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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Di Maggio , Amir Kermani , Rodney Ramcharan , Vincent Yao & Edison Yu AUG 2020 What is the impact of uncertainty on individual outcomes? Based on new employer-employee matched data, the authors find that firms provide at best partial... View Details
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Singapore Competitiveness Report
By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Ashish Lall and Boon Siong Neo
The 2009 Singapore Competitiveness Report, the first in this new series of regular assessments by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, provides data and analysis to inform the discussions on the impact of the crisis... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Policy; Competitive Strategy; Singapore
Ketels, Christian H.M., Ashish Lall, and Boon Siong Neo. "Singapore Competitiveness Report." Asia Competitiveness Institute, Singapore, November 2009.
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
Alvarez, and research associate Dan Greenberg (Harvard MBA 2012). Their new book Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive?, predicts, among many other things, the continuing decline of major brick and mortar brands... View Details
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Exchange rates: current & historical
Expand GFDatabase menu (default) Select a country or region, e.g., United States. From the Filter by Series Category menu, select Exchange Rate. Click Search. For trade weighted indices for Australia, Great... View Details
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service to expand to more categories and a wider consumer segment. The company needs to decide on the features that would go into the new membership service while being careful not to cannibalize their core... View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
for young people to start smoking tobacco cigarettes, or even lure ex-smokers back to the habit. This has created a dilemma for health regulators, says Quelch, interviewed before the FDA's action. Do they regulate e-cigarettes in order to decrease the number of View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
lack of data about the actual returns of a specific set of companies in this early-stage category has resulted in an ongoing philosophical debate that to date has been based largely on anecdotal investor experience. As far as we could... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 21 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?
players use to compete. "People are thinking about ways to design policies and products so you can actually engage with the product in more responsible ways without getting people too overinvolved in playing and spending." A new paper by... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
“occupational sorting,” with men choosing careers that pay higher wages than women do, labor economists say. For example, women represent only 26 percent of US workers employed in computer and math jobs, according to the Department of Labor. View Details
- 21 Mar 2012
- Op-Ed
Finding the Right Jeremy Lin Storyline
New York Knicks basketball sensation Jeremy Lin has attracted worldwide attention because he crosses so many boundaries and defies so many stereotypes. Lin, an Asian-American (rare in the NBA) who played college hoops at Harvard (even... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
2016 Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development By: Beckert, Sven, and Seth Rockman, eds. Abstract—During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can
Grocery bills may be ridiculously high these days, but supply chain problems, energy costs, and inflation aren’t the only factors to blame. New research suggests that companies are raising prices simply because they can. In 2021, US... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
later. Rather than retreat after the devaluation, however, the company became more aggressive. P&G raised its prices significantly to recover its devaluation losses, introduced new brands and began competing in View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
COVID-19 is claiming an unexpected career toll among scientific researchers, and particularly on women, new research shows. If you are female, have young children, or work in a lab, you are more likely to feel the career-crunching effects... View Details
- 02 Jul 2014
- Blog Post
Connecting Fashion & Technology at Kate Spade
growth of three categories of product: tech accessories, watches, and beauty across all three brands, Kate Spade New York, Kate Spade Saturday, and Jack Spade, and across all channels of distributions... View Details
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
You don’t know what you don’t know—and almost by definition new entrepreneurial ventures need a helping hand from established partners if they hope to succeed. “Startups suffer from what researchers call ‘liability of newness,’” says... View Details
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
like budgeting, should be part of the annual governance cycle. Whenever plans are changed at the enterprise or business unit level, executives likely need to realign the organization with the new direction. The alignment process, of... View Details
- 29 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Do Outlet Stores Exist?
have more data than they know what to do with." Do outlets cannibalize? One leading product manufacturer in the fashion apparel and accessories category agreed to provide Ngwe with consumer data in return for a detailed analysis of... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
adding more and more variety to your cereal offerings. Finally, there may be tremendous competitive pressure to expand your assortment. If your competition comes out with new sizes or flavors, you feel you have to keep pace. The end... View Details