Bond rating - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance

Do relationships between colleagues raise the bar? A new analysis of how physicians who know each other provide better patient care could impart wide-ranging lessons for the business world. Specialists who received referrals from primary care physicians (PCPs) with... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

11 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

inhabitants of Seoul, a sprawling metropolis packed with boutiques, nightclubs, and skyscrapers. Kim left Korea in 1974, at age 11. Educated in the United States, he returned as COO of Asia-Pacific investment banking at Salomon Smith Barney and in 1998 helped... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

11 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

depicting workplace interactions. In both situations, emotions were either ignored or acknowledged. Participants consistently rated people who commented about negative emotions as more trustworthy, giving them View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

20 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

each other for longer than five years. First, the participants rated jokes on a scale from “extremely funny” to “not funny at all.” Then, after seeing their partners’ ratings for four of the jokes, they... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

book, which grew out of background notes Moss wrote for his MBA students, is a nontechnical, accessible explanation of broad concepts such as "output," "money," and "expectations"—as well as more specific ones ranging from real exchange... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

created its own closed-end investment company, the Lehman Corporation, which traded its own stocks and bonds on the New York Stock Exchange. “The management of someone elses [sic] money is a great responsibility under any conditions,”... View Details

01 Jun 2007
What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

into account the spread in pay packages between the top two executives in the organizations whose bonds it rates. Presumably, the larger the spread, the lower the bond rating, reflecting the higher implied... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

25 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

changes in the minimum wage at the city level. The evidence suggests that higher minimum wages increase overall exit rates for restaurants. However, lower quality restaurants, which are already closer to the margin of exit, are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 21

cost of capital and in turn the rates available to borrowers. Standard theory predicts that, in perfect and efficient capital markets, reducing banks' leverage reduces the risk and cost of equity but leaves the overall weighted average... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

percent to nearly 41,000, a compound annual growth rate of more than 67 percent since the group launched in fiscal 2014. Women comprised 42 percent of the total enrollment in fiscal 2022, while international students made up 67 percent.... View Details

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Best Paper Prize in Asset Management from the Midwest Finance Association for "The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices" with Umang Khetan, Jane Li, and Ioana Neamtu. Ishita Sen : Winner of the 2025 Western... View Details

20 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce

faster than your family or business consumes them. Of course, growing families and businesses are both good at consuming assets. For many family companies we have researched, their sustainable real growth rate is 6 percent. That might... View Details

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

to design use investment capital to create social change. Key Themes: The social impact bond is a unique financial contract that allows investors to fund social service organizations with the potential to earn a return. Returns, if any,... View Details

27 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too

acts that may seem mundane, like making coffee every morning for a spouse, often come with a strong emotional backdrop, boosting the bond between couples, say the coauthors, Harvard Professor Michael I. Norton, HBS doctoral candidate... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

not-for-profits for environmental science, law, economics, innovation, and advocacy increase at far greater than historical rates. Capital for new clean tech ventures has also increased at a rate commensurate with the resulting needs. To... View Details

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Harvard Business School

public and public charter high school student college enrollment rate and establishing DC-CAP as a national leader in college retention research and practice. Reginald Van Lee MBA 1984 Reginald Van Lee is a philanthropist, arts advocate,... View Details

01 Sep 2024
News

Next Level

In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

June 1985 (Revised August 1994)
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U.S. Government Debt Market and the Structure of Interest Rates, The

Concerns U.S. Government Debt Market and various conventions used to depict the structure of interest rates. View Details

Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Bonds; Interest Rates

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23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

Viceira: I think that the best example to understand this is to look at U.S. Treasury bonds. Over short horizons, bond prices fluctuate as interest rates change. Increases in interest View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Mar 2012
News

Social Investing Pioneers

principal and a rate of return with a portion of the savings. If the predefined social outcomes are not met, the government owes nothing. “What the social impact bond does is enable a social organization to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

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