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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Gita's medical history and her symptoms suggest a heart problem, MeraDoctor ultimately recommends that she get an echocardiogram (for which she has to pay at a private facility because the government one is too crowded). The test reveals... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
these characteristics to influence prices. For example, consider an advertiser that is the sole bidder for a given term, e.g., a product that it alone sells. That advertiser's payment to Google does not reflect bidding to beat a competitor. Rather, that advertiser... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
cultivate a paid audience and also tell them, “Hey, on the other side, you’re paying journalists.” And journalists of color are often the ones who are laid off first, who are underpaid, and all of that nonsense. If you really want diverse... View Details
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
State’s David Norton, compares the phenomenon to seeing bulletproof glass at a bank. “Bulletproof glass is something meant to protect us, but sometimes its very presence can make us aware of the dangers we hadn’t previously been paying... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
being influenced by women, yet they weren’t paying attention to what women wanted.” Giving voice to those who aren’t always heard has been a hallmark of Lara’s career. Today, she works as the executive director at Lakeshore Ethnic... View Details
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
and growth to build new organizations.” Equally life-changing were the guest lectures taught by the likes of Jeff Bezos, who, at the time, was merely the founder of an online used bookstore. “To have those encounters right there, in... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
state funding.” Dias Griffin and her husband, Ken Griffin, have made education a cornerstone of their philanthropy for years. Through their eponymous family foundation, they have donated more than $13 million to CHECC. “I benefited from a great free education that I... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
voicemail messages. Now their words are much more authentic and can be remarkably empowering. Social networking is also flattening organizations by distributing access to information. Everyone is equal on the social network. No... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
any initiative to empower the poor and the equally critical importance of available credit to allow poorer families to invest in their future. Despite the plethora of education-related activities and the rapidly growing success stories in... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
David Rockefeller, the firm has a renowned art collection, much of which is displayed on the walls of its offices. When Shibayama started there, he barely even noticed the art, including the pieces hanging in his own office. “I didn’t pay... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
two-thirds of American workers. It’s a particularly expensive practice for employers, who pay up to 30 percent more to hire graduates for middle-skills work even when individuals without degrees perform View Details
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
been to teach students and executives strategies for creating value, or integration. Many negotiation scholars and teachers go one step further, arguing that value creation has a positive impact on society in general. After all, if we can show the world how to make two... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
sale. Second, a third of those who participated in a group gift sign up for a PayPal account. Finally, an- other third returned to visit eBay within a month with the intent to purchase other items. Importantly, eBay obtained all of these benefits without having to... View Details
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
financing, it won’t impede recovery as much as if all debt comes due at once. Steinwender and Garicano’s findings also hold lessons for governments wishing to provide loans to companies to fill the gap. Since not all companies are equally... View Details
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
smaller." John Homan suggested, "... that the Federal Government give a 10 percent tax credit to the purchaser of a house and the purchaser pay it back ... over 20 years in equal installments with... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
in an innovative loan program: “If you look at your crystal ball, and it looks like you’re not going to execute? Okay, fine. We’ll loan the amount of money that you’re not going to execute to another division that needs it,” says Stuckey. “They’ll execute their project... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
managers think of customers, and introduce the idea that not all customers contribute equal value. Concrete examples illustrate the self-reinforcing nature of the connections between employee loyalty and customer loyalty; and between... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
importantly, equality of pay between in-office visits and telemedicine visits. In the past, providers were paid at much lower rates for telemedicine visits. That sounds fair, but telemedicine is actually... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
the best market data. But not anymore, says Dubrowski. Overpricing, not overbuilding, is the market's biggest problem. Today, his twenty-two-person firm pays upward of $400,000 a year for subscription data services, the same services that... View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
suggests that "Globalization will have reached its peak when we have global citizens who can pay their taxes where they please and enjoy the benefits of the government that serves them best no matter their geographic location . . .... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett