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- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
the best price, "full stop," said Frei. Another confounding factor for the insurance business is that companies lose money on auto insurance, she added. "Every company with the exception of maybe five loses money on auto insurance. They make up for that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
Collins Properties, must decide with its equity partner whether to continue funding the building's losses while trying to lease the vacant space, restructure the debt, or default on the loan and turn the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
intensive companies, and blind review of solution submissions. We find that technical and social marginality, being a source of different perspectives and heuristics, plays an important role in explaining individual success in problem solving. The View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
associated with a decrease in non-performing loans and an increase in interest rate spreads, suggesting that foreign concerns bought domestic banks that had been making loans with low interest rates to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
reference." Looking At Other Industries The gaming industry is a unique setting for this kind of research, given its tight regulation by gaming control boards and the government, and its hyper focus on profitability, security, and loss... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
cycles of optimism and pessimism in financial markets will always exist, but we can help people make better informed decisions using data and make the system more resilient.” “The bank CEOs who suffered the worst losses were pretty much... View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
post-task free time (e.g., surfing the Internet) can mitigate the collateral work pace losses due to idle time. Through examination and discussion of the effects of idle time at work, we broaden theory on work pacing. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
reducing system loss and turning around a public corporation in disarray was a formidable and risky challenge. There were also risks on the regulatory front, where water-related issues could be susceptible to political pressure. However,... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
disclosure levels for consumer information and consumers observe both before deciding which firm to patronize and how much information to provide it with. The provision and disclosure of information presents tradeoffs for all market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
recommend, I also draw on international comparisons based on what we learned in BGIE. In overseeing our operations, I draw on TOM thinking. In work and beyond, concepts learned in Negotiations are very helpful. “My HBS experience was made possible through the View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
delay implementation of the Rule in response to the Business Roundtable challenge. We also examine intra-day returns and find that the value loss occurred just after the SEC's announcement on October 4. We find similar results on July 22,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
fateful day in 1977. “We started to chat, and the phone rang,” recalls Rogers. When Cook hung up, he had tears in his eyes. “I offered to excuse myself, but he said, ‘No, no, let me tell you what just happened.’ ” Wells Fargo Bank had rejected Cook’s View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
careful not to squeeze people. When the network asked if he could find a radar gun, he didn't ask, "What's in it for me?" Likewise, when the officer asked for baseballs, Lucci didn't say, "You can have them if you'll loan... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
this case:http://hbr.org/search/812079-PDF-ENG JP Morgan Chase & the CIO Losses Clayton RoseHarvard Business School Case 313-033 On July 13, 2012, JP Morgan Chase & Co. announced a larger than expected View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
Says Gould, "The provision of adequate housing for people at all income levels is a problem that's never going to be solved by free-market economics. Only the federal government has the resources necessary to address the magnitude of the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
selling the client firm's stock. This overweighting is not explained by superior information. We quantify a potentially large benefit to the 401(k) sponsor firm of having its price propped up by its trustee fund's more severe overweighting. We also estimate the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
credit products in the U.S. with an emphasis on the types of products that low—and moderate—income consumers use. Included here are the following: credit cards, bank overdraft products, payday lending, personal loans and peer-to-peer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
provide. The provision and disclosure of information presents tradeoffs for all market participants. Consumers benefit from providing information to the firm, as this increases the utility they derive from the service, but they incur... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
temporarily.” Incredibly, McNamara says that the conventional wisdom about the domino theory and the question of whether U.S. troops could ever in fact prevent the loss of South Vietnam “were never debated at the government’s highest... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset on the universe of corporate loans for 2003–2013 to identify bank-specific shocks for each year using methods from the matched employer-employee... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne