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- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
While all good managers should be able to make snap decisions in high-pressure situations, they may miss out on good opportunities—and fall into ruts—when they make quick decisions strictly out of habit. Too... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
to lift wages by $2 per hour. However, increasing wages by $1 could still leave these people with below-living wages. Second, there are cases where improving a firm’s social impact does not help financially. In some cases consumers are... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
thinking about where to hold them, specifically, inside or outside of tax-deferred accounts. "Getting this decision right can be pretty close to a free lunch," says Bergstresser, who with colleague James Poterba, a professor at MIT's Department of Economics,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
Product is Worth the Price (37,030) Are consumers more likely to buy if they see the price before viewing the product? Uma Karmarkar and colleagues scan the brains of shoppers to find out. How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
response to events in Europe, from the cloning of Dolly to the recent spread of mad-cow disease, Goldberg founded an annual forum at the School where farmers, industry representatives, professors, scientists, public-policy leaders, and View Details
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
report violations when they observe them, so they are actually violating their ethics code by not reporting violations,” Soltes says. Companies have good reason to try and change that. For starters, firms that have an effective compliance... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
segmentation, and price discrimination through consumer self-selection. I evaluate these perspectives in the context of a major fashion goods firm using newly available and highly granular data. Model-free... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
create value by introducing visual transparency between consumers and producers. Although operational transparency has been shown to improve consumer perceptions of service value, existing theory posits that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
changing competitive landscape, consumers who may not have considered buying a GM vehicle over the past decade may now be inclined to do so again. What the company has done in rationalizing the number of brands in its portfolio has been a... View Details
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
prompted a greater demand for food testing in order to verify the authenticity of the claims. Increasing consumer consciousness about food safety and healthfulness: Consumers have high expectations about the... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
that term, allowing its users to "consume" information in ways that were formerly unavailable to them due to cost, complexity, or both. The fact that half a billion consumers willingly engage on Twitter's platform confirms the viability... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
outcome where stringent regulation in one region shifts production to regions with weaker regulation. It is believed that such leakage increases global emissions. It is also believed that leakage can be eliminated by carbon tariffs, which are taxes imposed on imported... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
it's benefiting them. Enterprise 2.0 makes clear that the new technologies are good for much more than just socializing—when properly applied, they help businesses solve pressing problems, capture dispersed and fast-changing knowledge,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
range of home and small-business users. The question the company faced was how to convince potential customers to buy it. The key ingredient: the product launch. “Product launches are always crucial for early-stage ventures,” says Cespedes. “Repeated surveys indicate... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
someone at the top who says, ‘This will be good for the city‘—and who will make sure it isn't corrupt," said Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (HBS MBA 1987), chairman and CEO of Ayala Corporation, one of the largest business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- December 2001
- Case
Natural Pork Production
By: Ray A. Goldberg and James M Beagle
An entrepreneurial hog farmer's creative use of contracts and capital structure drives very successful growth and returns in a depressed commodity industry. View Details
- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
Consumers delight in using smartphones to record their experiences and surroundings, but for businesses, such devices present tricky challenges. Suppose a customer encounters a hair in her food, a spill in an aisle, or a rude clerk.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
Originators issue too many informationally insensitive securities in good times, blunting investor incentives to become informed. The resulting scarcity of informed investors exacerbates market collapses in bad times. Inefficiency arises... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
frontal assaults against armies that are ten times your size. Those are suicide missions," echoes David Peterschmidt, Inktomi's CEO. Rule Three: Plan And Be Prepared To Pivot It is a common fallacy that fast-moving companies like the... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
Working PapersDesigning a Two-Sided Platform: When to Increase Search Costs? Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We propose a model for analyzing an intermediary's incentives to increase the search costs incurred by View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace