Money Market - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

attacks the established market, but too often in an effort to anticipate this, companies miss the new and emerging market. DEC didn't enter the minicomputer market because it thought it could lose money... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

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

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

26 Feb 2018
News

Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade

Erik Malmstrom (MBA 2012) is general manager of crop marketing for the Farmers Business Network in California. In this video, he describes how the organization is helping transform the agriculture space using data analytics and sharing... View Details

01 Mar 2005
News

Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference

to come onboard before any real money was committed. “An entrepreneur is constantly marketing the idea to investors, employees, and customers,” remarked Shukla, who launched a new company, RubiconSoft,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2016
News

The People’s Pods

And because the addressable market has gone from that local geography to everyone, the best content, even if it’s in a niche, always rises to the top. HBS: How much money can really be behind this boom? What... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

02 May 2008
What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

Gupta comments, "Countries like India ... need investments in infrastructure .... Where does it get the money it needs? From the money owners. How does it matter who they are?" Could global... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

23 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

Institute, which advises managers in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, says that as organizations increasingly ask customers to play a more active role in transactions, saving money shouldn't be the sole guiding force.... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service

Web

Investment Strategies - Course Catalog

bonds outstanding. Every day, public markets set prices for CEOs and CFOs, financial institutions, and investors, all seeking to raise and invest money in a way that drives the economy forward. A public exit... View Details

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

businesspeople, we've seen ourselves as helpless" in eradicating seemingly intractable problems like poverty, he said. Though giving money and volunteering time are good things to do, a better solution, he insisted, is to apply View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2018
News

Case Study: On the Record

the risk associated with investing the potentially significant time and money necessary for the R&D, equipment, and talent that could eliminate these bottlenecks, or focus on growing the business with its current industry-leading... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Aug 2022
News

Vision: To Go-Go

operations, analyzing what is already available for delivery in target markets and mining its own data to see what works and what doesn’t. “The industry is hard. You need tons of money to get started. Almost... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; entrepreneurship; foodtech; startup; Latin America

Web

How $40 Loans Lifted Lives in Kenya | Working Knowledge

finds that these borrowers who are randomly approved for a digital loan saw bigger mobile money balances, higher income, better employment prospects, and even an expansion in their own social networks, says Harvard Business School... 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

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

18 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 18

Frictions in Shadow Banking: Evidence from the Lending Behavior of Money Market Funds By: Chernenko, Sergey, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We document the consequences of money... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1999
News

Q & A: Herb Kohl

bought the team. "At the time I paid the most that anybody had ever paid for an NBA team," says Kohl of the $18-million price tag. "I thought it was a stupid investment - way too much money in a small market... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

Article

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

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16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings

Stevenson said the recent technology sector market crash should teach future entrepreneurs to build companies to last rather than to sell, and to think about more than simply selling a product. We're never going to go back to the slow and... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

26 Apr 2011
News

BioMine Strikes Gold

application of ‘mining’ e-wastes. WikiPay is a proprietary mobile and online commerce platform that facilities money transfer, payment applications and mobile marketing via SMS through its website... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Waleed Iskandar (MBA 1993); Telecommunications

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