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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
fueling the country’s greatest economic downturn since the crash of 1929. On September 16, 2008, one day after Lehman’s collapse, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York lent $85 billion to the global insurance company American International... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research
subsequent insurance demand. Using a seven-year panel, we develop three main findings. First, recent experience matters for demand, consistent with overinference from small samples. Second, spillovers also matter, in the sense that the... View Details
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
defense. We will use case studies from Miami, FL (flooding) and Sonoma, CA (wildfire) to illustrate techniques and best practices. Participants left with a toolkit to help assess the severity of exposures and to use probabilities and... View Details
- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
making, insuring that the process is fair and legitimate, and minimizing the level of interpersonal conflict that emerges during the deliberations. Without strong buy-in, they risk numerous delays including... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
- 02 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why We Still Need Twitter: How Social Media Holds Companies Accountable
better establish that social media exposure was driving the change, Heese and Pacelli then added a set of Twitter data. Given that Twitter provides “geotags,” the researchers were able to map Tweets directly to 3G rollouts. Again, they... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
bicycle can cut their risk of having another heart attack in half, says Lee, a cardiologist and behavioral scientist at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “In an era of so many incredible medications, that’s pretty impressive,” she... View Details
- 16 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases
your inventory on a last-in, first-out basis to insure that increases in your realized selling prices do not trail the increases in your input costs. 7. Increase Relevance. You need to persuade customers to cut back their expenditures on... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Moody’s, or Fitch. [17] MBSs and CDOs are sold to investors all over the world, including pension funds, insurance companies, mutual funds, hedge funds, and other investment banks. [18] Investors can hedge their CDO or MBS View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
environments. Reduce the Risk of Failed Financial Judgments Authors:Robert G. Eccles, Jr., and Edward J. Riedl Publication:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July - August 2008). Abstract When crucial financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
new roles for user innovators; user interactions with firms; and user innovation in practice, describing experiments, toolkits, and crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42312 forthcoming Journal of Portfolio... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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FAQs - Doctoral
research areas. The Program is designed to attract any continuing undergraduate who is interested in and can contribute to the principles of diverse community involvement and social science research. What are the benefits of participating in PRIMO? PRIMO is a program... View Details
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
Perfect Cofounder By: Julia Austin July–August 2025 | Article | Harvard Business Review One of the first and most important decisions entrepreneurs make is whether to go it alone or bring on cofounders. Many investors favor startups with multiple founders, believing... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
"whereas low-severity events seldom do. Hence the need for insurance or other methods for transferring or mitigating catastrophic risks." Meanwhile, risks that are more mundane, but also more... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
individuals responsible for the actual purchase decision do not want to absorb the career risk of overpaying. In our personal lives, if we overpay for a product, we suffer some marginal consequence. In business, it can literally end the... View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
to deliver high-quality goods or services in a cost-effective manner. This concept has become increasingly relevant to cardiac catheterization laboratories, as insurers move away from fee-for-service reimbursement and toward payment... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Aligning Reimbursement with Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
payment for overall care of a patient, and bundled payment that represent a risk adjusted payment for a full set of services over the cycle of care for a condition. We believe that bundled payments by condition are directly aligned with... View Details
- 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17
distinction is possible because strategy and business model are different constructs. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-036.pdf The Devil Wears Prada? Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
the 1930s, the federal government created color-coded maps that “redlined” predominantly Black neighborhoods, warning lenders that these red areas were considered at high risk for default. Furthermore, the Federal Housing Authority... View Details
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Sunderam contend that risk taking by shadow banks, whose lending is largely market-based, can have similar consequences. In their analysis, they show that money market funds with large exposures to risky... View Details