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  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

We exploit households’ portfolio weights in previous years as an instrument for actual capital gains and dividends payments. We find that unrealized capital gains lead to a marginal propensity to consume (MPC) of 13% for the bottom 50% of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

that a sizable decline in mortgage payments (up to 50%) induces a significant increase in car purchases (up to 35%). This effect is attenuated by voluntary deleveraging. Borrowers with lower incomes and housing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

guided the groundbreaking research ambitions of Polaroid—an iconic, 20th-century startup company whose pioneering achievements in optics and engineering continue to have profound technological, social, and... View Details
  • Web

Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

institutional structures outmoded, thereby creating both opportunities and risks for firms and households. Representative cases include Margaret Thatcher and the Blair View Details
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

market participants on key characteristics and significantly increase their equity exposures over the sample period. The introduction of retail structured products thereby raises both the likelihood and the... View Details
  • Web

Vanity and Virtue: Allegories on the Pursuit of Riches - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

1608. 26 x 18.5 cm, image CF n1 This is a later state, with J. Razet's address. A woman sits beside a table laden with gold coins and other riches. She holds an urn with smoke rising out of it, a symbol of transience, View Details
  • May 2009
  • Teaching Note

The World Food Programme during the Global Food Crisis (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Eric D. Werker
Teaching Note for [709024] and [709052]. View Details
Keywords: Non-Governmental Organizations; Nutrition; Food; Crisis Management; Problems and Challenges; Poverty
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  • 14 Oct 2014
  • News

Sailing lessons give disabled children and adults greater life skills

A freak accident at age 21 left Paul Callahan (MBA 1992) a quadriplegic. It was a moment that led him, ultimately, to cast off from a career in wealth management at Goldman Sachs to take the helm of Sail to Prevail, a nonprofit that helps... View Details
  • 2020
  • Book

Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

By: Rebecca Henderson
Free market capitalism is one of humanity’s greatest inventions and the greatest source of prosperity the world has ever seen. But this success has been costly. Capitalism is on the verge of destroying the planet and destabilizing society as wealth rushes to the top.... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Economic Systems; Ethics; Society; Environmental Sustainability
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  • 30 Sep 2019
  • Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

superiority or inferiority of a given race (Gannon, 2016; Goodman, 2003; Kolbert, 2017), the color line persists as an enduring social issue in the United States. Over 150 years post-emancipation, the wealth gap between blacks View Details
  • Article

Clogs to Clogs in Three Generations? Explaining Entrepreneurial Performance in Britain Since 1850

By: Tom Nicholas
Research into culture and entrepreneurship in Britain has been dominated by casual empiricism. This article shows the benefits of using a new method. Lifetime wealth accumulation is specified as a measure of entrepreneurial performance, and applied to data collected... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Performance Evaluation; Biography; Culture; Education; Wealth; Research; Great Britain
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  • December 2022 (Revised June 2023)
  • Case

KKR at CHI Overhead Doors (A)

By: Dennis Campbell and Ethan Rouen
This case examines the decision by private equity firm KKR to grant equity to every employee at portfolio company CHI Overhead Doors upon purchasing the company in 2015. The case explores whether this initiative will create shared value, growing profits through better... View Details
Keywords: Performance Improvement; Profit Sharing; Compensation and Benefits; Organizational Culture
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  • 16 Oct 2013
  • Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

future. Many things have happened that I would never have thought possible. I would have never believed that Chinese social choices around urbanization and industrialization could lift hundreds of millions out of View Details
Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities
  • 25 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

utilizes their MBA skills to bring significant value and capacity to both the business and its community. Leading into his first year at HBS, McClain was a Summer Fellow with the Harlem Children’s Zone, an... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2021
  • Blog Post

An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs

company’s most accomplished subject matter experts. “I was by far the youngest person on the team. It was reminiscent of my time at NASA, where I felt like a little fish in a big pond, but I just soaked up everything,” she said. “They had all built up this View Details
  • 2012
  • Chapter

Inflection Point: New Vision, New Strategy, New Organization

By: Nancy O. Andrews and Nicolas P. Retsinas
What does it cost to build a great society? More pointedly, what does it cost to lose a great society? Since the War on Poverty began almost 50 years ago, investments in America’s communities have spurred those questions. Today we face a society more unequal than... View Details
Keywords: Income Inequality; Equality and Inequality; Income; Residency; Poverty
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  • 2007
  • Book

From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession

By: Rakesh Khurana
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform.... View Details
Keywords: Social History; Business Education; Moral Sensibility; Profit; Leadership; Managerial Roles; United States
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  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Christina R. Wing
Multi-generational wealth creation through family businesses and family offices. Leadership throughout the chapters of your life. View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Leadership; Succession Planning
  • 30 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell

the family business. The portrait of the business would also typically represent more than 90 percent of the owners' wealth. “If this transition is not managed well, the family has a higher risk of losing its wealth through bad investment... View Details
Keywords: by Jonathan Pellegrin; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • 07 Nov 2022
  • Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - COP27 and the Climate Crisis

down annually [with] multiplying effects. Over the last few years, we've had multiple floods every year. So can you imagine the link with poverty [and] migration?” Learn more by downloading this video clip detailing the impact of climate... View Details