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- 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 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
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
Companies spend significant sums to acquire customers. Once hooked, marketers protect those investments by attempting to keep patrons happy, engaged, and most of all, loyal. Reducing customer attrition, or "churn" in View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
mortgage market today, ninety-five percent of all mortgage loans are guaranteed, insured, or securitized by the US government, which is obsessed with not losing money on these guarantees. And the way the... View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
said, only 4 percent of the money raised by venture capital funds went to women- and minority-led business plans; at the same time, these ventures were growing at two to three times the rate of other businesses. View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
reason why private equity partnerships were able to borrow money left, right, and center to finance leveraged buyouts. And Chimerica — or the Asian “savings glut,” as Ben Bernanke called it — was the underlying reason why the U.S.... View Details
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An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy
By: N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew C. Weinzierl
This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model in which prices are sticky in the short-run and flexible in the long-run. Policy is evaluated by... View Details
Keywords: Fiscal Policy; Monetary Policy; Economic Models; Aggregate Demand; Demand and Consumers; Money; Mathematical Methods; Taxation; Spending; Policy; Welfare; Household; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation
Mankiw, N. Gregory, and Matthew C. Weinzierl. "An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Spring 2011). (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-113, May 2011 and NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17029, May 2011.)
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
spurred cultural, economic, and regulatory changes that make continuing venture capital success in these markets likely. Q: Who is your target audience—who can benefit by reading The Money of Invention and... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
technical expertise, said Kapoor. A sense of timing and a good marketing instinct are two qualities at a premium in today's market. "It's not about specialization," said Reiss. "It's about quickly figuring out new trends... 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
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
recent U.S. real estate history can’t help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Markets’ Moral Limits
Economics has lately “wandered” from its traditional study of phenomena such as business cycles and is now about commoditization, incentives, and “principles by which people make decisions,” declared Harvard government professor and ethicist Michael Sandel, author of... View Details
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
difficult one for direct investors. Tilted Playing Field Why is it so difficult to make money as a direct investor in the United States? Indeed, much of the rhetoric on investing environments argues that the major destinations for U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
continues to be most-served market in Europe for private equity, said Allen Haight, a partner in Permira. "When I arrived in 1989, people were saying that there was too much money chasing too few deals.... View Details
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
spending more money to hire a firm like Merrill Lynch that has people actively managing their stock portfolios. “Neither one of these approaches is better or worse than the other,” Quelch said. “They cater to two different types of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The Joy of Spending
more money," says Norton, now an associate professor in the Marketing Unit at HBS. That search for answers led to their new book, Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending, which offers peer-reviewed guidance for the purse strings—much... View Details