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- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
impact on entrepreneurship, using individual- and firm-level micro data from Denmark. The reform allowed entrepreneurs to bypass the project screening function of banks, by instead relying on the value of housing collateral to access... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
poorly suited," explains Froot. “Why can't they produce enough of this coverage at a lower price?” A local property-casualty insurance agency can easily hold enough capital to cover losses from house fires or burst pipes; such losses... View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
Photo by Mary Ellen Mark At first glance, perhaps, the writer John Irving might not seem to have a lot to teach the corporate world. As the author of such celebrated bestsellers as The Cider House Rules and The World According to Garp,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
over 80 of her lipsticks to the luncheon as table gifts. Unlike most lipsticks at the time, these were housed in metal cases. Lunch guests noticed the unusual packaging and the lipstick's color and texture. As the event broke up, Fiske... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
everyday workers and families. Christine: "We've been able to contribute to the state in the following ways: "We presented an economic development policy proposal to the state's Speaker of the House and legislature in May 2022 "We... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
wonderful book. Bob Boorstin, who used to be at the White House and at Google, is speaking out about his bipolar disorder. Scott Stossel, who's the editor of the Atlantic, is speaking out about his own anxiety. And we have many, many more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
accompanied her to Boston for orientation. "My mom was in the housing line for me when I was in the pre-MBA classes," she says. "I remember going to my first day of classes, and it was very funny because my dad had a camera and was... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
employment activity. This retrenchment follows both Senate and House committee chair changes, occurs in large and small firms and within large and small states, and is most pronounced among geographically concentrated firms. The effects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
into any other state or geography that implemented P-TECH. So, you got the key players not just to donate something, but to be part of the decision-making process. The new principal of the first P-TECH school went door to door in the public View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
assess them optimistically. Furthermore, we find that more experienced analysts and higher-status brokerage houses are the first to shift the relation between CSR ratings and investment recommendation optimism. We find no significant link... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808110 Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil Harvard Business School Case 708-042 This case focuses on the financial difficulties faced in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
on stocks or other assets. This would evidently have a negative effect on the prices of those assets. The return on residential real estate might be affected by the aging of baby boomers though, if this leads to shifts in the demographic structure of different areas of... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
country, or I'll go to another team. But I try not to play hardball because I learned early on that's a strategy that doesn't work. What I do play hardball with-- it's not the money but it's certain other provisions. For instance, making sure that she's View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Warsaw, Poland Admission by Proxy I want to share an inspiring counterpoint to the grim events we are all enduring these days. Upon my discharge from the Navy in January 1946, my new wife and I bought and refurbished a used house trailer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Shaky Ground Senior Lecturer John Macomber Because of a housing shortage in Williston, oil worker Glenn Robinson, from Missouri, sleeps in his car, staying warm by idling the engine and using a fan heater connected to the car battery.... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
relations. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/norton mason vandello biga dyer.pdf Toward a Three-Tier Market for U.S. Home Mortgages Authors:Robert C. Pozen Publication:Chap. 3 in The Future of Housing Finance:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
will include, says Şen, creating temporary living quarters to house nearly 20,000 people left homeless by the disaster. FEBRUARY 24 Fatih Uysal (AMP 2000, 2021), CEO of Kariyer.net, the leading HRTech company in Turkey, notes that his... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
what those channels would do, what kind of mindset they would foster for children. To enhance its brand, REPRETEL resorted to a partnership with the Fundación Promotora para la Vivienda (FUPROVI), an NGO devoted to the development of public View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
investment houses could use their funds to promote corporate social responsibility and that such investments could be profitable. This was considered extremely unorthodox in the industry at the time. In the wake of the giant oil spill... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
house under her name in a partnership with the luxury conglomerate Kering as a 50/50 joint venture in 2001. A lifelong vegetarian, Stella McCartney does not use any leather or fur in her collections, which include women's ready-to-wear,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne