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- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
examined the relationships between inventory, gross profit dollars, and gross margin return on inventory. We find that inventory is positively correlated to gross profit dollars but negatively correlated to gross margin return on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto
emerging market. A study of 59 million US consumers Di Maggio, the Ogunlesi Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS, collaborated on the research with Darren Aiello, Jason Kotter, and Mark J. Johnson of Brigham Young...
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by Ben Rand
- 29 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely
costs, and live closer to family and friends. Isolating the benefits of remote work To study the productivity effects of work-from-anywhere policies, Choudhury looked for a setting that would allow the researchers to isolate productivity...
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by Kristen Senz
- 22 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers
for higher-paying work just to pay collectors more. If their loans are discharged, however, they may feel more motivated to pursue new jobs, knowing that any additional dollar earned will go right into their pockets. They chipped away...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
How to Live Happier in 2023: Diversify Your Social Circle
Virginia’s Darden School of Business and Esade Business School in Barcelona. Close versus weak ties Past studies, says Norton, have shown two seemingly conflicting findings about relationships. On the one hand, spending time with so-called close ties—such as View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 07 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay
involving the Family Dollar chain, a court awarded $35 million to 1,425 employees who missed out on overtime pay due to “fabricated job titles,” the study notes. While many employees had titles like “store...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- 18 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?
Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade....
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- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
managers were showing resistance to the new changes. Meanwhile, the American manager found himself caught in the web of family and company politics, and completing his assignment without the cooperation of the middle management was...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do
another contributor, such as a wealthy family or foundation. That made a huge difference, says Keenan. Even when participants were informed that there was 50 percent overhead associated with donations to charity: water, 71.43 percent...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Master the Team Meeting
losing people, you’re wasting everyone’s time and you’re costing the company money. (Do the math. The average team meeting can cost a company thousands of dollars every week!). Tell people to put their phones or laptops away if they are...
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by Julia Austin
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
my life,” said RJ Melman, president of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises and creator and developer of more than 13 restaurant concepts. “I know a good chunk of those people, this is a family business.” In 2012, the World Economic Forum...
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- 17 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet
use. Each Internet job supports approximately 1.54 additional jobs elsewhere in the economy, for a total of 3.05 million, or roughly 2 percent, of employed Americans. The dollar value of their wages is about $300 billion, or around 2...
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- 17 Jan 2023
- Book
Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them
procedures, foreign corrupt practices, and virtual currency. The book speaks to “how organizations are actually held criminally accountable,” says co-author Eugene F. Soltes, the McLean Family Professor of Business Administration at...
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by Lane Lambert
- 21 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?
home goods. It was particularly well known for home goods and children's ware. And once the family went there, they also shopped for men's and women's apparel, which accounted for almost half of sales. They had a very strong private label...
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- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
successful that its U.S. sales reached the equivalent in today's terms of half a billion dollars by the end of the 1920s, before the Great Depression eviscerated what had become the world's biggest beauty company. Coty was a larger than...
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- 17 Apr 2022
- Book
How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray
tempting to shoplift a small item, the opportunity to make millions of dollars by insider trading or cheating on a large contract is far more enticing.) As a result, businesspeople must always remain aware of and sensitive to their...
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by Lane Lambert
- 14 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’
little money, it wasn't worth saving." What these consumers did do, students found, was spend those extra few dollars on the lottery. When it came time to develop the strategy for their client, the students experimented with including...
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by Michael Blanding
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
needs food. We need education, and so do the poor. We need banks, so they must need banks. But that's the wrong way of approaching it. The ecosystem in which they live is very different from ours. They're on weekly or even daily wages, and their View Details
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
play? We are given to believe that Steve was very much of two minds about his next move. He was not a boy wonder anymore. He was forty-two, with a family and with more than a billion dollars in assets. His...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
not thousands of retirees saw their nest eggs evaporate because of their unwitting participation in a deliberately contrived Ponzi scheme that, in time, became the largest ($50 billion) in Wall Street history. By this measure, or in terms of the View Details
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by Mitch Maidique