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- 23 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.
very surprising to a lot of people. And I think it raises a lot of questions,” says Kluender, who studies the causes of financial distress among American households and how government, private insurance,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
new employer-employee matched data, the authors find that firms provide at best partial insurance to their workers. An increase in firm-level uncertainty is associated with a decline in total compensation, especially in variable pay. They... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
founder (1987) and president of Response International Services Corporation, a niche insurance direct marketing company sold to Providian in 1994. Mr. McKown was a principal in Booz, Allen & Hamilton in New... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
powered by advanced ML algorithms embedded with a fintech solution. Hive Health Camille Ang (MBA/MPA-ID 2022) Jiawen Tang (MBA 2023/MPA-ID 2021) Business Track Co-Winner A B2B2C digital health insurer providing simplified, affordable, &... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 07 Jul 2011
- What Do You Think?
So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?
many things are interconnected, it is harder and harder to explain why things, including success, happen. He asks why success in fact is no insurance against subsequent failure, as all writers about... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Finding Pride
interview in 1990. When the owner of the company asked if I had any other questions, I made clear that insurance coverage for my domestic partner was a condition of my employment, which wasn’t really done then. Had I not had the fortitude... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
a discussion on Accounting for Social Insurance (PV): http://www.fasab.gov/pdffiles/si_newsrelease.pdf Of course, dependency ratios are not reduced without other economic and social effects. For example, to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
Diego ; Mexico ; Netherlands Citation Educators Purchase Related Campbell, Dennis, Petros Kusmu, and Stacy Straaberg. "Taylor Guitars: Making Employee Ownership Work the Taylor Way." Harvard Business School Case 125-054, March 2025.... View Details
- 26 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Paid Promos Take the Shine Off YouTube Stars (and Tips for Better Influencer Marketing)
suggests that the effect translates to an average of $10,000 over an average six-year-career influencer. “If consumers aren’t perceiving social influencers as trustworthy and authentic, much of their marketing effort might not lead to a... View Details
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
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Morgan Hall | About
United States Steel Corporation, the world’s first billion-dollar company. At various times Morgan controlled 70 percent of the country’s steel industry, one-fifth of all corporations trading on the New York Stock Exchange, and the three... View Details
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Our Curriculum - Business History
institutions (including banks and insurance companies). Still others focus on the behavior of financial actors and groups, particularly in the context of financial bubbles... View Details
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
results in the beginning. Underestimates can happen as well if AI is solving a constrained problem like back-office automation or insurance claims. Helping customers understand which problems can and cannot... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 29 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)
write-off debt Extending credit was as much a necessity for trade in Cotrugli’s time as it is today, but charging interest was illegal; instead, debts were compensated through commissions or insurance premiums that skirted the definition... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 19 Apr 2023
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
intelligent choices of where they think their markets are, and how much money to spend at an early stage in order to insure that the brand is available in those markets. #4: Disclosing inventions without a... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
Because of this, Airbnb offers not only a review system but also insurance to pay for incidents resulting from unreliable guests, authentication to make sure that guests and hosts are who they say they are,... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
Peru, or seven years to open a bakery in Egypt? He attributes much of this to the fact that most of the world lacks a tradition of property rights (which is consistent with the imperfections matrix mentioned above), as well as courts and... View Details
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Janie McDonough
opportunities for jobs they might not have thought achievable, provided health insurance for 40 families and allowed peace of mind for retirement plans. My personal whiteboard contains lessons that have... View Details