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- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
"It's about going back to the basic roots and origins of retailing," says Alvarez. "Talk to the customer, listen, find out what they want, and get it for them. "When you combine this with a keen understanding of trends...
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- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
calculations also indicate that book-tax conformity could reduce tax rates considerably, as a 15 percent tax on book-pretax profits (just for public companies) would provide the same amount of corporate tax revenues being collected today. Most radically, these View Details
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by Ann Cullen
- 09 Mar 2023
- News
Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
Clubs News Clubs News HBS Association of Boston Commemorates Centennial In 2023, the HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB) is commemorating its Centennial Year with activities and events aimed at celebrating a century of alumni accomplishments, exploring the View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
acceleration of certain trends in the workplace and workforce that were visible before COVID but have really taken off as a function of COVID. This includes everything from the growing prominence of the care economy and its impact on...
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- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
Africa by 2010. The announcement raised questions whether debt relief would really help the poor. By examining past aid trends and policies of multilateral institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, this...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
What I Was Not Expecting: Rerouting Towards My Passion at HBS
beginning, I did not really look for any further opportunities to do any new projects in music, or connect with people in the industry. I got sucked into the mainstream trend of recruiting for more “traditional” companies. I figured,...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Road Work
accelerates the decision-making process.” The education and insights flow both ways. Every quarter, Camino releases a research report based on survey data from its loan applicants and documents emerging macroeconomic trends in the Latinx...
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- 02 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?
to which the trend is a product of nature (declining employee motivation, changing aspirations, shorter-term planning, etc.) or nurture (such things as leadership, hiring policies, organization, incentives, and the job environment they...
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by James Heskett
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
Investment Promote Growth? By: Alfaro, Laura Abstract—Among the prominent economic trends in recent decades is the exponential increase in flows of goods and capital driven by technological progress and a falling number of restrictions. A...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
to determine what was best for the technology, the process has become increasingly pressurized and competitive - a trend Lerner attributes to industry response to success of companies like Qualcomm in the licensing market. (The company's...
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- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
roads, bridges, electric power, tiny tents, midsize tents, and impressive multi-story temples. I'm here to see if the lessons of a pop-up megacity , built around a duodenary pilgrimage, are lessons we can extend to the building of other new cities. I believe there are...
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- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
contrast, our algorithm reduces the weight assigned to early reviews and hence more quickly adapts to changes in quality." Other Uses Luca says their framework has other purposes—perhaps to better analyze trends in the restaurant...
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- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
"Denial might be best categorized as a form of risk taking." Aruna Sharma pointed out that "It's all about buying time to see if something can be done to reverse the trend ." Joe Schmid opined, "Denial is the...
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by Jim Heskett
- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
immigrant concentrations, reflecting national trends since the early 1990s. The Cato study concludes that there are "strong, positive arguments for pursuing a policy of expanding legal immigration for low-skilled workers." Such...
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by Jim Heskett
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
conducting research in order to understand what sort of product language might be most successful. (This research is less of the focus-group variety and more of a broad-based assessment of cultural trends and scenario building.)...
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- 07 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India
the competitive landscape means that international expansion invites foreign investment and the potential for strategic exit. This strategy is a reflection of the larger trend among Indian startups, like Pixxel, which, due to the...
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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship
Wasserman Early Stage Financing Compilation of posts on funding , Tom Eisenmann Mastering the VC Game , Jeffrey Bussgang Startup Investing Trends , Paul Graham Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist , Brad Feld...
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- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
colleagues found striking trends as they looked closer at dining patterns. The team analyzed almost six months of data from the foot traffic analytics firm SafeGraph to gauge how many people were leaving their homes, how often they were...
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- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
occurred with ad-supported television, according to critics, where much airtime is devoted to cheap-to-produce but widely popular pulp fiction, or reality programs like Dancing with the Stars to Duck Dynasty. Zhu wondered whether this View Details
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
four primary trends driving the development of innovative solutions: The first is the world's population growth, forecast by the United Nations to reach roughly 9 billion by 2050, and the mass migration from the countryside and agrarian...
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