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- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
factors investigated were found to be significant for at least one segment, only consumer price index, personal savings rate, and real gross domestic product were strongly significant. To explore further the dynamics of the segments and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement
Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- HBS Case
The Ferrari Way
company was run in a more casual way, with a great deal of informality,” he says. Being accountable to shareholders caused Ferrari to have to get serious about setting performance targets and professionalizing its organizational chart.... View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
perceived more spontaneous kinds of thought to reveal greater self-insight than more controlled kinds of thought in Study 1 (e.g., intuition versus deliberation), and perceived thoughts with the same content and target to reveal greater... View Details
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Profiles - MBA
business: Back in Malaysia, I founded two non-profit organizations, Project BAWE and BASE initiative, that target the alleviation of education inequality. Project BAWE is a non-profit organization that provides personalized STEM-focused... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
percent increase in housing prices. Moreover, Yelp measures of local business activity provide leading indicators for housing price changes and help to forecast which neighborhoods are gentrifying. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
with formidable challenges. In addition to deciding how many employees should be laid off, management must decide which employees to target (e.g., white collar vs. factory workers, domestic vs. foreign employees, etc.) and set a timetable... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
attacks. 2. Disruptive businesses either create new markets or take the low end of an established market. There are two distinct types of disruptive innovations. The first type creates a new market by targeting nonconsumers, the second... View Details
- 07 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big
investments, the researchers matched each crypto mention in their sample with daily price tickers from CoinGecko, a website that tracks crypto data, and then calculated returns over time periods from two to 90 days. The 35,569 tweets they... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
campaign" in which a number of individual deals must be put together, often on multiple "fronts," to realize a larger result, typically an ultimate target agreement with sufficient support to make it sustainable. When the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?
time-consuming market research in hopes of uncovering new insights about their target customers. But, even as market research tools have rapidly evolved, the results of such studies still offer only a snapshot of customer sentiment, and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 18 Oct 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks
- 21 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?
After successful stints at Target (vice president of merchandising) and Apple (senior vice president of retail operations), it seemed Ron Johnson could do no wrong. But the winning streak came to a well-publicized end during his two-year... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54634 forthcoming Journal of Finance Limited Investment Capital and Credit Spreads By: Siriwardane, Emil N. Abstract—Using proprietary credit default swap (CDS) data, I investigate how capital shocks at protection sellers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors
and the title of a second-year course he teaches at HBS. "At the foundation of finance is the idea that investors and managers act rationally, so that capital market prices reflect fundamentals and managers respond to incentives in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
49% higher personnel cost mix, and the price (rate) variance showed that U.S. personnel had a 31% higher compensation level. The costing and variance analysis provided organizationally relevant insights into the distinctive features of... View Details
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Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences - Health Care
evaluates the productivity, pricing and innovation in health care, medical malpractice, and racial disparities in health care. Featured Research 28 Nov 2017 Blavatnik Fellow Creates Virtual Brain Biopsy Software August 2018 Review of... View Details
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
integral to strategy execution, and Costco, where low price and product availability make selling activities less complex and variable. Or, more generally, think again about transaction versus solution customers in your pipeline,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
U.S. checks appear to have increased retail buying and share prices of retail-dominated portfolios. The Hong Kong payments increased overall market turnover and share prices in Hong Kong and mainland Chinese... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
compared to Kmart. (The other companies in their quad were Target and the Limited.) Both companies were in roughly the same financial shape in 1986, but Dollar General grew steadily, showing healthy profits year after year. Meanwhile,... View Details