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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
other countries outside China such as Germany and Sweden before local contagion even started, allowing precious time to acquire personal protective equipment before it became scarce. Second, since the company was able to foresee large... View Details
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
aspects of law and the value of compliance. Let me provide an example. Two banks failed to meet the Comptroller of Currency Community Reinvestment Act requirements for lending a certain amount of money to View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
employed by sell-side investment banks and brokerage houses. Yet investment firms undertake their own buy-side research, and their analysts face different stock selection and recommendation incentives than their sell-side peers. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
transition across the levels just discussed. One of JLL's main clients, Bank of America [BofA], told JLL in 2001 that it no longer wanted to deal with each of JLL's business units independently. BofA asked not only for a single point of... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-012.pdf Doing What the Parents Want? The Effect of the Local Information Environment on the Investment Decisions of Multinational Corporations Authors:Nemit O. Shroff, Rodrigo S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
dollars (or perceived that payments would be interrupted). Firms operating in the commodity markets also saw their revenues shrinking, and struggled to meet obligations in (dollar) debt. As a result, most of them turn to banks to obtain... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
LauHarvard Business School Case 212-026 ATR KimEng is a Philippino asset management business. It is making an important decision on its own strategy going forward: should it stay independent or be taken over by a large bank in the region.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
Investment Act, which challenged redlining policies of local banks that set higher hurdles for home-ownership among minorities. But it ended with the recent $5.2 trillion guarantee of Fannie Mae and Freddie... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
to are probability forecasts, outlining the likelihood of the storm going in one direction versus another. In economics, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia coordinates probability and point forecasts for predicted growth in gross... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
the confines of the original question, involving us in a debate about central banking systems. Supporters of the notion of digital currencies included Hamad Sheikh, who pointed out that “Digital currency is here to stay, simply because it... View Details
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
opportunities and resources, hurting their college enrollment and cutting them off from careers that could raise their standard of living. After all, American public schools are financed largely through local property taxes, with affluent... View Details
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
(Editor's note: This is the third in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business.) Access to credit is critical to... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
hospitals teach tutorials and lead clinical rotations, and in that sense are considered faculty. The same notion of an extended faculty could apply to business schools, where the 10,000 might include alumni such as local business leaders,... View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
maintains its focus on the headquarters location, this may have a detrimental effect on areas that are losing headquarters. Our interviewees described how local banks used to be the largest supporters of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53811 Do Banks Have an Edge? By: Begenau, Juliane, and Erik Stafford Abstract—We decompose bank activities into passive and active components and evaluate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
buy,” Kaplan says. They can then start assembling the other elements of the ecosystem—for example, farmers, feed and irrigation companies, local banks and insurance companies, nonprofits, and community... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
relatively cost efficient and scalable source of electricity. The reviews will happen across the world and each country will consider their own energy mix characteristics together with local sentiment." Todd was one of several... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
control over the use of remittances. In partnership with a Salvadoran bank, we offered U.S.-based migrants from El Salvador bank accounts in their home country into which they could send remittances. We randomly varied migrant control... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
countries with higher nominal bond-stock betas have significantly larger nominal bond risk premia and borrow less in local currency. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51643 Android and Competition Law:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
Connection is an example of one step in the right direction. Initiated last spring, IBM has brought together an initial consortium of seven major companies, including Caterpillar, Pfizer, Bank of America, Citibank, and AT&T, to... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter