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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
MeraDoctor, a consultation-by-telephone business staffed 24 hours a day by eight licensed physicians. A for-profit company that charges subscribers a monthly fee of 100 rupees (about $2) for unlimited consultations for up to six household... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
are skewed disproportionately amongst the rich, as the evidence suggests, then poorer matching in the marriage market will in turn lead to weaker bargaining positions for females. I test this theory and examine its implications for later life outcomes using India-wide... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 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
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
entrepreneurial momentum that builds during a downturn. If history is any guide, we can expect some significant industry shapers to emerge from the current crisis. During the 1930s alone—the period to which we often compare our situation today—there were... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
million, donor assistance was $124 million and out-of-pocket household expenditures were roughly $128 million. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center... View Details
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
used a database of detailed employer-employee information developed by the US Census Bureau called the Longitudinal Employer Household Database (LEHD), which includes employment data from state-level quarterly payroll filings of 200... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
equally high levels of pro-social motivation. The researchers followed the health workers' progress for 18 months when they returned to their communities to provide health services. It turned out career-focused applicants visited 29 percent more View Details
- 21 May 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai
recycling should be a secondary goal to reduction. Private players must make recycling their products easier, and bottoms-up initiatives can help train households on managing and sorting their own waste. Encouraging responsible... View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
PublicationsBarriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India Authors:Shawn A. Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert M. Townsend, and James Vickery Publication:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
distribution. We also find that households’ consumption is significantly more responsive to dividend payouts across all parts of the wealth distribution. Our findings are broadly consistent with near-rational behavior in which households... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008
McGinn Publication:Negotiation Journal 24, no. 4 (October 2008): 393-410 Abstract We propose taking a two-level-game perspective on gender in job negotiations. At Level One, candidates negotiate with employers. At Level Two, candidates negotiate with View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
banks, both large and small, from ever fully returning to the small business market. Cyclical Factors Linger From The Recession In the recent recession small-business sales were hit hard and may still be soft, undermining their demand for loan capital. Income of the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
because I want them to keep giving me the best service they can deliver in exchange for my commitment to fly them whenever I can. Consumers can achieve anonymity today by declining to join supermarket frequent shopper programs, but by so doing the average View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017
Battilana. Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores In an age of time scarcity, buying our way out of the negative moments in the day is an important key to happiness, according to research by Ashley V. Whillans,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Manuscript Collections
sent to a friend who owed him money—in this homemade account book from 1673 to 1693. The book, bound in rawhide and sewn with linen thread, chronicles the family’s activity in farming and household management as well as shoemaking. Jacob... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie