Limits To Arbitrage - Publications - Faculty & Research

2017
Book

Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming

By: Niels Viggo Hauter and Geoffrey Jones

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance industry from the nineteenth century to the present day. Reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, was largely unnoticed outside the expert... View Details

Keywords: Insurance; Risk Management; Business History; Globalization; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; Africa; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America; Asia

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04 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life

were, they aggregated into a mighty marketing force. By 1994, Snapple was available across the country, and as distributors added painstakingly cultivated supermarket accounts, sales ballooned to $674 million from just $4 million ten... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton; Food & Beverage

January 2018 (Revised March 2019)
Teaching Note

Jumia Nigeria: from Retail to Marketplace (A) and (B)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman

Founded in 2012, Jumia Nigeria, a startup effort by Germany-based Rocket Internet, aimed to become an African Amazon. The company entered the nascent market and immediately enjoyed an uptick in consumer spending fueled by the strength of Nigeria’s oil-based economy. By... View Details

Keywords: Retail; Marketplace; Inventory; Ecommerce; Funding; Business Ecosystems; Competition; Business Model; Globalization; Emerging Markets; Expansion; Logistics; E-commerce; Retail Industry; India; Nigeria; Africa

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01 Jun 2007
What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

Summing Up Pay for performance: Why do we assume so much and know so little? Pay for performance is an important element of good management, judging from responses to this month's column. The question of what kind of pay for what kind of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

limited time and limited knowledge. Therefore, it's very important for independent directors to be in the best positions they can be for developing their knowledge. Those... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

additional important challenge of marketing the restructuring to the capital market. The most obvious way to do this is to disclose useful information View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

27 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know

communicated so people on the front line don’t have to decide how to work through these issues and make things up in the moment.” Muslim headscarf meets retailer’s dress code Sporting goods retailer... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage; Apparel & Accessories

01 Dec 2015
News

Enjoying the Chance to Reconnect

innovation.” “HBS takes high-potential faculty and students and pushes them to the limits of their creativity and ambitions,” he observes. “It’s as entrepreneurial an atmosphere as you can imagine.” View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Adapting to Meet Changing Needs

it across in a very limited amount of time—typically threeto five-minute learning segments that build on each other. That turned out to be a complicated challenge,” says Mayo, the Thomas S. Murphy Senior... View Details

19 Jun 2013
News

Your Guide to Social Enterprise

Georgia Levenson Keohane Photo courtesy of Georgia Levenson Keohane What is social entrepreneurship? Is it simply an approach to business in which profit comes hand in hand with some positive social change? Or is it the application of... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 1996
News

GMAT Added to Admissions Criteria

offered on a computer platform, so anyone wishing to take it can make an appointment by phone and not be limited to four Saturdays a year, as in the past. Furthermore, the... View Details

17 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

with these markers of poor market performance? Q: And what’s your response to that? Dafny: It is heavily linked to the limited and diminishing degree of competition in so many... View Details

Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health

01 Sep 2024
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From the Classroom to Casablanca

hadn’t realized was there.” Another is to broaden students’ understanding that solutions must be contextually adapted. “An idea that would work in Boston might not work in Casablanca,” MacCormack says. “So, there’s a humility in realizing... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

31 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

When Not to Trust Your Gut

limit and we naturally shift away from System 2 thought toward System 1 thought. Clearly, a complete System 2 thought process is not necessary for every managerial decision or for every small negotiation you may face. When you're... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra

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How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 07 Jul 2023 How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace Becca Carnahan Author HBS Team tag All Industries All Locations Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging Recruiting Advice Recruiting Strategies Candidates consider... View Details

10 Jun 2002
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How to Look at Globalization Now

evidence related to globalization, which is surprisingly scanty on many important issues. While many traditional forms of arbitrage may look dated, new ones with more contemporary accents have emerged.—... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Tips to Reinvent the Department Store

Retail and Luxury Goods Conference on April 3. Chadwick noted that while department stores used to be where shoppers went for everything from baby clothes to furniture to power... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Retail

25 Mar 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship

Keywords: by Corinne Bendersky & Kathleen L. McGinn; Education

01 Sep 2005
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Clark Bids Farewell to HBS

limit to what can be accomplished. When there’s a change of leadership like this, it’s a wonderful opportunity for innovation. HBS has a bright future ahead of it, and it will be taken forward by a great new... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 Mar 2021
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