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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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  • 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
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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

early-stage ventures should be separated from the corporation's annual budget cycle; 6) Failing to leverage the organization's core capabilities. CEOs must play a central role in helping growth initiatives tap the resources of the core... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 27 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too

"Every morning I text her 'Good morning, beautiful.'" Household chore: Even an activity that might otherwise be viewed as drudgery can be meaningful when a couple does it together; 6 percent of respondents said their rituals involved... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

many ways from the type of finance researched and taught at business schools. I explored how financial services were practiced in a place like South Central, focusing in particular on the opportunities to leverage social organizations to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 31 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

infrastructure presents an excellent opportunity to avoid the pitfalls of complex, restrictive, digital health systems that have evolved elsewhere. We propose here a federated, patient-centric, application programming interface (API)–enabled health information... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 12, 2016

internalize the social costs of higher leverage in the form of greater bankruptcy losses (moral hazard) and are subject to a regulatory capital requirement. In contrast, shadow bank liabilities are subject to runs and credit risk and thus... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

For many investors planning for retirement, asset allocation is a crucial issue. How much should I put into stocks, bonds, and cash? But Harvard Business School professor Daniel Bergstresser says that households with substantial assets in... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 26 Aug 2009
  • Op-Ed

Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road

new cars. The program proved so popular that inventories of the qualifying cars soon dwindled, further boosting the dealers' negotiating leverage and unit profit margin. “Why did taxpayers, having already bailed out GM and Chrysler once,... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Auto
  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

nationalization. Negative opinions about the privatization prevail. These are particularly strong amongst households that did not benefit from the privatization and amongst households that were reminded of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

  Working PapersIf You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? The Effects of Education, Financial Literacy and Cognitive Ability on Financial Market Participation Authors:Shawn A. Cole and Gauri Kartini Shastry Abstract Household financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

governments all suffered because they had too much leverage. Though the corporate sector has generally decreased leverage, the same is not true of government, particularly in the United States. Every company and household here and abroad... View Details
Keywords: by Staff

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