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- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
boost earnings to meet earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a price to pay, with the cost in the...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
inequality affects behaviour towards the rich and poor. In Experiment 1, participants who became aware that wealthy individuals donated a smaller percentage of their income switched from rewarding the wealthy to rewarding the poor. In...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
neglect the unit managers’ knowledge about which individuals would best match local conditions. We use difference-in-differences analyses to examine the effects of a switch from decentralized hiring to centralized hiring at our research...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
students to examine Suncor's strategic positioning and cost structure, and the challenges that the firm's leaders confront as of 2007. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/...
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Martha Lagace
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Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
current student loans must meet all the following criteria: Must have received eligible student loans for the EC year Must have been certified by HBS or fully disclosed to HBS at the time the loan was made Student must be the borrower In no case will an amount larger...
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- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
suggest that in many commonly regulated markets in which firms share similar cost structures, firms are likely to experience incentives to ratchet down and delay the introduction of innovative products. The study highlights the importance...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves...
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- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
already had retail operations in the country, choose to sell through Jumia? How could Jumia continue to provide the same high quality customer service on which the company’s success had been built while switching to a marketplace model in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
says Chu, who grew up in Uruguay. “Seeing how dramatically San Luis Rassini has changed was incredible. It makes you think about the factors that have contributed to that change and wonder what it means for the future.” The conversation View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
that supplier-side pricing didn't work, that you have to charge the party who receives the greatest benefit for the cost of the marketplace. If you try to shove the cost of the market off on to the parties...
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- 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1
and directed care as needed. The model aimed to improve care quality by enabling early interventions and reducing adverse events and to cut costs by allowing clinicians to care for a larger number of patients. Building on this and other...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
reusable, highly safe, and can make many repeated dives to anywhere on the bottom of the ocean,” Vescovo says. “There’s no restriction anymore.” (He won’t discuss the total costs of this expedition, but the announced price tag of the...
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- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
changed, and with it the security that used to come almost automatically with an MBA degree. [ ] High-paying jobs are no longer guaranteed to graduates, and the opportunity costs of two years of training—especially for those who still...
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- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
[Positioned as] tax cuts, we don't know what the costs are going to be. You don't see them, and you often don't bear them for a long time. I worry that we're going to slip into a tax-cutting mode rather than tax-reform mode. Desai: There...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
ties back to the cost of code switching and micro-aggressions in the workplace. People’s satisfaction with work, their sense of belonging, among Black employees, actually grew when we shifted into remote...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
big economic impact from major modes of transportation, but there are also costs for modernizing the infrastructure platforms on which they run which America is not willing to pay. This is a public agenda item that misses clarity about...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
they had to manually log to hundreds of different schools with different usernames and different passwords. They called majors different names that they then had to get approved for in order to post a job at the school. So I would say fragmentation was the core. The...
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climate change, ending the need for humans to work for a living and bringing the cost of energy to zero. Why are normally balanced leaders taking such extreme and opposite positions? At about the same time that ChatGPT was growing...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
distributed approach to building institutional knowledge and shared culture Life sciences cloud software company Veeva's origins as a highly decentralized organization and its early adoption of video conferencing paid off when Covid-19 forced the View Details