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- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
the sale of insurance products). Moreover, the use of CLV information did not have a negative impact on pricing, as some of the literature suggests, nor on default risk, indicating that managers increased sales to more profitable...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
with lower quality ratings from the incumbents: rating levels went up, the correlation between ratings and market-implied yields fell, and the ability of ratings to predict default deteriorated. We offer several possible explanations for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
leveraging of assets, on irresponsible banks and mortgage brokers who fabricated applications for no downpayment home loans knowing that the risks could be readily laid off on unsuspecting third parties. But underpinning the collapse of...
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by John Quelch
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
the capital regulation of commercial banks? This paper builds a quantitative general equilibrium model with commercial banks and shadow banks to study the unintended consequences of capital requirements. A key feature of our model is View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
Merrill Lynch can in part be explained by the pursuit of profits for their own sake. HCHP firms, by contrast, grow by using their distinctive capabilities to move into adjacent markets, products and services, and geographies. Risk: HCHP firms avoid undue financial or...
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by Martha Lagace
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
my course is about risk mitigation. I hope they will be able to answer the following question after a term in my course: How does one use all the tools learned at HBS to successfully structure deals and companies around the View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
Gilson: I think the lessons for management that one draws from this and other cases from the 2008-2009 crisis are still very much applicable to today’s crisis. Whatever the specific cause, if a business becomes financially distressed and is at View Details
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
the default position that nonprofit organizations are accountable primarily to funders, simply because that's the money source. "Nonprofit leaders must prioritize among accountability demands—from foundations, government agencies,...
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan
necessitating a value downgrade, compared with an industry average of 10 percent, according to the case. And because the cheese is aging under the bank's own roof, the bank is constantly aware of what the product is worth. If producers View Details
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55281 Fall 2018 Eighteenth-Century Studies Cosmopoleis: Empire and Capitalism By: Reinert, Sophus A. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55279 Issuer View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- Fast Answer
Aggregate financial ratios: including private company data
Studies Offers industry default risk and cash flow measures for 400 lines of business whose total assets are less than $250 million. Available in IBISWorld: (Search for an industry using keywords...
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- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
Editor's note. Argentina is in the midst of a continuing saga regarding its 2002 default on its sovereign debt, a case that the US Supreme Court will decide soon. HBS finance professor Laura Alfaro, who served from 2010 to 2012 as...
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by Laura Alfaro
- Web
Behavioral Economics for Managerial Decision Making - Course Catalog
otherwise better decisions by others, including employees, clients, customers, counterparts in other organizations, and the public at large. Topics may include risk and loss aversion, inattention, memory, intertemporal choice, networks,...
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- 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...
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- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
subprime market, that "somebody else" was the lender. If a borrower defaulted, the bank recouped its investment by foreclosing on the home. The house represented collateral that, ideally, would reimburse the lender. Thanks to the innovative capital markets,...
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- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
I. Norton Abstract—While many experiments have explored risk preferences for money, few have systematically assessed risk preferences for everyday experiences. We propose a conceptual model and provide...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
U.K., have adopted a hybrid approach known as the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), also known as "public-private partnerships" (PPP). Under this approach, private firms build and operate the infrastructure while the host government bears many of the residual...
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- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
activities increase the monitoring costs and the credit risk faced by banks and, in turn, raise the cost of debt for the borrower. Working Papers A New Model of Integrity: The Missing Factor of Production (PDF file of Keynote and...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
in tastes. Our framework allows us to characterize matching equilibrium in a flexible way that includes as special cases the classic fully- and non-transferable utility models, collective models, and settings with taxes on transfers, deadweight losses, and View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
financial products are systemically risky, like credit default swaps. What would you do? My proposal is just the opposite of the Treasury’s. I would put the Fed in charge of risk monitoring because that’s...
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