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  • March 31, 2022
  • Article

Two Approaches to Capping Health Care Prices

By: Michael E. Chernew, Maximilian J. Pany and Leemore S. Dafny
High health care prices for the privately-insured contribute to high premiums, which put downward pressure on wages, and induce employers to reduce benefit generosity and charge employees more for coverage. As the average annual premium for family coverage currently... View Details
Keywords: Price Caps; Health Care and Treatment; Price
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  • February 2022
  • Article

Sugar-sweetened Beverage Purchases and Intake at Event Arenas with and without a Portion Size Cap

By: Sheri Volger, James Scott Parrott, Brian Elbel, Leslie K. John, Jason P. Block, Pamela Rothpletz-Puglia and Christina A. Roberto
This is the first real-world study to examine the association between a voluntary 16-ounce (oz.) portion-size cap on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) at a sporting arena on volume of SSBs and food calories purchased and consumed during basketball games. Cross-sectional... View Details
Keywords: Sugar-sweetened Beverages; Nutrition Policy; Obesity Prevention; Portion Sizes; Nutrition; Policy; Health; Behavior
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  • August 2016
  • Teaching Note

Songy 2011: Restructuring to Survive (Or, Surviving to Restructure?)

By: Charles F. Wu and Alexander W. Schultz
In 2011, Songy Partners, an Atlanta based real estate developer, was facing three distressed investments within their portfolio each with distinct sets of challenges. Having weathered a myriad of issues during the Global Financial Crisis which included operational... View Details
Keywords: Distressed Debt; Real Estate; Limited Partners; Cap Rates; Partners and Partnerships; Valuation; Investment; Property; Borrowing and Debt; Real Estate Industry; Atlanta
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  • December 2014
  • Teaching Note

Rick's Dilemma

By: Arthur I Segel and Ben Eppler
This is a teaching note designed to accompany the case "Rick's Dilemma." View Details
Keywords: Land Markets; Finance; Inequality; Trusts; New York City; New York Property; Valuation Methodologies; Cap Rates; World Cities; Real Estate Industry; New York (city, NY)
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  • March 1995 (Revised August 1995)
  • Background Note

Options and Put-Call Parity

By: Andre F. Perold and Wai Lee
Illustrates the payoff structure of various positions involving put and call options and the use of put-call parity in understanding the relationships among various positions. Examines the cases of insured equity, interest rate caps and floors, callable and extendable... View Details
Keywords: Stock Options
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  • 01 Nov 2012
  • HBS Seminar

Bill Kerr, Harvard Business School

  • Article

How Did the Great Recession Affect Charitable Giving?

By: Arthur C. Brooks
A great deal of research has studied the effects of income and tax changes on charitable giving. However, little work has focused on how these relationships were affected by the Great Recession. This article estimates the tax and income effects using the 2009 Panel... View Details
Keywords: Charitable Giving; Great Recession; Philanthropy; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Financial Crisis; Taxation; Policy
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  • December 2018
  • Case

Good Energy Group PLC

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
Founded at the end of 1999 by Juliet Davenport and Martin Edwards, Good Energy was the number-two renewable-energy seller in the United Kingdom at the end of 2016, supplying over 71,000 of the country’s 27 million households and small businesses with 100% renewable... View Details
Keywords: Power/Energy; Green Energy; Renewables; Wind Power; Electricity; Power; Strategy Development; Electric Vehicles; Customer Service; Energy Policy; Barriers To Entry; Renewable Energy; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 17 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Are Companies Getting Away with 'Cheap Talk' on Climate Goals?

Companies regularly set ambitious climate goals, but these plans often end up like many people’s New Year’s resolutions: unmet aspirations that quietly fizzle out. While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas... View Details
Keywords: by Tim Gray
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

lack of talent and saying, “Gosh, we need to find more workers.” The unemployment rate is still less for computer programmers than it is for workers who take jobs in fast food restaurants, but both unemployment View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 17 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 17, 2008

charge higher interest rates when they have market power, more so to smaller firms that have fewer outside options for external finance. These findings highlight a "darker side" to decentralized banks and suggest that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2022
  • HBS Case

Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?

of that hole: The company was worth $3.3 billion as of June 21, a fraction of its almost $50 billion market cap in January 2021. Its shares now trade for less than $10 a share, down from an intraday high of $170 in December 2020. “That’s... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Media & Broadcasting; Health; Bicycle
  • Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

fintech platform, the authors find that, compared to actual outcomes of the fintech platform’s model, the counterfactual outcomes based on a “traditional model” used for regulatory reporting purposes would result in a 60% higher probability of being rejected and higher... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

Its market capitalization represents a larger portion of the ecosystem—typical for a keystone because of its powerful position—but it has never been higher than 0.4 percent. Even in the much smaller software ecosystem, in which the company plays an even more crucial... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 14 Jun 2021
  • Op-Ed

When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative

focus on all the ways we fall short—we allow our true selves to shine. This authenticity makes us more likely to secure jobs, higher ratings in our presentations, and money for entrepreneurial ventures or deals. There’s a video I like to... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 09 Jan 2020
  • Book

Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

cases where a truck will need to be driven by a human or a cash register will need a person to operate it, but will you need as many humans? The answer is “no.” And will the unemployment rate increase at some point? I suspect it will.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Veteran Financial Aid Outlook

Section. The Post-9/11 GI Bill (Ch.33) is capped at $25,162.14 per academic year. HBS is a Yellow Ribbon Program (YRP) School that does not have a limit on how many YRP participants are enrolled. If you have earned 100% of the Post-9/11... View Details
  • 23 Aug 2006
  • Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

retailer destroyed more jobs in 2005 than it created. Indeed, from low wages to limited healthcare coverage, the company has a number of employee-related issues to tackle, as well as many nonmarket ones. (Wal-Mart announced August 8 an increase in starting wages at a... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail
  • 15 Dec 2023
  • News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

of us,” says Katz, from Plastic Bank. “Does it matter if there’s going to be more plastic in the ocean, by weight, than the mass of life? Or does it matter enough that even a single bottle flows into the belly of a bird, or a bottle cap... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley