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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
its own members to fund future expansion. What’s in Assistant Professor Uma Karmarkar’s grocery bags? It may depend on if she’s carrying reusuable bags. In a series of experiments, Karmarkar and a fellow researcher found that when... View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
"marginal" grocery items, or grocery items that a customer does not typically buy. These findings are consistent with a simple mental accounting model but are not consistent with the standard permanent income or lifecycle theory... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
types of earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a price to pay, with the cost in the following... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Business School Publishing) This history doubles as a sophisticated account of the opportunities and challenges facing the modern investor. It follows the rise of funded retirement, the evolution of investment vehicles and techniques,... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
income remained relatively stable, about 3 to 1. Over the last 20 years, however, the financial markets that financed the housing system in the United States changed remarkably. Local markets once dominated by tightly regulated savings... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
millions of African farmers and their families achieve food security and lift themselves out of poverty. By 2008, AGRA had assembled a strong leadership team and had funded numerous small projects ranging from seed development to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
three prominently proposed tags-gender, race, and height-as in actual policy. This explanation for limited tagging also implies that optimal marginal tax rates at high incomes are lower than in standard analysis and closer to those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
reduce your consumption because you’re worried about the economy faltering and your income declining, which is the traditional demand-side story, but that you feel a barrier to going out at all, which undercuts both demand (consumption)... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
and Brooke Barton, 309-320. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007 Abstract After thirty years of development, commercial microfinance in the developing world—the provision of financial services to low income populations on a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
However, Wingspanbank's financial backing comes not from a venture fund or an IPO but from a surprising source: Bank One Corp., whose more than $250 billion in assets make it one of the country's top five banks. Led by a team from Bank... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
successful startup, and in a way, it is. However, Wingspanbank's financial backing comes not from a venture fund or an IPO but from a surprising source: Bank One Corp., whose more than $250 billion in assets make it one of the country's... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
interests, but if the CEO finds that those are in tension with the interests of the organization or the beneficiary, then you have a real problem. And in this economy, people are unlikely to turn away funding when it comes their way. You... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
early pioneer of this proactive approach, also undertaken by Kathy Giusti’s MBA 1985 Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and John Crowley’s MBA 1997 Amicus Therapeutics.) The MJFF demands accountability and results, brings together academics and pharma/biotech... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
recommendations cover the entire hiring cycle in seven steps: anticipating the need for new hires, specifying the job, developing a pool of candidates, assessing the candidates, closing the deal, integrating the newcomer, and reviewing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
brand: What are people thinking? And you’d expect a much lower sensitivity to administration, to structure, to organizational dynamics, to long-term view, and to capital spending. The incoming president has a really good sense for what... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
airlines, discount retailers, and index mutual funds all created growth by offering overserved customers "good enough" functionality at lower prices. New-market disruptive innovations connect with nonconsumers by making it... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
empowers the Black community. “The idea came to me after I saw many of my Black classmates become discouraged by being left out of recruiting processes altogether or repeatedly rejected from the small pool of coveted roles in venture... View Details
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
recommendations for change. Purchase this note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209056 Rosetree Mortgage Opportunity Fund Harvard Business School Case 209-088 In December 2008, in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Harvard Business School
recalled, "[W]e went to Dean Baker one day, and just asked, why are there so few black students? And he said that they really couldn't find them. So we said, we'll help you. We'll go back to our alma maters and do some recruiting if you will provide the View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
undertaken to analyze the financial returns of a set of early stage social-purpose companies that had received funding from a discrete group of individual investors. Q: How did the team determine how the companies had performed as a... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls