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- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
try to change people's behavior around overeating, smoking, or other bad habits many are desperate to break. That's why John and Norton are so intrigued by a company called StickK.com (pronounced "stick"), launched by two Yale economics professors who partnered to lose...
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- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/114016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-037 Blackstone and the Sale of Citigroup's Loan Portfolio This case describes the sale of Citigroup's leveraged loan portfolio in 2008 to a group of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
January 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marcin Kacperczyk Abstract—We study the impact of the zero lower bound interest rate policy on the industrial...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
recession. The financial crisis opened the door to massive public interventions in the world's economies, in which the government served as venture capitalist. But these efforts focused on the most troubled...
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- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
foreign-born financial specialists-immigrants-solved the fiscal crisis and set the United States on a path to long-term economic success. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas K. McCraw analyzes the skills...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Chuck" advertising campaign. This campaign aims to differentiate Schwab in the cluttered financial services marketplace. Test market results facilitate discussion of advertising objectives, message strategy, media selection, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
exhaust themselves attending to a special needs child or ailing parent. Everyone frets over their physical and financial well-being. Who among us isn't anxious, stressed out, and off our game right now? From bolstering remote...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
decisions that have important long-term consequences for founders and their ventures, particularly the issue of whether to cede company control for financial gain. “Rich versus King is a very familiar paradigm for me,” says Bussgang, an...
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- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
experts in the health care field, to provide their views on various facets of one of this country's most important and complex problems. Bill George Professor of Management Practice, former chair and CEO of Medtronic, and author of 7 Lessons for Leading in View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-102.pdf Does Diversification Create Value in the Presence of External Financing Constraints? Evidence from the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis Authors:Venkat Kuppuswamy and...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
of the model reasonably matches the (i) sensitivity of the aggregate stock market to changes in the likelihood of a disaster and (ii) loss rates of disaster risky stocks during the 2008 financial crisis....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
breakthrough innovations and competitive advantage. Broke: What Every American Business Must Do to Restore Our Financial Stability and Protect Our Future by John B. Mumford (MBA ’71) (Wiley) If the business of America is business, then...
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- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
112-105 A simple consolidation exercise. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/112105-PDF-ENG Capitalizing for the Future: HSBC in 2010 Anette Mikes and Dominique HamelHarvard Business School Case 112-097 Following the financial View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
combination of history, culture, and compensation. Traces Tad's strategy in obtaining these offers and lets students decide which he should accept. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806024 PublicationsSolve the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
financially benefit most from home delivery are more likely to choose it. Those who benefit least from insurance subsidies are more likely to make no active choice and lose those subsidies. The implicit default incentivizes people to make...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created...
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- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
case also reviews strategic focus with respect to asset classes and geography, as well as best practices for what to look for in cities that will be attractive for superblock mixed-use projects. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
and the impact that entrepreneurs have on growth in developing nations Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System Author:Robert C. Pozen Publication:John Wiley, 2009 Publisher's Abstract Too Big To Save? provides a...
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Martha Lagace
- August 2022
- Case
Air Wars: Deregulating the U.S. Airline Industry
By: Tom Nicholas and James Weber
In the early decades of the twentieth century, the U.S. government assisted in the development of an airline industry by subsidizing the delivery of mail and allowing mail carriers to also fly passengers. Because the government awarded mail routes to the lowest...
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Government Regulation;
Deregulation;
Change Management;
Economics;
Entrepreneurship;
Financial Management;
Business History;
Human Resources;
Compensation and Benefits;
Labor;
Labor Unions;
Leading Change;
Leadership Style;
Crisis Management;
Industry Structures;
Operations;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Competition;
Air Transportation;
Air Transportation Industry;
United States
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
in the positive mood benefits of financial generosity. Consistent with past research, participants who were randomly assigned to purchase items for others (vs. themselves) reported greater positive affect. Contrary to predictions, using...
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Dina Gerdeman