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- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
is particularly important for politically marginalized groups such as women, rural populations, and indigenous peoples; The Bank should provide adequate budgetary resources for participation and capacity...
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by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
creating peer-to-peer recognition programs in which employees are provided monthly reward points that they can give away to colleagues for work-related wins. Employees who earn a certain number of points can...
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Health Plans - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
measuring and rewarding providers based on outcomes, maximizing patient value over the full cycle of care, minimizing paperwork, and competing for subscribers based on the ability to achieve positive health...
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- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
particularly bad. The marginal cost is almost 75 percent, so every time you give a dollar to someone in the form of a turkey, or a ham, it's costing you 75 cents. In contrast, if you look at offers from the airlines, the cost of miles...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
by Gabriel Wisdom (OPM 26, 1998) (Wiley) Wisdom shows how to capitalize on value plays where the fundamentals are strong but the “general wisdom” about the security has turned negative. Most promising are the stocks Wall Street has marked down without regard to their...
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- 08 May 2015
- News
Ubiquitous digital connectivity is now essential to competitiveness
rethink their business models to identify new opportunities for creating and capturing value. The fundamental properties of digital technology (exact replication infinite times at zero marginal costs), along with cloud computing, have...
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- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
parks his Fiesta next to the independent venture capitalists' Ferraris, the temptation to go elsewhere becomes too great." In other words, companies who create internal venture teams to fuel their research and development must not cheap out when it comes time to...
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- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
intellectual property? Does it discourage innovation by limiting the rewards to such efforts? Should it be discouraged by either new laws or the more diligent application of existing ones? Or does it provide...
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by James Heskett
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Images, Identities and the Space(s) Between Images, Identities and the Space(s) Between 06–07 APR 2017 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Blitz Discussions Of Margins and Modalities Rachel Arnett Rachel Arnett, Ph.D. candidate in Organizational...
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Rob Casper
opportunity," he says. "It's not about a fast-track career. It's about relationships, learning, and rewarding the two gentlemen who believe in me." "Frankly," Rob says, in reference to a prevailing investment...
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- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive, respectively, a small monetary margin on each pack sold, a large margin, and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
traditionally earned their biggest margins when rooms were scarce and customers were forced to pay higher rates—such as in Midtown Manhattan on New Year's Eve. And it's good news for travelers who don't have to pay through the roof to get...
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- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
ramping up production of a car is more challenging than printing an extra run of a book. But after its initial error, VW made some smart decisions to mitigate the damage. First, the company rewarded their best dealers by making the scarce...
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- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
e-commerce world is a brutal competitive environment,” says Harvard Business School marketing professor Thales Teixeira. “One of the biggest levers retailers have at their disposal to bring in customers is price.” More discounts, however, means reduced View Details
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Guiding Principles for Conscious and Inclusive Description | Baker Library
language for these materials not only provides important details about the materials, but also preserves both the materials’ historical context and the creators’ point of view.Users should be aware that they may encounter offensive or...
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- 30 Mar 2015
- News
Creating a sustainable world
of the work fuels her. “I like to create, and I like to do things that are relatively unusual and sometimes difficult to deliver.” The reward is in the results, which have taken the form of support for Ouicar, a French car-sharing...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
“To use economic terms, there are diminishing marginal returns to data-dumping in your answers.” — HBS professor emeritus John Kotter, author of Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down, on avoiding overuse of facts and...
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- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
books, is enormous. Later in this chapter, we've modeled the levels of gross margin or same-store sales declines, which, everything else equal, retailers in categories particularly hard hit by eCommerce could incur before their stores are...
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- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
price remains a primary determinant of whether a consumer will buy a product, free shipping provides an added enhancement for online merchants to consider. Shoppers are only one-tenth as sensitive to increases in shipping fees as they are...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Community Reaches Out
sites, participants took part in myriad projects that included painting at Allston's Gardner Elementary School and landscaping at Cambridge's Center for Sustainable Building. Volunteer Catriona Fallon (HBS '01) worked at Boston Senior Home Care. "It was both View Details