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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Barclays Bank, 2008 In the midst of the financial crisis, Barclays (the world's 4th largest bank by assets) is forced by UK regulators to raise more capital. Should it take up the UK government's offer to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
regulate the industry. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52032 Populism and the Return of the 'Paranoid Style': Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance Against Elite Betrayal...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
contributions knowing they are likely to get bailed out. For regulators and politicians, the challenge is to structure contracts that deter reckless behavior prior to default and ensure efficient operations after default. Q: Not much...
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
on the cover of Time, with the magazine proclaiming, perhaps somewhat prematurely, that the mutual fund was "a household word.") Historically, the mutual fund industry's fortunes have risen and fallen with the stock market. After the Crash of 1929, a new regimen of...
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Garry Emmons
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
systems. We then develop a simple model of how these markets enable entry by small or flexible suppliers and the resulting impact on existing firms. Finally, we consider the regulation of peer-to-peer markets and the economic arguments...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
find support for these hypotheses. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-022.pdf Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs Author: Michael W. Toffel Abstract Firms and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
regions. Especially informative was the issue of bureaucratic risk. Although interviewees in both regions reported having to dedicate significant time to navigating government regulation, interviewees in South Asia frequently reported attempting to stay away from...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
https://hbr.org/product/pfizer-s-centers-for-therapeutic-innovation-cti/615024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 215-027 Barclays Bank, 2008 In the midst of the financial crisis, Barclays (the world's fourth largest bank by assets) is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
those who were usually called 'raiders' in the eighties - entrepreneurs who were putting their own money and reputations on the line." Jensen believes that most current mergers undertaken to reduce excess capacity and combine related services (such as the recent...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
discount off that price, and the final selling price. Limited empirical evidence is available that speaks to the relative impact of each component on purchase behavior, even as theories abound. Measuring these impacts is critically important to sellers, to consumers,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
20, 2007, while Gisholt, Minard, and their three young daughters were waiting in line for Test Track, an auto-testing simulation that advises riders to “Strap yourself in to race up bumpy terrain, roar through hairpin turns, speed into freezing cold chambers, and rush...
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- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
price in one month (European-style derivative). The students are essentially working on an equity derivatives desk at a large bank and are responsible for delivering a derivative payoff to a client. The desk has taken in a premium upfront...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
ESG dimensions should be mandated by regulation, and if yes, what form such regulation should take. The underlying debate, of course, relates to the broader issue of the role of the business organization within civil society and whether...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
accountable? Nonprofit leaders tend to pay attention to accountability once a problem of trust arises-a scandal in the sector or in their own organization, questions from citizens or donors who want to know if their money is being well spent, or pressure from View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
and regulation of insurance markets, including the interaction between consumer choice difficulties or biases and adverse selection. We then document evidence on consumer mistakes in health-care utilization and treatment choices,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Dimitri Vayanos Abstract—We present a model of the yield curve in which the central bank can provide market participants with forward guidance on both future short rates and on future Quantitative Easing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
underlying framework that compels such partnerships as between a food bank in Mexico and a supermarket in the United States, providing insights into the DNA of a successful collaboration that are broadly applicable. Our excerpt from the...
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regulation as an important factor that often shapes their decisions. The course is divided into three modules. In the first module, we’ll study the business of banking. Banks are worth studying both because...
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