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- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
many ways from the type of finance researched and taught at business schools. I explored how financial services were practiced in a place like South Central, focusing in particular on the opportunities to leverage social organizations to...
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- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
technocrats than the country had ever seen and handed them their goals and benchmarks. When property-tax bills landed in mailboxes several weeks later, they reflected across-the-board cuts. The deepest, 30 percent, went to households with...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- Profile
Omowale Casselle
What does your work involve? "My official title is director of product management, SAMPLEit, a new venture at redbox. In this role, I'm responsible for leveraging technology across our different product lines—kiosk, mobile, and...
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- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
For many investors planning for retirement, asset allocation is a crucial issue. How much should I put into stocks, bonds, and cash? But Harvard Business School professor Daniel Bergstresser says that households with substantial assets in...
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by Ann Cullen
- Web
Day in IFC: Marta Milkowska (HKS), United Kingdom - MBA
that nearly three-quarters of UK households will experience a major unexpected expense. At the same time, more than half of UK adults had less than the suggested emergency savings of £1,000. Over the course of the fall semester leading up...
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- 26 Aug 2009
- Op-Ed
Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road
new cars. The program proved so popular that inventories of the qualifying cars soon dwindled, further boosting the dealers' negotiating leverage and unit profit margin. “Why did taxpayers, having already bailed out GM and Chrysler once,...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
leveraging existing technology and infrastructure to enhance the quality of early childhood education for disadvantaged kids. And while the state-run preschools and primary schools that serve this population may suffer in comparison with...
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- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
nationalization. Negative opinions about the privatization prevail. These are particularly strong amongst households that did not benefit from the privatization and amongst households that were reminded of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
infrastructure presents an excellent opportunity to avoid the pitfalls of complex, restrictive, digital health systems that have evolved elsewhere. We propose here a federated, patient-centric, application programming interface (API)–enabled health information...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
best global brands are by design also the leading local brands. The authors offer a new way to think about place in every strategic decision, from where to place products on the shelf to how to leverage consumer associations with...
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- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
internalize the social costs of higher leverage in the form of greater bankruptcy losses (moral hazard) and are subject to a regulatory capital requirement. In contrast, shadow bank liabilities are subject to runs and credit risk and thus...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
dinner and do other household chores before darkness falls. Lack of electricity is also a health concern. Poindexter recalls hearing of a baby in need of urgent care in the middle of the night. The clinic had no electricity. As the doctor...
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- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
experience working with one another—is one mechanism that helps teams leverage the benefits of variation in team experience by alleviating coordination problems that variation creates. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
children. The pay gap between men and women continues to hold across the board, yet over half of U.S. households are completely or significantly depen-dent on women’s wages. That leads to a larger societal implication: Women suffer, but...
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- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
forthcoming Quantitative Marketing and Economics Aggregation of Consumer Ratings: An Application to Yelp.com By: Dai, Weijia, Ginger Jin, Jungmin Lee, and Michael Luca Abstract—Because consumer reviews leverage the wisdom of the crowd,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
governments all suffered because they had too much leverage. Though the corporate sector has generally decreased leverage, the same is not true of government, particularly in the United States. Every company and household here and abroad...
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by Staff
- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
including regulating the leverage used in securitization. Q: What are the options for replacing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and which approach do you favor? A: At one extreme, the government's role would be limited to supporting mortgages...
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- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
tournament incentive systems and are relevant for the practice of management accounting. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53891 Can Financial Innovation Solve Household Reluctance to Take Risk? By:...
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- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
to devote any engineering resources to leveraging these technologies. Teradyne's established customers tested high-end components such as microprocessors, for which CMOS architecture was too slow and inaccurate. What's more, a switch to a...
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- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107055 Bancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (B) Harvard Business School Case 107-066 Excellence in exploiting customer information and leveraging its affiliation to the...
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Martha Lagace