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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in a Consumer Society
The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits “Beautiful credit, the foundation of modern society!” — Mark Twain, The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day (1873)...
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- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'
Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries...
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- 11 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups
Koning. Isolating the effects of A/B testing Using data available publicly through the website BuiltWith, the researchers identified companies that were up to eight years old that had installed A/B testing software. These tools enable...
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by Kristen Senz
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Online Leadership and Management Courses | HBS Online
hrs/week Apply by January 9th $15,000 (four installments of $3,750) Credential RECOMMENDED LEARNING PATHWAYS Do you want to dive deeper into leadership and management to advance your career? By taking three courses in this subject area,...
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- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps
installing an electric heat pump in every household in the U.S. would reduce annual emissions by 160 million metric tonnes [3]. Lastly, heat pump adoption will lead to less pollution and cleaner, safer air. There are currently many...
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- 31 Mar 2022
- Op-Ed
Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services
large scale helps distribute the fixed costs, reducing per-transaction cost. Narayana Hrudalaya, for instance, has installed cutting-edge expensive equipment for heart procedures, but the high volume of its operations drives down...
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by Ashish Nanda
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
put up cameras and pair them with a license-plate reader,” she recalls thinking. A pilot project with 50 cameras proved so successful that the agency is now installing hundreds more. Tisch also developed a new data platform, TrashDash, to...
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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
reorganized itself around a market by function matrix structure intended to focus on customers. Compensation systems were aligned with culture change objectives. A skill-based pay system was installed in all production facilities to...
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by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- 21 Mar 2019
- HBS Case
The Ferrari Way
have to keep prices up.” The company has also bucked industry trends by moving deliberately on adding technologies to its cars. While it has installed hybrid drivetrains to some of its newer models, it has eschewed connectivity and...
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- 23 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Strategy-Focused Organization
the organization to creating long-term, sustainable value. Sustaining The Scorecard Once the Balanced Scorecard had been installed at Mobil, it became the agenda for an annual meeting of the top 125 managers in January to discuss...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
various pieces of electronics, they would instead be bombarded with technical specifications. Furthermore, most women sought installation help from store staff but were turned away. Best Buy responded by reengineering the design of its...
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- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
[This is the sixth installment in a monthly series on management issues in the time of COVID-19.] We recently asked 600 CEOs: What is keeping you awake at night during this global pandemic? A major and multifaceted concern that emerged is...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
[Editor’s note: This is the third installment of a continuing series on issues that 600 CEOs told us keeps them awake at night. Today's topic: The challenges of making organizational decisions in this uncertain environment.] While we may...
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by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
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Aldrich Hall | About
finance to Baker Library. They also donated furniture and decorated a room to house the collection in Baker Library. The “Aldrich Library of Finance” was installed the following spring and remained a separate collection until it was...
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Output and asset price fluctuations
What are the sources of business cycles? How are these shocks propagated in the economy? Why are their effects so persistent? How can we explain asset price fluctuations? How are shocks transmitted internationally?To study these questions, I have developed a series... View Details
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Training Materials - Research Computing Services
materials Introduction to Web Scraping with Python Static notes with code examples and results All workshop materials as downloadable archive Main site for all Python materials Unix Introduction to Unix Basic Unix Commands The Unix Shell lesson The Unix Shell reference...
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Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online
enables new and experienced leaders to ignite their careers with a combination of vital and forward-looking business skills, self-reflection, and an immersive cohort-based learning experience with a diverse global network. 1 year, 5-9 hrs/week Apply by January 9th...
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- 24 Feb 2021
- Lessons from the Classroom
What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace
US perspective, by evidence that the Soviet Union was installing nuclear missile sites in Cuba, 90 miles from the United States, the showdown is considered the closest to a nuclear war the world has ever come. Malhotra has used the...
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by Lane Lambert
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Introduction
instruments and institutions of twenty-first century credit—the installment plan, the credit card, and the home finance industry—are less than a century old. Yet credit itself is as old as commerce. “Buy Now, Pay Later: A History of...
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