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- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
In the early 1990s, both Teradyne and Hewlett-Packard identified new technologies that had enormous potential to cause new-market disruptions. As with most disruptive innovations, these technologies offered to provide smaller and less View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
rules so that they benefit your company or client at the expense of others. You have to decide whether to do what you’re asked or refuse, which can be costly to you and your group,” explains Hildreth, talking on speakerphone in Gino’s... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
class can be a significant factor in determining people’s health, well-being, emotions, and behavior. Norton and DeCelles took that research to the air, exploring how a seating arrangement that puts passengers in a temporary state of inequality breeds the kind of... View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
bankruptcy or bad debts 1985 USDA approves the sale of the first genetically altered organism 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act prohibits employers with more than three employees from discriminating... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
two-thirds of American workers. It’s a particularly expensive practice for employers, who pay up to 30 percent more to hire graduates for middle-skills work even when individuals without degrees perform equally or nearly as well,... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
firms such as Elliot and Dart as "vultures" or "rouge creditors" who sought to profit on sovereign debt restructurings at the expense of countries suffering economic hardship and of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
is no villain here. Poor public-policy choices have contributed to the problem, but so have the bad choices made by health plans, hospitals, and the employers who buy their services. Decades of "reform" have failed, and attempts... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
not invest sufficient capital in their own businesses. Either: a) They can't. b) They won't. 2. Women lack fundamental business skills and experience: a) They do not have strong math skills. b) They have little or no relevant financial experience. 3. Women are View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
They haven't encroached much on each other's territory. Part of the reason is that it's very expensive to go beyond their markets. If you’re an airline, you’re buying airplanes. Building and owning hotels is expensive. If you’re Boston... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
new to the firm: A majority of the team are computer programmers and developers, employing sophisticated algorithms to manage more than $275 million in assets. This active model would pit Alpha Architect against big banks, but with an advantage: The banks’ View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
Wenxin, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—Nominal debt provides consumption-smoothing benefits if it can be inflated away during recessions. However, we document empirically that countries with more countercyclical inflation, where nominal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
disproportionately affected by international financial integration. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-012.pdf Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract The main arguments in favor of and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
As today's fiscal deficit and dragging economy continue to cast long shadows, it's easy to forget much darker times in American history. Shortly after winning its independence from Great Britain, the United States was bankrupt. Individual states weren't required to... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
going up all the time, our debt was increasing continuously as a percentage of our GDP. And we had to face all that by going into solutions that required the people to feel very bad because we were... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
we show that the same behaviors produce more ethical condemnation when they happen to produce bad rather than good outcomes, even if the outcomes are largely determined by chance. Our studies show that individuals judge behaviors as less... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
The United States housing market is tight and expensive and shows no signs of easing. Existing home sales hit a 15-year high in 2021, with 6.12 million sold, a jump of 8.5 percent, according to the National Association of Realtors. Median... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
to college. That works out great for a lot of people, but it’s a really bad idea for an increasing number of people. Unfortunately for the latter group, the only thing worse for them than going to college is not going to college. There... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
markets seem to have stabilized for now, what are the potential ramifications globally of China’s market troubles? Could their problems spill over into other markets? A: Certainly it was trouble from a stock market perspective. The fall was as View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
project reveals that anxiety reduces self-confidence and tends to increase a reliance on others’ advice. Unfortunately, anxiety also reduces the ability to discriminate between good and bad counsel. So it’s best to take a deep breath,... View Details