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17 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions

interest rates have fallen to historic lows, increasing the funding that companies must set apart to make up for the lower yield on the assets already in place. "Companies have had to increase their contributions exponentially as... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Aerospace; Financial Services

20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

Working PapersNone this week. Cases & Course MaterialsFemale Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries Harvard Business School Note 807-018 Examines the extent of and challenges facing female entrepreneurs in developing countries. There are higher View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

income of the importing country. Because most low-income countries import the bulk of capital goods, our results provide suggestive evidence that capital goods are more expensive in poor countries, consistent with the conventional explanation regarding the low real... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

characterize the direct effects that changes in that price index would have on retirees who differ in their initial wealth at retirement and in their mortality rates after retirement. I propose a simple but flexible theoretical framework... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit, Information, and the Courts

the Courts Credit and Information Technology Credit in a Consumer Society Research Links Credits As pioneers of the nascent information industry, the nineteenth-century credit ratings firms survived near-fatal attacks on several fronts.... View Details

07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

given to applications, the coarseness of rating patterns, and the sellers' dynamic certification strategies. In the model, certifiers respond to the sellers' desire to get a chance to be highly rated and to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Oct 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers

JetBlue today is considered one of the top airlines in the world, and its customer ratings are as high as its airplanes. But not that long ago JetBlue was a prime business school example of a nightmare scenario displacing 130,000... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Air Transportation

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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Usurer's Grip (1912)

receives a loan at the bank rate of six percent and exposes the illegal loan shark to the authorities. Copyright © 2010 Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Harvard Employment View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Charity

credit were not profit-making enterprises but charities. In fifteenth-century Italy, outraged by the high rates charged by moneylenders, the papal governor of Perugia established the first monte pietatis, a public pawnshop that charged... View Details

25 Jul 2012
News

Movie Magic

rate than the 300 percent annual growth it saw from 2002 to 2007. (Redbox lets would-be renters search locations and reserve titles online.) With a background in high-growth start-ups, Kaplan is already involved in a number of new... View Details

Keywords: vending machines; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

09 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 9

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/709495-PDF-ENG Wal-Mart's Use of Interest Rate Swaps Harvard Business School Case 108-038 "Wal-Mart's Use of Interest Rate Swaps" recounts Wal-Mart's use of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2008
News

Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism

And the investor was lured into thinking that if the underlying asset was appreciating so quickly, any mistake would be camouflaged by that increase in value. What is your view of proposed remedies, such as freezing interest rates on some... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Finance; Management; Real Estate

08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

mind? A: A few trends stand out in policymaking. First, income tax schedules have "flattened out" in most developed countries, so that marginal tax rates don't rise nearly as much at high incomes as they did 30 years ago. This... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Oct 2022
News

On Balance

the public sector in its data collection and analysis, expanding its reach to 60 percent of workers.) Almost a decade’s worth of data shows progress, says Wooldridge, but not enough. “In Australia, what we see is that we are making improvements, but the View Details

Keywords: April White

27 Jun 2016
News

Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy

in 2015, compared with 4.2 percent rate for the group as a whole, while Nestlé is aiming to lift annual sales of health products to as high as 10 billion francs. The health operations also bring stronger profit margins. The group’s... View Details

01 Aug 1998
News

South Africa Conference Preview

special interest tours - to big game reserves, bird sanctuaries, and golf resorts, for example - are also being planned. "Sub-Saharan Africa has been growing for the last seven years at a rate of 4 to 5 percent," said HBS professor... View Details

22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

entrepreneus. Sean Silverthorne: First off, can you summarize your previous research findings? Maria Roche: Our first finding is that an increase in the unemployment rate is associated with a substantial rise in the share of entrepreneurs... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?

optional "QuickMatch" feature, which lets you rate other members on a scale of one to five. If you bestow a four or five rating on someone's profile, that member will receive an automatic message... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

reviews from Yelp.com, we construct an adjusted average rating and show that even a simple algorithm can lead to large information efficiency gains relative to the arithmetic average. Publisher's link:... View Details