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- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
of Psychological Science Advisers' By: Teachman, Bethany A., Michael I. Norton, and Barbara A. Spellman Abstract—On September 15, 2015, President Obama issued an Executive Order recommending that executive departments and agencies use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Algramo
By: Michael Chu, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal
Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores... View Details
Keywords: Packaging-as-a-wallet; Plastic Waste; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Reusable Packaging; Alliances With FMCGs To Meet ESG Goals; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Value Creation; Goals and Objectives; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Latin America; South America; Chile
Chu, Michael, Monica Silva, and Mariana Cal. "Algramo." Harvard Business School Case 321-079, September 2020. (Revised June 2021.)
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
are used as a modeling framework for such studies, this data inadequacy can manifest itself as imprecision in the elements of the transition matrix. In this paper, we study how to compute maximal and minimal values for the discounted value of the chain (with respect to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
PublicationsHow to Identify the Best Customers for Your Business Authors:Cespedes, Frank V., James P. Dougherty, and Ben S. Skinner III Publication:MIT Sloan Management Review Abstract How can businesses achieve profitable growth so that their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
the Vegetables Later: A Study of Online Grocery Purchases and Order Lead Time (revised) Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract How do decisions made for tomorrow or two days in the future differ from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
consumers in the dining area. On average, restaurants spend 30 percent of their revenue on labor. With increasing focus on fair wages and legislated wage increases, restaurants may easily exceed that average. Moreover, restaurants spend roughly equivalently for View Details
- 30 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do
recommendations from watchdogs like CharityWatch, which tend to give higher ratings to charities with low overhead costs. But that can lead to a harmful cycle in which charities keep their overhead costs unreasonably low in View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?
more interesting questions than the one posed are “’what kind of fears?’ and ‘what is a leader’s relationship to fear?’ If a leader is helping people face legitimate fears, in order to take action, then I’d say that’s an example of real... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
sources and gather new perspectives." Bennett and Lemoine recommend reaching out “to partners, customers, researchers, trade groups, and perhaps even competitors” in times of uncertainty, in order to understand the impact of this... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and the Internet
competitive advantage—by operating at a lower cost, by commanding a premium price, or by doing both. Cost and price advantages can be achieved in two ways. One is operational effectiveness—doing the same things your competitors do but... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
- 25 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number
precise that they weren’t even divisible by 25 cents, they only had to increase their bids by an average of 6 percent in order to win. In terms of how the markets reacted to the bids, the most rounded bids—made at the share-price... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt
challenge of counting backwards from 2027 by 17s. The test was conducted in front of a panel of judges, who were instructed not to smile. The researchers collected saliva samples from the women seven times throughout the experiment in View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
companies are being managed for the long term." Their first order of business was to determine a method for categorizing companies on the short-term/long-term continuum. The answer came in the very words used by executives to discuss... View Details
- 11 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups
researchers analyzed the characteristics, web metrics, and technology adoption trajectories of the startups over four years starting in April 2015 to determine not only whether A/B testing affected firm performance, but how. What they found was that the ease and low... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
concentration. We show that these results are largely driven by patents filed by distant collaborators rather than non-collaborative patents or patents by non-distant collaborators, suggesting low cost long-distance digital communication... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
addresses they need. Neither are Web sites demanding IPv6, because Web sites want to be reached by users, and users only run IPv4. In fact, it's even worse than that. Moving to IPv6 too early brings extra costs. For one, there are the standard View Details
- 30 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?
let me order the costume on the store’s computer and get free shipping. Sold! For multichannel retailers—those who sell both in physical stores and online—pricing is a particularly prickly problem. And when it comes to self-matching... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Should Leave
Even the most loyal, long-serving employee may consider resigning from a job once or twice in a career in order to reboot or get ahead. Large organizations can offer more lateral opportunities to further your development, but the higher... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
regulation by offshoring or by abandoning the market; or ignoring the regulation by continuing with entrenched business practices. The path a profit-maximizing firm will choose depends, in part, on the expected cost of non-compliance,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
than smaller menus, as measured by the maximum Sharpe ratio achievable. We propose a model in which menu setters differ in their ability to pre-select the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the menu size is sufficiently small,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel