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- July 2007
- Article
Geographical Segmentation of U.S. Capital Markets
Demographic variation in savings behavior can be exploited to provide evidence on segmentation in US bank loan markets. Cities with a large fraction of seniors have higher volumes of bank deposits. Since many banks rely heavily on deposit financing, this affects local...
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Age;
Economy;
Capital Markets;
Banks and Banking;
Financing and Loans;
Local Range;
United States
Becker, Bo. "Geographical Segmentation of U.S. Capital Markets." Journal of Financial Economics 85, no. 1 (July 2007): 151–178.
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
thereby limiting the scope of people willing to engage in such behaviors. The tight integration of social and economic benefits is equally important—users can obtain the social benefits only if they undertake actions that clearly benefit...
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- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
board's job is to approve strategy, and management's job is to propose strategy for the long-term direction of the company in terms of its products, pricing, customers, service, etc.,—all major decisions for scoping out a firm's...
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by Jim Aisner
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
four major categories: chartering, learning, mobilizing, and realigning. Chartering refers to the process by which the organization defines the purpose and scope of the initiative, as well as the way people will work with one another on...
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by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
Tiffany Nida’s Amazon Journey: “I Continue to Grow Because They Keep Giving Me Responsibility.”
about from a mentor who has been extraordinarily proactive in my career,” Tiffany explains. “The scope of my new assignment challenged me to grow; I would manage a team of about fifteen people, more than I had ever managed before.” This...
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Technology
- Web
Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog
is the business model? Scope and Speed : How does a venture scale by expanding into new geographies, products, and markets? What does it take to manage multiple revenue streams? How fast should your expansion or diversification take...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
employees to more than 1,000, while its community of users expanded from 300 million to more than a billion. Despite the big-picture scope and pace of her latest role, Levine still finds time to enjoy the small, user-generated moments...
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Julia Hanna
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
It's a question often debated, but seldom answered authoritatively: Do companies have a social responsibility to protect the environment beyond legal requirements? Specifically, may companies do so within the scope of their fiduciary...
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by Manda Salls
- Web
Africa - Global Activities 2021
broaden the scope of the channel in which I could drive economic development in the short term, possibly technology. In the long term, I want to make my way to Africa-wide positions before eventually narrowing down on public-sector...
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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
fundraising presentation and offering memorandum" - a process she likens to "a two-hour class in how to start a VC fund." While students on the HBS West Club's trip could choose to visit firms in three industries, the CMC Ventures Club limited its trip's View Details
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Daniel Penrice
- January 2023
- Case
The END Fund: To Eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Courtney Han
Founded in 2012, the END fund focused on eliminating five Neglected Tropical Diseases that accounted for 80% of the tropical diseases affecting nearly 1.5 billion people worldwide. Its roughly $25 million/year annual budget was fully committed when it got news that the...
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Nonprofit Organizations;
Health Disorders;
Health Care and Treatment;
Resource Allocation;
Global Range;
Decisions;
Investment Funds
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Courtney Han. "The END Fund: To Eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases." Harvard Business School Case 523-063, January 2023.
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
constellation of practices that extends across the entirety of organizational life. We had hit upon a development that goes beyond the traditional scope of what communication leaders do, and we therefore widened our research to encompass...
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Re: Boris Groysberg
- 27 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the PRIDE Club
Who is PRIDE? The Class of 2020 students of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Student Association (LGBTSA) pitched an idea to change the club name to be more inclusive of the full spectrum of queer identities to the club leadership. They felt that some...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
beyond this letter’s scope to counter Tobias’s many fallacious arguments about the national debt, in which he ascribes no responsibility to the congressional Democrats who originated most of the spending over the past half-century. If...
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
plans that Associate Dean McArthur enumerated indeed foreshadow the accomplishments of Dean McArthur and his faculty colleagues. Just as Kim Clark knew that it would be impossible to represent in one symposium the full scope of happenings...
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Susan Young
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
(i.e., information about the files) Fast downloads Works well with iPod We built an economic model to improve our understanding of how both forms of digital distribution interact. While this methodology restricts somewhat the scope...
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- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
employees will protest or leave if they tried to do that. And a lot of companies were able to hire from a broad geographic scope that they wouldn’t have otherwise done outside of the pandemic. What do you even do about people who are in...
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- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship
remote interns. “It's important to select projects which are important or notable to a large group. This ensures that many people in the organization are invested in the intern's success, and it widens the scope of available mentors who...
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All Industries
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Global Climate Change
style="color:black">Measuring and reporting GHG emissions such as carbon dioxide and methane are key first steps to reducing emissions. This training consists five modules including scope 1-3. It...
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