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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
middlemen and defaulted on their loans. The risk of such events may explain, at least partly, why many seemingly more profitable export crops are not adopted. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-065.pdf Catering through...
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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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- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
prior to retirement. However, variable labor materially alters pre-retirement portfolio choice by significantly raising optimal equity holdings. Using this model, we also investigate the welfare costs of constraining portfolio allocations over the life cycle to mimic...
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Martha Lagace
- 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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- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
arises from a major economic, social, and institutional breakdown that jeopardizes the subsidiary's existence. Argentina defaulted on it sovereign debt and devalued the peso by over 200%, but it differentiated the treatment of the FX rate...
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Martha Lagace
- 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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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
leading to a 32% income gain for new adopters. The services collapsed one year later when the exporter stopped buying from DrumNet because farmers could not meet new EU production requirements. Farmers sold to other middlemen and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
relationships over Zoom. But then how do we get the best of the in-person experience? What you want to avoid is the worst of both worlds, where I think the sort of great compromise there, the default hybrid compromise that a lot of a lot...
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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
somebody full time, and that’s my default assumption,” probably isn’t going to work too much longer. That puts human resources or human capital management functions very much in the mode of providing a policy and a sourcing capability to...
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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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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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- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
architecture." Because many of these crises involved defaults on sovereign bonds, an important component of the discussion revolved around the composition of international capital flows and sovereign debt restructuring. With the...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
model is defaultable bank liabilities that provide liquidity services to households. The quality of the liquidity services provided by bank liabilities depends on their safety in case of default. Commercial bank debt is fully insured and...
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Sean Silverthorne