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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
You goal, girl
With interest in women's sports and professional leagues soaring, Amy Love (MBA '93) decided it was high time for a publication that would cover the new scene in a serious manner. Instead of simply...
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- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
If it's one lesson the individual investor learned the hard way from the collapse of Enron, it is that the recommendations of Wall Street stock analysts can be influenced by much more than purely objective research. Just look at the large number of analysts who kept...
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- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
explain what they were doing under the 1991 statute. To hold senior government officials accountable for all bailouts, Congress should extend the 1991 statute to any type of financial institution. Q: How has Congress tried to restore confidence in credit View Details
- 17 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions
interest rates have fallen to historic lows, increasing the funding that companies must set apart to make up for the lower yield on the assets already in place. "Companies have had to increase their...
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- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
In the United States, employers have often treated health benefits as a necessary evil. They have focused on the rising cost of providing health insurance benefits and taken aggressive steps to bring costs down, or at least to slow the View Details
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
rising cost, as manifested in violations of covered interest rate parity. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51348 Harvard Business School...
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017
finance qualified capital projects, carefully considering the interest rate environment, expectations for the performance of the Harvard endowment, and the availability of University debt. Reflecting this...
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- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
forth. It’s a well-known phenomenon that repurchase rates after the first transaction are lower than repurchase rates after several transactions. In other words, customers who make a few purchases are more...
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Charity
credit were not profit-making enterprises but charities. In fifteenth-century Italy, outraged by the high rates charged by moneylenders, the papal governor of Perugia established the first monte pietatis, a public pawnshop that charged...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
systematic way for students to voice their concerns,” says Moret, a soft-spoken Mississippi native. “We created a process for identifying student priorities and worked with the administration to address those concerns.” The poll, which View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
due in part to an overall lack of liquidity. On average, survey respondents with less than $10,000 in monthly bills had only enough cash on hand to cover one month of expenses. “Firms today are very lean and cash-strapped,” says...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
interest portion of the School’s debt service amounted to less than 1 percent of total operating expenses in fiscal 2018. University Assessments University assessments cover essential services provided to...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
U.S. GAAP and IFRS for every topic covered in the book. For a preview of the book, please see: www.createspace.com/Preview/1186020. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50689 Infrastructure, Incentives and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Evelyne White
interests, and then reserve their spot. Hosts set the price of their meals, and Bookalokal earns a commission on each meal. Soon after launching the site, however, Bookalokal's market expanded. It turns out that local diners—especially those new to a city—were also...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
still some of that today. A lot of investors were not as familiar with private equity, so we needed to basically spend time just trying to explain what was going on. Private-equity firms have borrowed billions at low interest View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
interests, and then reserve their spot. Hosts set the price of their meals, and Bookalokal earns a commission on each meal. Soon after launching the site, however, Bookalokal's market expanded. It turns out that local diners—especially those new to a city—were also...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
centers profitable more quickly. — Bob Poulin (MBA 1985) The premium in the hourly rates is well deserved, but you are giving too much value away by not covering fixed/setup costs. I believe the source of...
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- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
interested in discovering if this was an effective strategy, since a lot of people seemed to be doing it. Our assumption was that they think there's an advantage to doing it, given that it's such a common practice. And we found that it's...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
of science and technology, law, management, and policy. The empirical contexts for their studies range from household goods to financial services. After discussing the fundamentals of user innovation, the contributors cover communities...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015
projects, carefully considering the interest rate environment, expectations for the performance of the Harvard endowment, and the availability of University debt. Reflecting this cautious approach, the HBS...
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