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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
from some additional equity (assuming incomes rise). And unlike paying rent to a landlord, each time the owner pays their mortgage they are paying down principal and building equity, just like a market-rate owner. Taken together, these features View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
the board of WWB—a role that influenced the way she formulated her strategy at the World Bank. "I applied what I was learning in the young WWB to create a network for learning and change at the Bank in areas such as small enterprise View Details
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
unemployment, but such measures are needed when lending money to a government with a very poor track record in managing the government budget for the prosperity of its citizens. Nor are those measures the cause of the inability of Greece... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
capital and an end to predatory lending practices? Organizations lament sky-rocketing health care costs, but why is there such a limited effort to organize preventative care? Cutting Medicare will not stop the epidemic of obesity. The... View Details
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Breaking Down the Barriers - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
commerce and consumption.” 16 Recognizing his reputation as an extraordinary portraitist and the prestige his name could lend to commercial work, the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency hired Steichen in 1923, the same year he became... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
being discarded everywhere, particularly at the local Prahran market where they regularly shopped, so he researched the issue, then reached out to lend a hand. With their three young kids, the Carsons filled the back of their Volvo... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
empowering employees to put member-owners' interests ahead of either the organization's interests or their own interests. As a result of this focus, the credit union must determine what to do with its profitable indirect auto lending... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Digital Exhibits | Baker Library
Credit The instruments and institutions of 21st-century credit—the installment plan, the credit card, and the home finance industry—are less than a century old. Yet credit itself is as old as commerce. The site shows how previous generations devised creative ways of... View Details
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IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog
some of the challenges and opportunities faced by businesses trying to bring innovation to market in Japan, (3) discuss how some emerging business models and marketing strategies lend themselves to new forms of organizing, and (4) allow... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
with them long enough (because they weren’t very well-managed), if you’ll stay with them long enough, we’ll do it. So what I did is I got MEDA, the Metropolitan Economic Development Association, to lend them money to pay their taxes. And... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
intermediary raises concerns about who will end up owning the famous pieces, and whether or not those owners will be artistic benefactors willing to lend them to museums for the benefit of the public good. "There is huge value in... View Details
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
workers are satisfied with their jobs. Other data suggest that the malaise extends far beyond the US. It lends importance to the question: Who should choose your boss? What do you think? To Read More: Ben Cheng, Michelle Kan, Gad Levanon,... View Details
- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers Authors:Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk-assessment and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
workout. Would Euro zone agencies and lawmakers, acting on behalf of lending banks, have to take drastic action to force Greece's government to impose new laws and collect the taxes? This would be a blow to democracy, but would it be a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources
only: Harvard ID and University PIN required) Joselit, Jenna Weissman. Lending Dignity: The First One Hundred Years of the Hebrew Free Loan Society of New York (New York, N.Y: The Society, 1992). Lynn, Robert A. “Installment Credit Before... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
more tools to help countries with dire economic problems. “I can offer not only strategic and logistical coaching, but also financing to put plans in motion. In a place like Haiti, the ability to lend money and the execution capacity to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
continue to assess accurately the risk profile of each local customer seeking a loan. As advertising for PNC Bank states: "Now more than ever responsible lending is everything." When consumers are uncertain, they need to have... View Details
- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
dimensions (e.g., computer performance in the Apple example) should avoid price partitioning altogether. Q: From the producers' point of view, are there some types of products or services that lend themselves to an all-inclusive price?... View Details
- 06 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)
partnered with HBS administration to advance racial equity and diversity; efforts that laid the groundwork for the HBS Anti-Racism Task Force and the Racial Equity Action Plan. Jackson joined the task force, lending her own experience to... View Details