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- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
dependable distribution with internet-enabled inventory control extending all the way into consumer households and businesses. The result is that inventory value in relation to sales in the United States has fallen by more than 50 percent... View Details
- 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
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
the first firm to sell household utilities to homes and small businesses over the Internet. With her break clearly over, this tech trekker is back out blazing trails. View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
have documented the modest (though reliable) link between household income and well-being, we examined the accuracy of laypeople's intuitions about this relationship by asking people from across the income spectrum to report their own... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This
study was a concern that people aren’t saving enough, and that as a result, they won’t have an adequate standard of living in old age.” Beshears is part of the School’s Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets unit, where he researches topics in behavioral economics,... View Details
- 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
- 26 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time
aim at their credit card debt, which totaled $825 billion at the end of 2020 in the United States alone. As balances have climbed, the percent of household income allocated to repayment has decreased 17 percent over the last decade, and... View Details
- 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
- Web
FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness
economy. What do macroeconomic data suggest about U.S. competitiveness? In the lower and middle strata of the income distribution, household incomes have remained stagnant in real terms for decades. Long-run growth rates in private-sector... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
concedes. But glass is a rare material that, while energy-intensive to create, can be reused literally for centuries. Given that, he sees a unique opportunity to build a storied brand with the potential to become a lasting household name.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years later, both camps benefit enormously from their close ties: the mutual fund is America's investment vehicle of choice, with one in three U.S. households owning a stake in the industry's $5.5 trillion in assets. "By making the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 26 Aug 2009
- Op-Ed
Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road
families that traded in their old SUVs for high mpg sedans may later trade in the existing family sedan for another SUV, resulting in minimal mpg improvement on a per household basis. “Each clunker required dealer salespeople to complete... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
Nepal, households headed by women with digital savings accounts increased their education spending by 20 percent. On the other side of the equation, digitizing teacher salary payments in Liberia reduced the time and cost of collecting a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
resurgence of interest in promoting value-chain development as a way to add value, lower transaction costs, diversify rural economies, and help increase rural household incomes. Using real examples, mostly from African countries, this... View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Finally, the long-run risks model implies extremely low yields and negative-term premia on inflation-indexed bonds. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14788 Measuring the Financial Sophistication of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market
small lender rose to prominence around the turn of the twentieth century: the salary lender, or “loan shark.” One study of 1894 estimated that one in five American households owed money to one of these lenders. Because the legal lending... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years later, both camps benefit enormously from their close ties: the mutual fund is America's investment vehicle of choice, with one in three U.S. households owning a stake in the industry's $5.5 trillion in assets. "By making the... View Details
- 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