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- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
Depression during the financial crisis of 2008, with the failures consisting mostly of community banks. This environment—where troubled local banks appear unable to meet re-emerging small firm credit needs—would be an ideal market for new... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
with a lot of turbulence: "a very dramatic run off" of activity in the 1980s, followed by a decline in activity that led to a depression for much of the early 1990s, followed by a gradual recovery during the mid-1990s. "The... View Details
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
bottom lines, ultimately depressing stock prices. To circumvent this problem, some firms issue "tracking stock," hoping that capital markets will perceive them much like traditional start-up stocks. So when should a company... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
an interesting ripple effect for the rest of the management team. In many companies, when the founder-CEO's compensation is below market, it may also depress the compensation of the other team members. An investor who serves on the board... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
state policing powers rather than intrastate trade. Aided by the Great Depression The Fair Trade Act brought businesses to California and led to other states enacting similar legislation. The Great Depression, with its widespread price... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
for that very reason that she is cutting out intermediaries and may sacrifice some value (and possibly depress the value of other lesser Picassos) in the process: because she is intent on purging herself of painful emotional ties to that... View Details
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
others will receive a call the day their efforts are needed. Hussam’s team piloted the study with 300 households last spring, and the preliminary findings were promising. Refugees who worked had significantly lower rates of depression and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
down" response of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation of the Depression era rather than the "bottom up" strategy (involving the purchase of individual properties) of the Resolution Trust of the 1980s. The former returned 100 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
New Deal. Still, it was an important stepping-stone from the previous generation who did not fathom a role for government in modifying the business cycle at all. Q: What effect did the Great Depression have on the prediction business? A:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
depressed " (Yaron Kaufman); "when motives switch from serving to grabbing" (Gerald Nanninga); "the amount that allows the stakeholders to know 'we're all in this together, and apart from our natural not manmade... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
of HBS alumni. "On the other hand, we have a worldwide agricultural economic depression and a mistrust of the science by some consumers." With so many pressing issues on the agenda, Goldberg is eager to continue to make lasting... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
shipping industry, constructing patterns of return for investors. “We were shocked at how predictable the returns are in this industry.” The research results—that heavy investment in a boom depresses future earnings—were unexpected, says... View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
hiring, and promoting minority workers, and he hopes the research will spur them to re-evaluate ways of reducing segregation. “These research findings are depressing because we value integration as a social goal,” Koning says. “Americans... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
level of economic inequality within Western societies is at its highest in almost a century; in the U.S., for example, inequality is at its highest peak since before the Great Depression (3–5). Furthermore, the incomes of the top 1% in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209144 U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Policy Reactions (B) Harvard Business School Case 709-045 In March 2009, the U.S. economy was in a severe recession not seen since the Great View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
Police Powers, Federal Antitrust, and the Politics of 'Fairness', 1890–1938 By: Sawyer, Laura Phillips Abstract—Prior to the Great Depression and President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, considerable pressure for antitrust... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812111-PDF-ENG Georges Doriot and American Venture Capital Tom Nicholas and David ChenHarvard Business School Case 812-110 Following the lean years of the Great Depression when bankruptcies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
percent French.” “We thought that perhaps a way to fix this [distrust] is to have politicians speak directly to voters” Hypothesizing that this lack of personal investment in the country depressed their tendency to vote on issues, the... View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
contemplates whether or not to get involved with other investors in trying to replace the board of directors at Take-Two Interactive. The company has been encountering a number of problems with its accounting methods and in the design of its products, etc. All of this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
excess inventory was a perennial problem for the company. The inventory could be sold off only via heavy discounting, which tended to depress margins for all sales. Since the warehouse was close to a major Canadian city, a group of... View Details