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- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
that social media users are increasingly attracted to the idea of such a model. But funding it without advertising's help won't be easy. Two digital marketing experts, Harvard Business School professors John...
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- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
they are way out of whack with the market norm—and when the firm makes it clear that its own markup is much higher than what competitors charge. For instance, if a company charges $30 for a T-shirt, but emphasizes that competitors are...
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Strategy for Entrepreneurs - Course Catalog
ideas. They are conjectures, hypotheses, and predictions about how a firm can make money by solving a problem that the market has yet to solve. As with any new idea, knowing with certainty if your startup...
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- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
Companies spend significant sums to acquire customers. Once hooked, marketers protect those investments by attempting to keep patrons happy, engaged, and most of all, loyal. Reducing customer attrition, or "churn" in View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
mortgage market today, ninety-five percent of all mortgage loans are guaranteed, insured, or securitized by the US government, which is obsessed with not losing money on these guarantees. And the way the...
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- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
major public school districts by 2015. "Today, with the public no longer fully funding public education, even 'wealthy' school districts need funds to increase achievement," says Freeman. "EFP helps arrange...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
solve your water problem, but only if you have abundant energy. Nordan believes the current financing system for start-ups — angel to venture investors, followed by a public offering — doesn’t work well for green tech, which takes more time and View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Today, we can move our money around from one mutual fund to another, at very low cost. As a result, money flows from funds that aren’ t doing...
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- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
PublicationsHappy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending Authors:Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton Publication:Simon & Schuster, forthcoming Abstract If you think money can't buy happiness, you're not spending it right. Two rising...
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- 02 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017
identify characteristics of stocks that an investor who is worried about bad times should buy— a “rainy day” portfolio. Diversity in Innovation Paul A. Gompers and Sophie Q. Wang discuss a systematic and persistent lack of female, Hispanic, and African American labor...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The Power of Philanthropy
heretofore incurable affliction that affects some 30,000 children and young adults in the United States. The O’Donnells founded The Joey Fund and worked tirelessly with the other organizations. Almost singlehandedly, O’Donnell created “a...
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- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
Behavioral Economics. Here's how StickK works. The user selects a goal—like losing weight—and pledges a certain amount of money toward achieving it. Then a referee—often a friend—is chosen and a contract signed. If the goal is achieved,...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
“One more door is shut in terms of how seniors can find the money to survive as they age.” — HBS senior lecturer Nicolas Retsinas, reacting to news that Wells Fargo has joined Bank of America in no longer offering reverse mortgages....
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- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
easier to achieve in a for-profit organization than in a comparable nonprofit," he writes in a recent working paper, "Philanthropic Social Capital Markets and Performance-Driven Philanthropy," and the most important reason is capital. "It...
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- 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4
spending) are unleashed when givers are aware of their positive impact. In Study 1, an experiment using real charitable appeals, giving more money to charity led to higher levels of happiness only when participants gave to causes that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
well. Most successful enterprises are adept at refining their current offerings, but they falter when it comes to pioneering radically new products and services. Kodak and Boeing are just two of the more recent examples of once dominant companies that failed to adapt...
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- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
of all, I'll say that this isn't a crisis, but a significant correction. It's the result of a general reduction in confidence in the Indian economy and, in turn, has fed further angst. The fall of the rupee comes at a time of corrections to other emerging View Details
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- 08 May 2014
- News
The Sky's the Limit
possibility. "The industry needs more women in it. Women are very detail-oriented and, when it comes to flying, tend to have a delicate touch, but aren't over-controlling," she says. Noting that "there is a ton of scholarship money out...
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Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog
technology per se. Typically, case protagonists have participated in over half the class discussions. The first two modules of the course address key issues faced by entrepreneurs: how much money should be raised at each stage; when...
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