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- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
helping the environment or encouraged to drill for carbon-based fuels? How do we fund government programs such as health care and entitlements? How big should government be? "...it would be constructive to have a discussion about... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
problems that hold back the rest of their economy. The problem is, isolated zones for processing foreign inputs and exporting all these outputs are the antithesis of cluster development. Emerging nations must create programs and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
and some 1,000 cases. By the time he became professor emeritus in 1997, he had taught some seven thousand Harvard MBA students and ten thousand Executive Education participants in programs at Soldiers Field and abroad, while advising... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
by truncating her true ranking. We show that in symmetric information environments this result is identical for all priority mechanisms and all linear programming mechanisms introduced in British entry-level medical markets and in public... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
find support for these hypotheses. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-022.pdf Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs Author: Michael W. Toffel Abstract Firms and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
on-demand programming. Priced at $39.99 per month, Hulu Live TV offered consumers a tremendous savings over traditional cable program packages and allowed subscribers to watch programs on Internet-connected... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
be, an important component of competitive advantage for these firms. Q: How can companies translate this into sales strategies, tasks, and processes understood by their sales teams and the rest of the organization? A: This is the essence of the Aligning Strategy and... View Details
- 19 Jan 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis
back on CSR programs—quite the opposite, says HBS professor V. Kasturi "Kash" Rangan. As a marketing scholar, Rangan is optimistic about strategic CSR efforts that provide value in communities and society. Key concepts include: Companies should not cut corporate social... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should You Outsource Your Marketing?
that outside expertise is often needed. Sony, a legendary marketer, outsourced its program to market products through its online "Sony Style" store, recognizing that they needed expertise in areas such as customer database... View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
programs strengthened the relationship between firms’ historical innovative efficiency and subsequent subsidy awards and depressed the influence of their corruption-related expenditures. We also examine the impact of these changes:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
consumers? Do you think the number of options in this category will increase in the future? A: There are a variety of other tax-favored savings vehicles. For example, there are now tax-advantaged savings vehicles that focus on saving for education. The Education... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
pay-as-you-go actuarial basis. The public discourse about Medicare for All is deceptively appealing. The health care program for the nation’s seniors is highly prized by Medicare beneficiaries—85 percent say they’re satisfied. Who can... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
create more interesting program choices for audiences." Azeem suggests a more appropriate response, saying, "Speed can trump IP, especially in technology industries. In the time it takes to secure a patent, you ought to have... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
stochastic dynamic program to study when the value of concealment is positive or negative. We show that when consumers are myopic, the value of concealment is always positive. In contrast, we show that when consumers are strategic, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
customer acquisition approach. Communication programs must be tailored to the desired customer segments. The engineering company, dealing with a relatively small number of customers (twenty to thirty), developed a so-called... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
program design under which codes and monitoring are more likely to go beyond mere symbolism and to be associated with improvements in supply chain working conditions. At the institutional level, we find that suppliers improve working... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
Cases & Course MaterialsGLOBIS Mukti Khaire, Akiko Kanno, and Nobuo SatoHarvard Business School Case 811-061 Yoshito Hori, dean of the Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University, was planning to launch a full-time English MBA View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
all the kinds of transactions? A: No, actually, that's the easy part of the problem. And that's proven by the fact that frequent shopper programs are able to deliver coupons and in some cases, samples, to regular supermarket customers. Q:... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
Leading in the 21st Century is an HBS Executive Education program being held in January 2000. Professors Gary Hamel and John Kotter talk about the course and the new realities of leadership and competitive success. Q: What led the two of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
Vallée explains. To that end, he and Célérier set out to quantify talent. To do so, they capitalized on data from French engineering schools. Measuring Talent In France, students are selected for engineering programs based solely on their... View Details