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- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
poorly suited," explains Froot. “Why can't they produce enough of this coverage at a lower price?” A local property-casualty insurance agency can easily hold enough capital to cover losses from house fires or burst pipes; such losses... View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
Photo by Mary Ellen Mark At first glance, perhaps, the writer John Irving might not seem to have a lot to teach the corporate world. As the author of such celebrated bestsellers as The Cider House Rules and The World According to Garp,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
over 80 of her lipsticks to the luncheon as table gifts. Unlike most lipsticks at the time, these were housed in metal cases. Lunch guests noticed the unusual packaging and the lipstick's color and texture. As the event broke up, Fiske... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
employment activity. This retrenchment follows both Senate and House committee chair changes, occurs in large and small firms and within large and small states, and is most pronounced among geographically concentrated firms. The effects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
Enterprise Community Partners must determine whether to rebuild the Lafitte housing projects in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans and, if so, how to mitigate the risks. Set in January 2007, more than a year after Hurricane Katrina made... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
personal freedom, but at a tremendous cost. Greenfield developments have been built farther and farther from our core cities. America's answer to affordable housing historically has been the suburbs, away from employment centers because... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
Case 317-044 Vicki Fuller: Chief Investment Officer of New York State's $150+ Billion Employee Pension Fund Vicki Fuller traveled from a four-room tenement bordering Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects to speaking at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
administrator, she received the same kind of pushback against establishing cluster development from White House national economic policy advisor Lawrence Summers, president emeritus and current university professor at Harvard University.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
"urban facilities provider" rather than a "residential housing developer." The management team is also reviewing the company's forays in places such as Hong Kong, Singapore, the United States, and Europe. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
School Case 907-046 Describes Lazard's situation in 2001, and supplies context for the subsequent negotiation between its Chairman and his hand-picked successor. In 2001 Lazard, the last of the great investment houses to remain both... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
Representative Tom Lantos, chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, for Yahoo's role in the arrest and imprisonment of Chinese journalist and democracy advocate Shi Tao. The case describes the actions that Yahoo! had taken... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
relations. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/norton mason vandello biga dyer.pdf Toward a Three-Tier Market for U.S. Home Mortgages Authors:Robert C. Pozen Publication:Chap. 3 in The Future of Housing Finance:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
merchant houses established business groups with diversified portfolio and pyramidal structures overseas, primarily in developing countries, both colonial and independent. In the domestic economy, large single product firms became the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
second term. He prided himself on being an action- and results-oriented governor. He prided himself on being able to work with both Democrats and Republicans in the state legislature. In the elections of fall 2010, the Republicans regained control of the Indiana View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
together to support community health There will be more recognition of the interconnected systems that account for the need for care, access to care, and care outcomes. The availability of jobs and their safety, housing density and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
School Case 515-052 Philips Healthcare: Marketing the HealthSuite Digital Platform In June 2014, leading healthcare and consumer technology company Royal Philips (Philips) announced its HealthSuite Digital Platform to house healthcare... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
be in incentives? Plus, the overall approach (thanks in part to the use of compensation consultants) has moved from an individual, situational negotiation to one that is market-based. Yet no one goes back to ask the fundamental question: Is the premise that underlies... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
boarded a bullet train, headed west as far as they could, and exited in a village to start asking people what would make them buy a computer. What they discovered surprised them. Wandering to an impoverished part of town full of corrugated iron shanty View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
what those channels would do, what kind of mindset they would foster for children. To enhance its brand, REPRETEL resorted to a partnership with the Fundación Promotora para la Vivienda (FUPROVI), an NGO devoted to the development of public View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
careers of twenty-five alumni are highlighted. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808044 House of Tata: Acquiring a Global Footprint Harvard Business School Case 708-446 Chronicles the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace