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  • 10 May 2023
  • Video

Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?

  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

mutual fund industry, HBS professor Peter Tufano explains that with the industry's growth, competition intensified as well. "In the last fifteen years," Tufano says,... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services
  • 18 Nov 2010
  • News

Could a Lottery Be the Answer to America's Poor Savings Rate?

  • 28 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

Last spring HBS became the first top-ranked U.S. business school to offer a course in consumer finance. Jointly taught by HBS professor Peter Tufano and Harvard Law School professor Howell Jackson (HBS MBA... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education
  • 23 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

Putting together the money for everything from a short-term emergency to retirement is hard enough, a challenge that low- and moderate-income families endure every day. Yet as HBS professor Peter Tufano... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

  Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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By: Peter Tufano
Tufano is the convener for an innovative global doctoral reading group, The Financial Economics of Climate and Sustainability (FECS). This novel course, taught with professors from Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Texas, Imperial, NYU, Mannheim, and Oxford brings together... View Details
  • 10 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

no. 11 (November 2009) Article: http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/2009/11/what-would-peter-say/ar/1 Teach Workers About the Perils of Debt Authors:Annamaria Lusardi and Peter Tufano Publication:Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 22

not important at the aggregate level. Hence, our results support the use of PAYT as an effective tool to increase waste sorting. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-093.pdf The Consequences of Financial Innovation: A Counterfactual Research Agenda... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

Experiences, and Overindebtedness Authors:Annamaria Lusardi and Peter Tufano Publication:NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14808, March 2009 Abstract We analyze a national sample of Americans with respect to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?

insurance, CDs, and transaction accounts for the poorest families are difficult to build and scale to the many millions of families who live below the poverty line. Let's use the dot.com dividend to solve this problem.— Peter View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 05 May 2021
  • News

Crisis Could Be the Mother of Reinvention for Business Schools

  • November 2022 (Revised March 2024)
  • Case

Northvolt: Building Batteries to Fight Climate Change

By: George Serafeim, Debora L. Spar, P. Tufano and Julia M. Comeau
In 2016, Swedish entrepreneurs Carl-Erik Lagercrantz and Peter Carlsson founded an electric battery company called Northvolt with the dual goals of creating a company to address climate change and bringing battery manufacture to Europe. Northvolt, which succeeded in... View Details
Keywords: Batteries; Climate Change; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Green Technology; Mission and Purpose; Goals and Objectives; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Green Technology Industry; Battery Industry; Sweden; Europe
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  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

Campbell, Asís Martínez Jerez, and Peter Tufano Publication:Journal of Banking and Finance (forthcoming) Abstract Using a new database, we document the factors that relate to the extent of involuntary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2022
  • News

An Introduction to BiGS

  • March 11, 2020
  • Editorial

A Bolder Vision for Business Schools

By: P. Tufano
Business schools teach to a model that dates back to the 1950s. Given the growing demands on business to take a lead in confronting societal challenges, business schools need to update how they train business leaders and how they compete, argues Oxford’s Saïd School... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools; Business And Society; Business Education; Leadership Development; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

Moderator: Peter Tufano (MBA 1984, PHDBE 1989) , Baker Foundation Professor Speakers: Angela Barranco , Executive Director for North America, Climate Group Mindy Lubber , President & CEO, Ceres Curtis D.... View Details
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

Peter Tufano Abstract We use a unique, nationally representative cross-national dataset to document the reduction in individuals' usage of routine non-emergency medical care in the midst of the economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Lifelong Learning - Alumni

Feb 2024 HBR How Companies Should Weigh In on a Controversy A better approach to stakeholder management Re: Peter Tufano (Baker Foundation Professor); Sandra J. Sucher (MBA Class of 1966 Professor of... View Details
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About - Business & Environment

academic programs, writing curriculum, and mentoring new educators. Executive Fellows Spencer Glendon (Harvard PhD 1999), Founder, Probable Futures Spencer Glendon is working with Michael Toffel and Peter View Details