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  • 12 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

practices is important for understanding financial decision-making of households in dire circumstances as well as for setting appropriate consumer protection policies. We conduct a simple experiment in three sites in which we paid off... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying

others who lived with the opposite gender, showing that people who live in the same household influence each other's views of the pandemic. "You see families where everyone is wearing a mask or no one is wearing a mask," Pons says. "And... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
  • 08 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

Naik’s images with household income levels for some 2,400 blocks, provided by the city online. “The incomes act as labels for the images, and then the machine learns the association between how the features relate to those incomes,” says... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

High Honors

launched Tokyo-based Rakuten, a 10,000-person company that began as an online shopping mall and now includes banking, travel, e-book, and credit card divisions. With a market capitalization of approximately $14 billion in fiscal year 2012, Rakuten—which means... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Finance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Back to the Future

discontent for many American families. Bundled up in chilly homes, they see their heating bills cutting deeply into the rest of their household budget. Lowering the thermostat, they wonder when keeping warm became a luxury in the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

How to Survive Past Start-up

him. They still run the company, and they also manage a household that includes their three children. Execution Is Critical Entrepreneurship is difficult even when the idea is great, the teams are complementary, and conditions seem ideal.... View Details
Keywords: Bill Murphy Jr.; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade
  • 19 Aug 2021
  • News

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

of all Black engineers attended an HBCU. There's 101 HBCUs today, and there's 300,000 students attending HBCUs, 70 percent of those students receive Pell Grants, which is for people who come from households with $25,000 or less of annual... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Prognosis

and hand sanitizer to every household in the city of Chelsea. We’re staffing a hotel that the cities of Chelsea and Revere have rented for people who need to be quarantined, and we’re providing medical and nursing care there. We are doing... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance
  • 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009

Case 709-017 Despite a tradition of high household savings, Japan has supported a dynamic and technically sophisticated consumer-lending sector. The high profitability of the sector has periodically attracted interest from domestic banks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

higher prices can increase use, either by targeting distribution to high-use households (a screening effect), or by stimulating use psychologically through a sunk-cost effect. We develop a methodology for separating these two effects. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

The Levitt Brand

the household was the clack of the typewriter coming from Levitt’s upstairs office. From the moment he emigrated from Vollmerz, Germany, at age 10, Levitt seems to have understood and relished the power of the right words, in the right... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 12 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

p.m. on a specific night, households wishing to contribute to the March of Dimes were asked to put on their porch lights so that volunteers would know whom to visit—and also so that neighbors could see who was giving and who was not. The... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

Making History, Starting Over

At age 26, Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69) planted the seed of a great idea in inhospitable British soil. With three HBS classmates, he cofounded a consulting firm to advise entrepreneurial businesses. Admittedly, it was a risk. Entrepreneurship wasn’t exactly a View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

survey data from India and Indonesia, we first show that financial literacy is a powerful predictor of demand for financial services. To test the relative importance of literacy and price, we implement a field experiment, offering randomly selected unbanked View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Water for Life

households efficiently. With over 6 million customers (about 1 million households), the viability of the company can be sustained as long as we remain efficient in our operations and excellent in our service delivery. So far, we have been... View Details
Keywords: Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

The Accidental Pioneers

the resident experts when case discussions focused on household goods such as laundry detergent. "Maybe without intending to do so, they were making it evident that we were different," she observes. "I didn't want to be singled out. I... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in over-accumulation of debt. Calibrating this parameter with values in the literature, the model can reproduce debt levels and frequency of default typical of emerging markets... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

development and potential consolidation of the household electronic appliance retailing sector. Gome, Suning, and China Paradise, the three largest players in the market, all experienced phenomenal growth, but Gome is slowly losing steam... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jun 2025
  • News

The Vinyl Revival

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details
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