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- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
healthcare allows you to do something that means a great deal to the consumer. In a September speech, FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan said that low drug prices charged elsewhere in the world results in U.S.... View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
work? A: Unfortunately the method is quite difficult to implement—it took us many months to do it properly, and it required mutual fund holdings data that costs tens of thousands of dollars (which the HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
other ten or fifteen percent have to pay anywhere from $25,000 to $60,000 and up. You don't see that kind of inequity often." Inconsistent standards of payment. Only ten... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
venture capitalists by offering these kinds of incentives. (It would be hard for them to definitively answer this unless they had been able to find a broad-minded company who would be willing View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
had built its reputation by being environmentally responsible ran into trouble when it expanded its business into India," she explains, "because people there were not willing to pay for the... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
increased dramatically. Now that they could pay for showing up late, the parents stopped feeling guilty and made it a habit. "If you put a money value on the incentive, you often take away the pressure to... View Details
- 29 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?
With the rise of mobile payment apps like Venmo, many people can easily record the exact charges incurred by a lunch partner and pay back debts to the cent. They see themselves as efficient and fair. Others... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
recent report estimated that an investment of $3.2 trillion worldwide in energy conservation would avoid new supply investments of $3 trillion and would pay for itself within three to five years, while a... View Details
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
comes to positioning a company to best recover from the inevitable next banking crash, however, it pays to be prudent in diversifying... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
competitiveness. To the contrary, that's an indicator that we have to choose between being able to sell our products to customers and View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
intervention by business because business had no legitimacy—"it's above my pay grade." Still others thought that business should use its influence to activate government. A final group said that... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
Stevenson said the recent technology sector market crash should teach future entrepreneurs to build companies to last rather than to sell, and to... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
What do you think? Original Article Two contrasting news stories caught my eye over the past couple of months. The first involved the strike, at least initially unsuccessful, by the mechanics' union at Northwest Airlines in an attempt to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
wings battle over who gets the biggest piece of the pie, while paying little attention to expanding the pie of social resources for all. Q: If I recall my political science studies, lawyers and career... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
significant population of lower-skilled, lower educational-attainment workers out there, many who speak English as a second language, who have worked in service industries that have been very, very badly damaged by COVID. They’re going to... View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
of the experience. You are paying almost $500 for lunch, so being made to feel part of the in crowd is actually really beneficial and important. [Noma] has one four-hour seating for lunch, everybody greets... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
with enormous increases in wealth, as well as dramatic rises in the longevity, of humanity. Yet capitalism too has had its dark side. The book contains multiple examples of the amoral nature of global capitalism, from opium trading in nineteenth century China View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
dif¬ferent approaches, including approaches that at first seemed inconsistent; through the involvement of lots of talented people, like that animator; and through a willingness to wait and see what worked... View Details
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
saw potential in sports endorsements in the television age. McCormack informed Palmer that he was planning to start up a business revolving around personal business managers or "agents" handling professional golfers' affairs.... View Details