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- 09 Feb 2010
- News
How to get Americans saving for retirement
- 2016
- Working Paper
Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile
By: Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier and Dina Pomeranz
We test the impact of a peer group savings program on precautionary savings through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microcredit clients. The first experiment finds that the Peer Group Treatment, which combines public goal setting, monitoring in the group,...
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Saving;
Decision Making;
Interest Rates;
Planning;
Performance Effectiveness;
Economics;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development;
Social Enterprise;
Global Range;
Chile
Kast, Felipe, Stephan Meier, and Dina Pomeranz. "Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-060, January 2012. (Revised April 2016. Revision requested by Journal of Development Economics.
Featured in Time, Business Insider, Freakonomics, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! Finance, and others.)
- 2009
- Working Paper
When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?
By: Philippe Aghion, Diego A. Comin, Peter Howitt and Isabel Tecu
Can a country grow faster by saving more? We address this question both theoretically and empirically. In our theoretical model, growth results from innovations that allow local sectors to catch up with frontier technology. In poor countries, catching up requires the...
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Developing Countries and Economies;
Economic Growth;
Entrepreneurship;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Saving;
Technological Innovation;
Mathematical Methods
Aghion, Philippe, Diego A. Comin, Peter Howitt, and Isabel Tecu. "When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-080, January 2009.
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
Dina Pomeranz's interest in helping people build a savings cushion for difficult economic times emerged during a summer internship in Cameroon, where a woman she lived with shared how worried and anxious she was about her financial...
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by Kim Girard
- 27 Mar 2016
- News
One Surprising Way to Get People to Save More
- October 2021
- Article
Can Self-Regulation Save Digital Platforms?
By: Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer and David B. Yoffie
This article explores some of the critical challenges facing self-regulation and the regulatory environment for digital platforms. We examine several historical examples of firms and industries that attempted self-regulation before the Internet. All dealt with similar...
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Self-regulation;
Government Regulation;
Digital Platforms;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Cusumano, Michael A., Annabelle Gawer, and David B. Yoffie. "Can Self-Regulation Save Digital Platforms?" Industrial and Corporate Change 30, no. 5 (October 2021): 1259–1285.
- December 2000
- Supplement
Harmonized Savings Plan at BPAmoco
By: Luis M. Viceira
Spreadsheet to (9-201-052). Download only.
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- 30 Nov 2011
- News
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
- 24 Mar 2017
- News
Can Arianna Huffington Save Uber?
- 24 Oct 2012
- News
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
- 26 Mar 2010
- News
Savings Program Hits the Jackpot
- 09 Oct 2017
- News
Saving an American Publishing Icon
David Bradley (MBA 1977) is chairman of Atlantic Media. In this interview, he explains how the rise of the internet actually saved and helped improve the venerable Atlantic magazine. “The first company I started, when I was 26 years old,...
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- January 1983 (Revised November 1985)
- Background Note
Note on Investment and Savings
Rukstad, Michael G. "Note on Investment and Savings." Harvard Business School Background Note 383-086, January 1983. (Revised November 1985.)
- 17 Mar 2014
- News
Can Design Save Silicon Valley?
- 16 Jun 2011
- News
Why Bono didn't save Spider-Man
- 21 Feb 2018
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
There may be a simple solution to the complex problem of climate change. Don Wiviott (MBA 1984) is cofounder and partner of Sustainable Farm Partners (SFP), a combination farming operation and private equity group that is buys high-production conventional farms in Iowa...
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- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
the world of finance. He became one of the people brought in after leveraged buyouts to save failing companies. During Wiviott’s time as COO for one of those companies, Quality Trailer Products, he doubled the annual sales to $50 million...
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- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
If capitalism was a stock, the market would appear rather bearish on its future. Bank failures, economic crises, and middle-class riots across the globe appear symptomatic of large systemic weaknesses in the market system, highlighted by the 2008 global financial...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 14 Jun 2012
- News