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  • 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
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Transportation
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

financial information induces a trade externality: if speculators refrain from trading, hedgers do the same, depressing the asset price. Market transparency reinforces this mechanism, by making speculators’ trades more visible to hedgers.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

risk management. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216041-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 297-047 Stone Container Corporation (A) In early 1993, Stone Container was heavily burdened by debt following a series of highly leveraged... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

Bill after World War II, which created a huge pool of potential new students. What were other crucial turning points? A: The Great Depression of the 1930s reinvigorated the discourse and questions about what a profession is and what end... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

We also identify the mediating role that communication and leadership play in generating these effects. We find other-regarding workers tend to depress efforts by 15% on average. However, selfish workers are nearly three times more likely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

performance. To perform the modified Dupont Decomposition, students learn how to reformat and condense the balance sheet and income statement to separately measure profitability arising from operating activities and financing activities. Students also see how excess... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

leverage is to sell assets. If asset sales occur at depressed prices, then one bank's sales may impact other banks with common exposures, resulting in contagion. We propose a simple framework that accounts for how this effect adds up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

programs strengthened the relationship between firms’ historical innovative efficiency and subsequent subsidy awards and depressed the influence of their corruption-related expenditures. We also examine the impact of these changes:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 May 2009
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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
  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

business model. A leader in trade analytics and execution for institutional equity investors, ITG had grown since its establishment in 1987 in step with the dramatic rise in equity trading volumes. During 2009, however, investors curbed their equities trading, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

Finally, performance pricers relentlessly communicate their value. An example is PACCAR, producer of Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks in a market viewed as a commodity by others. Throughout 70 consecutive years of profitability—a period from dirt roads to superhighways,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 05 Jun 2012
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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
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

European market and, indeed, in the world economy. Over the first half of the twentieth century, however, the bank faced a series of national crises: defeat in WWI (1914-1918), revolution in 1919, hyperinflation in 1923, economic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

present a model in which fire sales propagate shocks across bank balance sheets. When a bank experiences a negative shock to its equity, a natural way to return to target leverage is to sell assets. If potential buyers are limited, then asset sales View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

estate development during his playing career, and now, as a retired player, is trying to pursue the development of a 10-unit rental apartment building in a depressed area of Philadelphia, his hometown. The case presents the process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

  Publications August 2013 Princeton University Press Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters By: Friedman, Walter A. Abstract—The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

that Rival would complement their existing portfolio of products and it was the perfect time to buy due to a depressed stock price caused by declining earnings. The investment team at Berkshire now had to decide if the possible returns... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

Sheila Bair, and the Chief Executive Officers of nine of the largest banks in the United States. This distinguished group had been brought together by the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Financial... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

as the state grew in the middle of the 20th century through the Great Depression and World War Two, and the advance of entitlements, we needed to fund those things and the fiscal capacity of the state grew. I think there's a lingering... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

C. Stein Abstract—Small business lending by the four largest banks fell sharply relative to others in 2008 and remained depressed through 2014. We explore the dynamic adjustment process following this credit supply shock. In counties... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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