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  • 30 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption of wrongful-discharge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

that such responses evoke concession costs that prompt organizations to shift resources and attention from other social domains whose performance suffers. We test this theory by examining tradeoffs global supply chain factories make when... View Details
  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

issues is brief and non-technical. Provides actual deferred tax information from AOL's Form 10-K, where net operating loss carry forwards result in a large deferred tax asset and the accounting for software and deferred subscriber acquisition View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

state’s tacit toleration for the coulisse. I emphasize the lesser known coulisse in Marseille, suppressed at the height of a bull market in 1855, to formulate an alternative explanation of the 1859 suppression of its counterpart in Paris. I conclude that the View Details
  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Op-Ed

The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone

talent, and in doing so, you are both respecting the past by acknowledging those who brought the organization to the dance and helped it rise to where it is today. But at the same time, you are investing in the future. Promoting... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 2010
  • Book

The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal

By: Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu
On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was officially opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a... View Details
Keywords: Political History; For-Profit Firms; Development Economics; Infrastructure; State Ownership; Ship Transportation; Panama; United States
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Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts The Health Care Crisis In spite of countless health care reform efforts over many decades, uneven outcomes and quality, frequent errors, and high and View Details
  • 05 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can

it is consistent with consumers becoming less price sensitive.” Will prices rise even faster? Meanwhile, company costs have declined over time as firms have squeezed more productivity out of increasingly... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 29 Jul 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

to rise with each step toward the full work-from-anywhere policy, the researchers found. Productivity increased 4.4 percent when employees moved from working at home on a limited basis to the location of their choice. Based on a patent's... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • Web

Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

the company's shareholders and leaders. Some want to use the program as a fig leaf for laying off staff; others think it costs too much and might put the company at a competitive disadvantage relative to companies that are hiring... View Details
  • Web

Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

on the rise for decades, has been treated by many organizations as a personal issue instead of a business-critical risk that merits executive oversight. This is likely due in part to the fact that companies have not effectively quantified... View Details
  • 05 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Are Virtual Tours Still Worth It in Real Estate? Evidence from 75,000 Home Sales

5 percent sales price rise by using visual tools—but it might help sellers in many other ways.” “Maybe in a time where you couldn't really go and see how it was in person, it seemed like having the virtual tours helped shorten time on... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Real Estate
  • 07 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook

understood what people were really willing to pay for,” Karp says. “Having great features is different than having features that will incentivize people to use your product.” As mixed economic signals and the rise of artificial... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

sentiment in the US stock market More Info Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Malcolm P. Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler AUG 2020 Baker, Hoeyer, and Wurgler propose a simple tradeoff theory to explain the well-known weak empirical relationship between beta risk and the View Details
  • January 2009 (Revised February 2009)
  • Case

Pitney Bowes: Employer Health Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron
Pitney Bowes, a Fortune 500 mail and document management firm, offered its first health plans in the years following World War II. Over the ensuing decades, Pitney Bowes adapted its approach to employee health amid rising health care costs, shifting employer attitudes... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Insurance; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Corporate Strategy
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  • 10 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why Are Prices So High Right Now—and Will They Ever Return to Normal?

early in the pandemic, but has become more widely available. Why empty shelves mean rising prices Missing merchandise is a sign that retailers are facing higher costs of replenishing inventories, which leads... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Research Summary

Overview

My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
  • Research Summary

Overview

My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
  • Web

California - Global

Case Adobe: GenAI Opportunity or Threat? By: Sunil Gupta , Rajiv Lal and Allison Ciechanover In December 2022, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen faced a pivotal strategic decision due to the rapid rise of generative AI image models from OpenAI,... View Details
  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

downtime created by the collapse of the Internet bubble gave rise to a host of new applications that we now collectively know as Web 2.0. Technologies and materials left unused due to the collapse of one industry can be creatively... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace