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- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
finishing work on a case study about Airbnb, where anyone can offer a room in their house or an apartment for short-term rentals. "Compared to restaurant choice, people are taking a big risk when deciding to rent their apartment to a... View Details
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later &mdash Easy Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling
The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits “Why not rent a sewing machine to the housewife and apply the rental fee to the purchase price of the machine?”... View Details
- 25 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing
fintech lenders harvest deeper insight into those borrowers that banks typically reject after running a standard credit check. Fintech lenders claim to consult additional metrics like utility bills or rent payments to identify... View Details
- Portrait Project
Angel Gonzalez
stop and when our mom caught up, we broke the news that her purse was gone and in it all the money we had—including rent for the month. Strangers stared as we consoled our mom. A few, however, generously gave us just enough money for the... View Details
- 27 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?
Jon Staff (MBA ’16) is the CEO and Founder of Getaway, a company that designs tiny houses, places them on beautiful rural land and rents them out by the night to stressed out city-dwellers, starting at $99/night. He was the co-president... View Details
- Portrait Project
Auden Laurence
sister, a “servant leader” as my grandfather put it. And, over time, my sister grew strong. Years later, I read a quote that spoke to my soul: “service is the rent we pay for living.” I saw my lived purpose on the page, learned from my... View Details
- 2008
- Simulation
Pricing Simulation: Universal Car Rental
This web-based simulation presents an engaging context in which students develop their knowledge of pricing by managing a rental car operation (Universal) in Florida and improve regional performance by developing a pricing strategy. The simulation involves three... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Consumer Behavior; Price; Profit; Renting or Rental; Auto Industry; Service Industry; Miami; Orlando; Tampa
- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
protect the rights and well-being of remote employees can further foster the work-from-anywhere movement.” 3. Incentivize people to move to lower-profile areas. Not everyone wants to take out a massive mortgage or pay exorbitant rent to... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 28 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld
million square feet of office space rented by companies like Honeywell and KPMG, EcoWorld features 134 thousand square feet of retail and other public spaces. During our tour, we saw first-hand how these public spaces were designed to... View Details
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
collection of scientific volumes, and in the basements of a series of rented apartments, he devoted himself to the development of a synthetic light-polarizing material. "You want to be undisturbed. You want to be free to think not for an... View Details
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?
purchase a home than to rent one in 95 percent of America. This one racist policy has led to an affordable housing crisis that impacts most White home buyers today. “I often ask how racism harms those at the bottom of the imaginary... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
low WTS in their relationship with Apple; this is because the company increases foot traffic by about 10 percent for all the other stores in the mall. And, as the figure suggests, a busier mall allows owners to increase the rent for all... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
something they could do themselves. Or they may not recognize that, say, spending more on rent to live closer to work could put them in a better state of mind. Swapping money for time might be especially beneficial to women. While women... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online
through experimentation. Highlights Describing Successful Ventures The Idea Pivots - Voluntary and Involuntary Show Hide Details Concepts The POCD Framework The Journey of Rent the Runway Post-Launch Considerations Dynamic Fit Management... View Details
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
that such shifts will be drastic. On the other hand, “mobile apps don’t require much fixed costs, so you can change the business objective more easily.” (The way Airbnb did from focusing on air mattresses in someone’s living room to View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling
Snigdha Sur (MBA 2017) is the Founder and CEO of The Juggernaut, a digital media company for South Asian stories. She’s on a mission to diversify storytelling and newsrooms and help challenge existing storylines. Since writing this blog post, Snigdha Sur was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
Whether it’s booking a hotel, renting a movie, or buying a car, many of us consult multiple reviews before deciding. It’s called aggregating opinions, and we do it without even thinking about it. Crowdsourcing works so well, in fact, says... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
rent the clearing and settling capabilities, the stock loan inventories and balance sheets of the banks. The hedge funds claim to be able to provide substantial returns regardless of the direction of the market. Like mutual funds and... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
Carnegie Mellon University. This difference in the monthly occupancy rate “suggests that Airbnb guests may be systematically biased against renting from Black hosts,” the researchers write. Based on detailed neighborhood and city data... View Details