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- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
technology and processes to support customers that align with their entrepreneurial culture. If you are a professional today buying from Home Depot, an app on your phone lets you order directly from the job site and gives you the option... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010
suggest that helping others leads to higher levels of happiness, the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim: research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
network, which would increase its patient population but at rates much lower than it currently charges by only taking private patients. Dr. Wheelis is also pondering whether to start a non-profit foundation as a way of getting money to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007
leading to a redefinition of the marketing role, the implementation of a "growth leader" profile and new decision-making processes to encourage innovation and risk. Finally, presents a critical decision point, as Transportation executives must decide whether... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
might, with sellers of talent (such as graduates of business schools). For managers, if their business growth is predicated on hiring appropriate amounts of talent—as it invariably is—what do they do to compensate for the absence of View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
Supporting Tax-time Savings with U.S. Savings Bonds Author:Peter Tufano Abstract This paper reports the results of a 2007 experiment testing if specific process simplification can enhance savings by low-to-moderate income (LMI)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
might have been a benefit from the GQ that some districts would have been able to achieve. It just did not come in a way that required the financial sector to support or help it. Lagace: What should managers and policymakers keep in mind?... View Details
- 18 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
May 11, 2017 New England Journal of Medicine Good Riddance to Big Insurance Mergers By: Dafny, Leemore S. Abstract—Federal judges issued preliminary injunctions halting mergers of four of the five largest U.S. health insurers. These decisions provide more precedent to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
widespread adoption of their online self-service customer support solution that they were expecting based on early success in helping clients save and generate substantial amounts of money. Dr. Jacob O. Wobbrock and Dr. Andrew J. Ko are... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16
develop more modular designs than tightly coupled organizations. We test this hypothesis, using a sample of matched-pair products. We find strong evidence to support the mirroring hypothesis. In all of the pairs we examine, the product... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
required to support them. Further, government payment for sick people's health care expenses will diminish the massive venture capital investment needed for developing genomically-derived therapies. We stand at the brink of a revolution... View Details
- 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007
allocation, and accountability and performance improvement systems to support an overarching strategy. This central idea provides a valuable conceptual framework for current and future school leaders. The case studies presented in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
forced me to work hard to develop ways to support my proposition, which ultimately they came to see as reasonable, if not obvious in retrospect. Since that time, my research has continued to investigate how group dynamics affect an... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
constituencies—Železný and the Czech people—had interests that were no longer congruent with CME's interests. CME could have spun off a piece of CME to the Czech public to create more public support for its interests. Finally, I think CME... View Details
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
suggest matches with employers based on the nature of the crime, the amount of time since the conviction, and the nature of the job. For instance, “a low rating might be displayed for an individual convicted of credit card theft who was considering applying for a... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
shared #MeToo stories of abuse after Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault in October 2017. “With the Weinstein story, a dam broke,” says Colleen Ammerman, director of Harvard Business School’s Gender Initiative, which View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
the data support our model over alternative explanations such as recession-induced reduction in agency costs (due to managerial fears of bankruptcy) and changing coordination costs. Countries with more decentralized firms (like the U.S.)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008
independent social rating agency and avoids selection issues by taking advantage of a natural experiment that arose when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings. We find empirical support for our hypotheses and present implications... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
prior experience with case-method teaching. As we engage in the task of supporting their development in the classroom, there is no doubt in my mind that the work Chris did is still vital and will be for many years to come." Early... View Details
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
particulars of your business is different depending on how prevalent bad affiliates are, the profit margins of bad affiliates, and what I call the discount rate of good affiliates—how quickly your good suppliers need to get paid. If they have to borrow money to View Details