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- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
new fintech entrepreneurs, and banks—small and large—vying for a position. Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream grapples with the broad significance of small business to the economy, the historical role of credit markets, the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
take advantage of the opportunity, which is consistent with the idea that it is the mere availability of human contact that mitigates anxiety’s deleterious effects. Finally, in a field experiment conducted with a credit union’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
services. The need is daunting. “There are nearly 4 million 18- to 24-year-olds out of work who don’t have more than a high-school degree,” explains Chertavian. Nearly 500 students now attend the full-time Year Up program while earning college View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-057_22238ffa-00d7-4637-bd63-265fdfef9ccc.pdf Regulator Leniency and Mispricing in Beneficent Nonprofits By: Heese, Jonas, Ranjani Krishnan, and Frank Moers Abstract—We posit that nonprofits that provide a greater View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
to supply beef markets around the world, but it faced a perfect storm of rising feed and fuel prices, a global credit crisis, and industry analysts skeptical about the company's debt load. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
country, manufacturing capacity, supply chains, and money, lots of money. As the head of the United Kingdom’s new Vaccine Taskforce, Kate Bingham (MBA 1991) has a bird's-eye view of the whole process. A life science venture capitalist... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
arena.” Related Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-Ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters In the process of teaming up with fellow students to write business plans, working with their faculty advisors (and getting academic View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
bonds generates a crowding out of corporate lending. For a given domestic firm, new debt is less likely to be a loan—i.e., the loan supply contracts—when local banks have purchased more domestic sovereign debt and when that debt is risky... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
since World War II. Maj knew his name from Radio Free Europe. Cohn invited them in to talk about KOR’s nonviolent opposition. “After that, I went back every month,” Maj recalls. He would bring money he had collected, and Cohn would supply... View Details
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
to manage in the zone. Customer Relationship Management systems often supply the relevant data, but are they used? Activity-based costing methodologies (pioneered over two decades ago by Robert Kaplan and Robin Cooper here at HBS)... View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
individuals would ever want to share content in p2p networks when sharing is more costly than freeriding. The key to solving the puzzle in a world where individuals are selfish is the following. In addition to offering content, sharers also View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
plant stock, fertilizers, and pesticides; and began directly paying them a premium for better beans. Higher yields and quality increased the growers' incomes, the environmental impact of farms shrank, and Nestlé's reliable supply of good... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Fernando Abstract Attempts to explain the astonishing differences in agricultural productivity around the world typically focus on farm size, farmer risk aversion, and credit constraints, with an emphasis on how they might serve to limit... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
engineers to work on exciting projects like designing rockets for satellite delivery. Besides, he held the “naive view that starting a space company might be fun and profitable.” Founded with two HBS classmates, Bruce Ferguson (MBA 1979, JD 1981) and Scott Webster (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
element comes in," explains Ghosh, "with the software validating the person's credit information through electronic links with banks around the country, while at the same time protecting that card number from being accessed by anyone... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
and Noble in books, Best Buy in electronics—offer similar rewards. Boots, the UK-based pharmacy and beauty supply retailer, offers a substantial reward of 4 percent, but that rate is more exception than rule. This type of reward is... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
the concept that the person who “owned” the final purchaser actually could control the supply process all the way up the line, by controlling the shelf space. From that evolved the concept of private labeling, and Peter formed a company,... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
dollar lending more than euro lending in response to a shock to their credit quality. Because these banks rely on wholesale dollar funding, while raising more of their euro funding through insured retail deposits, the shock leads to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
get significant tax breaks under a Trump administration, to give more of their supply chain contracts to U.S.-based small businesses. In addition, National Federation of Independent Business surveys show that access to affordable health... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details