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- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?
wealthiest households. It's not that low-income families have a terrible savings rate, explained Tufano. In fact, within Individual Development Accounts (described below), poor families have a 2.2% savings rate, compared to the national... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 29 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Pursuing Independent Projects
outside of the case-based class. In terms of challenges, there’s very little structure compared to a traditional class, so you have be very intentional and disciplined to get the most out of the experience. I set aside time on my calendar... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
pharmaceuticals, the gap between the medical and the mental health systems, and the time required to find community resources and quality home care. My previous experience as a pharmaceutical executive and management consultant seemed child’s play View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
compare your name to existing and pending trademarks, based on a variety of characteristics, including phonetic similarity, similarity of goods, and status of existing trademark applications and registrations: “We’re capturing the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Nov 2013
- News
A Passion for Film
was good at and where there were other people who were better," he said. "For me, distribution was bridging a lot of different parts of the industry." Seeing so many small, but worthy films struggle to find their way into a theater was his impetus for starting... View Details
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
diagnose patients by comparing their symptoms to millions of similar cases stored in a database. One can imagine, for example, a health worker in a remote area of a developing country where there are no doctors making a cell phone call to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
space and development tools in the cloud and scale up as needed rather than purchasing their own expensive hardware and software. By comparing rates of investment before and after AWS was introduced in 2006, Nanda and his colleagues could... View Details
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
percent stocks for the scandal free. Split another way, politicians holding more than 50 percent stocks were almost twice as likely to be involved in a scandal compared to their more risk averse counterparts. Personal investments that... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
nature of cases is changing as well, with more cases focusing on international and global issues, as compared to single-country cases that are easier for a faculty member to do on his or her own. (See More on this Article for case... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
Integration on Stock Valuations. One example of this was when I was asked to evaluate a large OEM company based in Asia. I evaluated the company’s ESG performance by applying the Sustainability Accounting Board’s (SASB) ESG Integration framework and View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
are buying an item with the proceeds going to charity, or you are making a donation and receiving an item in return. We found that the former ends up being a stronger motivator than the latter, because people compare those framings to... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
20,000 on the Dow really say something about the state of the US economy? LV: By comparing where the index is now to where it was at some point before, it tells you that in the long run, the economy has done well. For example, we have had... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
trade-off between competitive price discovery and convenience. Evidence from eBay fits the theory: auctions are favored by less experienced sellers and for idiosyncratic products, and auction listings sell at a discount but with higher probability relative to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
enduring problem." Testing The Testing Facilities To learn whether increased competition was associated with a greater likelihood of testing results being fudged, the researchers looked at pass/fail results in micro-markets encompassing a 0.2-mile radius. They... View Details
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
by foreign ethnicities, Indians and Chinese in particular, was closely tied to H-1B admission levels. A 10 percent increase in the H-1B population correlated with a 4 percent to 5 percent growth in Indian ethnic invention in dependent cities View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
for babies. What are some key ways to improve the adoption market? A: Compared to high-tech reproduction, the field of adoption is already fairly well regulated. But there are lots of things we could do to make the market work better, and... View Details
- Profile
Sekou Calliste
the gray areas. When I hear what other students bring to cases, compared to what I had thought, I see that there are so many angles to a problem, so many various solutions I hadn't considered." "The relevance of the HBS program... View Details
- 15 May 2015
- Blog Post
2+2: A "Liberating and Life-Altering" Choice
a liberating and life-altering opportunity. Before HBS, I spent a year traveling abroad on a fellowship from Vanderbilt University, studying national identity formation, comparative citizenship issues, and some of the challenges facing... View Details
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Domestic Students | MBA
students). Private student loans may be a good option if you have an excellent credit history and plan to pay off your loans quickly (usually within five years after graduation). Repayment options may be less favorable compared to federal... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Level Up
fed by some four thousand media sources that can give sports business executives an immediate idea of what platforms, products, or people are moving the industry—and which ones aren’t. “We’re helping our clients stay on top of comparative... View Details