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- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
in Eastern and Central Europe, has suffered significant declines in its financial performance, is at risk of defaulting on its debt, and is under pressure from its largest shareholders to give them control of the board and to restructure...
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- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
and real estate markets, putting it in danger of defaulting on its debt and having to restructure under a U.K. Scheme of Arrangement. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211026-PDF-ENG H Partners and Six Flags Robin...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
systemically risky, like credit default swaps. Q: What would you do? A: My proposal is just the opposite of the Treasury's. I would put the Fed in charge of risk monitoring because that's where it has the most expertise. When the Fed...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
anyone. Most of the top executives didn’t understand the risks they were taking, so can you imagine a septuagenarian sitting in the boardroom getting a PowerPoint presentation on synthetic CDOs and credit default swaps?” In a conference...
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- 02 Nov 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?
complaint charging that Google has suppressed competition in the search market through its deals with cell phone handset manufacturers, especially Apple, to ensure that Google is the default search app installed on new iphones. That may...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
quite a bit. To put that in context, federal student loan defaults are north of 20%, private student loans are sub 4% according to a report from a company called MeasureOne. Chris Abkarians: There's a lot of people who anticipate that the...
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- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
and market-implied yields fell, and the ability of ratings to predict default deteriorated. We offer several possible explanations for these findings that are linked to existing theories. Download the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
merchants? What should they know before signing a contract? A: The main insight in my paper is that default contract terms—obvious contract terms—are not the only possible terms. It may be that you pay most of your suppliers on standard...
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- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
an increased risk of default and financial problems. Which option should John Owen pursue? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207061 Joel Klein and Leadership in the NYC Public Schools...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback
data, because they can link offline and online, and they know that you were in the store on a particular day and what frames you saw, and they can follow up with an email saying, “Do you want to buy this now?” Avery: We tend to default to...
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- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
of trade finance terms is shaped by the risk that an importer defaults on an exporter and by the possibility that an exporter does not deliver goods as specified in the contract. The empirical results indicate that cash in advance and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
creditor has more debtors and each debtor has more creditors) increases the number of firms that must be endowed with the liquid asset. Interconnectedness then makes payment defaults more likely. By acquiring too many payment obligations,...
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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
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
which I’m going to face a key fork in the road, where defaulting to my gut might not be good, I have to go and pull back on the reins or where you think that there’s just a right fork at that point, but it turns out there’s a left fork...
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- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
program of $100 million with a proven default rate of 5 percent will be "costed" at $5 million, but will deploy $100 million of new capital into the marketplace. A second important piece of SBJA was the effort to infuse capital into...
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- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
iPhone 6S with enhanced security measures that enflamed a debate on privacy and public safety around the world. The iPhone 6S, amid a heightened concern for privacy following the 2013 revelation of clandestine U.S. surveillance programs, employed a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship
and space to do impactful work. It’s also important to set clear expectations around communication. If your team has a default mode of communication, make sure interns are well informed about what channels to use and when. How quickly are...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
of a personnel file and a history with 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...
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- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
reasoning; thinking through social and interpersonal situations and problems; remembering the past and envisioning the future. Many of us experience putting a problem on a mental “back burner” when suddenly the solution comes to us in the shower or while walking the...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 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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