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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
MeraDoctor, a consultation-by-telephone business staffed 24 hours a day by eight licensed physicians. A for-profit company that charges subscribers a monthly fee of 100 rupees (about $2) for unlimited consultations for up to six household...
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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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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
couple of decades. But the transformation only really hits home when you begin to recall the details of the 1977 business landscape. Sears was where America shopped, as was Montgomery Ward and W.T. Grant. Wal-Mart was nowhere on our radar screens. Westinghouse was a...
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Desmond Wong
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
point in public consciousness as private equity has bought more companies and larger companies, some of which are household names. Last year, private-equity firms raised a record amount of funds. Do you expect another record this year? I...
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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
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Publications August 2013 American Economic Review Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity By: Davis, Steven J., John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner, and Javier Miranda Abstract—Private equity critics claim that View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
forthcoming Journal of International Economics Corporate Debt, Firm Size and Financial Fragility in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract— The post-Global Financial Crisis period shows a surge in corporate View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
world," he says. "It shows that our strategies are working, that we're leveraging our core strengths, and that our leadership is focused." According to Lafley, this triangle of success at P&G—strategy, core capability, and leadership—is...
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- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
of science and technology, law, management, and policy. The empirical contexts for their studies range from household goods to financial services. After discussing the fundamentals of user innovation, the contributors cover communities...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
institutions that did not contribute to the recent crisis? Whatever the impact, regulators also have to be careful not to be "fighting the last war." Today, we face a new battle. The household and government sectors are...
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by Staff
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
within-firm processes. By doing so, we may be overstating what progress has been made on employment integration and ignoring other avenues of intervention that may give greater leverage for further integrating firms. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
case permits the exploration of how and when companies in developing countries can leverage their domestic markets to build capabilities to serve global customers, by using their home market as a base for learning. The case is also...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
as an imperial power. Publisher's link: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9952.html August 2013 American Economic Review Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia By: Ashraf, Nava, Erica Field, and Jean...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
interwar years, and its subsequent diversification into many industries, including automobiles, household goods, and services, is analyzed. The case serves as a vehicle to explain why diversified business groups are so important in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Case 709-017 Despite a tradition of high household savings, Japan has supported a dynamic and technically sophisticated consumer-lending sector. The high profitability of the sector has periodically attracted interest from domestic banks...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008
higher prices can increase use, either by targeting distribution to high-use households (a screening effect), or by stimulating use psychologically through a sunk-cost effect. We develop a methodology for separating these two effects. We...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
few years is Kroger in the food space. They are a very large company. They have all this leverage against suppliers. They have huge cash flow, customer counts are fine, they've crushed the competition. But I think they are at an...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
location with access to other business and transportation infrastructures; and the unmet needs of eight million households (with $100 billion in retail demand). Businesses can and do thrive in these regions that have often been...
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- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
practices is important for understanding financial decision-making of households in dire circumstances as well as for setting appropriate consumer protection policies. We conduct a simple experiment in three sites in which we paid off...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
The crucial point, though, is that the bulk of Chinese investment has been financed from China’s own savings (and from the overseas Chinese diaspora). Cautious after years of instability and unused to the panoply of credit facilities we have in the West, Chinese View Details