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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
University, withdrawal rates dropped by 56 percent, pass rates rose 11 percent, and 45 percent of the class finished four weeks early. RANGE: Virtually any subject (e.g., Biology, Chemistry, Economics,... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
interest rates is driven by four state variables: the real interest rate, temporary and permanent components of expected inflation, the "nominal-real covariance" of inflation, and the real interest rate with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
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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
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
package it in a way that’s consumable?” One easy way to do this: Measure the flashy stuff. A program called Statcast calculates hitters’ launch angles and exit velocities on batted balls, while capturing spin rates for pitchers. Those... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
company. Most people think that will change the firm, but it won’t. It gives Goldman access to the Fed window which is very useful for liquidity management and, on the other hand, it reduces the amount of leverage they can use in trading operations, which reduces the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 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
- April 2009
- Teaching Note
First National Bank's Golden Opportunity (TN)
By: Shawn A. Cole
Teaching Note for [208072]. View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
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
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
tax rates at high incomes are lower than in standard analysis and closer to those observed in policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-064.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsHome Depot and Interconnected Retail José... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
theoretical and practical implications and suggest future directions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50313 Forward Guidance in the Yield Curve: Short Rates versus Bond Supply By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Exploring in a Passion Safe Environment
landscape and ecosystem, and develop an understanding of various corporate structures / lifestyle including business “vocabulary”. They’ve taught me that it’s not okay to tell my classmates to, Drop and give me 50! when they use the wrong risk free interest View Details
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
it came down to money. In previous studies, Fletcher says, participants were offered a higher pay rate per correct answer in the competitive scenario, so it's possible that men respond more to higher pay View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
Economic growth rates are much more stable and social welfare much higher under inclusive regimes: societies in which the free market is balanced by a democratically elected, capable government and a strong civil society. How can business... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
efficiency programs that American companies have experienced. They're in the same hyper-competitive environment that we are. Q: On a scale of 0 to 5, how would you rate corporate America's leadership capacity at the present time? Hamel:... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
Our favorite example comes not from retailing but from Hugo Boss Bodywear, a division of Hugo Boss AG. In a test, the bodywear division recently moved 45 of its SKUs from monthly to weekly ordering while leaving the ordering process for 269 SKUs, which served as a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
central bank to abandon its zero interest rate policy, which had been in place for years, and raise rates to 0.5%. The Bank of Japan was eager to increase them to more "normal" levels to exert... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace