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- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
Assessment: Evidence from Food Safety Inspections By: Ibanez, Maria, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Many production processes are subject to inspection to ensure they meet quality, safety, and environmental standards imposed by companies... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
programs: one week in Los Angeles to secure Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and National Fire Safety Protection Association (NFPA) safety licenses and... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
Shih: It has a lot of potential for misuse and could cause safety problems. It’s going to mine a load of data. The question is: do people really want to share that much information? The bargain on the modern internet is: “You’ll give me... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
We exploit households’ portfolio weights in previous years as an instrument for actual capital gains and dividends payments. We find that unrealized capital gains lead to a marginal propensity to consume (MPC) of 13% for the bottom 50% of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
will do a much cheaper, faster job of attacking our energy and environment problems than having politicians and regulators try to solve them by selecting technologies or drafting complex rules and regulations that simply hide the costs from View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
rational for a platform to limit the number of applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network effects, users prefer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-062.pdf September 2014 Managing Consumer Services: Factory or Theater Customer Experience and Service Design By: Karmarkar, Uday, and Uma R. Karmarkar Abstract—While services already... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Karen Tumulty Reports on America
"several influential newspapers and magazines and three TV networks pretty much held sway. Now there's the 24-hour news cycle - and the Internet, where every whiff of a rumor finds its way into the national bloodstream. There's a greater burden on the View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
discussions. Known as the Private and Public, Scientific, Academic, and Consumer Food Policy Group (PAPSAC), the organization is dedicated to using a multidisciplinary approach to "assist the food system in evaluating the various... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
consumed outside of the home, we felt it was critical to continue to operate—our restaurants serve 4.3 million meals a day on average. With so many of our locations already set up for drive-in, drive-through, and takeout, about 97 percent... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
kid” at Ford Motor Company, McNamara climbed the corporate ladder and, after fourteen years, was named president (the first from outside the Ford family) in November 1960. Bucking sacrosanct industry notions, he promoted vehicle safety... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
three days straight, but it was the best three days of my life—much better than flying to Europe and dealing with labor unions in France." Wolf Creek Farm produces 30 tons of beef a year for the local market, selling directly to consumers... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
short-term profits and returns to shareholders at the expense of worker safety and health, the environment, and society in general. In this article, I argue that a very different logic informs the practices of most high-performing and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
opinion and policies? What are its risks and rewards? And what is the playbook for leaders considering speaking out? The authors of this article examine those questions and explain the takeaways of their own research. One finding: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety change when employers adopt ISO 9001. We analyzed a matched sample of nearly 1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far lower organizational death... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
increased by 0.75 percentage points, increasing sales dispersion. Calibrating conventional inventory-ordering models, we show that to respond optimally to the observed increase in dispersion, the retailer would need to increase its cycle and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts By: Edelman, Benjamin, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We examine the profitability and implications of online discount vouchers, a relatively new marketing tool that offers View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
if today's 40 percent personal savings rate is to be reduced, thereby unleashing cash to fuel new growth in consumer spending. Creating this domestic safety net will be crucial to enabling Alibaba to grow... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
because we wanted it to be perfect. The reality is a startup isn’t about perfection on the first try. When we launched our first product we were hawks––watching and waiting for any feedback we could get. Hearing what consumers had to say... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
(see Figure 2-3) and several new internal business objectives. Mobil U.S. Marketing and Refining, like Rockwater, moved to a new "customer intimacy" strategy that would offer a superior buying experience for consumers. Mobil's market research had revealed... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton