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- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
paper identifies performance pressure as a critical barrier to effective knowledge utilization. Performance pressure creates threat rigidity effects in teams, meaning that they default to using the expertise of high-status members while...
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Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
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Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also...
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- 22 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers
of delinquent loans has increased in the last 10 years; today, about 11 percent of borrowers have been delinquent on student loans for 90 days or more. Source: New York Fed Consumer Credit Panel/Equifax The researchers studied thousands...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppers
with Gen Z shoppers in their teens and 20s. The payment method made up $97 billion—or 2.1 percent—of total US e-commerce sales in 2020, a figure that is expected to double by 2024. BNPL is so lucrative, merchants are paying fintech companies roughly twice the amount...
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- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
induces U.S. manufacturing firms to contract their operations along multiple margins of activity goes a long way toward explaining the response of U.S. innovation to the China trade shock. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51998...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
executives compare the cash flows from innovation against the default scenario of doing nothing, assuming—incorrectly—that the present health of the company will persist indefinitely if the investment is not made. In most situations,...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing
Consumers turning to fintech lenders are more likely to spend beyond their means, sink further into debt, and ultimately default more often than people with similar credit profiles borrowing from traditional...
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- 05 Jun 2009
- What Do You Think?
What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?
services? The latter grew so rapidly in the U.S. in recent years (with every mortgage backed security and credit default swap transaction counted, resulting in substantial...
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- March 2005 (Revised January 2006)
- Case
Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Transactional and Translational Exposures
By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen
How should a multinational firm manage foreign exchange exposures? Examines transactional and translational exposures and alternative responses to these exposures by analyzing two specific hedging decisions by General Motors. Describes General Motors' corporate hedging...
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Multinational Firms and Management;
Currency Exchange Rate;
Expansion;
Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
Financial Management;
Investment Funds;
Risk and Uncertainty;
International Finance;
Auto Industry
Desai, Mihir A., and Mark Veblen. "Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Transactional and Translational Exposures." Harvard Business School Case 205-095, March 2005. (Revised January 2006.)
- September 2004 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
Hedging Currency Risks at AIFS
By: Mihir A. Desai, Vincent Dessain and Anders Sjoman
The American Institute for Foreign Studies (AIFS) organizes study abroad programs and cultural exchanges for American students. The firm's revenues are mainly in U.S. dollars, but most of its costs are in eurodollars and British pounds. The company's controllers review...
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Foreign Direct Investment;
Investment Funds;
Financial Strategy;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Revenue;
Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
Currency;
Currency Exchange Rate;
Education Industry;
North and Central America
Desai, Mihir A., Vincent Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "Hedging Currency Risks at AIFS." Harvard Business School Case 205-026, September 2004. (Revised February 2007.)
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
zero. Consumer confidence has plummeted with the value of 401(k) plans and retirement nest eggs. Retail sales fell 1.2 percent in September, double the expected decline. Car sales are at a fifteen-year low. And credit card View Details
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by John Quelch
- 01 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan
that farmers have access to credit lines. However, it's understandable why lenders might hesitate to grant loans to the cheese producers. Trichakis explains that farms are essentially small- and medium-sized enterprises, helmed by farmers...
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- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
award prizes as part of the savings product's return. Rotating Savings and Credit Associations, known as ROSCAs, draw impetus from the spirit of communities and social networks. The varied solutions that Tufano and colleagues have set out...
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- November 2010
- Case
Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (A)
By: Clayton S. Rose and David Lane
On May 7, 1998, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, chaired by Brooksley Born, issued a "Concept Release" inviting public comment on the relevance and appropriateness of existing regulation of the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market, a market with a...
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Financial Crisis;
Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Policy;
Business and Government Relations;
Financial Services Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
District of Columbia
Rose, Clayton S., and David Lane. "Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (A)." Harvard Business School Case 311-044, November 2010.
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
research by Harvard Business School Professors Robin Greenwood and Samuel G. Hanson begs to differ. Financial crises, even ones as calamitous as the 2007-2008 banking meltdown, are surprisingly predictable to those who know the warning signs. “Three years of rapid...
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- March 2005 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Competitive Exposures
By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen
How can a multinational firm analyze and manage currency risks that arise from competitive exposures? General Motors has a substantial competitive exposure to the Japanese yen. Although the risks GM faces from the depreciating yen are widely acknowledged, the company's...
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Multinational Firms and Management;
Currency Exchange Rate;
Competition;
Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
International Finance;
Financial Management;
Investment Funds;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Auto Industry
Desai, Mihir A., and Mark Veblen. "Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Competitive Exposures." Harvard Business School Case 205-096, March 2005. (Revised March 2006.)
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
and reversible way to reduce significantly the passive risk to the firm from this mismatch. I believe that the benefits of using credit derivative swaps will dwarf the costs of mistakes. Q: There has been a...
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- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
era before unemployment soared, the Dow plummeted, and credit default swaps surfaced. In today's jargon, these owners are underwater—they owe more than the value of their...
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- June 1995 (Revised May 1996)
- Teaching Note
B.F. Goodrich-Rabobank Interest Rate Swap, The TN
By: Andre F. Perold and Wai Lee
Teaching Note for (9-284-080).
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- July 1998
- Article
New Derivative and Hedging Accounting Standard
By: David F. Hawkins
Hawkins, David F. "New Derivative and Hedging Accounting Standard." Accounting Bulletin, no. 67 (July 1998).