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- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
does not exceed 30 percent of the median family income in a given area. In one typically hard-pressed neighborhood, Boston's South End, the average two-bedroom apartment rents for $1,400, considerably more than 30 percent of an average...
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- November 2006 (Revised June 2007)
- Case
Centre Partners - American Seafoods 2003
Centre Partners, a leading private equity firm, is contemplating ways to realize liquidity from its successful investment in American Seafoods Corp., Inc. An apparently innovative solution is developed, which calls for issuing Income Deposit Securities. Does this...
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El-Hage, Nabil N., and Christopher Edward James Payton. "Centre Partners - American Seafoods 2003." Harvard Business School Case 207-077, November 2006. (Revised June 2007.)
- 28 Sep 2010
- News
Hey Big Spenders: The Trickle-Down Argument
- 15 Mar 2016
- News
The costs of inequality: Faster lives, quicker deaths
- 13 Jan 2020
- News
Why Do Ultra-Wealthy People Want More Money?
- 8:30 AM – 6:45 PM EDT, 11 Aug 2020
- Virtual Programming
Capitalism at Risk: How Business Can Lead in an Era of Disruption
HBS Professors Joseph Bower and Lynn Paine, coauthors of Capitalism at Risk, outline the disruptive forces that are threatening business and societyfrom rising income inequality, climate change, and mass migration to terrorism and failed states. Join them for a...
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- January 2009
- Journal Article
The Fiscal Impact of High-skilled Emigration: Flows of Indians to the U.S.
By: Mihir Desai, D. Kapur, J. McHale and K Rogers
Easing immigration restrictions for the highly skilled in developed countries portends a future of increased human capital outflows from developing countries. The myriad consequences of these developments for developing countries include the direct loss of the fiscal...
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Keywords:
Talent and Talent Management;
Diasporas;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Taxation;
Compensation and Benefits;
Human Capital;
Mathematical Methods;
India;
United States
Desai, Mihir, D. Kapur, J. McHale, and K Rogers. "The Fiscal Impact of High-skilled Emigration: Flows of Indians to the U.S." Journal of Development Economics 88, no. 1 (January 2009).
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
year comes in the form of an income tax refund. In 2001, the IRS returned $78 billion to families making less than $30,000 annually, for an average return of $1,546 per filer. To Tufano, that check suggested itself as an ideal...
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- 21 Apr 2015
- News
The $70,000 CEO Is The Business Leader Of The Future
- 09 Jul 2020
- Video
Sylvia Escovar
Sylvia Escovar, the President of the Colombia-based oil and gas distribution company Terpel, discusses the challenge of income inequality in Colombia, the role of Fundación Terpel in demonstrating that business...
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- November 2004 (Revised April 2005)
- Case
Deutsche Bank: Finding Relative Value Trades
Deutsche Bank's Fixed Income Research Group is looking for yield curve trades to pitch to clients as well as for their proprietary trading desk. The group has data on recent bond trades and a proprietary term structure model, which they can use to develop trading...
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Bonds;
Capital Markets;
Investment Banking;
Institutional Investing;
Banking Industry;
Germany
Chacko, George C., Peter A. Hecht, Vincent Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "Deutsche Bank: Finding Relative Value Trades." Harvard Business School Case 205-059, November 2004. (Revised April 2005.)
- 26 Oct 2014
- News
Efforts to regulate CEO pay gain traction
- 18 Oct 2013
- News
The State of U.S. Markets Post-Shutdown
- 2014
- Working Paper
Poverty and Crime: Evidence from Rainfall and Trade Shocks in India
By: Lakshmi Iyer and Petia Topalova
Does poverty lead to crime? We shed light on this question using two independent and exogenous shocks to household income in rural India: the dramatic reduction in import tariffs in the early 1990s and rainfall variations. We find that trade shocks, previously shown to...
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Keywords:
Rainfall;
Weather;
Crime;
Trade Liberalization;
India;
Crime and Corruption;
Poverty;
India
Iyer, Lakshmi, and Petia Topalova. "Poverty and Crime: Evidence from Rainfall and Trade Shocks in India." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-067, April 2014. (Revised August 2014.)
- 31 Aug 2010
- News
As economy seeks balance, businesses hold key
- 2019
- Working Paper
On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender Norms
By: Natalia Rigol, Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Simone Schaner and Charity Troyer-Moore
Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages from a public workfare program...
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Rigol, Natalia, Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Simone Schaner, and Charity Troyer-Moore. "On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender Norms." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 26294, September 2019.