Money Market - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?

you are trying to do is create a sense of loyalty or trust in the firm,” says Tandon Family Professor Francesca Gino, a member of the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets unit at Harvard Business School. “But that can make people so... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Elizabeth "Betsy" Latimer Jaffe Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

MBA at Wharton who made more money than I did, even though he had no experience. So that was kind of a trigger for me to say, “Hey, men are getting further than women and this isn't fair.” And he was making, I don't know, I think I made... View Details

12 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?

that U.S. headquarters were leaner than European ones because of the capital market pressures on U.S. firms. Instead, European firms' headquarters are smaller. As expected, Japanese firms had very large headquarters. The second surprising... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

When Standard & Poor's Rating Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States from AAA to AA+ on August 5, it was a shot heard 'round the world. Stock markets plummeted, investors covered their eyes,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

27 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

behavior, according to by Francesca Gino and colleagues. The good news: businesses can do something about it. Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating (34,516) Organizations spend a lot of money enabling employees to solve... View Details

18 Apr 2022
News

Home Grown

kind of scaling itself up and mobile internet coming to the foray, developing countries will actually kind of rise because you know, now every consumer would have a computing device in their hands. And if that were to be true, then View Details

09 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Manager in Red Sneakers

confidence in their dressed-down rejection of the traditional pricey business suit and tie. It happens in academia, too. Anat Keinan, assistant professor of marketing at Harvard Business School, and Silvia Bellezza, a doctoral candidate... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

pharmaceutical firm B creates a drug that treats the same ailment and prepares to bring the drug to market. According to best estimates, this new competition will reduce the price of A's product to $2.55 per pill. B would pick up 40 percent of the View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

01 Mar 2007
News

Security Chief

separate technology, product development, and marketing operations. The reorganization imposed much-needed focus and put renewed emphasis on accountability for on-time, on-budget product delivery. “At the beginning of 2006, we were... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

30 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 30

PublicationsHappy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending Authors:Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton Publication:Simon & Schuster, forthcoming Abstract If you think money can't buy happiness, you're not spending it right. Two rising... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

strategy-proof) student optimal mechanism, if the same student preferences would have been revealed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-076.pdf Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets Author:Alvin E. Roth Abstract This... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

therein), fairness can be restored if a sufficiently large amount of money is available for distribution/compensation as well. Interpreting the agents as the objects to be allocated, one might try to restore fairness for marriage View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

Alumni Books Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil by Ali Al-Naimi (AMP 82, 1979) (Penguin UK) Until May 7, 2016, Ali Al-Naimi was the Saudi oil minister (and an OPEC kingpin), a position he held for 20 years. As global oil’s... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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A Better Way to Go on Strike

costs at $200 million a day. What's more, a strike would cost the pilots and other employees their salaries. The airline would lose tens of millions of dollars daily and risk losing market share to its competitors. Yet the pilots were... View Details

Keywords: David Lax and Professor James K. Sebenius

04 Nov 2014
News

Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years

says Felipe Ortiz-Monasterio (MBA 1977), who was among the founders of the nongovernmental organization and is currently chair of its finance committee. With that straightforward pitch, the upstart Fundación raised money quickly. An... View Details

Keywords: April White

17 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

size of stock markets across countries and on the ownership structure of railways and other companies in France. In one of his books he argues that France was the largest "financial democracy" in the world, because of the large... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

21 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

the collective expectations of market participants. We are already in a very different moment in history compared to the middle of the 1990s. What most fascinated me was how much the content of financial orthodoxy had shifted during the... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

25 Mar 2016
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Putting Faith in a Good Education

Edify has assisted 1,100 private faith-based schools, loaning each a minimum $5,000. Founded and run largely by locals who grew up in these disadvantaged communities, these schools use the money for improvements (such as a computer lab)... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost - Blog - Business & Environment

Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2024 IFC India 2024... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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A Community Investment

issues that should be left to government? Ince: One of the profound changes over the last 25 years has been the gradual shift of power from the public to the private sector. The assumption has been that the private sector can do it better, and the View Details

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