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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
that local uncertainty shocks reduce county-level durable consumption. See Marco’s other research here , Amir’s other research here , Rodney’s other research here , Vincent’s other research here , and Edison’s other research here . More Info Stock Market Returns and...
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Decarbonization and Sustainable Production: Immersive Field Course in Denmark and the Netherlands - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also...
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- 09 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?
but the fact of their existence is inherently geopolitical because it ties countries together in very intimate ways and changes patterns of consumption and dependence. Forman: What’s the impact for companies that have had to get out of...
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- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
money. A: In some sense money is just another asset, but it turns out to be a rather special asset. One of the reasons it is special is that there seems to be a relationship between people's holdings of that particular asset and their current View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2014
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How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
could those returns be taxed much more than so-called "earned" income? Or should a progressive consumption tax be considered, as suggested by New York Times columnist David Brooks? In his words, the purpose would be to lift...
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by James Heskett
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2.3.1 Drug & Alcohol Policy - MBA
or competitive consumption of alcohol, and their many adverse consequences for students’ health and lives. All members of the HBS community are expected to comply with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and with all HBS rules...
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Historical Data & Sources - Business History
Coffee Movement, Pre-War Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, Coffee (New York: Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, 1947), pp. 16-17, map. Coffee Production and Consumption J. G. Bartholomew, ed., Atlas of the World's Commerce...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?
their low wages will effectively prevent Asian workers from being able to purchase many of the manufactured goods they are creating. Since their own internal demand and consumption will be insufficient to generate revenues to stimulate...
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Garry Emmons
- 07 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
production is incredibly resource intensive and that even a small shift in consumption and production can have a massive impact on greenhouse gas emissions. From there, Karen Skelton, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy at the...
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- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
massive growth in world FDI in mining. As petroleum consumption grew with new uses, the search for oil became worldwide. Oil was the only fuel that could drive the new motor car, while the demand for rubber tyres for cars created an...
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by Geoffrey Jones
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position." Marketers as well as politicians have doubtless helped to distort the meaning of the Dream. A barrage of commercial advertising encourages people to focus on the acquisition and View Details
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by John Quelch
- 05 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
To Buy Happiness, Purchase an Experience
Make it a Treat (limiting access to our favorite things will make us keep appreciating them); Buy Time (focusing on time over money yields wiser purchases); Pay Now, Consume Later (delayed consumption leads to increased enjoyment); and...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
Markets," looks at a wide range of practices, legal and illegal, from dwarf tossing to slavery to California's ban on the human consumption of horse meat, and asks how economists can find a common language, if not a common point of...
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
across workers in their preference to work from home, experience with remote learning, entertainment, and consumption will also shape consumer attitudes toward digital and physical experiences. Differences in consumer preferences may...
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by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 20 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle
an aspirational lifestyle. “The new conspicuous consumption is about saying, I am the scarce resource, and therefore I am valuable” The finding suggests a new way for marketers to sell their products and services to consumers by...
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by Michael Blanding
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
can benefit What business leaders might find especially interesting about the research results: Many rituals that couples perform involve some form of joint consumption of products or services. In one study, 64 percent of the rituals...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting
the 1800s, the American economy embarked on a long, slow transition from a system in which most goods and services were produced for household consumption or local sale to an economy in which commodities were produced for a larger...
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- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
have an edge in their markets. These firms are “more innovative—stronger at anticipating shifts in consumer needs and consumption patterns that make new products and services possible, potentially generating a competitive edge.” Of equal...
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by James Heskett
- 11 Oct 2006
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How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
a discussion on Accounting for Social Insurance (PV): http://www.fasab.gov/pdffiles/si_newsrelease.pdf Of course, dependency ratios are not reduced without other economic and social effects. For example, to the extent that current View Details
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by Jim Heskett