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- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
space and development tools in the cloud and scale up as needed rather than purchasing their own expensive hardware and software. By comparing rates of investment before and after AWS was introduced in 2006, Nanda and his colleagues could...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
questions early and often. Are bonds a good bet for those who want to reduce their reliance on equities? I have a lot of sympathy for those who are just getting into bonds now, but I still believe they should have a position in investors' portfolios in every business...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
and correction of such errors, Associate Professor Amy C. Edmondson studied eight teams of caregivers from two different teaching hospitals to explore how group and organizational behaviors affect error rates in administering drugs to...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Future Source
applicants the most in-demand programming languages and provides living expenses in exchange for contracted developer time with client organizations. Its acceptance rate is less than 1 percent, but the open source Andela Learning...
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Julia Hanna
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
Frustrated by the slow pace and poor success rate of entrepreneurial startups bringing innovation from bench to bedside in his field, Jordan Amadio (MD/MBA 2010) and two partners founded NeuroLaunch, the world’s first neuroscience-focused...
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- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
Convexity By: Hanson, Samuel Gregory Abstract—Most home mortgages in the U.S. are fixed-rate loans with an embedded prepayment option. When long-term rates decline, the effective duration of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) falls due to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
way for higher rates of customer acquisition and higher rates of repeat purchasing among existing customers in the direct channels in the long term. Our results are based on intervention analysis with a...
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Martha Lagace
- September 1992 (Revised March 1997)
- Case
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.)
- March 2005
- Article
Sovereign Debt As a Contingent Claim: A Quantitative Approach
By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
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 set of parameters, the only equilibrium is one...
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Sovereign Finance;
Borrowing and Debt;
Interest Rates;
Balance and Stability;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Risk Management;
Mathematical Methods;
Management Style;
Segmentation;
Debt Securities;
Banking Industry
Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Sovereign Debt As a Contingent Claim: A Quantitative Approach." Journal of International Economics 65, no. 2 (March 2005).
Larissa Bifano
systems, cellular networks, and options trading. Larissa has been recognized by The Legal 500 United States. She was recently named a top performing IP attorney by intellectual property company Patexia, Inc., noting a success rate in IPRs...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Evergreen Business
this seasonal side business, where 99 percent of his customers leave with a tree—a sales rate few retailers can imagine. “Plus it’s Christmas, so everyone’s in a great mood.”
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Support for the Healers
health,” says Sandford, who joined Point of Care in 2014. “Their burn-out rates are high and getting higher.” Recent breakthroughs in life-saving medical interventions mean that “more patients are living longer with chronic conditions,”...
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- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
United States' interest to attract and retain this highly skilled group. It is one of the easiest policy levers we have to influence our nation's rate of innovation. Q: Are countries that send their scholars to the United States losing...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
still some of that today. A lot of investors were not as familiar with private equity, so we needed to basically spend time just trying to explain what was going on. Private-equity firms have borrowed billions at low interest rates to buy...
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- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Kathryn E. Giusti, MBA 1985
as an entrepreneur have dramatically changed the lives of many cancer patients, including her own. By expediting research on multiple myeloma, a rare and incurable blood cancer with one of the lowest survival rates of all cancers, she has...
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- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
of the current seven individual tax brackets with three brackets, with rates at 12 percent, 25 percent, and 35 percent. A 20 percent corporate tax rate, down from 39.1 percent. Establish a 25 percent rate...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Early German Machinery — New Directions – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Machinery French Agriculture Venetian Exchange Rate Visual Evidence Lewis Hine Photographs Oil Industry Photographs Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility Contact Email: © President and Fellows of...
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Dana Letterbook, 1867–1869 — New Directions – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Machinery French Agriculture Venetian Exchange Rate Visual Evidence Lewis Hine Photographs Oil Industry Photographs Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility Contact Email: © President and Fellows of...
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- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
diminishing the return on lending in foreign currency. We show that, in response to domestic monetary policy easing, global banks increase their foreign reserves in currency areas with the highest interest rate while decreasing lending in...
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
believed their partner would be trustworthy while Democrats predicted 62 percent would. Both wildly underestimated. The actual reciprocation rate of Player B was 93 percent for Republicans and 85 percent for Democrats. Minor and Hernandez...
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