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01 Dec 2015
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Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right

What intrigued you about the pay-what-you-want (PWYW) model? It’s very unusual for a firm or a seller to completely relinquish pricing power to their customers. Typically consumers encounter a price, and then they decide whether or not they want to View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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How HBS Financial Aid Can Help You Meet the Cost of Your MBA | MBA

How HBS Financial Aid Can Help You Meet the Cost of Your MBA By Katie Kelsall on January 21, 2022 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email As a first-generation college student, I understand firsthand what it’s like to have to figure out how to View Details

01 Dec 2020
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How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?

economic equality fosters economic growth, primarily by encouraging consumption among people who spend a lot and invest modestly. For example, the study concludes that the US pays handsomely for the low growth that comes with income and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions

a 401(k) program. Boeing threatened to move construction of the 777X jetliner to another state without the concession. Funding The Future Even so, companies are still on the hook for paying benefits to those employees who have already... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Aerospace; Financial Services

01 Jun 2024
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Turning Point: On the Line

Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Leonard Dick (MBA 1990) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Day 116 was bizarrely poetic. Or poetically bizarre. And not just because I was an HBS grad participating in his second strike. To that point in last year’s... View Details

Keywords: labor strike; television; media; unions

03 Sep 2020
Op-Ed

Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC

Employers, insurers, taxpayers, and individual consumers pay widely varying prices for treatments, medical technology, and for digital information of fluctuating quality. One patient may receive a small charge for a treatment, while... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger; Health

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

employees and the organization. A 2016 study by Princeton’s Alex Mas and Harvard University’s Amanda Pallais offers some interesting insights. They found that the average applicant to a job at a large call center was willing to take a significant View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Choosing the Right Student Loan | MBA

to their education through a combination of savings and student loans. Borrowing loans can seem daunting, but if you do it wisely, you can minimize the amount you owe and the time it takes to pay them off. There are tons of student loan... View Details

01 Mar 2006
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The Real Conflict

shareholders — compared with 8-plus percent for its customers. It is worth adding that this shareholder surplus would be completely wiped out if Wal-Mart’s million-plus employees were to receive a $2-per-hour pay increase, modest though... View Details

Keywords: Pankaj Ghemawat; Ken A. Mark; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

02 Mar 2021

Women's Virtual Visit Week: Professor Katherine Coffman and Gender Differences

Join us for this faculty chat where Professor Katherine Coffman will discuss how gender differences in "willingness to apply" -- for things like higher paying positions, promotions, and stretch assignments -- impact the distribution of... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent

enormous financial cost, too, with over 50 percent of the companies surveyed paying college graduates more than non-college graduates for the same job. The takeaway message: stop raising degree requirements for jobs that don’t absolutely... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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Ann S. Moore

spinoffs, including InStyle, Real Simple, and People en Español. People questioned her when, on graduation from HBS, Moore accepted the lowest paying of 13 job offers she received, to pursue her passion—magazines. Over the next two... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship

08 Jul 2002
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Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?

should have insured and enforced fairness and honest reporting." Many questions were raised about the level and form of compensation afforded U.S. business leaders today. Allen Roberts comments, "In sustainable, successful organizations, levels of View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Gordon M. Bethune

When Bethune took over Continental, the company was nearly out of cash, there was conflict between employees and management, and the airline ranked last in customer satisfaction. Bethune initiated a market research campaign to determine what frequent flyers wanted and... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

01 Dec 2009
News

An Action Plan for Economic Recovery

choices. That doesn’t solve the problem of forum shopping. In fact, it makes it worse. What if rating agencies were paid by investors rather than by bond issuers? Wouldn’t that stop forum shopping? In theory, yes. The people who are being served by the rating agencies,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

and the latest example of zero-sum competition. If drugs are too expensive, let's get the government to pay more. Now that healthcare costs have gotten so high, it is squeezing consumers, employers, state governments, and federal... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

01 Dec 2009
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Hope for Reform Dims

president and COO. Thain labeled as “nonsense” the frequently heard claim in Washington that executive pay plans, particularly lavish bonuses, spurred the excessive risk-taking that ultimately led to the financial meltdown. He advocates... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Jun 2014
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Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over

For marketers, how big is the World Cup? Its power can't be overstated. Some 3 billion people will watch the tournament, and marketers will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to engage their attention. FIFA, the governing body of international soccer, already has... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

24 Apr 2014
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Expanding the brand of the country’s largest magazine publisher