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- 25 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing
Consumers turning to fintech lenders are more likely to spend beyond their means, sink further into debt, and ultimately default more often than people with similar credit... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
plans, among other factors-was hampering uptake of what should be a highly valuable offering for all stakeholders involved. They wondered if a DTC approach, in which American Well would become a consumer brand and market a telehealth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
households’ stock holdings, the authors find that unrealized capital gains lead to a marginal propensity to View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
Reminders of Future Busyness Encourage Consumers to Buy Time By: Whillans, A.V., Elizabeth W. Dunn, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Spending money on time-saving purchases improves happiness. Yet, people... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
valuations of consumers who have access to vouchers must systematically differ from—and typically be lower than—those of consumers who do not have access View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2007
- Op-Ed
When Your Product Becomes a Commodity
speed from launch to maturity is faster than ever before. Marketers can do three things to delay the inevitable forces of commoditization. Innovate. A new product that better meets View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
its origins at the Harvard Business School in the late 1920s. Over the following century, the editors show that the discipline and its practitioners often found themselves on the margins of academic discourses and their own institutions.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
distinguishing between direct and complementary spillovers, we examine (1) the extent to which a hospital's specialization in areas related to cardiovascular care directly impacts performance in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies
Taiwan, stored in Hong Kong, aggregated in parts, and sent in kits to China for assembly." All the suppliers in this chain are typically operating on very thin margins and tight schedules—any disruption... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52745 June 28, 2017 Harvard Business Review Patent Trolling Isn’t Dead—It’s Just Moving to Delaware By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—No abstract available.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
starts to look more like the past if I make automatic decisions that are all based on inferences of the past. For consumers and the world, we have this opportunity right now to... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
inserting themselves at every juncture in the customer's consumption chain. By decoupling—the act of separating activities that people are used to co-consuming—new digital businesses are disrupting retailing, telecom and other industries.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bundle?
Sales can soar when companies bundle products together into one cheaper package—Happy Meal, anyone? Yet a buyer's affinity for such deals comes with a big caveat, according to new research: These groupings are often successful only if the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.
their toolkit.” The work reveals new clues about an issue that has been challenging economists, businesses, and consumers for several years: runaway inflation that’s slowed but persisted stubbornly even in the face of interest-rate hikes.... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research
Laura Alfaro and Andrés Fernández September 2025 | Article | Journal of International Economics There is much ongoing debate on the merits of capital controls as effective policy instruments. The differing perspectives are due in part to... View Details
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Business History - Faculty & Research
margins of academic discourses and their own institutions. There was a constant struggle to define the borders of the field and the central research questions that it sought to... View Details
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
luxury has been widely discussed in social theories and marketing research, relatively little research has directly examined the psychological consequences of exposure to luxury goods. This paper demonstrates that mere exposure View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
performance and design, salesmen might be able to sway the customer toward one brand or another. This was not a trivial accomplishment. The consequence of this type of marginal ability View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
increased job churn (which will occur), with no significant gain or loss of jobs. The problem generally is that the benefits of globalization flow largely to investors and consumers while workers bear a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Pet Project
optimized for DTC? Even if retail is where most consumer packaged goods are sold, it will mean lower margins and lower LTV. “So why should we launch a less profitable channel? Is retail critical for an exit... View Details