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- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
providers to improve services to Americans. Source: gpointstudio In 2015, there was an average of 6.9 plans to choose from in each state. This fell to 6.5 in 2016, and even before Aetna's decision, the...
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- May 2022
- Article
When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct
By: Mark Egan, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru
We examine gender differences in misconduct punishment in the financial advisory industry. We find evidence of a “gender punishment gap”: following an incident of misconduct, female advisers are 20% more likely to lose their jobs and 30% less likely to find new jobs...
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Financial Advisers;
Brokers;
Gender Discrimination;
Consumer Finance;
Financial Misconduct And Fraud;
FINRA;
Financial Institutions;
Employees;
Crime and Corruption;
Gender;
Prejudice and Bias;
Personal Finance;
Financial Services Industry
Egan, Mark, Gregor Matvos, and Amit Seru. "When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct." Journal of Political Economy 130, no. 5 (May 2022): 1184–1248.
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Special Collections and Archives Exhibits | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
investment banking and financial advisory services for corporations, the government, and private individuals, and consistently showed foresight...
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- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
Medicare cannot directly monitor HAI rates and instead relies on providers accurately self-reporting HAIs in claims to correctly assess penalties. Consequently, the incentives for providers to improve View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production By: Alfaro, Laura, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- January 2017 (Revised December 2017)
- Case
Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?
By: Steven Rogers and Kenneth J. Cooper
Carmichael Roberts, a rare African-American venture capitalist, considered leaving his general partnership in a private equity firm near Boston and setting up his own in 2015. He weighed whether the timing was right, with the economy still not fully recovered from the...
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Keywords:
Venture Capital;
Equity;
Innovation And Invention;
Investment;
Ownership;
Science;
Science Bassed Business;
Markets;
Relationships;
Capital;
Private Equity;
Technological Innovation;
Investment Return;
Going Public;
Ownership Stake;
Science-Based Business;
Market Timing;
Marketplace Matching;
Partners and Partnerships;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
United States;
Massachusetts;
Boston;
California;
San Francisco;
New York (city, NY)
Rogers, Steven, and Kenneth J. Cooper. "Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?" Harvard Business School Case 317-079, January 2017. (Revised December 2017.)
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
such an in-demand course and pursuit for recent MBAs? A: I don’t think there’s an easy answer. Things in society tend to be popular or unpopular at different times, and student enrollments tend to reflect...
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- 20 May 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
body coaches on training, nutrition, and cognitive health. Meanwhile, the team is also focused on product development in the consumer goods space and growing their e-commerce...
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- 22 Aug 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Sustainability and Green Business in Latin America During Globalization Waves
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
company," he said. "It was such a time-consuming process, however, that by the time they were finished, the product was out of date." Find Your Spot On The Spectrum Holding the middle ground of Upton's continuum are two...
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by Jim Aisner
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
aims to maximize revenue from multiple products with limited inventory constraints. As common in practice, the retailer does not know the consumer's purchase probability at each price and must learn the mean...
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Sean Silverthorne
- October 2023 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
Loris
By: Shunyuan Zhang, Das Narayandas, Stacy Straaberg and David Lane
In December 2022, Loris’s executive team considered their go-to-market strategy. Loris was an artificial intelligence (AI) software startup for the customer service industry with two products on the market: 1) Agent Assist which provided customer service agents (CSAs)...
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- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
products or services on the horizon with strong growth potential. Further complicating the decision is the fact that Siris is in the midst of raising its second private equity fund View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- June 2001 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
Netonomy
A new software product enables wireless telcos to offer a self-service customer service solution, lowering costs and improving service levels. Discusses the definition of good self-service. Examines how the company should prioritize its growth opportunities and what...
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Keywords:
Internet and the Web;
Service Delivery;
Applications and Software;
Globalization;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Service Industry;
Service Industry
Hallowell, Roger H., and Helen E Clement. "Netonomy." Harvard Business School Case 801-462, June 2001. (Revised October 2001.)
- November 1978 (Revised June 1982)
- Case
Federal Express (B)
Federal Express is a small-package airline operating throughout the United States. After initial heavy losses, it is now profitable. Management is examining the services offered by the firm and believes that there is great potential for "Courier Pak," an overnight...
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Lovelock, Christopher H. "Federal Express (B)." Harvard Business School Case 579-040, November 1978. (Revised June 1982.)
W. Earl Sasser
Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details
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- November 2023
- Case
Apple Inc. in 2023
By: David B. Yoffie and Sarah von Bargen
Under CEO Tim Cook, Apple became the first trillion dollar market cap company, the first two trillion dollar company, and the first three trillion dollar company. Since the COVID pandemic, Apple gained over 20% of the world smartphone market and 50% of the U.S. market,...
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Competitive Advantage;
Product Positioning;
Emerging Markets;
Competitive Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Revenue;
Technology Industry
Yoffie, David B., and Sarah von Bargen. "Apple Inc. in 2023." Harvard Business School Case 724-419, November 2023.
- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
consumer brands and services, overall brand loyalty is on the decline. In the book, I outline a number of reasons for this; one of them has to do with the proliferation of products View Details
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
computing, can make a major contribution in the production of information by companies and its use by investors and other stakeholders," Eccles said after the conference....
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