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- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
made appliances and furniture. Now that only stellar borrowers with large down payments and hefty incomes get mortgages, we have seen the homebuilding and home-buying industry, and with it the economy, retrench. As for retail, now that... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
country, they yearned for shelter, a sanctuary in a new land. That shelter could be a tenement, a farmstead, a ramshackle cottage. For families, home had a connotation of safety and stability. Banks did not lend with 30-year amortizing mortgages, but with 5-year loans... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
patients finds the reality is much more complicated when it comes to languishing hospital bills. Canceling overdue medical debt on average does little or nothing to improve credit access, existing bill payment rates, or even mental... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
supplement describes how MOD Pizza has grown between May 2015 (when the first case ends) and early 2017. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/417080-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-091 Paytm: Building a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
behavior that have not been considered in previous research. First, customers who monitor product prices after purchase may initiate opportunistic returns because of price drops. Second, customers who anticipate a future return may strategically choose a View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
establishing more efficient sterilization procedures and task-shifting administrative responsibilities away from high-cost physicians. It would also potentially be used for budgeting and to propose new payment models with Haiti's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
Payment: Evidence from the Federal Quickpay Reform By: Barrot, Jean-Noel, and Ramana Nanda Abstract—We study the impact of Quickpay, a federal reform that indefinitely accelerated payments to small business contractors of the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
"decouple" payments to European farmers. Explores the logic behind agricultural supports, with a focus on the economic, political, and cultural context of French farming. Discusses efforts to reform the CAP in the context of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
perform poorly—that is, the borrowers fall into arrears with payments or default altogether—these less savvy investors may flee the platform. “If the sophisticated investor picks all the good fruit, the unsophisticated investor will do... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
concerning the accounting and payment for work and failure to provide healthcare. All of this raises a number of questions. In the cost-driven U.S. service economy, are benefits to workers being sacrificed in the name of lower-cost... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
case. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/419032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 519-014 Garanti Payment Systems: Digital Transformation Strategy (A) Işıl Akdemir Evlioğlu, executive vice president of marketing at... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
headquarters in Boston. Rather than hope that train fares and property tax payments eventually make their way into a public good, New Balance built the station themselves so they could watch the use of every penny—even as the general... View Details
- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
Business School Case 115-049 Statoil: Transparency on Payments to Governments No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/115049-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 115-038 CLP: Powering Asia No... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
litigation, the ex post negotiation of license terms (that is, negotiations occurring after a technology's inclusion in a standard) can lead to higher royalty payments and ultimately higher prices to consumers." And while standard... View Details
- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
work." He would address the issue by: (1) (greeting) "all immigrants with a social security card" (implying payment of taxes, Medicare, etc.) and (2) requiring employers to "pay immigrants with check or automatic bank... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
cities. The net result is that we make welfare payments from taxpayers to rich owners of sports teams. Society would be better off with those scarce tax dollars being used for schools, hospitals, etc. The U.S. government should be... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
extrinsic rewards and includes a discussion of short-term incentives such as bonuses or public recognition and long-term incentives such as deferred payments or stock options. Because performance goals and incentives define success (and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
travel reservation systems, payment card systems, marketplaces, rebate services, search engine advertising, and various types of brokers and agencies. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2373671 Search Based Peer Firms:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
and organic growth. Odyssey had just realized its first profitable year in 2000—recording a net income of $3.1 million—and was still a relatively young company. In addition, the hospice industry was subject to extensive federal, state, and local regulations relating to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
annual public outcomes report. They also introduce bundled payment contracts with three insurers for orthopedic surgeries and join a multi-hospital study for applying time-driven activity-based costing to identify process improvement and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne