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- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
to charge a very high membership, and at that price, the number of people who would sign up is very low." Despite the trend toward online shopping, some previously online-only sellers are now establishing a physical presence, says...
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- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
disclosures hit the headlines. For this reason, it is perhaps a good time to solicit creative ideas about how leading business schools that mint a high proportion of senior executives in large organizations can identify and weed out...
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by James Heskett
- 04 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
Motherhood and the MBA
in Boston? Boston has some of the highest childcare costs in the country. Wait lists for daycare can be over a year-long. It is imperative that you look into daycare as soon as you are even considering coming to HBS (especially if...
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- 03 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund
with the intent of scaling BIPOC-led and owned small businesses. The team believes that HBS students are uniquely positioned to support these kinds of investments, which typically have smaller ticket sizes, because they can bring down the View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel
to be so close to the steel production process, and it provided valuable insight about what makes the process so challenging and yet high priority to decarbonize. Perhaps most interesting was the role that policy played in the outlook of...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
attractive, but ultimately unrealistic, plans to end too big to fail. It might feel good to declare that we can eliminate too big to fail once and for all through a simple act of reform. But the cost of such short-term satisfaction will...
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- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
etc.) to implement the new strategy. Purchase the case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=109015 BMW's Project Switch (B): Importers vs. National Sales Companies Harvard Business School...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
Senegal, is a public-private partnership where the private sector supplied most of the capital and is compensated mostly by toll revenue, but the low “policy price” tolls would not have paid back the full cost. The government of Senegal contributed to first View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
present-value (LPV) framework—combining the book value of equity, profitability, and market prices—predict the cross section of out-of-sample returns in 26 of 29 international equity markets, with a highly significant average slope coefficient of close to 1. In...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
and prices as a function of the consumer population's valuation for the service and show that competition has three main effects on the marketplace. First, competition drives the provision of services with a low level of disclosure. Second, competition ensures that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
no change over the past three years, but twice as many felt things were getting worse as those that felt they were getting better. And nearly 40% said that what they want is high quality mass transit to more places—40%. That's an amazing...
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- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut...
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- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
existing customers for the long term). An ideal customer, from a CLV perspective, is one who is inexpensive to acquire, who delivers high annual profits from his purchases each year, and who remains a customer for a long period of time....
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
Advertisers pay millions of dollars to air TV ads that, by some estimates, more than a third of viewers skip over with digital VCRs or by switching channels or tuning out altogether. New research by HBS professor Thales S. Teixeira offers...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
financial guts of the business world when I was a teenager.” Big fail: Missing the cut for the high school volleyball team. “I asked the coach what I needed to do to make the team the next year. She told me, and I ended up being captain...
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- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
switches hubs, which I started funding a bunch of companies there. I set up one of the first internet companies in Asia, in 1994. And as I progressed, I went from chips, to boxes, to networks, to then, applications. And then, I think when...
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- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
deviate from commonly accepted treatments. By that line of thought, medical malpractice lawsuits would put a damper on innovation, and tort reform laws that limit exposure would spur it. But, there is another potential effect. “When physicians are under pressure from...
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- 24 Oct 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
innovative solutions? Can Innovation And Creativity Be Managed? High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet Many managers in business experience difficulty dealing with their best creative thinkers. So how does violinist Paul Robertson,...
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Alumni-Authored Books | Baker Library
Harvard Library borrower card . Alumni access to eBooks is limited to the computers in the Stamps Reading Room (3rd floor of Baker Library). 1979 Chirls, Cliff: Teams That Work: The Six Characteristics of High Performing Teams . Dent,...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
whom he’d known since high school. They were equally intrigued. “We thought, why don’t we use that technology to disrupt the grocery industry by bringing the same type of efficiencies to the supermarket?” Aguerrevere says. Last November,...
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Francis Storrs