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- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
poorly suited," explains Froot. “Why can't they produce enough of this coverage at a lower price?” A local property-casualty insurance agency can easily hold enough capital to cover losses from house fires or burst pipes; such losses... View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
Clubs News Clubs News Community Partners Lean In to Racial Equity Each year, hundreds of HBS alumni volunteer with their local alumni clubs and associations to offer pro-bono consulting to nonprofits in their communities. This year, the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
the fastest-growing competitive local exchange carrier in the world, adding 500,000 customers in 10 months, and the stock price tripled. Then we learned that 40 percent of our customers couldn’t pay their bills. The capital markets... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
benefits from racial diversity but that diversity is a liability when society's negative stereotypes about racial minorities' competence inhibit such interactions. We analyze two years of data from 496 retail bank branches to investigate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
rediscovering their relationship with corn stuck with him. He talked to local organic farmers to learn more about the nuts and bolts of planting, watering, and harvesting. Hundreds of miles to the northwest, at the Museum of the Fur Trade... View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51309 Harvard Business School Case 918-406 JPMorgan Chase: Invested in Detroit (A) Beginning in 2014, JPMorgan Chase launched Invested in Detroit, a $100 million philanthropic investment in the city over five years. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
declining. Banking and other financial services are now more important to the national economy. Security forces initially fired upon demonstrators, but withdrew after President Obama intervened with a phone call to the king. Some... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
multinationals and local contenders. Palepu and Khanna provide a playbook for assessing emerging markets' potential and for crafting strategies for succeeding in those markets. They explain how to spot institutional voids in developing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
levels of players, right? So when you think about the investors, there's foundations that have a different organizational structure and different culture and a different way of thinking. There is corporate investors who think differently. There is the state and View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online
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- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
downstream companies lobbying in favor of the general protection of highly integrated conglomerates. In the steel industry, by contrast, national industrial policy in the absence of exogenous economic shocks fails to weaken local state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
issues that came out of that bust. So they’re almost too conservative. They’re not investing in infrastructure as much as they could or should. I’ve literally called banks while working on real estate development projects, and they’re... View Details
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
in India. During the 1990s, she recalled, "we had coalition governments, no stability in politics, high inflation and a high interest rate environment." In 2001, she added, "the entire banking system collapsed." Yet these were exactly the... View Details
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
debris and production of eco-material brick and asphalt. The project was conducted through on-site research with Bogota City Department of Environment and local eco-material manufactures, as well as interviews with value chain partners.... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
president of Lazard and former vice chairman of Citigroup. As the longest tenured head of an investment banking group in the history of Wall Street, he became one of its most prominent Black executives, advising on transactions valued at... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
crossed with small incentive (ranging from U.S. $3 to $14) to open a bank savings account. We find that the financial literacy program has no effect on the likelihood of opening a bank savings account in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
or a resource-based problem-- so that all the stakeholders can succeed. I've had an additional career in health care. I've been the CEO of my local hospital, and I took these same principles forward there. And instead of looking for blame... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
gaining ground in banking. In light of the recent financial crisis, several commentators concluded that the continuing expansion of risk measurement is dysfunctional (Power, 2009; Taleb, 2007). This paper asks whether the expansion of measurement-based risk management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne