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- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marcin Kacperczyk Abstract—We study the impact of the zero lower bound interest rate policy on the industrial organization of the U.S. money View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
Education (PiE), a foundation that provides nearly three-quarters of the flexible funding available to the city’s cash-strapped schools. Scheel’s wife, Susan, was an early leader of PiE, which raises supplemental View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
To the Rescue
organized the event. The Robin Hood Foundation, whose board members fund all of the organization's overhead costs, annually provides $140 million in grants to some 200 New York City antipoverty efforts. Thanks to Bruce Springsteen and... View Details
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
Are you reaching your customers? The key is knowing who they are and what they want To appeal to retail customers you need to understand what makes them tick. What better way to do that than by studying actual consumer behavior? A great deal of View Details
- 01 Aug 2014
- News
Cross-Class Connection
HBS Fund supports: research, curriculum innovation, and other critical needs,” notes Crisses, who served with cochairs Scott Belsky, Jen Lee Koss, and Rohit Sahni. “Together, we developed a fundraising mantra—educate people about what’s... View Details
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
difficult one for direct investors. Tilted Playing Field Why is it so difficult to make money as a direct investor in the United States? Indeed, much of the rhetoric on investing environments argues that the major destinations for U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
recent U.S. real estate history can’t help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
Klarman Illustration by David Cowles While other money managers scrambled to survive the financial market meltdown, value investor extraordinaire Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
about how venture capitalists fund companies, they usually do it in stages, giving a little money to start, waiting for it to percolate, and maybe doing a midcourse correction. For the public sector to do... View Details
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
defend their core market from attack, newspaper companies were missing the new emerging market altogether. This paradox can be summarized: absent a sense of threat, response to disruptive opportunities is... View Details
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Grant Donnelly & Michael Norton
We are currently working on a number of projects investigating decision-making, from how much money millionaires think they need to be happy to whether the feeling of being observed might decrease people’s likelihood of cheating on their... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
success.” There were several nuanced responses that prompt the question in the title above. Arie Goldshlager commented that, “for every similar (example to that of the Commonwealth Bank) candor marketing example, I see many more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
listen," said Fialkow, a college dropout who helped create UPromise and a number of other successful ventures. The goal is to get to market as quickly as possible, Fialkow continued. If you have a good idea, put smart people around a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
ensure that the excesses of the 2000s aren't repeated. "Shadow banks"—the non-bank entities such as money market funds, hedge funds, and insurance companies that provide banking-like services—still... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
entertainment: building a business around blockbuster products-the movies, television shows, songs, and books that are hugely expensive to produce and market-is the surest path to long-term success. Along the way, I reveal why entertainment executives often spend... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
Palandjian Photo courtesy Tracy Palandjian Cohen Main article: Where Innovation Rules Governments and philanthropies have long sought to improve the lives of society’s least fortunate and most vulnerable, often with discouraging results. View Details
- 30 Jan 2006
- HBS Case
The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand
marketing his work, sometimes investing his own money in outlets such as television commercials and billboards that are more frequently used for fast food than books. Whatever the genre (he has also... View Details
- Fast Answer
Companies: small or private
required to file through the SEC, if they borrow money from the public or raise money from venture funds they generally have to file a Form D with the SEC. These filings... View Details
- 15 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday
the company's success over its 20-year existence. But Sunil Gupta, an expert on marketing and digital technology who wrote a recent case on Amazon, sees deeper motives behind the company creating its own Christmas in July. "I think... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
would merely defer payment. But if the division of the fund completely depends on final agreement between the two sides, the outcome of the strike more accurately reflects the balance of their bargaining positions. The No-Fist mechanism... View Details