Household - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2011
News

Ticktock

introducing other new products like the Scooba a robot mop that are targeted to solve more difficult household chores.” Clocky’s sales have begun to flatten by 2010, when the follow-up case, “Nanda Home,” takes place. Revenues in 2009... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel; viral marketing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2010
News

Ilene Lang

children. The pay gap between men and women continues to hold across the board, yet over half of U.S. households are completely or significantly depen-dent on women’s wages. That leads to a larger societal implication: Women suffer, but... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; interview; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Fast Answer

Scaling Minority Businesses (SMB)

Explorer tables which include easy reports with age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, household relationship, place of birth, education, employment status, income, tenure, cost and value of housing, year structure built and other data. ... View Details

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

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

01 Dec 2014
News

3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)

I think this will be the one and only time that I’ll ever be able to say that everybody in the United States of America is my customer. Even back in the day, when I started at Procter & Gamble, it wasn’t 100 percent of households that... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Web

Research Links - The Art of American Advertising

has a remarkably rich and diversified collection of trade catalogs covering a wide array of subject areas, including agriculture, textile manufacturing, hardware and machine tools, railroads, automobiles, aviation, consumer products, View Details

24 May 2017
News

Angie Hicks, MBA 2000

politely agrees to the selfie, but she’s clearly not in her element, leaving one to wonder how a shy, 22-year-old established an eponymous company and then built it into a household name. The answer lies in the grit and determination that... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2011
News

Alumni Books

protectionism could prevent nations from achieving the gains - in household income, availability of goods and services, and other quality-of-life metrics - of cross-border openness. Ghemawat describes how private businesses, policymakers,... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Fast Forward

South Carolina, Representative Tom Rice—both of whom have included the US Competitiveness tenets in their respective agendas. Shared Prosperity To help address stagnant middle- and working-class household incomes, Senior Fellow Karen... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational 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

06 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

households cope? After a conflict ends, how long does it take for households to recover? How do mechanisms like occupational change or migration contribute to recovery from crisis? Quy-Toan Do and I are... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Web

Day in IFC: Marta Milkowska (HKS), United Kingdom - MBA

that nearly three-quarters of UK households will experience a major unexpected expense. At the same time, more than half of UK adults had less than the suggested emergency savings of £1,000. Over the course of the fall semester leading up... View Details

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

22 Feb 2022
News

Vision: Learning Curve

company’s materials are designed to be as user-friendly as possible. A parent might help a child with pattern recognition by having them tap out rhythms with household utensils, or teach them to count by having them play hopscotch with... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; education; entrepreneurship; startup; India; Educational Services

01 Sep 2017
News

Turning Point: Getting to Giving

Illustration by Chris Gash I grew up in a mostly single-parent household outside Chicago with my dad and sister; my relationship with money as a child was that it felt scarce, for sure, but we didn’t talk about it. Maybe that’s why I’ve... View Details

Keywords: Amalya “Ami” Campbell (MBA 1997); Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Oct 2000
News

Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right

represented a substantial barrier to entry to any competitors, our long-term success would depend on customer service, scalability, and building the brand. While practically every other dot-com chose to advertise on the Internet, we saw radio and television as the way... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Sep 2016
News

Pricing Paradise

book to be published next year. Bilmes cautions that the $92 billion figure is highly conservative for several reasons, above all because the team attributed zero value to households that failed to return the research survey (even though... View Details