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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

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

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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

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

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

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

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

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. We will revisit some of... View Details

01 Mar 2015
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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

Keywords: April White; Private Households; Private Households; Private Households; Private Households; Private Households; Private Households

Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)

The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... 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

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship

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

Keywords: Private Households; Private Households

14 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It

they will carve out more time for shopping and for sniffing out the best bargains. "What we observe suggests that households have fixed amounts of time to give to sites..." “Taken together,” the researchers conclude in their... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Web Services

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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

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products

31 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest

debt. QE3 saw the Fed add a little more than $800 billion each of mortgage-backed securities and long-term Treasury debt. “We find that such a strategy would have allowed more households in distressed areas to lower their monthly payments... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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

2020
Working Paper

Sex Selection and the Indian Marriage Market

By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

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

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Scott capitalized on the growth of in-home bathrooms by being one of the first to produce a product that would eventually replace old newspapers and catalogs which were typically used in outhouses. Scott was also the first to place the toilet tissue on a roll and the... View Details

Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry

Arthur V. Davis

no interest in producing household utensils. Davis also worked closely with the U.S. government to ensure that there would be no shortage of aluminum during both World Wars. View Details

Keywords: Metals

James W. Thompson

Though the firm JWT was incorporated in 1896, Thompson began revolutionizing the advertising industry in 1898. Seeing that women were becoming the primary household shoppers and that grouping magazines together as a unit would be more... View Details

Keywords: Services

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

Leo Burnett

A creative genius, Burnett developed longstanding campaigns for such household names as Kellogg’s, Campbell Soup and P&G, and in the process, built one of the largest ad agencies in the U.S. His legendary ad campaigns include Jolly... View Details