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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
Getting Reality on the Table One of the country's foremost experts on money laundering and illegal flight capital, Raymond W. Baker (MBA '60) set out for Africa one year after graduating from HBS, seeking "a taste of international... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
markets, mobile money is designed to leapfrog plastic by going from cash directly to digital. Because the global economy is increasingly digital, billions of cash-based buyers and sellers are currently excluded from global commerce. These... View Details
- 15 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday
the company's success over its 20-year existence. But Sunil Gupta, an expert on marketing and digital technology who wrote a recent case on Amazon, sees deeper motives behind the company creating its own Christmas in July. "I think... View Details
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
competitive challenges facing software companies. Their market success depends largely on persuading the above-mentioned developers to write for their platforms. A new research paper suggests that the two sides can serve their own best... View Details
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
market exists for that product, but they fail to look at whether the product is unique or has complementary assets, Henderson said. "Just because a market is big doesn't mean there's some View Details
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
that waking fresh and clearheaded makes us better able to see decisions in a clearer light. “It’s somewhat like moving information from short-term to long-term storage” That’s certainly what Uma R. Karmarkar, an assistant professor in the View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Adding Value
Mary Callahan Erdoes Her first experience managing money was as a six-year-old helping her grandparents balance their checkbook. Today, Mary Callahan Erdoes (MBA 1993) is CEO of JPM Asset Management, JPMorgan Chase's $2.2 trillion View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
to want to buy a service. Initially, TripAdvisor was just making money mostly on attention, these ads. But as it became the biggest company in the world in terms of user visits and traffic, it sort of naturally started saying, “Hey, can... View Details
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
they are way out of whack with the market norm—and when the firm makes it clear that its own markup is much higher than what competitors charge. For instance, if a company charges $30 for a T-shirt, but emphasizes that competitors are... View Details
- Student-Faculty-Profile
Grant Donnelly & Michael Norton
We are currently working on a number of projects investigating decision-making, from how much money millionaires think they need to be happy to whether the feeling of being observed might decrease people’s likelihood of cheating on their... View Details
- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
as soon as possible)—as reasons why "a Government bailout may not be perceived in the same way as a Buffett style investment." Henrique Abreu cited a lesson of the late Milton Friedman that "it is a different thing spending your money on... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
question whether ads, including the over-the-top Super Bowl spots, have become too entertaining, says Thales S. Teixeira, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School. In upcoming research, Why, When and How... View Details
- 15 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
A New Model for Business: The Museum
along with companies like Apple, Facebook, and Progressive Insurance, is a leading example of firms that are thinking about customers in a new way—much like how a museum curator orchestrates the experience of patrons. Weaver, an assistant professor in the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
socially responsible Working Assets Money Market Fund. Working Assets Funding Service emerged from the fund entity in 1988 and now operates various enterprises, with telecommunications as its core service.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- Fast Answer
Exchange traded funds
target="new">Morningstar Direct Multi-currency research platform that provides performance and holdings analysis of investments. Includes data on closed-end funds, equity ownership, exchange traded funds, hedge funds, market indexes,... View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
"palatable" way to have customers pay for their own service, Frei said. Reduce Costs Not every industry, however, is set up so it can persuade customers to sacrifice more money for better service. Customers of most auto... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
Behavioral Economics. Here's how StickK works. The user selects a goal—like losing weight—and pledges a certain amount of money toward achieving it. Then a referee—often a friend—is chosen and a contract signed. If the goal is achieved,... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
day-to-day operations of the stock market. Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet International markets often move together, so does a global investment portfolio even make sense anymore? Why there are plenty of advantages in looking... View Details
- 08 May 2014
- News
The Sky's the Limit
possibility. "The industry needs more women in it. Women are very detail-oriented and, when it comes to flying, tend to have a delicate touch, but aren't over-controlling," she says. Noting that "there is a ton of scholarship money out... View Details
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
who borrowed a little money to invest in a little land. The average size of a coffee plantation in the Soconusco averaged about 300 hectares, compared with an average of 1,000 hectares in other parts of Latin America. But some coffee... View Details