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  • December 2018 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

Bulb 2015: Foundation

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In late August 2015, Amit Gudka and Hayden Wood, co-founders of Bulb, Ltd (Bulb), were ready to offer affordable renewable energy to the United Kingdom’s 27 million households. They hoped to capitalize on the hundreds of thousands of customers switching their energy... View Details
Keywords: Green Energy; Start-up; Launch; Customer Acquisition; Customer Churn; Customer Engagement; Electricity; Resources; Growth Strategy; B-Corp; Entrepreneurial Journey; Entrepreneurial Management; Start-ups; Renewable Energy; Business Startups; Business Plan; Business Model; Working Capital; Customers; Growth and Development Strategy; United Kingdom
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    Luis M. Viceira

    Luis M. Viceira is the George E. Bates Professor in the Finance Unit  and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research, course development, and teaching focus on the areas of investment management... View Details

    Keywords: banking; education industry; financial services; nonprofit industry; retail financial services
    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Credit and the Family: The Economic Consequences of Closing the Credit Gap of U.S. Couples

    By: Olivia S. Kim
    Closing disparities in credit access between spouses can help reduce consumption inequality in the household. The 2013 reversal of the Truth-in-Lending Act increased the borrowing capacity of secondary earners in equitable-distribution states but not in... View Details
    Keywords: Household; Credit; Equality and Inequality; Income; Policy; Family and Family Relationships
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    • September 2009
    • Article

    Spousal Control and Intra-Household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines

    By: Nava Ashraf
    Using an experimental design I elicit causal effects of spousal observability and communication on financial choices of married individuals in the Philippines. Making choices public moves men from putting money into their own account to consumption; communication with... View Details
    Keywords: Intra-household; Bargaining; Experiments; Economic Development; Saving; Governance Controls; Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Finance; Family and Family Relationships; Household; Gender
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    • July 2014
    • Article

    Smart Money? The Effect of Education on Financial Outcomes

    By: Shawn A. Cole, Anna Paulson and Gauri Kartini Shastry
    Household financial decisions are important for household welfare, economic growth and financial stability. Yet, our understanding of the determinants of financial decision-making is limited. Exploiting exogenous variation in state compulsory schooling laws in both... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Finance; Investment; Decisions; Behavior; Financial Condition
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    • June 2006
    • Case

    Home Equity Protection

    Nearly 70% of households in the United States own their own home and, yet, virtually no household is insured against a crash in housing values. Is there a market for an insurance product, home equity protection, that would provide this protection? Focuses on the... View Details
    Keywords: Housing; Insurance; Product Design; Equity; Insurance Industry
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    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Dr. Sheth's research focuses on Indian political economy and social history from the sixteenth century to the contemporary, concentrating on the relationship between business households, financial capital, landed rights, and the dissolution and formation of states.... View Details
    • May 2024
    • Article

    Financial Innovation in the 21st Century: Evidence from U.S. Patents

    By: Josh Lerner, Amit Seru, Nick Short and Yuan Sun
    We develop a unique dataset of 24 thousand U.S. finance patents granted over the last two decades to explore the evolution and production of financial innovation. We use machine learning to identify the financial patents and extensively audit the results to ensure... View Details
    Keywords: Banking; Investment Banks; Information Technology; Regulation; Patents; Innovation and Invention; Trends
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    • 26 Feb 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk and Asset Returns

    Keywords: by Christopher J. Malloy, Tobias J. Moskowitz & Annette Vissing-Jørgensen; Financial Services
    • Article

    The Effect of Dividends on Consumption

    By: Malcolm Baker, Stefan Nagel and Jeffrey Wurgler
    Classical models predict that the division of stock returns into dividends and capital appreciation does not affect investor consumption patterns, while mental accounting and other economic frictions predict that investors have a higher propensity to consume from... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Investment Return; Economics; Stocks; Capital; Business Earnings; Investment Portfolio; Investment Funds; Cost; Saving
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    • 08 Feb 2016
    • News

    The costs of inequality: Increasingly, it’s the rich and the rest

    • 28 Jun 2020
    • News

    Prices are rising faster than official figures suggest

    • 02 Aug 2016
    • First Look

    August 2, 2016

    instead for consumer attention. We model and characterize how households allocate their scarce attention in arguably the largest market for attention: the Internet. Our characterization of household... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Fall 2024
    • Article

    The Problem of Good Conduct Among Financial Advisers

    By: Mark Egan, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru
    Households in the United States often rely on financial advisers for investment and savings decisions, yet there is a widespread perception that many advisers are dishonest. This distrust is not unwarranted: approximately one in fifteen advisers has a history of... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Finance; Behavioral Finance; Trust; Financial Services Industry
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    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    ESG: Hyperboles and Reality

    By: George Serafeim
    ESG has rapidly become a household name leading to both confusion about what it means and creating unrealistic expectations about its effects. In this paper, I draw on more than a decade of research to dispel several myths about ESG and provide answers to important... View Details
    Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Disclosure; ESG Reporting; ESG Ratings; Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Performance; Corporate Disclosure; Reports
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    • 02 Mar 2017
    • News

    Short Termism: Steady On Now

    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also... View Details
    • 18 Oct 2017
    • News

    White House Push to Help Workers Through Corporate Tax Cut Draws Skepticism

    • Career Coach

    Okan Okutgen

    Okan (Princeton BSE ‘11, HBS MBA ’15) has years of experience in the tech startup world as a go-to-market leader, general manager and strategic finance leader. He has served as Head of Global Sales Operations & Strategy, Head of APAC... View Details
    • June 2022 (Revised August 2022)
    • Case

    Dollar Tree: Breaking the Buck

    By: Jill Avery and Marco Bertini
    For thirty-five years, Dollar Tree, a discount retail chain selling general merchandise, had held its fixed price point steady, pricing all of its household items, food, stationery, books, seasonal items, gifts, toys, and clothing that made up its diverse and... View Details
    Keywords: Retailing; Pricing; Pricing Strategy; Discount Retailing; Discount Store; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Price; Inflation and Deflation; Consumer Behavior; Retail Industry; United States
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