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- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
that, relative to offering free shipping, offering contingent free shipping increases basket sizes by encouraging consumers to meet the minimum order threshold. Consumers incur search costs to meet this threshold exactly; sellers may View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
Wenxin, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—Nominal debt provides consumption-smoothing benefits if it can be inflated away during recessions. However, we document empirically that countries with more countercyclical inflation, where nominal debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
Benefits Fund (PBF) enacted by the state legislature. With renewed effort by activists in 2006 to expand AE's role, there was a possibility of the PBF swelling to $50 to $80 million. Naturally, this put AE at conflict with electric... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
would say that they're validated, so much as they're just glad that other people are seeing the value in that lifestyle. And that's kind of how I feel. It doesn't feel like a battle and so I don't feel like I've won anything, but it is certainly great to see other... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
when it results from using discretion, suggesting that the benefit of repetition does not compensate for the cost of exercising discretion in this setting. Our research offers a behavioral perspective on queue management and highlights... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
risk-taking incentives. Under reasonable parametrizations, the marginal benefit of higher capital requirements related to this channel significantly exceeds the marginal cost, indicating that U.S. capital requirements have been... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
significantly. Both numerical simulations and a controlled experiment using regular and edited commercials provide evidence of the benefits of brand pulsing to ward off commercial avoidance. Implications for advertising management and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
might benefit his fund to the detriment of the other limited partners. The process of discussing these helps the class explore the nuanced role of a limited partner in a private equity firm. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- September 2023 (Revised September 2024)
- Technical Note
Measuring and Managing Social Impact
By: Brian Trelstad, Gerald Chertavian and Susan Pinckney
A brief overview of how to measure social impact at nonprofits, social organizations, and impact investments. View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Change; Transformation; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Entrepreneurial Finance; Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Innovation and Management; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Practices and Processes; Resource Allocation; Measurement and Metrics; Standards; Strength and Weakness; Mission and Purpose; Success; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Strategic Planning; Programs; Risk and Uncertainty; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Issues; United States
Trelstad, Brian, Gerald Chertavian, and Susan Pinckney. "Measuring and Managing Social Impact." Harvard Business School Technical Note 324-017, September 2023. (Revised September 2024.)
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
video. These results suggest a phenomenon of desensitization or habituation of victims to crime exposure. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53446 Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of Cost Transparency By:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
experience. Prioritizing the shortest tasks is particularly detrimental to productivity. Actively grouping similar tasks also reduces productivity, in stark contrast to productivity gains from exogenous grouping, indicating deviation costs outweigh View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
that it had acquired years earlier but was just now merging into Paladina. Although the startup was young and still finding its way in an emerging industry, Thiry believed that Paladina would benefit from Golomb's experiences at Rx, which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
powers include increasing the business lending cap and raising secondary capital from non-members. The protagonist is a research analyst who must evaluate the benefits of credit unions against the costs, including the federal tax... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
agencies and automotive manufacturers that try to improve automotive safety benefit from research using cadavers. It does not help that many users seek the same "good" type of cadavers. A good specimen, in this context, means a... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
widgets, according to John Quelch and Katherine Jocz. In "Greater Good", the authors contend that marketing performs an essential societal function—and does so democratically. They maintain that people would benefit if the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
negative elements by changing norms and work practices to the benefit of individual workers and the organization as a whole. Q: Do you think you'd have found similar results in a more common, less dangerous workplace such as the corporate... View Details
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From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
number. Nearly 50 percent of the School’s expense base relates to compensation for faculty and administrative staff. Reflecting salary increases and benefits costs, the School’s fiscal 2016 financial plan assumes a 7 percent increase... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
get that information—35% of the kids thought there was little or no risk in trying meth. 23% thought there was some benefit to trying meth. Help me lose weight. Help me study better. Help me with boredom. Crazy stuff. Again, something... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
That’s the way we’ll make health care work for everyone.” Perhaps Madelyn Rhenisch, the first to benefit from the Massachusetts plan, has the best, last word. “I am proud to live in the first state to take on the responsibility of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
there are major benefits to working for an institution whose stakeholders are not shareholders. Bob Fri notes one such advantage when discussing the NMNH's opening of one of its newest exhibit halls. After several delays and despite a... View Details