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- 11 Jun 2019
- Book
These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway
greater burdens on managers but also creating new opportunities to shine. Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time Making a business successful is a challenge in itself, but making a green business profitable is an even... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
just than those that implied consistency and lack of bias. Information about the bias implied by a queue improved perceived procedural justice. The analysis suggests organizational artifacts to be "secondary contract makers" and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
Fargo., objectives were put in place to broaden the bank’s relationship with its customers. This involved selling existing customers many more products, a goal based on research showing a relationship between breadth of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
working paper, doctoral student Nathan Craig and professor Ananth Raman introduce a dynamic approach for optimizing the profitability of store liquidation that increases net recovery on cost by 2 to 7 percent of assets on hand, an... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
profit for every hundred dollars of revenue. The stage from manufacturer to the supermarket involves efficiencies of something like thirty dollars expended for every hundred dollars of revenue. It's very much less efficient. When you... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
customers notorious for labyrinthine procurement processes and glacial sales cycles. At the same time, Weiss reasons, if approached in the right way, selling to the public sector can amount to a huge opportunity for the right business.... View Details
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
advantages, great employee and customer loyalty, and a smoother on-ramp in leadership succession. A book excerpt from The Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
and bank executives appear to profit from the analysts' bias since the bias is associated with higher levels of insider trading. Our results highlight the bias created by asking analysts to rate their outside opportunities in the labor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
firm-level expected returns and expected profitability are time-varying but highly persistent; 2) forecasts of holding period returns strongly predict the cross section of future returns up to three years ahead. We document a highly... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 6
for tax analysis answers this question in the affirmative. Moreover, a plausible parameterization using data on height and wages implies a substantial height tax: a tall person earning $50,000 should pay $4,500 more in tax than a short... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
October working paper The Air War versus The Ground Game: An Analysis of Multi-Channel Marketing in US Presidential Elections, was cowritten with HBS doctoral student Lingling Zhang. Chung and Zhang pored over 18,650 observations on... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
managing director for its U.K. business, the core health insurance business was in a perilous state. BUPA was losing market share, and the company's profits had been dropping. Gooding suggested, with a bit of humor, that she might not... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
(forthcoming) Abstract Competition among firms yields many benefits but can also encourage firms to engage in corrupt or unethical activities. We argue that competition can lead organizations to provide services that customers demand but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
to evaluate the link between dismissal costs and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal Business Database, our estimates suggest that wrongful-discharge protections reduce employment flows and firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
problems." Others suggest that the question is somewhat moot, that in fact supply chain concepts are being applied to human resource management today. As Andre Mahfouz points out, "Many industries, especially retail, can profit... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1942 Born, Boston, Massachusetts 1964 Earns BS, Electrical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University 1966 Earns MBA 1966 Joins Salomon Brothers 1981 Launches Bloomberg LP 1983 Merrill Lynch becomes Bloomberg’s first... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
services that are friendly to the environment (a 1993 US executive order) and to "stimulate the use of green standards in private procurement" (a 2008 communication from the Commission of the European Communities). But despite these justifications, there has been... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
managers who are concerned about firm level metrics such as stock price. To have greater impact marketing needs to go beyond brand-level profits to show the impact of marketing actions on firm profitability. In this paper we focus on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
RapidVisa to expand the types of cases it can handle.) The company’s online immigration applications function much as TurboTax does for IRS filings, translating the arcane language of government documents into easy-to-answer questions View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
changes in the law that may have made filing easier. The authors base their assertions on an analysis of historical data involving bankruptcies and consumer credit. "When consumer credit expanded dramatically in the 1920s," notes Moss in... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross