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- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
pay to the plan. We document an oppositional reaction: the presence of peer information decreased the savings of nonparticipants who were ineligible for 401(k) automatic enrollment, and higher observed peer savings rates also decreased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
construct concrete sea walls? Can low-income communities afford to weatherize buildings when residents struggle with paying utility bills? With transportation as one of the biggest sources of carbon emissions, should budget-limited school... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
realm. The idea is this: There is a market logic, which has rational economic calculations, and an artistic logic where one is doing something for self-expression. So how do you blend those two worlds? Noma does it by charging a high price where people are View Details
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
How's this for a mission statement: We make crummy products for non-consumers. But if you think that's the idea for an "F" paper in business school, you haven't been paying attention to success stories ranging from Henry Ford's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
online but could use 50 to 70 more. All this underscores that fact that options come with complications. A gas tax increase would reduce U.S. fuel consumption. While Italians are paying the equivalent of $6.50 per gallon, we Bostonians... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
Changing that to a completely new business model would be more than difficult because individual users seem well served, advertisers like the reach and targeting ability on the platform, and shareholders can’t complain either. It is society that is View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
Benioff completed a BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, paying his way through college with royalties he earned as a teen-age game developer. Nadella studied engineering in India and was awarded an... View Details
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
senior leaders continued to revise the compensation formula based on feedback both internally and from the public. Particularly, they hoped to strengthen the link between pay and performance, which in the current version of the formula... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
is paying attention and is effectively punishing brands that do not deliver 100 percent food safety,” Quelch says. “The consumer is voting at the cash register.” Related Reading The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring? Decommoditizing... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
discourages them from posting on Wagaroo. Some people don’t want pets to go to a family not willing to pay for it, and are hesitant to give their dogs away for free. Wagaroo agrees with this concern, Exley says, and thus encourages... View Details
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
procedures to start a business declining from 15 to 5. Equally good news was that the average time to prepare and pay taxes declined from 264 to 193 hours over the same period. The Failures This is all good news and, in theory, should... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
This structure allows bank depositors to remain "sleepy": they do not have to pay attention to transient fluctuations in the mark-to-market value of bank assets. In contrast, shadow banks create safe claims by giving their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
companies are already starting to find ways to combine incentives for performance with measures to create more loyalty and employee affiliation with the company. Japanese companies created a very extreme version of such affiliation. The company provided a job for life... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
climate policies. Applying the “universal owner” model. The world’s largest assets owners have taken note of the scale of this exposure. Large pension funds invest so broadly—through index funds, private equity, or other securities—that they become “universal owners”... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
related future transactions—or even the current transaction—without the platform’s involvement and without paying any fees the platform may charge. This technical note assesses which marketplaces are most vulnerable to disintermediation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
environmental activist, Hirshberg built Stonyfield Farm, (an organic yogurt maker based in New Hampshire), up from a seven-cow operation into a business that in 2010 had $360 million in annual revenues. The narrative pays particular... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
post-mortems on successful missions, NASA missed the opportunity to identify problems (and solutions) that might have helped avoid later failures. A third problem lay in NASA's tendency to aggressively post mortem failed missions while View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
If you're in search of startup funding, it pays to be a good-looking guy. A series of three studies reveals that investors prefer pitches from male entrepreneurs over those from female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitches... View Details
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
economies, the smaller economies pay the price. The problem is exacerbated by continuing structural weaknesses in developing countries where foreign investments are not necessarily anchored in long-term commitments to infrastructure or... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
banker who has spent months and months and months analyzing a particular deal between two companies can spend only a few minutes making a hiring decision for his team, when the firm is sometimes paying millions of dollars in guaranteed... View Details