Filter Results
:
(578)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (578)
- Faculty Publications (161)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (578)
- Faculty Publications (161)
- 06 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Cheers to the American Consumer
therefore money available, with easy credit historically fueling the fire, to risk on new things and new experiences. And the secondary market, from the flea auction to eBay, is well developed so the...
View Details
Keywords:
by John Quelch
- August 1985 (Revised July 1991)
- Case
Universal Circuits, Inc.
By: Thomas R. Piper
The manager of international finance of a major U.S. electronics company is concerned about the exposure of the firm to changes in exchange rates. Of particular concern is the exposure of operations to changes in real exchange rates. The teaching objectives include: 1)...
View Details
Keywords:
Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
International Finance;
Currency Exchange Rate;
Business Plan;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Financial Management;
Financial Strategy;
Electronics Industry;
United States
Piper, Thomas R. "Universal Circuits, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 286-006, August 1985. (Revised July 1991.)
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
advantage of this maneuver is real: strategic defaulters save money. Sometimes they can rent a comparable home. But they risk a lower credit rating, which could bar them from buying another home for up to...
View Details
- 17 May 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.
beliefs (confirmation bias), to give ourselves too much credit or not enough blame (self-serving bias), or to place more value on losing $100 than making $100 (loss aversion). In business, a bias-clouded decision can have disastrous...
View Details
Keywords:
by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
Results from a Natural Field Experiment in California By: Levine, David I., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—For companies with strong internal occupational safety and health auditing programs, OSHA inspections might seem a formality that View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
NPLs—including mortgages, credit cards, and car loans on which customers had defaulted. “At a certain point, it becomes clear to banks that they can’t collect without a lot of effort, so their choice is to write the loan off completely,...
View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
capitalism. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/09/global-capitalism-at-risk-what-are-you-doing-about-it/ar/1 A Darker Side to Decentralized Banks: Market Power and Credit Rationing in SME Lending Authors:Rodrigo Canales and Ramana...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
June, HBS hosted over sixty representatives from business, government, and NGOs in September. A final workshop was held in Beijing in November. Barrett cochaired the series with John Ruggie, director of the KSG’s Center for Business and Government, but she View Details
- Web
Latin America - Global Activities 2020
needs—everybody benefits. Ben Roth: Another stream of work is thinking about new kinds of credit products Fondo could offer and evaluating both the new products and some existing ones to understand their impact on borrowers. For example,...
View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
Editor's note: The credit crisis and subsequent recession has thrown many financial and business institutions into, if not chaos, then at least a sense that the landscape underneath has shifted significantly. One institution undergoing...
View Details
Keywords:
by Jay Lorsch
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—Financial constraints are not directly observable, so empirical research relies on indirect measures. We evaluate how well five popular measures (paying dividends, having a credit rating, and the...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 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 View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Harvard Business School Note 706-044 Describes the emergence of several kinds of efforts to assure the safety of foreign investment in emerging markets: international arbitration, expanded official political risk insurance, View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
personality traits of entrepreneurs. We first consider baseline personality traits like the Big-5 model, self-efficacy and innovativeness, locus of control, and the need for achievement. We then consider risk attitudes as well as the...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
differently while pregnant?” The focus is on practical, actionable recommendations. Risks are put into context so women can make their own choices, aware of the trade-offs they’re actually making. Pursuing Other Opportunities: A Corporate...
View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
issuers deteriorates during credit booms, and that this deterioration forecasts low excess returns to corporate bondholders. The key insight is that changes in the pricing of credit View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
General is a real-life example of topics that we cover in our finance curriculum such as valuation, financing, and risk management, and it brings together financial strategy and business strategy, a confluence that has long been a focus...
View Details
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
What gave investors the confidence to risk their money? In a recent monograph, Musacchio reports that Brazilian companies were transparent about their operations, including the disclosure of executive compensation—something not even done...
View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
(EH) in inflation-indexed (or real) bonds and in nominal bonds in the U.S. and in the U.K. We strongly reject the EH in inflation-indexed bonds and also confirm and update the existing evidence rejecting the EH in nominal bonds. This rejection implies that the View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
sentiment proxies indicate that credit risk is aggressively priced, this tends to be followed by a subsequent widening of credit spreads, and the timing of this widening is, in...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne