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  • 21 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

demand, such as her prominent role in the recent BBC miniseries “Capital.” But Azmi’s accomplishments have gone way beyond the cinematic, using her leverage as a celebrity and a seat in the Parliament of India to help further the rights... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video
  • November 2017
  • Article

Credit-Induced Boom and Bust

By: Marco Di Maggio and Amir Kermani
Can a credit expansion induce a boom and bust in house prices and real economic activity? This paper exploits the federal preemption of national banks in 2004 from local laws against predatory lending to gauge the effect of the supply of credit on the real economy.... View Details
Keywords: Great Recession; Subprime; Credit Supply; Credit Expansion; Household Leverage; Household Debt; Preemption Rule; Mortgages; Laws and Statutes; Credit; Household; Borrowing and Debt; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: The Impact of Access and Value

By: Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson and Georgia Perakis
The goal of this paper is to leverage household-level data to improve food-related policies aimed at increasing the consumption of fruits and vegetables (FVs) among low-income households. Currently, several interventions target areas where residents have limited... View Details
Keywords: Food Deserts; Food Access; Food Policy; Causal Inference; Food; Nutrition; Poverty; Government Administration
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  • 06 Mar 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Adam Isen, U.S. Department of the Treasury

  • 05 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

real estate. Important signals for potential future crisis Policymakers should monitor firm credit behavior in more detail, the authors advise. The findings also raise the question of whether there should be limits on leverage ratios for... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

The New Digital Divide

By: Mayana Pereira, Shane Greenstein, Raffaella Sadun, Prasanna Tambe, Lucia Ronchi Darre, Tammy Glazer, Allen Kim, Rahul Dodhia and Juan Lavista Ferres
We build and analyze new metrics of digital usage that leverage telemetry data collected by Microsoft during operating system updates across forty million Windows devices in U.S. households. These measures of US household digital usage are much more comprehensive than... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Measurement and Metrics; Geographic Location; Behavior; Technology Adoption; Demographics
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  • 02 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 2, 2016

households. The quality of the liquidity services provided by bank liabilities depends on their safety in case of default. Commercial bank debt is fully insured and thus provides full liquidity. However, commercial banks do not internalize the social costs of higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Boris Vallee
Professor Vallée focuses on financial innovation, investigating it from different angles. This research thread has led him to relate the methods and insights of corporate finance and banking with those of other subfields, including household finance, public finance,... View Details
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Placement - Doctoral

Johnson College of Business, Accounting Department Dissertation: Leveraging Culture in Management Control Systems: Evidence From the Field Advisors: Dennis Campbell (Chair), Susanna Gallani , Jonas Heese , and Wei Cai Botir Kobilov... View Details
  • 10 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

revolutionary functionality. We explore a second path to entry that does not rely on Schumpeterian innovation: platform envelopment. By leveraging shared user relationships and common components, one platform provider can move into... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. They find that leverage is inversely related to asset beta, including upside asset beta. See Malcolm’s other research here and Jeffrey’s other research here . More... View Details
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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

like Lehman Brothers became increasingly leveraged in speculative, short-term investments—failing to strike a balance between risk and return. Further, staring in the 1970s, income and wealth inequality in the United States began a steady... View Details
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About | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Finance courses and second-year elective courses on Business at the Base of the Pyramid and impact investing. He also teaches in various executive education courses and in the PhD development sequence in the department of Economics. Much of his research examines... View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

these commitments will require firms to transform their business models and organizational architectures. A few pioneers are leading the way, demonstrating that companies can make sustainability not only a goal but also the driver of their business model. They are... View Details
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

altruism as the driving motive. Informal capital is thus a behaviorally distinct source of startup funding, shaped by relational and non-pecuniary objectives. Keywords: Early Stage Finance ; Informal Investment ; Household Finance ; Risk... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Curb Appeal

provides and make the city cleaner, safer, and healthier. “We haven’t really changed the way we collect trash in decades,” Tisch says. She aims to fix that. Over the past year, Tisch has leveraged a combination of administrative and... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

introduction of the leverage ratio for the European banks had a large impact on exposed bonds’ liquidity. Moreover, based on these ties, bond mutual fund panic following the 2020 pandemic outbreak affected substantially more mutual funds... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2008
  • Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

leveraging of assets, on irresponsible banks and mortgage brokers who fabricated applications for no downpayment home loans knowing that the risks could be readily laid off on unsuspecting third parties. But underpinning the collapse of... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 28 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

Currently a Unilever brand can be found in one out of every two households in the world. This book has related how these brands came to form part of the everyday life of so many people as the world "globalized" from the 1960s.... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
  • 23 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

leveraging existing technology and infrastructure to enhance the quality of early childhood education for disadvantaged kids. And while the state-run preschools and primary schools that serve this population may suffer in comparison with... View Details