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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
Image by Jezper by Regina E. Herzlinger Health care now represents some 18 percent of the American economy. With its costs continuing to rise, and with tens of millions uninsured, we in the United States are understandably preoccupied... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
on effective professional feedback, honing it in roles at tech icons Apple and Google. The idea? Radical candor, or as Scott (MBA 1996) defines it, caring personally while at the same time, challenging directly. At View Details
- 2008
- Working Paper
Where Does It Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained
By: Shawn A. Cole, John Thompson and Peter Tufano
In this paper, we analyze the spending decisions of over 1.5 million Americans who vary in their degree of revealed credit constraints. Specifically, we analyze how these Americans spend their income tax refunds, using transaction-level data from a stored-value card... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Credit; Personal Finance; Spending; Taxation; Consumer Behavior; United States
Cole, Shawn A., John Thompson, and Peter Tufano. "Where Does It Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-083, March 2008. (Revised April 2008.)
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
business, its owners, and the family in control—is that strong, long-term business performance also requires strong performance by the family and by the ownership group. You can't keep a family business performing well over many years... View Details
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
Harvard Business School professor Kristina Steffenson McElheran studies the effect of information technology on business process innovation. It's a topic, she is sometimes told, that is, well, less than exciting. "I've had people say to me that studying View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting
the Courts Credit and Information Technology Credit in a Consumer Society Research Links Credits “Credit is the vital air of the system of modern commerce. It has done more — a thousand times more — to enrich nations than all the mines of... View Details
- 24 Jul 2017
- News
Yes, You Can Buy Happiness-If You Spend It to Save Time
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
yourselves out, or be just your sort of inner circle. That's some revenue. And it depends on the league, but it could vary anywhere from next to nothing to half of the revenue of that league if you're... View Details
- 05 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why People Crave Feedback—and Why We’re Afraid to Give It
Abi-Esber says. After all, there are few greater gifts a person can give someone than showing them that you are paying attention to what they are doing, and helping them to do it more successfully, Gino... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Status: When and Why It Matters
like to believe that people pay for status for purely symbolic reasons, but the empirical evidence for that has been weak at best," says Harvard Business School's Daniel Malter, an assistant professor in the Strategy unit who studies... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- January 2025 (Revised April 2025)
- Case
Less Is More: Will Aldi's Expansion Plans Pay Off in a Crowded U.S. Grocery Market?
By: David Collis and Haisley Wert
In 2024, the discount grocery retailer Aldi announced bold U.S. expansion plans. Within five years, the German company would increase its store count by 30% to reach 3,200+ stores across the United States and approach becoming the fifth largest grocery retailer in the... View Details
Keywords: Scope; Grocery; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Business Model; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry; United States
Collis, David, and Haisley Wert. "Less Is More: Will Aldi's Expansion Plans Pay Off in a Crowded U.S. Grocery Market?" Harvard Business School Case 725-416, January 2025. (Revised April 2025.)
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
you can in other markets," says HBS professor emeritus Walter J. Salmon, a specialist in consumer marketing and retail distribution. He cites "cultural sensitivity"—the ability to know what consumers will want before they know View Details
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
politically when its citizens don’t pay attention to what’s going on overseas, be it what their country does in their name, or be it by forces... View Details
- 20 Aug 2020
- News
The U.S. Needs an SEC for its Health Care System
- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
manufacturers and service companies will seek permanently to diversify their supply chains radically going forward We might accept the lower financial results as the insurance premium we have to pay to... View Details
- 2017
- Working Paper
Malleable Monopoly Money: Does How You Pay For A Gift Card Affect How You Spend It?
By: Priya Raghubir and Shelle Santana
This research examines the malleability of a specific form of “monopoly” money (viz., Raghubir and Srivastava 2008), gift cards, and shows that the manner in which one purchases a gift card affects its subjective value and subsequent use. Study 1 shows that... View Details
- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
Informing consumers and restricting bad apples: that’s the dual role that occupational licensing is supposed to play. If a plumber, painting contractor, or HVAC repairer has a license it should matter to consumers wanting their services,... View Details
- 2014
- Article
Unequality: Who Gets What and Why It Matters
Who should get what, and what are the consequences? Economic inequality in the United States has been rising for decades, yet only recently have behavioral scientists explored two central questions surrounding the optimal level of inequality. First, what are the... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Ethics; Productivity; Gambling; Equality and Inequality; Fairness; Income; Performance Productivity; United States
Norton, Michael I. "Unequality: Who Gets What and Why It Matters." Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1, no. 1 (2014): 151–155.
- 01 Sep 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?
moralist) who wrote Wealth of Nations in 1776 is a potent example.” Crispin Batten also put forward the notion that the relationship has been adequately explored, citing the work of Max Weber. He also introduced the notion that View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett