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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
These Walls Can Talk
developers and device makers to build on. Although the industry is still in the process of developing standards so more devices can communicate, technology isn’t the biggest hurdle for SmartThings and competitors like Google-owned Nest...
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April White
- 22 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Marketing Club Presents: The Brand Summit
discuss during interviews. The Brand Summit will take place on November 4, 2018. It will feature a day of inspiring talks from our keynote speakers from Peloton, Carnival Corporation, and Google’s Nest and Home, plus educational breakout...
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- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
affords them greater control over service quality and customer experience, in return for which they accept the added costs of being employers. Hornet's nest The decision by some marketplaces-for-services to treat their workers as...
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- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
Management Practice and leadership expert Robert Steven Kaplan comments on these issues. Michel Anteby Many companies today operate like Russian nesting dolls, where one large figure is actually made up of many smaller ones. These...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Exploring the Galápagos
“Marty should be here for this; this is what he came here for,” Esther Flashner laments to our Galápagos National Park guide, as a dozen of us stroll the sandy beach of Darwin Bay on the island of Genovesa. We are improbably close to View Details
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- 17 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
New Treasury Rules Help Long-Retirement Planning
recommended that workers use all their retirement savings to buy life annuities in order to avoid outliving their savings. Nevertheless, few workers want to put their whole retirement nest egg into a life annuity. Why? In one word,...
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- 17 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Grads Launch Cybersecurity Nonprofit to Fight Infodemic
volunteers to join the organization. We also scheduled frequent mentoring sessions with Entrepreneurs-in-Residence at the i-lab where industry leaders come on campus and mentor founders. The i-lab has been the nest for the humanID team...
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- 17 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions
"defined benefit" plans because they assured recipients of a set monthly amount they could always rely on. Then, starting in the 1980s, the nest egg started to crack. As firms began competing globally, pension perks began to be...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Assembly-Line Innovation The title of the 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory (Harvard Business Review Press) conjures an image of raw materials being dumped into a black box and emerging on conveyor belts as fully formed iPhones, Febreze dispensers, and View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
reflecting about how the classic, mature thermostat industry was rapidly evolving. In February 2014, Google paid $3.2 billion to acquire Nest Labs, a new startup whose goal was to reinvent unloved home devices, such as thermostats and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
consumption tax, are preferred if feasible. Legislation that is narrowly focused on preventing inversions or specific transactions runs the risk of being counterproductive. These transactions are nested in a broader set of corporate...
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- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
Back then, Argentina tried to fend off creditors by adopting a hard-line attitude about reducing its debt obligations. When it initiated a bond exchange offer in 2005 and told its creditors to "take it or leave it," the republic triggered a hornet's View Details
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by Laura Alfaro
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
Schneider, Tufano proposes a slight renovation of the program that will make it easier for asset-poor families to use savings bonds to build a nest egg for the future. Families living paycheck to paycheck rarely squirrel away funds to...
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- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
in the Midwest, and my mother was a real estate agent who took on other work as money needs arose. They both hoped that I wouldn't have to deal with the financial stresses they had faced. They wanted me to have a nest egg. They hoped I...
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
mutual funds as a means to build their retirement nest eggs. A snapshot of some industry numbers reveals that in 1964, mutual fund assets totaled $28 billion; by 1980, they had grown to some $150 billion. But by 1992, assets had soared to...
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Garry Emmons
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
market's record-setting rampage, the industry's asset growth has been driven by baby-boomers using mutual funds as a means to build their retirement nest eggs. A snapshot of some industry numbers reveals that in 1964, mutual fund assets...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
musician, Hayes plays the pipe organ and cello, “but only with family” — a select group that consists of his wife, Barbara, and their three daughters and two grandchildren. What's behind the current crisis in U.S. financial markets? Wall Street has always been a...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
wrote: "I want to be like you, a professor who inspires students to think and feel optimally, to be the best that they can be." The strategy I wrote down was to work in business for 10 years to gather enough nest egg to afford academia....
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- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
find that three commonly used models that all suffer from the IPS restriction-the homogeneous logit model, the nested logit model, and the random coefficient logit model-lead to counterintuitive estimates of the sources of demand gains...
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Sean Silverthorne