Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Argentina lost big to a group of American “vulture” hedge funds in court last week, when the Supreme Court declined to reconsider an appeals court decision that the funds had the right to demand that the country make good on a bunch of old bonds they owned even though it long ago renegotiated the terms of that debt with most creditors.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

How did Sal Khan finance his venture? First, Sal Khan could have continued in finance and made far more money than he does in a nonprofit. That’s great but the sums involved are modest compared to the $200 trillion in global financial assets. Cohen and his colleagues created a bond, backed by private investors.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

John Authers, in Thursday''s FT , musters up the evidence (or at least the opinions) that bonds and stocks are both likely to deliver paltry returns for years to come. If those low investment returns that everybody''s projecting are low just because the global economy keeps sputtering, that''s not good news for anybody.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

It has forgotten, as economist Robert Shiller writes in Finance and the Good Society , that "financing is really creating the architecture for reaching a goal. The goals served by finance originate with us. Finance is not about making money per se. It exists to support other goals — those of society.".

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Why is “tribal money” on the rise at the same time that barriers to trade and globalization are falling? During the nineteenth century, newly created nation-states looked for unifying elements to bond a society together. Compensation Finance Global business' It is about being part of a tribe.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Last week, LDK Solar , a struggling Chinese manufacturer of solar wafers and panels, announced that it had missed $24 million in bond payments. This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Why is “tribal money” on the rise at the same time that barriers to trade and globalization are falling? During the nineteenth century, newly created nation-states looked for unifying elements to bond a society together. Compensation Finance Global business' It is about being part of a tribe.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

You could even argue that there's a bit of a haircut going on since longer-dated, lower-interest bonds are presumably worth less than shorter-dated bonds with higher rates. Greece's big problem is that it has such a huge debt-to-finance ratio that it can't really invest in growth.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

and the transfer of business risk from "too big to fail" institutions to taxpayers, leading to a "heads I win, tails you lose" relationship between the finance and the rest of the economy. Recent scrutiny of the U.S. The debate has been about enforcement and regulation of the industry. Both valid points, but both miss the crucial issue.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Even before announcing his new cabinet, Mnangagwa installed a key reformist, Patrick Chinamasa, as acting finance minister, tasked with tackling corruption and re-engaging with international institutions to unlock funds to ease liquidity shortages. Mnangagwa’s first actions in office underscore how important he views economic recovery.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2016

As more people move to urban areas, cities face ever more economic and environmental challenges, including resource constraints, economic restructuring, aging populations, and pressures on public finances. It works with the Clinton Global Initiative and runs Connected Cities, a program to help 100 U.S. A Solid Foundation for Financing.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

” Almost half the respondents cited finances as the main culprit for their tension, while being over-scheduled, choosing the right gifts, and remaining healthy also contributed to people’s holiday woes. According to a 2017 survey by global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

Higher than that, and the bond market vigilantes would punish the U.S. public debt is up to 76% of GDP , yet the bond market vigilantes all seem to have retired or moved to Europe. public debt is up to 76% of GDP , yet the bond market vigilantes all seem to have retired or moved to Europe. Economy Finance Research'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

Finance Minister Domingo Cavallo (himself a Harvard economics Ph.D.) Even government bonds were yielding some 10% annually in dollars. Then shocks — the 2008-2009 global crisis, the revelation that Greece had disguised its debt and deficit — sent foreign finance for the exits.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

It is certainly true that investors, dismayed at the prospect of low returns for stocks and bonds for years to come, have poured money into commodities over the past decade. Ethics Finance Global business' Or is the problem simply that speculators have taken over the market for a crucial commodity?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

Yields on sovereign bonds fell immediately following the deal's announcement. For example, the generic yield on Ireland's nine year sovereign bonds fell from 7.1 The total bond stock of Spain and Italy is approaching 3 trillion-with-a-T Euros. And market participants were initially thrilled. in one day, an unprecedented drop.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

How it could end, badly, with a bank run through the European bond market or the collapse of confidence around Greece, Spain or Italy, is well understood. But maybe this time it really is different, precisely because it's happening in the core of the global economy, not in some Argentine extremity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

The S&P 500 hit its all-time nominal peak in October 2007, with a global financial unraveling already under way. Right now the main alternative to investing in stocks — fixed-income investments ranging from savings accounts to corporate bonds — is not attractive. One is that the link between big-company earnings and U.S.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

But for the past 150 years or so, we’ve been working in much bigger and much more complex global corporations. Finance is different from sales, R&D is different from quality, and so on. Everyone wants to build a common bond with others, do meaningful work, and feel valued and respected.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Following the global economic crisis of 2008, large bonuses and stock options have been held responsible for overly risky behavior and short-term strategies. The problem is that whatever package you construct – bonds, stocks, or bonuses – whatever performance criteria you decide on will be imperfect.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole. This is where a new financial product, social impact bonds (also known as pay-for-success contracts), can play a role. Insight Center. Innovation in Cities.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Social entrepreneurs are stultified by traditional forms of financing. There are new experiments — models that use the tools of finance to try things in different ways — sometimes creating income streams from novel concepts, like funding cancer research. Donations and grants don't allow them to innovate and grow.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

True trust and empathy starts to happen when there is the even a slight emotional bond, not just a professional one. Don't segregate engineering from marketing, HR from finance, and so on. I'm not saying you have to turn your workplace into one giant therapy session. Mix up disciplines. He can be found on Twitter at @Richardsona.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. But we’re a global company. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

According to the Global Impact Investing Network, the market for impact capital, currently sized at $60 billion, could grow over the next decade to $2 trillion, or 1% of global invested assets. Everyone agrees that impact investing is on the rise.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Besides tax-deferral, consider planning strategies that provide you with tax-free income in retirement, such as municipal bonds or Roth IRAs. Categories : Finance , Guest Posts 1 Comments 1 Tweets that mention A Couple Reasons to Smile About :: Women on Business -- Topsy.com January 11th, 2011 at 10:45 pm [.]

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Tucker believes that recovery and resolution plans should reduce the direct hit to public finances following a bank's failure or distress, while also containing the system-wide impact. interbank exposure information, derivative and securities finance position information) which will be readily accessible to authorities.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Over the last two years, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its fifth, multi-thousand-page assessment of global climate science. And investors are noticing: in May, Barclays bank downgraded the bonds of the entire U.S. We were little cogs in a 162-country, 2,600-event public cry for global action. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). Another example is the Finance Innovation Lab, which hosted the meeting of unusual suspects mentioned above. The purpose? They create groundswells around new solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Our global financial system moves trillions of dollars a day and serves billions of people. A vast, globally distributed ledger running on millions of devices, it is capable of recording anything of value. The unstoppable force of blockchain technology is barreling down on the infrastructure of modern finance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

John Macomber, a senior lecturer in the finance unit at Harvard Business School, has studied infrastructure financing around the world. There is plenty of capital in the global financial system. Trump has talked about another financing mechanism—offering tax credits to fuel infrastructure spending.

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