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  • Article

Targeting Weather Insurance Markets

By: Anita Mukherjee, Shawn Cole and Jeremy Tobacman
The suitability of insurance products often depends greatly on individual circumstances. This paper examines the challenges of heterogeneity in a relatively new product, weather‐indexed insurance. This index insurance product has been launched in over a dozen... View Details
Keywords: Index Insurance; Labor Markets; Self-insurance; Self-protection; Weather; Insurance; Markets; Household; Risk Management
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  • 17 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5

focus on what they are doing completely avoids exploring the why. The hopelessness and desperation that one must have to walk through a broken glass window, risking their lives View Details
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

that Rival would complement their existing portfolio of products and it was the perfect time to buy due to a depressed stock price caused by declining earnings. The investment team at Berkshire now had to decide if the possible returns... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Aug 2015
  • First Look

First Look Tuesday

stability. In light of this goal, reforms should reduce the ex-ante incentives for MMFs to take excessive risk and increase the ex post resilience of MMFs to system-wide runs. Our analysis suggests that... View Details
  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

anticorruption ratings are domiciled in countries with low corruption risk ratings and strong anticorruption enforcement, operate in high corruption risk industries, have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

sufficient to fuel international expansion. The author presents advice on overcoming the paradox but warns it can be a lengthy process. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2010/12/why-you-arent-buying-venezuelan-chocolate/ar/1# Bringing Ethics into Focus: How Regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

Experimentation By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—The fundamental uncertainty of new technologies at their earliest stages implies that it is virtually impossible to know the true... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

companies have teams of economists, and lots of the smaller companies are starting to hire handfuls of them.” The list includes Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, Uber, Facebook, and numerous smaller companies. Tech... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education
  • 31 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap

over a shared love of India (we both lived there at various times), startups, and the natural foods space. We even realized that we had a mutual friend who then turned out to be one of our first investors when we started Hilma! So today... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

  Working PapersThe Architecture of Complex Systems: Do Core-Periphery Structures Dominate? Authors:Alan MacCormack, Carliss Baldwin, and John Rusnak Abstract Any complex technological system can be decomposed into a number of subsystems... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

reflections of capitalism; the rise of accounting and accountability; the origins of industrial policy in the West; and the ways in which merchants and bankers thought about... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

  Working PapersTaxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities Authors:Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Abstract Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Mar 2010
  • HBS Case

Developing Asia’s Largest Slum

and improved services in the same area. Written with the assistance of Namrata Arora, a research associate at the HBS India Research Center, the case considers the potential risks View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate
  • 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

Expenditure Panel Survey and joint probabilities of workplace exposures from the General Social Survey, and we conducted a meta-analysis of the epidemiological literature to estimate the relative View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Oct 2016
  • Blog Post

4 Things You Should Know about Entrepreneurship at HBS

startup. I think about at least one of those discussions every single day I’m working on ZipBooks. 4. An MBA from HBS will allow you to take some career risks I did my summer internship between RC and EC... View Details
  • April 2001
  • Teaching Note

Katharine Graham TN

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Lisa M. Gunther and Dina R. Pradel
Teaching Note for (9-801-276). View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Public Ownership; Power and Influence; Experience and Expertise; Value; Decision Making; Personal Development and Career; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

  Publications August 2013 Financial Analysts Journal The Low Beta Anomaly: A Decomposition into Micro and Macro Effects By: Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Ryan Taliaferro Abstract—Low beta stocks have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

It's easy to deliver lousy service. Examples are too numerous to mention and let's not ruin the day, shall we? But imagine this: How about living in a world where companies treat you, as a customer, nicely View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

The HBS Show Must Go On

day, knowing that we were able to come together and produce something great. We need the performing arts now more than ever. In some ways, performing is kind of a like a return to the level of play we experienced as children in the... View Details
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

Change What role should business leaders play in trying to affect climate change? Harvard Business School faculty share their thoughts. A: Actuarial Thinking. Assessing probabilities and portfolio risk is... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities