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- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
Convexity By: Hanson, Samuel Gregory Abstract—Most home mortgages in the U.S. are fixed-rate loans with an embedded prepayment option. When long-term rates decline, the effective duration of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) falls due to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
in 2019 that is already creating jobs and expanding economic opportunities in his home country of Cameroon. In May, CassVita was honored with a Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge Award funded by the Bertarelli Foundation. Cassava is... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
pricing decisions on a daily basis. Rue La La is in the online fashion sample sales industry, where they offer extremely limited-time discounts on designer apparel and accessories. One of the retailer's main challenges is pricing and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea
embarking on their second encore career. There were entomologists and investment bankers and fashion designers. It was the most diverse group I’d taught in a while. I have an underlying thesis in teaching “How to Create a Climate... View Details
- 31 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom
their parents own. So BMW, knowing that it's a fashion brand, is trying to manage different and multiple brand messages for different audiences, using the Internet and various other forms of distribution. Q: What else about marketing... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
exit is an option? Using a natural experiment owing to the inaccuracy of barrel bombs, we examine the effect of having one's home destroyed on a cluster of attitudes of Syrian refugees in Turkey related to their personal security,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
RCS Policies - Research Computing Services
(at least one month) to assist with copying data if needed. In this situation, If someone is not the primary sponsor of the project space, RCS will contact the primary sponsor to confirm this is permitted. Project spaces and home folders... View Details
- 27 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction
innovations that can transform adversity and environmental waste into prosperity for climate-impacted communities in Nigeria. Achenyo Idachaba-Obaro is the Founder and CEO of MitiMeth, a company that uses water hyacinth, an invasive aquatic weed, to craft View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
consistent brand message. In the United States, BMW is a relatively new brand, some thirty or forty years old in terms of its American presence. Yuppies who bought BMWs in the 1980s now have kids, but kids are never going to buy the car their parents own. So BMW,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
25-year-old company that sells fashion jewelry and home accessories to 450 retail accounts, discussed some of the challenges she has faced as a woman in business. Friedlander attributed her success to a... View Details
- Web
Demo Day | New Venture Competition
elder care, CareCorgi provides a human-powered, AI-elevated copilot that provides dynamic personalized care plans and connects them with real human geriatric care coordinators Catalog Paul Lachman (MBA 2025), Hamish Gunasekara Catalog is a new-age commerce platform... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
The Equity Network began with a single LinkedIn post. Kristina Hu (MBA 2022) Photo courtesy Kristina Hu In the summer of 2020, Kristina Hu (MBA 2022), then an incoming HBS student, was sitting in her San Francisco home watching the Black... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
international regions, presented business plans for their start-ups to judges on Monday, April 25, during the final round of competition. On Tuesday, Rakhi Mehra (MBA '09), founder of micro Home Solutions, a social housing initiative for... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
& Mauritz, 2000 In 2000, Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) was the second-largest and most global player in the fashion retail business. It operated 682 stores, 80% of them outside its home country of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
favorite content wherever they are whenever they demand it, consumption patterns will become more, not less uniform, this theory predicts. To shed light on this debate, we study the distribution of revenues across products in the context of the U.S. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
the finance industry has been that "they should move from Wall Street to Seventh Avenue and be with the rest of the fashion industry." "We're never going back to the slow and lazy times," he said. From Winner To Loser... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
When working professionals were shifting to home offices a year ago as COVID-19 was spreading, comedians and pundits predicted that people would no longer need bras and pants that aren’t stretchy. Instead customers would make room for... View Details
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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions The Route of the Exhibition New York and Chicago Rockefeller Center, 1934. Museum of the... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
approaches can be reconciled through the Lean Strategy process, which ensures that startups innovate in a disciplined fashion and make the most of their limited resources by knowing "what not to do." Deliberate strategy sets the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
markets continued to underperform. Indeed, some analysts had suggested that Walmart retreat to its U.S. home base to improve performance. Many feared that this was the end of the 50+ year inexorable rise of Walmart. However, CEO Doug... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne