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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Up Your Time Affluence
wealth weakly predicts happiness. “It’s okay to be money-focused,” says Whillans. “But beyond a certain point, the amount of money you have has little bearing on happiness levels.” Finding quality time in an already hectic schedule can... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
change, oil companies are diversifying their businesses, putting money toward renewable energy sources and green technology. While sustainable funds shun fossil fuel producers, which contribute half of the world’s greenhouse gases,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
have big consequences for how people spend the money and its impact on their businesses and their livelihoods.” “That paper was very influential and one of the first indications to academics that small changes to the structure of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Taking Tailoring High Tech
Jamal Motlagh began research for his fashion business at HBS, with male classmates who were beginning to recognize the importance of being well dressed. They were part of a larger trend: According to the NPD Group, the menswear market in... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
raising another big round of venture capital might have fueled even faster growth, using other people’s money to get as big as possible as quickly as possible was never her goal. She is not alone. Even as the amount of venture capital... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
where most players are losing money but capturing the imagination of the industry. But it's unclear how you make money on Wi-Fi. For example, the service-provider model would be difficult, he said, because... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
annual budget and then finding the means to support it. Fundraising, he says, has always intrigued him. He acknowledges that people don't usually like to ask for donations and that "it can be downright embarrassing," but he sees it as the ultimate challenge. "People... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate
Harvard Business School professors Richard S. Tedlow and Rawi Abdelal, who provided a historical perspective on Levitt's work at the Globalization of Markets colloquium held May 28-30. The twentieth-year anniversary of the article has... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
phenomenon it pretty much created. “From the foundation of yoga wear, we started a category that before us did not exist,” says Vivien Yeung (MBA 2001), Lululemon’s chief strategy officer. Understanding the public consumption ritual around yoga offers View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
programs," he says. "The money is there at refund time. We just need to help families try to save some of it." Easy To Buy Other recommendations Tufano offers include marketing the program... View Details
- 10 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice
says. “The mentor might suggest, ‘Why don’t you do a better marketing campaign?’ The problem is, I’m not sure money spent on ads would improve help, and the cost of marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
trademark lawsuit, or spending money on a domain name or logo that turns out to be unusable. As head of Master-McNeil, a Berkeley-based naming and branding agency behind names like Ariba, PayPal, Athlon, Affirm, and over 60 projects for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
there were about 9,000 bulk carriers, which varied in dimensions from small to supersized. The bulk shipping market was valued at roughly $180 billion. Owners in this highly competitive industry make money... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
that related to risk. Here’s a bunch of people giving money at 50 percent to projects that really should only be charged 10 percent. Well, if markets work correctly, after a little while people will come... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
could stray from an assignment to write market assessments and instead create a start-up business plan. “The professor was Walt Salmon, and fortunately he was all for it,” recalls Cassidy, who eventually made good on the plan to launch... View Details
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Strategy for Entrepreneurs - Course Catalog
and predictions about how a firm can make money by solving a problem that the market has yet to solve. As with any new idea, knowing with certainty if your startup idea will work is impossible. Worse yet, a... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #18: Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Venture Capitalist and Water Evangelist
not tell the story, however. “You need to prove that you can make money at the early stage. Markets are only obvious in retrospect. Fintech was thought of as a nonsense market... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years later, both camps benefit enormously from their close ties: the mutual fund is America's investment vehicle of choice, with one in three U.S. households owning a stake in the industry's $5.5 trillion in assets. "By making the capital View Details
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Orkun Kilic
Sometimes leadership is cultivated over a period of years; other times it arises in the moment. When an earthquake struck Istanbul in 1999, Orkun Kilic immediately seized the initiative and led a team that saved three people from the rubble. The next day, he organized... View Details