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  • 22 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

more densely populated places like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City for the countryside early in the pandemic. Some purchased or rented a second house; some stayed at their weekend getaway or decamped to a family retreat. And... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 31 Oct 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317040-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-126 CIC: Catalyzing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (A) CIC creates "entrepreneurial ecosystems," renting out office and co-working space to start-ups and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

or the Eiffel Tower instead of a picture of you. But if you have a photo of a dog where your face should be, it might deter people from renting your property." The researchers' data set consisted of all Airbnb New York rentals available... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising
  • 13 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Cash and the Woman-Owned Business

predictors of success in securing loans than is gender.14 The personal financial resources that entrepreneurs invest really "stake" the business. They not only provide the funds to rent space, get a computer and software, file a... View Details
Keywords: by Candida Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene & Myra M. Hart
  • 02 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

but can't afford the hefty prices for designer originals? Rent the Runway allows fashionistas to use those dresses and accessories at affordable rates. The company has decoupled the value part of the process—experiencing haute... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 11 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 11

Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Tarun Khanna Abstract—Since the 1990s, several western firms have filed patents based on medicinal herbs from emerging markets, evoking protests from local stakeholders against "bio-piracy." We explore conditions under which firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Apr 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?

able to manufacture many of the things we need on our 3-D printers with recycled materials? Will the Internet of Things and "collaborative commons" enable even greater productivity and efficiency leading to fewer jobs? Or do these innovations foster... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Service
  • 26 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

the seller can back out at any time between the signing and the closing by paying the buyer a "breakup fee," which might compensate the buyer for out-of-pocket expenses. The seller gets the ability to shop around. The buyer might not mind View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • September 2010
  • Case

Aaron's: Household Goods for the U.S. Base of the Pyramid

By: Michael Chu and Charles Augustus Smithgall IV
With $2.5 billion system-wide revenues, Aaron's, a major rent-to-own supplier to the U.S. base of the pyramid, continues to grow in the recession, but CEO R.C. Loudermilk, Jr. wonders how long the company can sustain the fast growth rate of its past. Founded in 1955,... View Details
Keywords: Fairness; For-Profit Firms; Renting or Rental; Financial Crisis; Demand and Consumers; Social Enterprise; Income; Goods and Commodities; Competitive Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • 20 Apr 2020
  • Book

Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

enhance cognitive performance. “Offices with the premier health story will get the premium rent and get the tenants, and the offices with a lagging health story will lag.” To convey to managers the benefits of the healthy building... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Real Estate; Health
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

The case explores RentJuice's early development and the challenges it confronted in scaling its direct sales effort. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/811069-PDF-ENG Rent the Runway Thomas R. Eisenmann and Laura WinigHarvard... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Feb 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels

Airbnb for hosts: They can respond quickly to market conditions, keeping their homes for private use when prices are low and hosting travelers only when the demand for rooms—and the payoff from renting them—is highest. "As a host,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Travel
  • 28 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

for someone to get off the ground: enough to buy inventory, rent space, and begin to generate an income in order to feed, clothe, and shelter a family. A legal loan of that amount from a real bank is also the difference between paying... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Mar 2000
  • Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

does not exceed 30 percent of the median family income in a given area. In one typically hard-pressed neighborhood, Boston's South End, the average two-bedroom apartment rents for $1,400, considerably more than 30 percent of an average... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

variables approach. The negative effect is strongest in poor countries, suggesting that high profits stymie economic development rather than enable it. Consistent with the rent-seeking mechanism of the model, we find that high rents are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm

map—including apps for donating food waste, sharing photos, sourcing wedding vendors, renting wedding dresses, and making creative wedding registries. Koning’s favorite out-of-the-box idea was an app to simplify divorce, which is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 06 Aug 2014
  • What Do You Think?

What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?

party hosted by HBS Professor Jay Lorsch and his wife for Fritz Roethlisberger in 1968 in their modest digs that one could rent in those days from Harvard University. While several of us were talking with Fritz, Warren, who had borrowed a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

Chattanooga, Tennessee, the fourth-largest mall REIT in North America with a market cap of $8 billion. "REITs at the time were paying dividends in the high single digits, so money started flowing in." (By law, REITs must annually pay out 90 percent of their... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate
  • 02 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

farm refers to a complex of rights and duties secured by contract in which a sovereign transferred the temporary exploitation of a holding for rent in advance. It was one of four tenurial complexes under which entitlements fell, the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?

and conduct advertising. Others salons simply rent out chairs to independent stylists and allow them to cut hair and cultivate new clients as they see fit. "Companies have played with this degree of freedom for a long time," says Hagiu.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service; Technology
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