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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating connections among consumers
providers, ranging from contractors to dentists to mechanics. More than 2 million households nationwide belong to Angie’s List. The company offers a call-in center for person-to-person help with research and hiring needs. Angie’s List... View Details
- Mar 2012
- Article
How to Make Finance Work
Once a sleepy old boys' club, the U.S. financial sector is now a dynamic and growing business that attracts the best and the brightest. It is tempting to declare the industry a roaring success. But its purpose is to serve the needs of U.S. View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Consultant on the Go
2004), Charan has a client list that includes many household names — DuPont, Ford, Universal Studios, and GE, to name a few — and ten books to his credit, including the top-selling Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done. The... View Details
- September 2012
- Case
BASIX (Abridged)
By: Shawn Cole and Peter Tufano
BASIX, an Indian microfinance corporation, must decide whether to continue to sell weather insurance to its clients. A brand-new financial product, weather insurance pays if measured rainfall during the growing season falls below a pre-specified limit. Mr. Sattaiah,... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Microfinance; Household; Risk Management; Insurance; Banking Industry; India
Cole, Shawn, and Peter Tufano. "BASIX (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 213-035, September 2012.
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
organizing household finances, in 1983 Cook cofounded Intuit with the novel idea of producing—as it did with Quicken, its initial offering, and later with its acquisition of TurboTax—financial software as a consumer-oriented,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Class of 2004 Gives Fellowship
graduate of Princeton, Shariff is committed to international development. Prior to HBS, she worked with CARE International in Rwanda, primarily on HIV prevention and microfinance targeted at households run by children. “Because of the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
If you're saving for your child's college education, you're probably putting money in growth funds, hoping that the returns a decade or more down the line will be enough to pay for tuition. But what if your returns fall short? It's a dilemma that's becoming all too... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
people with health insurance often are saddled with medical debt. Policymakers have taken notice, and in an election year amid an uncertain economy, health care, debt, and economic mobility are all hot issues. A comedy show discovery Nearly two-thirds of View Details
- 2011
- Working Paper
Do Not Trash the Incentive! Monetary Incentives and Waste Sorting
By: Alessandro Bucciol, Natalia Montinari and Marco Piovesan
This paper examines whether monetary incentives are an effective tool for increasing domestic waste sorting. We exploit the exogenous variation in the pricing systems experienced during the 1999-2008 decade by the 95 municipalities in the district of Treviso (Italy).... View Details
Keywords: Household; Cost Management; Consumer Behavior; Wastes and Waste Processing; Motivation and Incentives; Public Administration Industry; Italy
Bucciol, Alessandro, Natalia Montinari, and Marco Piovesan. "Do Not Trash the Incentive! Monetary Incentives and Waste Sorting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-093, March 2011.
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
home. In South Korea, women routinely run their household budgets, according to former president Kim Dae-jung, whom Siegel interviewed for the study shortly before Kim's death in 2009. "In the household... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
is associated with a 3.8% decline in new firm births. The effect is similar in size and significance when aggregating to the household level and when including a standard battery of covariates. The instrument is orthogonal to private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Robert B. Shetterly
Shetterly led Clorox through a major diversification process after it became an independent company in 1969 (formerly part of Procter & Gamble). Shetterly produced strong financial returns while expanding from one household product to... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
E. G. Higdon
Higdon’s career with Maytag spanned 40 years. During his CEO tenure, he orchestrated Maytag’s initial line expansion efforts – moving beyond washers and dryers to other major household appliances. In the process, he achieved record level... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Feedback
for a while, but I was blown away. Just what I need: another must-read magazine in my life. God only knows where I ever found time to hold a job. —Perry Miles (MBA 1972) via alumni.hbs.edu Frozen Assets Re: French revolution Great initiative. We live in France where... View Details
- 29 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’
road half the time, grew in number as the size of the average American household declined. The new economy has made it even easier for consumers to get rid of their stuff. These huge houses had to be filled with more stuff, good news for... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
free delivery service and as ubiquitous as the telephone." But in 1994, "Internet" was hardly a household word in Eastern Europe, where Mueller first sought out prospective information providers - he was often greeted with the response... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
Herbert F. Johnson
Johnson built his company through extensive advertising (it was the first to establish company sponsorship of a radio show), and in many ways, changed the way Americans lived. He introduced such diverse household products as: “Raid”- the... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
Abe Plough
Coppertone suntan lotion, St. Joseph Aspirin and Maybelline cosmetics. While spending up to 25% of revenues on advertising to create household brand names, Plough generated top-level financial returns for several years. View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
Alfred C. Fuller
Fuller developed a new, unique brush for household use and employed salesmen, called independent “dealers,” to sell his brushes directly to the consumer. Fuller grew sales of his firm from $40,000 in 1910 to $12 million in 1924. By 1930,... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 2008
- Working Paper
Just Keep My Money! Supporting Tax-time Savings with U.S. Savings Bonds
By: Peter Tufano
This paper reports the results of a 2007 experiment testing if specific process simplification can foster increased take-up rates for savings products, particularly by low-to-moderate income (LMI) households. Tax refund recipients at certain H&R Block tax preparation... View Details
Tufano, Peter. "Just Keep My Money! Supporting Tax-time Savings with U.S. Savings Bonds." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-059, October 2008. (Revised August 2010.)