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- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
not invest sufficient capital in their own businesses. Either: a) They can't. b) They won't. 2. Women lack fundamental business skills and experience: a) They do not have strong math skills. b) They have little or no relevant financial experience. 3. Women are View Details
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
very own debtors' prisons. Their task is Sisyphean: they work, pay the monthly debt to the lender, yet see a perpetual gap between payments and value. The payments can seem like an extortion episode from The Sopranos. Exit strategies are... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
In the early 1990s, both Teradyne and Hewlett-Packard identified new technologies that had enormous potential to cause new-market disruptions. As with most disruptive innovations, these technologies offered to provide smaller and less View Details
- 19 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?
might be interested in ex-post (i.e., once there). Thus, consumers coming to the supermarket to buy daily staples (say, bread and milk) might be induced to also get expensive chocolate if they have to walk past the corresponding aisle... View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
As today's fiscal deficit and dragging economy continue to cast long shadows, it's easy to forget much darker times in American history. Shortly after winning its independence from Great Britain, the United States was bankrupt. Individual states weren't required to... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
we show that the same behaviors produce more ethical condemnation when they happen to produce bad rather than good outcomes, even if the outcomes are largely determined by chance. Our studies show that individuals judge behaviors as less... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
total cost of tuition and course fees for the 10 percent of students with the greatest financial need. Capital Investment (in millions) FY 23 $31 FY 22 $43 FY 21 22 FY 20 43 FY 19 38 IT Investment (in millions, excludes capital expenses) FY 23 112 FY 22 98 FY 21 90 FY... View Details
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
and rewarding more participatory, more sincere, and less directive marketing styles. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-017.pdf The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting and Compensation: The Case of Employee Stock Options View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
firms such as Elliot and Dart as "vultures" or "rouge creditors" who sought to profit on sovereign debt restructurings at the expense of countries suffering economic hardship and of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
structure, value, and finance large, "Greenfield" projects. He also has created the Project Finance Portal. Perhaps fittingly, his HBS office is just a few miles down the road from one of the most expensive public works project... View Details
- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
at the expense of others. You have the license to be a bank because you're supposed to make the world a better place. Instead, when a group of banks makes very poor decisions, all because individuals were doing something that was better... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
relevant, quality newspaper and deliver it on time. To my knowledge we're the only newspaper in the country that guarantees 5:30 a.m. weekday home delivery, which is very expensive to do. But we think that's critical. About 40 percent of... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
Datar—implemented a clear strategy: Maintain the quality of the educational experience by investing in hybrid and virtual classroom technologies; protect jobs by reducing noncritical expenses and holding salaries level; and lay the... View Details
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
collaboration encouraged by today’s communication tools like Slack and Skype good or bad for finding the best answer? “I don’t want there to be zero communication, but I do think that transparency and communication do have downsides"... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
Wenxin, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—Nominal debt provides consumption-smoothing benefits if it can be inflated away during recessions. However, we document empirically that countries with more countercyclical inflation, where nominal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
bad weather). In this paper, we define superfluous apologies as expressions of regret for an undesirable circumstance for which the apologizer is clearly not responsible. Across four studies, we find that issuing a superfluous apology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
multiplied by a marginal Federal borrowing cost of 3 percent), eliminating any price advantage of Medicare. The comparison between the administrative expenses of private insurers and Medicare also ignores the fact that Medicare pays no... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
going up all the time, our debt was increasing continuously as a percentage of our GDP. And we had to face all that by going into solutions that required the people to feel very bad because we were... View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
certifiers opt for a quick turnaround time at the expense of a lower accuracy. Finally, we investigate the opportunity of regulating transparency. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-062.pdf Cases & Course... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
world's scientists who study the relevant science from a wide range of perspectives believe that continuing to emit large quantities of CO2 significantly increases the risk of a range of bad outcomes. They may be wrong. But it seems to me... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel