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  • 02 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

10 Trends to Watch in 2024

The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 26 Apr 2024
  • HBS Case

Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

of rule changes that allowed players to make money from sponsorships and transfer to other schools more easily. The changes threw college football into flux and favored programs that could draw big media... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
  • 03 Apr 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

Reminders of Future Busyness Encourage Consumers to Buy Time By: Whillans, A.V., Elizabeth W. Dunn, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Spending money on time-saving purchases improves happiness. Yet, people often fail to spend their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

sufficient capital the opportunity to open a bank and issue bank notes (a widely accepted form of paper money at the time). The bill also required that every note issued by a New York bank be fully backed by bonds or mortgages. If... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Francesco Bova Abstract Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels; for instance, when goods designated for a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

money for my family for 10 years. I'm going to send a lot of money back home in the form of remittances. I'm going to live very frugally. And then, someday, I'm going to plan to go back home.” Refugees often... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 06 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 6, 2015

University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology By: Norton, Michael I., Derek D. Rucker, and Cait Lamberton, eds. Abstract—Why do consumers make the purchases they do, and which ones make them truly happy? Why are consumers willing to spend huge sums of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 23

However, for many allocation of indivisible goods models (see Velez, 2008, and references therein), fairness can be restored if a sufficiently large amount of money is available for distribution/compensation as well. Interpreting the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2015
  • Case

BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm

By: William A. Sahlman and Robert F. White
BOLT is a different kind of seed venture capital firm built to serve the needs of early-stage startups at the intersection of hardware and software.

In the past decade, the cost of entrepreneurial experimentation has dropped dramatically, particularly in web... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Accelerator; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Venture Capital; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Strategy
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By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

  • 31 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 31

School Case 811-029 Bling Nation, a Palo Alto, California startup, was founded in 2007 as a mobile payment service provider that bypassed industry participants such as Visa and MasterCard. Bling Nation partnered with local community banks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together

employee-driven. Look for ways to encourage employees to create their own team rituals. What do they seem to enjoy doing together? Provide resources. If team members tend to eat lunch together every Thursday, for example, the employer can consider providing View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

Modigliani-Miller capital structure irrelevance propositions. The case focuses on two questions: (1) From a shareholder's perspective, how is Apple's cash different from cash in a bank or money market account? (2) Can Apple create... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?

Players have long been able to buy virtual items with real money in video games, such as special weapons and features. But Nintendo raised the ire of parents and regulators in 2018 when it added so-called loot boxes—a virtual lottery for... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Video Game; Media & Broadcasting
  • 22 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 22

unavailable at this time. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412057-PDF-ENG Sephora Direct: Investing in Social Media, Video, and Mobile Elie Ofek and Alison Berkley WagonfeldHarvard Business School Case 511-137... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers

people." “The misconception is that checking accounts are vanilla products that don't screw people,” says Marco Di Maggio, the Ogunlesi Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS. “Well, overdraft fees are a form of credit. The bank is lending you... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 02 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

farm refers to a complex of rights and duties secured by contract in which a sovereign transferred the temporary exploitation of a holding for rent in advance. It was one of four tenurial complexes under which entitlements fell, the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

Federal restrictions of employee non-compete agreements could be in the cards for 2022, paving the way for increased worker mobility in a variety of industries. Such restrictions would have hiring and strategy implications for businesses... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology
  • 16 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision

interests (e.g., saving money or donating it to a good cause instead of spending frivolously, eating health food instead of junk food). "People focused a higher percentage of their spending on ice cream (and other 'want' groceries)... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Retail; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

consoles (particularly handheld ones) were facing increasing substitution from online and mobile games played on social networks and/or mobile phones (e.g. Zynga's Farmville). First, could Nintendo come up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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