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Asset Accumulation and Labor Force Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants

By: Pian Shu
This paper provides empirical evidence of the existence of forward-looking asset-accumulation behavior among disability-insurance applicants, previously examined only in the theoretical literature. Using panel data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study, I show that... View Details
Keywords: Disability Insurance; Asset Accumulation; Labor Force Participation; Assets; Behavior; Employment; Insurance; Insurance Industry; United States
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  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

Beers at the Millennium Harvard Business School Case 706-518 At the time of the millennium, diamond demand was threatened by an increasing awareness among jewelry customers that diamond production and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2014
  • Case

Milk Baths and Charm Necklaces: Had Randy Weiner (Finally) Gone Too Far?

By: Mukti Khaire and Hannah Catzen
The case on Randy Weiner explores the tensions between artistic and financial imperatives in a for-profit immersive theater venture. In order to revive the dormant Manhattan nightclub "The Diamond Horseshoe," theater-impresario Randy Weiner created "The Queen of the... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment; Entrepreneurship; Theater Entertainment; New York (city, NY)
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  • 2014
  • Article

An Analysis of the Competitive Advantage of the United States of America in Commercial Human Orbital Spaceflight Markets

By: Greg Autry, Laura Huang and Jeff Foust
The “Public/Private Human Access to Space” / Human Orbital Markets (HOM) study group of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) has established a framework for the identification and analysis of relevant factors and structures that support a global human... View Details
Keywords: Air Transportation; Infrastructure; Emerging Markets; Analysis; Competitive Advantage; Aerospace Industry; United States
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  • 12 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review GE's Global Growth Experiment: The Company Pushed Cross-Business Collaboration By: Gulati, Ranjay Abstract—Like many other companies, GE under Immelt had to figure out how to balance serving local needs with the economies... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Aug 2021
  • Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

to decrease their control over it by finding alternative providers of that resource.” The ups and downs of diamonds Power is not fixed in stone, the authors say, and the rise and fall of the South African De Beers View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 16 Jun 2021
  • HBS Case

Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm

On February 1, 2020, a passenger who had been on Carnival’s Diamond Princess ship docked in Japan tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. Soon afterward, 700 people on the ship contracted the virus—the largest coronavirus outbreak outside... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Travel
  • 27 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

shortcomings seem meaningless. “Every diamond has certain flaws, but someone else might not see those flaws unless you let them show,” Huang says. “If you focus on the angles that make you sparkle brightly, that’s what people will see.”... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

The problem with using crises to reduce complacency and create urgency is that the tactic is a potential diamond sitting on a rock surrounded by quicksand and very nasty beasts. Any naiveté about the downside risks can cause disaster. Big... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
  • 22 May 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders

to the judges—five teams in each of the two class sessions that Brown taught this spring. Ideas included ways to revive existing luxury brands (marketing diamonds Shreve, Crump & Low to a younger audience, for example) as well as ways... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Beauty & Cosmetics; Apparel & Accessories; Auto; Tourism
  • 16 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

averaging between $50,000 and $150,000. Birnbaum tells of one prospective client in the market for a five- or six-carat diamond who found the prices so reasonable that he returned to consider—and, eventually, purchase—something in the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

provides detailed contents to discuss the challenges involved in transforming the sales strategy of a well-established firm. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/519054-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 719-408 The De Beers Group: Launching Lightbox... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26

the company. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/613066-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-055 Diamond Foods, Inc. By: Srinivasan, Suraj, and Tim Gray The Diamond Foods, Inc. case describes the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006

transacting in what feels awfully like a market. Continuity and Change in the International Diamond Market Author:Debora Spar Periodical:Journal of Economic Perspectives 20, no. 3 (summer 2006): 195-208 Abstract The international View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

warrants. This case follows "The Congressional Oversight Panel's Valuation of the TARP Warrants (A)"; it describes the findings of the panel's TARP Warrants Report and public and congressional reactions. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market

primary market for collectors is to discover a diamond in the rough," Khaire said. "But as a collector, you have to be much more confident about your ability to judge art if you want to do it as an investment, even in the case... View Details
  • 29 Apr 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

able to find the diamonds—that's what separates the Warren Buffetts and Seth Klarmans out there. The first person to find the diamond gets the highest rewards." Outsmarting The Public Markets The trick to doing that is the difference... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 02 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

benefited from the catch-up following low-income levels caused during war or conflict. Five incidents were credited, or partially credited, to government spending on infrastructure or jobs. In most cases accelerated growth proved a two-edged sword. Angola, for example,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 24 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

Debora L. Spar's research in Africa has looked at the diamond industry, the AIDS crisis, and the democratization of South Africa since apartheid. Now she has turned her attention to Botswana, where an era of sustained growth has been... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

dealer of loose gemstones in 1969 in Jaipur, India. By the 2000s, it was headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and had expanded into diamonds and retail. The family business was now in its second generation of leadership and aimed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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