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- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
for someone to get off the ground: enough to buy inventory, rent space, and begin to generate an income in order to feed, clothe, and shelter a family. A legal loan of that amount from a real bank is also the difference between paying... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
does not exceed 30 percent of the median family income in a given area. In one typically hard-pressed neighborhood, Boston's South End, the average two-bedroom apartment rents for $1,400, considerably more than 30 percent of an average... View Details
- 07 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands
sat to your left and right in an HBS classroom. “Jennie Baik (MBA 2008, co-founder of Orchard Mile) encouraged me to dive in, and startup life was always easier to navigate with sage advice from classmates like Karen Moon (MBA 2008),” Twist shared. “Jenny Fleiss (MBA... View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
Diversion, Rent Extraction and Competition Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract This paper studies search diversion by competing intermediaries connecting consumers with third-party stores. First, we show that endogenizing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
decade, they have also encountered difficulties that could limit future growth. In some ways they’ve become victims of their own success, says Raffaelli, reinvigorating neighborhoods only to see their own rents rise. In addition, they’ve... View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
drugs,” says Giusti. Working with leaders at direct-to-consumer enterprises and five leading cancer organizations, they drew on the experience of businesses including Keurig, Peloton, and Rent the Runway to develop more effective... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
difficult for people who have been incarcerated to find jobs and rent apartments,” he notes. “Politically, I’m fairly conservative—a quintessential free-market capitalist. But our Dignity of Work task force is working closely with the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54794 Harvard Business School Case 518-047 Armarium: Luxury Fashion Brands for Rent Armarium, a two-sided online platform that offered consumers the opportunity to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
more densely populated places like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City for the countryside early in the pandemic. Some purchased or rented a second house; some stayed at their weekend getaway or decamped to a family retreat. And... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
but was glad she was able to curb the infection rate.” The city, she added, also received $30 million in federal loans for small business as well as food and rent assistance. Under her leadership, the homeless have been tested and moved... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
managerial autonomy. Stronger competition also leads to less discretion in markets in which the possibilities for product differentiation are important. For a given number of firms, an increase in market size increases centralization, as the owner of the firm finds it... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
rents from firms producing and commercializing products. In this Industry Note, we describe the origin, evolution, costs, benefits, and future outlook for Patent Trolling in the United States. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
Professor Leonard A. Schlesinger. Approximately 115 people attended the sold-out networking night, where Schlesinger presented a case on Rent the Runway, an online designer dress rental business cofounded by HBS alumnae Jennifer Hyman... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Tarun Khanna Abstract—Since the 1990s, several western firms have filed patents based on medicinal herbs from emerging markets, evoking protests from local stakeholders against "bio-piracy." We explore conditions under which firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
variables approach. The negative effect is strongest in poor countries, suggesting that high profits stymie economic development rather than enable it. Consistent with the rent-seeking mechanism of the model, we find that high rents are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
building in the National Capital Region. Does this matter? Can the developer realize higher rents because of this? The developer performs a detailed cost-benefit analysis of energy-saving measures that overlap and reduce their cumulative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
Jason Price (MBA 2003) in the main gallery space at NXTHVN, the art community he cofounded in New Haven’s Dixwell neighborhood Trying to capture the scope of what’s going on at NXTHVN, the nonprofit arts and community organization Jason Price (MBA 2003) cofounded with... View Details
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
borrowers and lenders is feasible, the incentive effect of credit reporting is negligible, as bilateral banking relationships discipline borrowers. Information sharing nevertheless affects market outcome by weakening lenders' ability to extract View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
employees to tell them that all efforts of the company would now be directed toward the war effort. Polaroid's new facility in Cambridge was located in the industrial area of Kendall Square with affordable rents and neighbors that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
there was a marsh being filled in. That was our ice-skating area. Units in the project rented for $35 a month and consisted of a combination kitchen-dining area, two little bedrooms, a separate living room, and a bath. There were six... View Details