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- 23 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.
very surprising to a lot of people. And I think it raises a lot of questions,” says Kluender, who studies the causes of financial distress among American households and how government, private insurance, and credit markets should function... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
me, ‘Success has many mothers.’ ” Working in the ministry and understanding the bureaucratic hurdles facing entrepreneurs primed Enan for a career in venture capital. So did her experience at the EAEF, which invested in early ventures that are now View Details
- 28 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1)
may be perceived as an impediment – growing up in a low-income household – in fact enabled me to discover my passion. As an FGLI, I feel apprehensive to ask for help because I do not know how people may perceive me, and I worry about the... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Recipient of a 2020 NBER Household Finance Small Grant Award. 2019 Shai Benjamin Bernstein : Winner of the 2019 Charles River Associates Award for Best Paper on Corporate Finance from the Western Finance Association with Rebecca Diamond,... View Details
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
States. Yet to roll out lottery-linked products in an efficient way, we need to address the legal and regulatory barriers. Q: Can these ideas for savings vehicles be extended to households with higher incomes too? A: The work that I do... View Details
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
distributions of income and wealth have grown more unequal, and rates of socioeconomic mobility have declined. Millions of households have had to work longer hours, add additional income earners, and devote more effort to succeed on the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
between homeownership rates among Black and white people, with white people owning more than 85 percent of household wealth and Black people owning less than 5 percent. Nonetheless, says Abdelal, Baltimore has an unusually troubled... View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
soccer is something he would mock." Another familiar part of the household was the clack of the typewriter coming from Levitt's upstairs office. From the moment he emigrated from Vollmerz, Germany, at age 10, Levitt seems to have... View Details
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Harvard Business School
household products, and energy (oil and gas drilling) companies. Before joining Capital, Wilson was a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group and an engineer with Texas Eastern Corp. Carla Harris MBA 1987 Carla Harris is vice chairman... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
in the context of Opower, a software company that encourages households to reduce their energy consumption. From Opower's earliest days, its managers utilized experiments to amplify their environmental impact and enhance customer value.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
Children’s Health Insurance Program [SCHIP] that was rolled out in 1997. Its goal was to insure children who were not covered by private insurance, but whose family income disqualified them from Medicaid. But I found that one of the secondary benefits was that newly... View Details
- 20 Apr 2021
- News
Get Ready for the Relationship Renaissance
Photo courtesy of Hinge Photo courtesy of Hinge With vaccines more readily available and the world inching toward recovery, Justin McLeod (MBA 2011), founder and CEO of the dating app Hinge, predicts singles will be getting serious about dating. Surveys by the... View Details
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Ann S. Moore
Ann S. Moore (MBA 1978), the first female chair and CEO of Time Inc., oversaw nearly 150 magazines and their brand extensions. During her tenure, she launched more magazines than Time founder Henry R. Luce and, as publisher of People, turned that magazine into a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Research Brief: So Many Sites, So Little Time
40,000 US households in 2008 and over 30,000 in 2013. The first surprise? Despite the expansion of online content between 2008 and 2013 (think Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube), the number of sites and amount of time spent on them remained... View Details
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Omowale Casselle
What does your work involve? "My official title is director of product management, SAMPLEit, a new venture at redbox. In this role, I'm responsible for leveraging technology across our different product lines—kiosk, mobile, and online—to deliver an awesome... View Details
Earl H. Richardson
The inventor of the first electronic iron with the unique "Hotpoint" feature, Richardson is credited with laying the foundation for the billion-dollar household appliance industry. Hotpoint's irons were very successful in the... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 2020
- Working Paper
Sex Selection and the Indian Marriage Market
I consider the widespread phenomenon of sex ratios skewed by parental preference. Edlund (1999) proposes that if parents prefer sons and permit only women to marry up in social class, sexes will segregate by wealth in equilibrium. Using data on 30,000 Indian children,... View Details
Keywords: Sex Selection; Marriage Market; Bargaining Power; Gender; Information Technology; Household; Outcome or Result; India
Hussam, Reshmaan N. "Sex Selection and the Indian Marriage Market." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-029, September 2017. (Revised October 2020.)
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
bootstrapped the funds to launch a vocational training program for dental assistants. Revenue from the new business pushed them out of poverty and into the middle class. Olds, a budding economist, was intrigued. “The rate of new business births rose by 13 percent among... View Details
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Sheila Marcelo
As a child in the Philippines, Sheila Marcelo grew up watching her parents run a variety of entrepreneurial endeavors. At age seven, when she accompanied her mother and father to the rice mill they ran, she spent her time asking the workers questions about their jobs.... View Details
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Janet Simpson Benvenuti
Caring for her aging parents led Janet Simpson Benvenuti (MBA 1985) to launch a company that helps other families find resources that are right for their own parents’ needs. View Details