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  • March 2012
  • Article

Subprime Foreclosures and the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform

By: Donald Morgan, Benjamin Iverson and Matthew Botsch
This article presents arguments and evidence suggesting that the bankruptcy abuse reform (BAR) of 2005 may have been one contributor to the destabilizing surge in subprime foreclosures. Before BAR took effect, overly indebted borrowers could file bankruptcy to free up... View Details
Keywords: Mortgages; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Borrowing and Debt; United States
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Teele Hall | About

2000 in honor of Dean Stanley F. Teele (1906–1967), the modern brick, concrete, and glass structure was designed by Goody & Clancy and constructed in 1985. The 49,000-square-foot building has five floors and large windows that afford... View Details
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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

where Donald Brown, our Patent Attorney (in Santa Fe by coincidence) was staying, to describe to him in great detail a dry camera which would give a picture immediately after exposure.” 43 Correspondence... View Details
  • March 1998 (Revised December 1999)
  • Case

Bronner Slosberg Humphrey

By: David E. Bell and Donald M Leavitt
Bronner Slosberg Humphrey has succeeded by providing integrated direct marketing solutions for major service companies such as AT&T, American Express, and FedEx. A new CEO takes over from the company's founder and is wondering how to grow the company. Options include... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Growth and Development Strategy; Leading Change; Global Strategy; Service Operations; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology; Salesforce Management; Marketing Communications; Service Industry
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  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

- too much product (and too much production capability) chasing too few buyers - is hardly a new phenomenon. As a factor in market capitalism, overcapacity has been recognized and analyzed as a business-cycle reality by economic thinkers... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Banking on Success

Kennedy Stephen M. Waters James A. Stern William J. Kneisel Donald H. Layton Kevin W. Kennedy A managing director at Goldman Sachs, where he has spent his entire career, Kevin Kennedy has served the firm in a number of positions,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Goldfaden Land, who studied physics, and Harry Land, who ran a scrap metal and real estate business in Connecticut. In high school at the Norwich Free Academy, Land excelled in physics and became enthralled with the classic Physical Optics View Details
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Donald Ngwe, Kris J. Ferreira and Thales Teixeira
Many online stores are designed such that shoppers can easily access any available discounted products. We propose that deliberately increasing search frictions by placing small obstacles to locating discounted items can improve online retailers’ margins and even... View Details
Keywords: E-commerce; Online Retailing; Friction; Effor; Search Costs; Price Discrimination; Consumer Behavior; Price; Search Technology
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  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

Marquis Jet Takes Off

uniquely positioned to broaden the customer base for private-jet travel to their former clients: young, highly paid athletes and performers. By contrast, their research showed that the typical private-jet customer was a highly successful... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • December 2019
  • Article

The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Donald Ngwe, Kris J. Ferreira and Thales Teixeira
Many online stores are designed such that shoppers can easily access any available discounted products. We propose that deliberately increasing search frictions by placing small obstacles to locating discounted items can improve online retailers’ margins and even... View Details
Keywords: Online Retailing; Friction; Effor; Search Costs; Price Discrimination; Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Strategy; Price; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry
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  • 25 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 25, 2016

coupon legality. We find that coupons increase branded sales by 60+ percent, entirely by reducing the sales of bioequivalent generics. During the five years following generic entry, we estimate that coupons... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Ralph Flanders, president of the Federal Research Bank in Boston and later senator from Vermont; Merrill Griswold, head of Massachusetts Investments Trust; and Donald... View Details
  • 10 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

forthcoming HarperCollins Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level By: Sebenius, James K., R. Nicholas Burns, and Robert H. Mnookin (with a forward by Henry A. Kissinger) Abstract—As professors and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets

new paper by Geoffrey Jones, Tarun Khanna, Cheng Gao, and Tiona Zuzul. Mint We are in a deglobalization period: Business historian Geoffrey G. Jones Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey G. Jones says Brexit and View Details
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Celebrating the Work of Keith Murnighan

By: Donald E. Conlon, Max Bazerman, Deepak Malhotra and Madan M. Pillutla
In this tribute, four scholars highlight research published during the career of 2015 International Association for Conflict Management Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Keith Murnighan. In the four sections of the paper, each scholar highlights one of Keith’s... View Details
Keywords: Conflict Management
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

for the next generation.” Edwin Land, "Research by the Business Itself," 1944 15 In 1935, Edwin Land received the Hood Medal from the Royal Photographic Society, and in 1938, the Elliot Cresson Medal from the Franklin Institute in... View Details
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

trust through warmth and understanding. Most leaders today approach their jobs by emphasizing competence, strength, and credentials. But without first building a foundation of trust, they run the risk of eliciting fear, resentment, or... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 10 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 10

Corstjens and Rajiv Lal Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012) Abstract Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers the best opportunities for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Opportunistic Returns and Dynamic Pricing: Empirical Evidence from Online Retailing in Emerging Markets

By: Chaithanya Bandi, Antonio Moreno, Donald Ngwe and Zhiji Xu
We investigate how dynamic pricing can lead to higher operational costs through more product returns in the online retail industry. Dynamic pricing has been widely applied by many online retailers. Research has shown that, in response to dynamic pricing, some customers... View Details
Keywords: Price; Policy; Consumer Behavior; Cost Management; Emerging Markets; Retail Industry
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The Case Method Classroom | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

method teaching, Aldrich Hall represented the School’s continued commitment to this pedagogy. Led by Dean Donald K. David, HBS faculty helped design the classroom layout, and a full-size classroom prototype... View Details