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- 2014
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Microfinance Services in Rural Areas--Farmers' Self-reliance Branch of CFPA Microfinance in Shangyi County (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Yang Siqun and Shen Meihua
Microfinance is introduced into China in the 1990s. It had gone through 3 phases since the beginning, namely the pilot phase when all Microfinance practices are sponsored by charity funds based on projects, the promotion phase when the government subsidized some...
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McFarlan, F. Warren, Yang Siqun, and Shen Meihua. "Microfinance Services in Rural Areas--Farmers' Self-reliance Branch of CFPA Microfinance in Shangyi County (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2014.
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
relatively short time, much of the corporate debt that defaulted during the financial crisis has been managed down, mass liquidations have been averted, and corporate profits, balance sheets, and values have...
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- 11 Feb 2011
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Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: A Study of Equity Purchases by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), 1995-2003
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by Sergio G. Lazzarini & Aldo Musacchio
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Sovereign Debt as a Contingent Claim: A Quantitative Approach (joint with Fabio Kanczuk)
By: Laura Alfaro
We construct a dynamic equilibrium model with contingent service and adverse selection to quantitatively study sovereign debt. In the model, benefits of defaulting are tempered by higher future interest rates. For a wide parameter, the only equilibrium is one in which...
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- 11 Apr 2022
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A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
Frances Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management, is an expert in the intersection of leadership and inclusion. Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of...
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by Jen McFarland Flint
- September 1992 (Revised March 1997)
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Summit Distributors (A)
By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Amy P. Hutton
Summit Distributors was in danger of violating loan covenants because of slow economic activity and forecasted losses and was faced with a choice. Changing the inventory valuation method from LIFO to FIFO would avoid default but would require higher future income...
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Taxation;
Cost Accounting;
Cash Flow;
Interest Rates;
Economic Systems;
Borrowing and Debt;
Financial Statements;
Valuation;
Accounting Audits;
Financing and Loans;
Accounting Industry;
Legal Services Industry
Bruns, William J., Jr., and Amy P. Hutton. "Summit Distributors (A)." Harvard Business School Case 193-053, September 1992. (Revised March 1997.)
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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
ImpactThe collapse of Lehman Brothers followed by the close of its London office and other international subsidiaries sent shock waves through the global financial markets with a widespread ripple effect....
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
quote, “the real world” is that we're learning the difference between talking versus connecting. I think talking is our default mode that we've had most of our lives, where we talk about logistics. And...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
having a manager or a mentor that’s rooting for you, that’s saying to you, “you could do more. Have you thought about doing this program?” is absolutely central to the actual statistical likelihood of...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
social or soft skills that are increasingly required in high value-added roles and companies—that those are going to be hard to come by, and that running your entire logic of staffing on the basis of “I...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
in a college level job or not. The second-strongest predictor was whether or not someone completed at least one internship. And for those individuals that completed at least one internship in college, their likelihood View Details
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call out, given those patterns? Kerr: Our first trend is that the likelihood of somebody migrating is increasing in their talent level, as we would express it. So, roughly about 2.5 percent, 3 percent, View Details
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
especially likely to meet with executives frequently. Additionally, higher turnover of a firm's stock increased the likelihood that an investor could secure a meeting with all three View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
best of the in-person experience? What you want to avoid is the worst of both worlds, where I think the sort of great compromise there, the View Details
- 28 Feb 2011
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The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
to the Ten Commandments, the vast majority (eight) of which dictate what thou shalt not do. Meanwhile, in virtually every other aspect of business there is a focus on what to do. Do meet sales projections....
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by Carmen Nobel
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
that is as determinative of your ability to be productive and your likelihood of staying in the company as many of the other things they track...
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Dissertation topic: The invisible hand and the good of communities: How institutional logics matter in local banks
How do individuals’ backgrounds and identities influence the strategies and success of newly founded ventures? In my dissertation, I explore the impact on local bank startups of their founders’ community and financial identities. Those identities have... View Details
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that person. And the companies that employ large numbers of low-paid workers have a big pool of diverse talent. And rather than going out and playing the spot market for diverse talent for jobs higher up the...
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this—is to make the whole search, searching for opportunities that I, the individual, want to pursue as a young aspiring worker, how that matches to specific programs I can take post-secondary. What does it pay? What’s the default rate...
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perspective. And one of the most important ways that we can live our mission is ensuring that we have the data to allow personalization, which I strongly believe leads to engagement and the likelihood that...
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