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- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
us to believe that we are at an inflection point is demographics. You have this new generation of digital natives who are used to operating online. Their default option for shopping is through a digital interface. These consumers do not...
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- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
middlemen and defaulted on their loans. The risk of such events may explain, at least partly, why many seemingly more profitable export crops are not adopted. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-065.pdf Catering through...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29
defaults during a market drop. To measure the systemic impact of this ratchet effect, we simulate the U.S. housing market with and without equity extractions and estimate the losses absorbed by mortgage lenders by valuing the embedded...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
prior to retirement. However, variable labor materially alters pre-retirement portfolio choice by significantly raising optimal equity holdings. Using this model, we also investigate the welfare costs of constraining portfolio allocations over the life cycle to mimic...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
architecture." Because many of these crises involved defaults on sovereign bonds, an important component of the discussion revolved around the composition of international capital flows and sovereign debt restructuring. With the...
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Martha Lagace
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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 default hybrid compromise that a lot of a lot of companies have chosen, is basically, “Well, we’re...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
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 hierarchy, which is the View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016
model is defaultable bank liabilities that provide liquidity services to 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30
incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against unforeseen shocks. We model and calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9
re-occurring phenomenon of sovereign default has prompted an enormous theoretical and empirical literature. Most of this research has focused on why countries ever chose to pay their debts (or why private creditors ever expected...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
arises from a major economic, social, and institutional breakdown that jeopardizes the subsidiary's existence. Argentina defaulted on it sovereign debt and devalued the peso by over 200%, but it differentiated the treatment of the FX rate...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
leading to a 32% income gain for new adopters. The services collapsed one year later when the exporter stopped buying from DrumNet because farmers could not meet new EU production requirements. Farmers sold to other middlemen and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
in the 1990s, the partial default rate reached as high as 73 percent. By comparison, 99.5 percent of the loans to Babban Gona farmers were repaid last season. "Through this whole system, we've been able to demonstrate that we can get...
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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 identify a need, I post a job offering, and I hire somebody full...
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- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
and Finance (forthcoming). (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 05-053 and NBER Working Paper No. 13131.) Abstract The main arguments in favor of and against nominal and indexed debt are the incentive to default through...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
reserves of emotional awareness, which they apply to themselves and the people they are trying to influence. From this perspective, it seems to me that if you’re always on a hard-charging default drive, then it’s very difficult to pause...
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by Christina Pazzanese
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
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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networks, organizational norms, default options, consideration sets, choice architecture, platform design, experimental methods, unintended consequences, fairness, and the public good. The course is centered on five themes: Understanding...
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