisdom of crowds. Advisors negatively judge and interpersonally distance themselves from seekers who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
of Debt Forgiveness: Strategic Default Contagion and Lender Learning By: Pérez Cavazos, Gerardo Abstract—I use a unique data set of loans to small business owners to examine whether lenders face adverse consequences when they grant debt... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
legal change applied). These reductions in agency costs were followed by an increase in average leverage and a reduction in interest costs. Finally, we can estimate the welfare implications of agency costs, because firm values increased... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace