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June 1998 (Revised June 1998)
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Bankruptcy: A Debtor's Perspective

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts

Describes the business and legal context surrounding personal and corporate bankruptcy. View Details

Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Condition; Legal Liability; Personal Finance; Loss; Business or Company Management

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06 Dec 2021
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Vision: Sound Science

of scientific inquiry in gene-based hearing loss and inner-ear drug delivery: “In some infants with profound hearing impairment, there’s a mutation in one of those genes that results in loss of a protein... View Details

Keywords: Deb Blagg

15 May 2023
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From Scientist to Business Leader

cohort of 15 students to enter the joint MS/MBA program, Kim interned for Boston Consulting Group, working with health care clients. She also explored the current landscape of hearing loss therapeutics—“something I'm so passionate about... View Details

10 Jan 2017
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Paying It Forward

“People find us because everyone has the same problem,” says Malay Kundu (MBA 2003) of his company, StopLift, which is using software and video technology to stop massive losses in retail profits due to theft and checkout fraud. “Retail... View Details

07 Jan 2002
What Do You Think?

Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?

Summing Up September 11 was no "tipping point" for acceleration in the loss of privacy. That's the conclusion to be drawn from responses to this month's column. Rather the loss of privacy is a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Jul 2018
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No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

and doesn’t let skilled migrants come in, there will be the loss of the first-order effect, which is the knowledge being transferred from their geography to here,” Choudhury says. “But the bigger loss would... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting

19 Sep 2011
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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 View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services

02 Apr 2019
Research Event

Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture

firm but by most companies today. Yes, women were struggling to be fully present at home and work, but so were men. An always-on culture and gender-role expectations were to blame, not motherhood. And men were mourning the loss of their... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service

20 Jan 2009
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Risky Business with Structured Finance

and senior tranches. The junior tranche absorbs losses from the pool until the portfolio loss exceeds 6 percent, at which point it becomes worthless. The mezzanine tranche begins to absorb View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

24 Aug 2016
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Behavioral Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer

Click Here If people made purely rational decisions, life might be much easier for marketers in selling products and services. But few of us are that rational. Instead, our decisions are based on illogical biases such as loss aversion and... View Details

Keywords: by Amelia Kunhardt

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Ali Hashmi

By [the passage of] Time [that cannot be recaptured] Verily, humanity is in loss - "The Declining Day", The Qur'an It took me a while to realize that the future I was chasing was the one I was "expected" to have, not... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Harvard Endowment Grows to $32 Billion

endowment grew to $2.8 billion, up 20.3 percent. Endowment distributions in fiscal 2011 constituted almost a third of the University’s operating budget. For the second year in a row, the endowment earned a double-digit investment return, compared to a View Details

Keywords: Endowment

August 2021
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Mylestone: Can Multiple Pivots Preserve the Life of a Death Tech Startup?

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Marilyn Morgan Westner

Dave Balter and Jim Myers co-founded Mylestone, a death tech startup that applied technology to transform how grieving people memorialize the dead. The startup addressed a cultural problem and promised to solve a pressing need in the antiquated, multi-billion dollar... View Details

Keywords: Pivot; Startup; Business Model; Cryptocurrency; Ethical Decision Making; Emotions; Growth and Development Strategy; Ethics; Market Entry and Exit; Customer Relationship Management; Loss; Change Management; Relationships

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Carl Petty

I look at the rest of my life as one big bonus round. The decade I spent flying fighters in the Navy was a childhood dream come true – more than I ever could have asked for. But I left the Navy feeling an obligation placed on me by terrible chance – the View Details

25 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 25

Institutional Investors Frame Their Losses: Evidence on Dynamic Loss Aversion from Currency Portfolios Authors:Kenneth A. Froot, J. Arabadjis, S. Cates, and S. Lawrence Publication:Journal of Portfolio Management (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 May 2015
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Adopting a common language can strengthen global companies

language must also equip their employees to work together more effectively,” she says. According to Neeley, common-language mandates tend to be poorly implemented, leaving employees feeling diminished and insecure, and lead to losses in... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Vision: Into the Breach

cyber-insurance market: As claims pour in for losses due to everything from business disruptions to extortion, major carriers are raising premiums and reducing coverage. Not everyone is retrenching, however. In 2021, cyber-insurance... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

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Nick Rosenbaum

life lasts but one breath. Before, I never saw how the slender birch trees on the hill outside his house gently sway in the breeze. The wind comes and goes, unhurried. Every breath I take comes in and out, traversing life and death. In every moment, love and View Details

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IT Strategy: Protecting HBS Information and Data Assets | Information Technology

advancing a proactive and innovative security program that meets evolving technology needs. The Solution HBS IT has implemented solutions to minimize the risk of data loss to HBS, including building data redundancies and other mechanisms... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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The Governor’s Admission

estimate that, despite its modest size, Lynch’s Granite State exports more than $2 billion annually in goods and services. Lynch, who was inaugurated in 2005, entered politics after resuscitating national furniture-maker Knoll, Inc., where he turned sizable View Details

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

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