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- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
such as Amazon.com, drugstore.com, E*Trade, and Priceline.com, firms that unflinchingly invest millions of dollars in advertising and promotion each year to rapidly build traffic and revenues. The high-octane fuel that these super trains... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
It’s the Economy
Stuart Bradford and challenged him to come up with an appropriate cover image. We think he nailed it. Fissures running through the iconic dollar sign depict an economy badly in need of repair. The image sets the stage for the eclectic set... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
human potential. It has made the US an economic powerhouse. It has played a major role in capital being allocated to the most productive uses. Free enterprise has led to the creation of a staggering number of jobs that support families... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
procedures. Nondiscriminatory Insurance Underwriting. Two anomalies mar the pricing of health plans. First, people who are included in large risk pools (such as those who work for big companies) can get a reasonably priced health plan even if someone in the View Details
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
around the world could improve responses to the next global financial catastrophe. Work done recently by dozens of Harvard Business School students under Alberto Cavallo, the Edgerley Family Associate Professor of Business Administration... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 02 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses
Ask any small business owner and they will tell you that cash flow is on their mind pretty much all the time. This isn’t surprising, given that they are continuously managing dollars coming in from customers and going out to pay for... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- Profile
Prita Kumar
nutritionist and certified trainer. Kumar’s father is a marketing research professor and the Kumar dinner table often felt more like a business meeting on the consumer retail sector than a family meal. The nightly discussions focused on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
in the growth of retail medical centers, too. If they are conveniently located, people will take care of minor medical issues, such as an ache, or a mole that might be cancerous. Most people also prefer them to hospitals overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. With more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Developing Black Talent for Leadership
any development opportunities we gain access to. In addition to growing up with the advantages of two loving parents and an extended family of HBCU grads, dedicated people from these talent development organizations helped me imagine and... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
and you say, holy cow. That's the conundrum that Walmart is in. Think about this. There are more than 30,000 dollar stores in the US, you can find one everywhere: in rural regions you find Dollar General and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
a lark, Gain Life partnered with an insurance company to see if its apps could help people who are out of work on shortor long-term disability or workers’ compensation. This market has only a handful of competitors and big bottom-line View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
So far, space tourists have paid tens of millions of dollars each for such trips (Brightman is reportedly spending a record $52 million) but several companies have announced that cheaper trips are in the offing. Virts responded like a... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
and clothing, with almost half draining their savings to pay the bills, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey. Medical debt tends to be a more pervasive problem among those earning less than $40,000 per year and among Black and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
“My first entrepreneurial venture was around age 10, catching fish off a jetty near my house and selling them to fishermen as live bait. They paid 20 cents per fish, and for a dollar I could buy my own game of mini golf.” First order:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
prevailing beliefs.” America and his family forebears have experienced an odyssey that, one might say, is uniquely American. As best he can determine, America is descended from an enslaved African named America who escaped to freedom... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
their own community or their own family member, and then they will say to them, you know, we are your world now. You can never go home. They will kill you. And so these songs worked against that, but it was important that they were... View Details
- 30 Jul 2025
- News
Play with Purpose
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi. This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Born in Chevy Chase, Maryland, Josh Harris (MBA 1990) attended NFL games at the old RFK Stadium in D.C. as a young child, and recalls being stunned by the... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
quite figure out how to harness it for the campaign. Could you help us?’ And so I went in and oversaw the technology. We were responsible for information dissemination, getting out the vote, and grassroots fundraising. That was really the first time that you saw major... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
games. Our dictators can purchase signals about why the recipients are poor. We find that a third of the dictators are willing to pay a dollar to learn more about their recipient. Dictators who devote resources to acquiring information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
technology so that we can reach out in a low-cost, scalable way,” Mahajan explains. Rocket targets the least educated and most impoverished families in India. Many parents earn between one and two dollars a... View Details