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  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

developing countries considering both creditor and debtor side of the international debt transactions. Using these measures, we demonstrate that sovereign-to-sovereign transactions account for upstream capital flows and global imbalances.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

August 2013 Management Science The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance By: Eccles, Robert G., Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim Abstract—We investigate the effect of corporate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The HBS Fund

Business Become More Sustainable The notion of “doing well by doing good” is gaining momentum as business leaders and investors realize that social responsibility can improve the bottom line. That’s why HBS Online introduced a course on... View Details
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels. In addition, assuming constant debt levels does not allow addressing one of the puzzles behind using reserves as a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Profile

John Smith-Ricco

experienced." Sustainable ambitions During January term, John returned to Africa via the Rwanda IXP, focused on "enterprise and nation-building in a post-conflict society." John and three other HBS colleagues worked with an... View Details
  • 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

compensation plan. Substantively, the paper sheds insights on how different elements of the compensation plan enhance productivity. We find evidence that: (1) bonuses enhance productivity across all segments; (2) overachievement commissions help View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

to see how off-balance sheet debt affects the company's performance, they can easily adjust the financials for that affect. If they want to see how expensing stock options would affect the company's performance, they can add that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

service requests to their city government. Users who viewed photos of city workers responding to their service requests were more likely to continue using the app over the ensuing 13 months, demonstrating that operational transparency led to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

capital flows—both debt and equity—into public and private components and study their relationship with productivity growth. This exercise reveals that international capital flows are mainly shaped by government decisions and sovereign to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

to European banks, we evaluate a variety of interventions to reduce their vulnerability to fire sales during the sovereign debt crisis. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

will be critical to their success. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51813 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

emerging Asian markets. Paper: http://www.asiabusinessinsights.com/articles.html#sub_articles_E-commerce_in_Asia Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel G. Hanson Publication:Review of Financial Studies Abstract We show that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni

scheme Certified educational loans from a bank or credit union (e.g. HUECU, etc.) Applicants must not be delinquent or in default on their loans at the time of application. If in doubt, please ask HBS MBA Financial Aid before committing to a loan. View Details
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Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog

course encourages students to consider fundamental characteristics of international trade and financial system: effects of trade, capital flows, why cycles in international capital flows recur, and how sovereign debt and domestic View Details
  • 05 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

and recovery to be associated with increases in orders from Hugo Boss's retailer customers Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-034.pdf A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity Authors:Robin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract—This paper documents a set of stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility in the nonfinancial corporate sector in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12

debt for firms in the vicinity of financial distress. We show that this ruling increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced firm risk, consistent with a decrease in debt-equity conflicts of interest. The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

in press Journal of Systems and Software Technical Debt and System Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Defect-related Activity By: MacCormack, Alan, and Daniel J. Sturtevant Abstract—Technical debt is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2013
  • News

Moving the Needle

private debt and equity options. That position took her on a trip to Kenya this summer to search for investment opportunities—including microfinance, sustainable agriculture, clean cook stoves, and urban... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 12 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

the past decade, foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries increased dramatically. We revisit sovereign debt sustainability under the assumptions that countries can... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel