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- 07 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.
New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
subscription offer, introduced in fiscal 2019, that enables readers to choose between a digital, digital and print, or premium subscription. The offer helped attract a record monthly average of nearly 12 million visitors to the HBR.org... View Details
- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
experience the employer has on the market” In this case, the employer is the shopper, and the freelancer has the information advantage—especially when working with a first-time employer. The result: The inexperienced employer tends to pay a higher hourly View Details
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The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
centers profitable more quickly. — Bob Poulin (MBA 1985) The premium in the hourly rates is well deserved, but you are giving too much value away by not covering fixed/setup costs. I believe the source of funds to View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
private investors. Many of these solutions don’t exist, and this is why we need the private sector’s innovation, drive, and scale focused on scaling solutions. I’m excited that Blackstone is helping to play a significant role in financing... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- September 2020
- Case
Uber at a Crossroads (2017)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
This case describes the history of Uber, its business model—including the ways it differed from that of the traditional taxi industry—and its competition with Lyft. The case is set in 2017, a year in which Uber was plagued by even more scandals than usual, though its... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Business Model; Customer Satisfaction; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Price; Profit; Revenue; Investment; Government Legislation; Business History; Compensation and Benefits; Resignation and Termination; Employment; Wages; Lawfulness; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Style; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Product Design; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Attitudes; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Transportation Networks; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Valuation; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Karen Elterman. "Uber at a Crossroads (2017)." Harvard Business School Case 721-376, September 2020.
- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
overwhelmingly reported they would pay wages first, but health care premiums were the second-most critical bill overall, and clearly ahead of rent,” the researchers write. “As one respondent put it,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
inevitably lose because they paid a premium price. They lose to the people who have more patience and more discipline. Third, it’s easy to talk in the abstract, but in real life you see situations that are just plain mispriced, where an... View Details
John Merrick
Merrick began his professional life as a barber, at one time owning five shops. However, by 1905, he devoted himself fully to his insurance company, and by 1919, the premium income was $1.2 million with insurance in force totaling $26... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
apart, put in little subsets, and sold as a whole variety of different securities. And no one knew what they had. At that point government had stepped aside, had genuflected at the altar of the market as it relates to our housing View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
highly un-cool mode of transport for many American suburban families. Almost as radical was Porsche's choice of locations to build this SUV, named the Cayenne. Even though wages in Germany are a good six to seven times higher than in... View Details
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
market value of all CEOs is driven by companies hiring leadership from the outside rather than promoting it from within. In other words, there is a market premium paid for outside hires. Hiring from outside often occurs either in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
financial resources available. In spite of improving conditions, a wage gap has persisted for more than thirty years. Professional women currently earn approximately 73 percent of what their male counterparts are paid for the same work at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
and wages low, US companies won’t be able to raise prices and wages, so inflation will be limited. What’s the Fed’s view on this issue? —Gordon E. Olson (MBA 1975) I think you see a mixture of views among Fed policymakers, but I know that... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
their responsibility to represent the best interests of investors, who will? Will dynamics that determine flows of funds and foreign investment levels in the U.S. ultimately pose the threat of fewer funds—foreign or otherwise—to finance... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
When large public companies perform poorly, do the CEOs running them share the financial pain? That question, according to HBS associate professor Brian Hall, is not answered by looking at their salary and bonus but rather by a careful examination of their stock and... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
(Thinkstock) Prescription drug spending increased by more than 13 percent in the United States in 2014, raising health insurance premiums and the ire of consumers and politicians. The reasons behind the rise are many, including the high... View Details
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
With executive compensation soaring to unprecedented levels in recent years, the prickly issue of CEO pay has received increasing media and government attention. Now, with the perfect storm of a failing economy, government bailouts, and high unemployment, the topic has... View Details