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  • 10 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

that companies can save 20-30 percent on costs by improving processes. In fact, we heard from two companies who are considered gold standards in operational efficiency in their industries, and in examining and honing their processes, they... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden
  • 04 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

would suggest you find someone outside that circle who believes in you and your idea." An experienced investor said, "It's a shame to lose friends or family because they invested their savings in the business and lost it all. It... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
  • 23 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

authors note. Consumer Chapter 13 filings, which are designed to save assets like homes, didn’t rebound in April. Through August, those filings hovered between 55 percent to 65 percent below 2019 levels, the researchers found. The authors... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 30 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

wait for care. Patagonia lists the suppliers for each item on its website, while Southwest Airlines’ “transfarency” campaign pledges to save customers from hidden fees. After all, customers are already turning to Google searches and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • Research Summary

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By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

  • 13 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

and principles that guide them through life. Breaking away from one's True North becomes particularly prevalent when a crisis strikes because leaders often look for an "at-any-cost" quick fix in attempting to save face. These... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2015
  • HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

or a blog comment? There is no magic formula we have for linking this type of digital activity to the actual sale." In addition to the presumed increase in ticket sales, Tate has found value in the information users have provided online, which has View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 07 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

consumers’ clarion call with compassion and solution-based action that creates real value have a tremendous opportunity to reinforce trust and engender loyalty as they help to save the world. This is the true test for purpose-driven brand... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
  • 18 Jul 2019
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is

changed its business model from selling copiers to renting copiers and charging by the number of copies made, IoT-based companies may need to innovate on how they charge for their products, selling assets, or software-as-a-service, or shared View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer
  • 10 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

model. Amazon leverages its higher inventory turns, lower investments in physical assets, and faster cash conversion cycle to deliver up to 20 percent cost savings to the consumer. At a 5 percent price advantage, consumers might not see... View Details
Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail
  • 20 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

achievement. In the 1960s, however, it began to self-destruct by diversifying, first in attempting to compete with IBM in the production of mainframes and then by becoming a conglomerate, purchasing, among others, Hertz Rent A Car, frozen-food companies, View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products
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Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details
Keywords: Well-being; Judgment And Decision Making; Health; Prosocial Behavior
  • 1995
  • Other Unpublished Work

L'Epargne de Proximité, Report for the Committee Finances Régionales et Budget

By: Marc L Bertoneche
Keywords: Saving
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  • November 2013 (Revised March 2014)
  • Technical Note

Tax Havens

By: Eric Werker, Sebastian Berardi, Stelios Elia, Omar Muakkassa and James Zumberge
Multinational corporations and wealthy individuals often use so-called tax havens to establish subsidiaries or holding companies in order to rebalance profits across borders with the primary purpose of lowering their effective tax rate. This note describes the use of... View Details
Keywords: Tax Havens; Saving; Taxation
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  • June 2013 (Revised August 2013)
  • Background Note

Note on Pension Guarantee Funds

By: Robert C. Pozen and Patricia Bissett Higgins
The United States and the United Kingdom both had quasi-government agencies that provided back-up insurance for individuals participating in defined benefit ("DB") pension plans. This note compares and contrasts the United Kingdom's Pension Protection Fund ("PPF") with... View Details
Keywords: Pensions; Pension Guarantee Funds; Pension Protection Fund; Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; Employee Retirement Income Security Act; PBGC; ERISA; MAP-21; Legislation; Insurance; Saving; Retirement; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Employees; Insurance Industry; United States; United Kingdom
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  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Optimal Illiquidity

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, Christopher Clayton, Christopher Harris, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
We study the socially optimal level of illiquidity in an economy populated by households with taste shocks and present bias with naive beliefs. The government chooses mandatory contributions to accounts, each with a different pre-retirement withdrawal penalty.... View Details
Keywords: Retirement; Financial Liquidity; Personal Finance; Saving
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Prices or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets?

By: Shawn A. Cole, Thomas Sampson and Bilal Zia
Financial development is critical for growth, but its micro-determinants are not well understood. We test leading theories of low demand for financial services in emerging markets, combining novel survey evidence from Indonesia and India with a field experiment. We... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Saving; Knowledge Acquisition; Emerging Markets; Motivation and Incentives; Financial Services Industry; India; Indonesia
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  • 06 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

particularly for investors with large tax-deferred savings vehicles, the asset location decision has a relatively large impact on retirement wealth. With some allowance for institutional differences between defined benefit pension plans... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 15 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This

employee 401(k) contributions responded to savings information provided by their employers. The study was conducted to understand what kind of influence company-offered information can have. “We’ve uncovered a phenomenon that is probably... View Details
Keywords: Re: John Beshears; Financial Services
  • 24 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?

wealthiest households. It's not that low-income families have a terrible savings rate, explained Tufano. In fact, within Individual Development Accounts (described below), poor families have a 2.2% savings... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler

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