Household Division - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

as an imperial power. Publisher's link: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9952.html August 2013 American Economic Review Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia By: Ashraf, Nava, Erica Field, and Jean... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

securities to retail investors. We focus on a large market of investment products targeted exclusively at households: retail-structured products in Europe. We hypothesize that banks strategically use product complexity to cater to yield-seeking View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jan 2004
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A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977

the breakthrough development of Liquid Tide in 1984, is proud that most of P&G's growth in recent years has come from core products that are household names around the globe. "I really believe you should play to your strengths," he says.... View Details

05 May 2023
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Fail Better

that was targeted at US-born Latino youth, like second and third-generation. So their parents had come to this country and now they're navigating two worlds. We wanted to target that population at MTV, but to do so was a complicated business model. One, many of these... View Details

01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life

interview, we catch up with the group for another update. Not surprisingly, much has changed over the past decade in their households and in their careers. In the profiles that follow, our protagonists once again candidly discuss how they... View Details

01 Jun 1999
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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

19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

interwar years, and its subsequent diversification into many industries, including automobiles, household goods, and services, is analyzed. The case serves as a vehicle to explain why diversified business groups are so important in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Oct 2009
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survey data from India and Indonesia, we first show that financial literacy is a powerful predictor of demand for financial services. To test the relative importance of literacy and price, we implement a field experiment, offering randomly selected unbanked View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

PublicationsRenewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition Author:Geoffrey Jones Publication:Istanbul: Is Bankasi Kultur Yayinlari, 2010, Turkish ed. Abstract Unilever's brands can now be found in one out of every two households in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Jan 2011
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telecommuting, gender-related pay gaps, a household division of labor that still saddles women with a disproportionate share of caretaking chores, and the question of religious expression in the workplace.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

Daniel Bricklin [MBA '79] in an HBS classroom), to the extraterrestrial commerce of Orbital Sciences, to the development commitment of African Communications Group, HBS entrepreneurs, be they low-profile or household names, have... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

pandemic, with topics such as the divisive paranoia of coronavirus; the burdens and blessings of quarantine; and a bucket list for lockdown. In June she launched a podcast focused on finding growth in a crisis. The segments feature women... View Details

15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

platform and emphasized his position as a Washington-outsider. He proved to be an unpredictable and incendiary candidate on the campaign trail, garnering much media attention and creating divisions within the traditional Republican base,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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student on the nature of the project, focused on existing or frontier-exploratory solutions. Examples might include: Outlining shareholder division in a succession plan, forming a philanthropic strategy, or exploring investment into... View Details

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