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- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
drastically reduced costs of creation, increased ease of distribution, and search devices employing "filters" and user recommendations that make all of what is available accessible and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
experience high costs of capital that are only partly mitigated by the presence of venture capital, the evidence for high costs of R&D capital for large firms is mixed. Nevertheless, large established... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
polesnoy As technology commoditization begins speeding up again, it’s a great time to be a consumer in search of a state-of-the-art flat panel TVs, but less comfortable for manufacturers hoping to make a profit. That’s according to recent... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
right approach.” In the new working paper The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment, Teixeira and HBS Assistant Professor Donald Ngwe propose that online stores take a page... View Details
- Web
Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship | Baker Library
Americans, and Whites Nielsen reports on the African American Consumer Search using keywords African American or Black RKMA Consumer Behavior 2019-2020 report has a section on African-American consumers. Consumer & Business Demographics... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
Why They Buy The first big puzzle Professor Clay Christensen tackled when he joined the HBS faculty in 1992 was an elemental one: Why was success so hard for businesses to sustain? The search led to his theory of disruptive innovation,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
determine specific style demands, then only ordering inventory against confirmed bookings. Clay will lose access to last-minute renters, but it will preserve precious capital, which is better used for building a strong social and web presence. Clay should invest deeply... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
Editor's note: Rob Zeaske was appointed director of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative in July 2020. Read more. As CEO of Second Harvest Heartland, a hunger-relief organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rob Zeaske (MBA 2002) has a clear understanding of what he's... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
need to know more than ever how consumers are redefining value and responding to the recession. Price elasticity curves are changing. Consumers take more time searching for durable goods and negotiate harder at the point of sale. They are... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The Joy of Spending
more money," says Norton, now an associate professor in the Marketing Unit at HBS. That search for answers led to their new book, Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending, which offers peer-reviewed guidance for the purse strings—much... View Details
- Web
Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
current student loans must meet all the following criteria: Must have received eligible student loans for the EC year Must have been certified by HBS or fully disclosed to HBS at the time the loan was made Student must be the borrower In no case will an amount larger... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
leveraging their market power to gain traction for lower quality products when they use a tying strategy. In this paper, we empirically explore this question by examining Google’s decision to tie its new reviews product to its search... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
reimagine the regional ecosystems in which they participate. They should search for systemic, multisector opportunities; mobilize complementary partners; and obtain seed and scale-up financing from organizations with a mission to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
years to come. Unpredictability inflicts a heavy cost on scientific progress, whether in domains like stem-cell research or in searching for safe alternative fuels. It damages the United States’ competitive... View Details
- 04 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
From Lone Star to Team Player
colleagues performed worse (i.e., were more likely to lose the bid) than those than did not obtain and use such knowledge, in part because some teams underestimated the search and transfer costs involved in... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
Business School. Guerra was vice president of Operations at Evans Food, a $100 million company, which produced pork rinds-salty snacks made out of pork skin-sold at some of the largest U.S. retailers such as HEB, Meijer, ALDI, and Wal-Mart. In the last few years, the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
“I Can Acquire Important Skills, But Also Gain the Big Picture Perspective of a Founder.”
which Rahil met his internship employer. “My internship search wasn’t really constructed on a traditional path with research, interviews and offers,” says Rahil. Instead, his TEM class provoked a change in direction. “I had never worked... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
products outside the United States, which amounted to 50 percent of its entire business. Again Lang made good - under her leadership Lotus's international products outpaced those of all competitors, including industry giant Microsoft, on View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
insulated, eco-friendly composite tile, enabling electrical interconnection and assembly with other tiles via “plug & play” connectors. Crossover Energy is an energy services company, helping organizations reduce their energy costs and... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
Ert, and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 1, no. 2 (2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/1/2/117/ The Counterfeit Self: The Deceptive View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace