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- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
markets, these are the kinds of concerns you should think about when setting payment terms and dealing directly with suppliers. One tool to deter fraud: pay later. Edelman's new research on a major advertising affiliate network... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
Here’s some bad news and some worse news for women who aspire to the executive suite. The bad news is that there’s a huge gender gap in top corporate positions, both in terms... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?
under study. A Good Place to Start A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity Looking at the evolution of gender in US society over nearly 20 years, a study traces how one prominent professional-service firm internalized the shifting... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
What really fuels a boom-and-bust cycle in the modern global economy? It’s not always household debt, says a new paper that parses in-depth data across 115 countries. Instead, rising corporate debt may flash the clearest warning that a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
really pay off when companies need that goodwill from the public? In a recent working paper, No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events, Oberholzer-Gee set out to test... View Details
- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
offer a price concession if asked to do so by a woman than by a man. “We show that the price a consumer expects to pay can alter the negotiation of consumers with individual firms directly by changing the price offers made by sellers,”... View Details
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
relies on platforms and horizontal ecosystems of firms producing complementary products. Using three case studies—software, animation and mobile telephony—we illustrate two key sources of inefficiencies that this mismatch can create, all... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
hour-long discussion driving around the city. Young Kapur had just joined the firm Ogilvy & Mather after a brief stint at Citibank, where he’d decided he needed a more creative career. His conversation with Ogilvy confirmed that he’d... View Details
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
truly reintegrate into society if few firms will hire them? And, how can society—especially at a time of rising prices and low unemployment—afford to exclude the roughly one in three working Americans with criminal records from the... View Details
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
observes Willis Emmons (HBS MBA '85, PhDBE '89), director of the C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning at HBS. "We welcomed 38 new faculty to the School this year and hope to have a similar number to come on board... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
scrutiny from various directions. "We foresee a world in which investors evaluate firms and exchanges in real time on their quality of execution. And as U.S. markets become more fragmented thanks to new... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 29 Jun 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change
markets, business processes, and organizational structure—and to improve them to achieve growth. Success will depend on leaders who are able to stabilize the company as they identify and exploit opportunities, find new market niches,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
later stages. Network Effects Managers often think about innovation in terms of exploring new markets. But Cook said it's often wiser for firms to innovate within their well-established existing businesses.... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
dynamic, long-term impacts of bundling on demand. The primary explanation for the profitability of bundling relies on homogenization of consumer valuations for the bundle, allowing the firm to extract more surplus. We find bundling can be... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
professionals in venture capital firms or who were cashed-out entrepreneurs acting as angels for small start ups. Both sets of people had certain expertise that they were trying to transmit to highly inexperienced entrepreneurs.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
(Editor's note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.) Recent news coverage of the cosmetic name change... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
production. Importantly, firms are not the only entities to participate in the new ecosystems. The Internet and other social media have dramatically lowered the cost of communication and collective action,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
the nation's private sector workforce—about 120 million people—but since 1995 they have created approximately two-thirds of the net new jobs in our country. They are also instrumental in driving the innovation that provides a competitive... View Details
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
taxpayers and politicians, afflicted with disaster fatigue, will likely have limited appetite for subsidizing struggling cities like Detroit or Rochester or St. Louis. Steven Rattner's recent New York Times op-ed "We Have to Step in... View Details
- 10 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation
executives by examining how they are penalized in starting pay when looking for new work. The study, co-written with Eric Lin of the United States Military Academy at West Point, reveals these executives pay a steep price for guilt by... View Details