Household - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business

percent of American households owned equities in some form or another. By 2002, the figure for households had rocketed to 49.5 percent. Among single people in 1983, 42 percent held equities, while in 2002,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

08 Mar 2017
News

Energy Efficiency as a Common Purpose

less of our product. And we do that through innovative billing strategies that allow them to repay investments in their own household that make it more efficient on their utility bill. “The AMP program for me was a real life-changing... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Plan B: The Brick Bank

Habitat for Humanity International to evaluate the viability of a new partnership with a microsavings institution in the Mekong Delta. “The intent of the program was to encourage poor and near-poor households to save for future... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2014
News

A Look at Olook

2013—even as the national economy stalled. And fashion is one of its hottest sectors, according to e-bit, responsible for almost 14 percent of e-commerce sales, ahead of household appliances and cosmetics. Beisert says olook is poised for... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; fashion; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

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

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

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

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Sep 2011
News

Making a Difference in the World

“If each household ” Union of Concerned Scientists “Common Sense on Climate Change, Solution #3” “The top 3,000 .” UN Environmental Program Finance Initiative. 2010. “universal Ownership: Why environmental externalities matter to... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

20 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 20

nationalization. Negative opinions about the privatization prevail. These are particularly strong amongst households that did not benefit from the privatization and amongst households that were reminded of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

01 Dec 2018
News

Research Brief: Bargaining for Better

see their interactions with others in ways they could not before, and provided them with a set of skills to change those interactions. The training mimicked real-life situations, such as negotiating with parents or siblings over household... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

02 Jan 2018
News

Bringing Teachers to All of America

education system that's very unequal across the United States. I you're born into a low-income household or you're born into poverty, it is dramatically harder for you to reach your full potential in the American education system. “Teach... View Details

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An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy

By: N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew C. Weinzierl

This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model in which prices are sticky in the short-run and flexible in the long-run. Policy is evaluated by... View Details

Keywords: Fiscal Policy; Monetary Policy; Economic Models; Aggregate Demand; Demand and Consumers; Money; Mathematical Methods; Taxation; Spending; Policy; Welfare; Household; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation

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05 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

Rebalancing by Individual Investors Authors:Laurent E. Calvet, John Y. Campbell, and Paolo Sodini Abstract This paper investigates the dynamics of individual portfolios in a unique dataset containing the disaggregated wealth of all View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

household debt were growing quickly. That combination is “a natural signal of an outward shift in the supply of credit, which then sows the seeds of its own destruction,” the researchers write in their working paper Predictable Financial... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

whole - behaving in a different manner than would be suggested by simply summing individual behavior. This, in turn, justifies the establishment of macroeconomics as a separate discipline, distinct from microeconomics with its focus on individual firm and View Details

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Climate Action Now - Course Catalog

critical for addressing climate change, especially in high-emission domains such as energy, transportation, buildings, and consumer household choices. Issues include developing and scaling innovations, cross-sector coalition-building,... View Details

11 Jul 2013
News

Program Aims to Develop a Generation of Global Citizens

Citizen Year fellows. Her vision is that the program will become a household name with the prestige of the Fulbright Program or Teach For America, and that the idea of a global bridge year before college becomes the norm, not the... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

household decision making and the development of the financial system more broadly. What interests me in the topic is the extent to which the issues involved link developments in households, the economy, and public policy in the United... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

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

22 Dec 2022
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention

investment market. Trillions of dollars per year are expected to flow into private climate investments. But 87% of U.S. households don’t meet the criteria to invest in those private climate funds. These opportunities are closed to the... View Details

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