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  • 21 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

services and become part of the formal financial system, is considered a key prerequisite for lifting these populations out of poverty and for driving economic growth. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49129 The Re-Emergence of an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

What Makes a Good Leader

authority on leadership — sees this phenomenon as a sign of the times. "The transition from the industrial age to the information age is a huge shift," he notes. "In all of human history, there have only been two other socioeconomic... View Details
Keywords: Management
  • 21 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year

In Brazil, [there is] widespread sentiment that the government is corrupt, or that the government is not present in several areas of the country. Because of that, many citizens do not trust the state to provide a safety net. As a result, these voters may rely on other... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • December 2024
  • Article

Coordinating the Energy Transition: Electrifying Transportation in California and Germany

By: Nicholas Goedeking and Jonas Meckling
California and Germany share ambitious emission reduction targets. Yet California is ahead of Germany in electrifying transportation by several metrics, including the number of public charging stations. We show that variation in the politics of coordination in... View Details
Keywords: Electric Vehicles; Coordination; Technology Adoption; Infrastructure; Transportation; Government and Politics; Energy; Utilities Industry; Germany; California
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  • 12 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.

in 2020 amid pandemic closures. While Lakhani’s study focuses on Australian football, the principles apply to any league trying to re-engage fans and revitalize the businesses that depend on them. “We’re talking about billion-dollar leagues that are cultural View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Sports
  • 24 Mar 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Optimal Deterrence when Judgment-Proof Agents Are Paid In Arrears—With an Application to Online Advertising Fraud

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Video Game; Web Services
  • July 2003 (Revised April 2005)
  • Case

Branding Citigroup's Consumer Business

By: Rohit Deshpande and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In Spring 1998, Citicorp and Travelers merged to create a financial powerhouse that united the bank with Travelers' consumer finance and brokerage businesses, including Salomon Smith Barney and Primerica. It was the first U.S. financial services company to combine... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Relationship Management; Decisions; Asset Management; Investment Banking; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Relationships; Business and Shareholder Relations; Banking Industry; United States
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  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services
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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Gerardo Pérez-Cavazos and Caspar David Peter. Jonas Heese : Runner-up for the 2022 International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS) Annual Conference Best Paper Award for “Does Information Technology Reduce Corporate Misconduct?” with... View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

Human Behavior & Decision-Making Human Behavior & Decision-Making 2014 Book The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders See By: Max Bazerman This book will examine the common failure to notice critical information due to bounded... View Details
  • 18 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers

services, and data from Equifax, a major consumer credit bureau that offers insights into installment loans for low-income borrowers. They complemented that data with hand-collected information about lawsuits against high-to-low... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 05 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

report was co-written by Matt Sigelman, Nik Dawson, and Gad Levanon of the Burning Glass Institute and supported by the Schultz Family Foundation. The scorecard comes as employers struggle to find skilled workers in a stagnant labor pool,... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 24 Oct 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy

backfiring,” Luca notes. Customers seek out Black-owned restaurants For the study, Yelp and Wayfair provided data on their platforms and programs. On Yelp, this included information about platform page views, phone calls, reservations,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Food & Beverage
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Bank Financing of Global Supply Chains

By: Laura Alfaro, Mariya Brussevich, Camelia Minoiu and Andrea Presbitero
Finding new international suppliers is costly, so most importers source inputs from a single country. We examine the role of banks in mitigating trade search costs during the 2018–2019 U.S.-China trade tensions. We match data on shipments to U.S. ports with the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; International Finance; Trade; Credit; United States; Asia
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  • 13 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

identification documentation, let alone a credit score. Loan officers often end up relying on qualitative information and intuition, all the while knowing that these loans may be vital to the nation's economy. "Small businesses in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

changing tastes of consumers. Participants will explore how the declining interest in, and sales of, jazz music can be reversed; the role of Marsalis and JALC in this context; and the lessons for arts and cultural institutions worldwide... View Details
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Race, Gender & Equity Social Enterprise Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability Case Method Project Creating Emerging Markets Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard Foundry Impact-Weighted Accounts View Details
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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Practical Guide by E. Anderson & B. Schiano This book gives practical advice on how to teach with cases at institutions where it is not the primary pedagogy. 2003 McGraw-Hill/Irwin Socrates' Muse: Reflections on Effective Case Discussion... View Details

    Alvin E. Roth

    Al Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and in the Harvard Business School. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in game theory, experimental economics, and... View Details

    Keywords: information; information; information; information; information; information
    • 18 Dec 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: December 18, 2007

    Banking, and Loan Repayment Authors:Martin Brown and Christian Zehnder Periodical:Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 38, no. 8 (December 2007) Abstract How does information sharing between lenders affect borrowers' repayment behavior?... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace