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- 01 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
find turnover increases for the most productive workers. We detect limited effort responses and find no evidence of different effects based on workers’ expectations of fairness or future promotion. The findings suggest that adjustment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010
supplier capabilities and hence about future supplier performance. This paper presents a multi-period model of service level competition among suppliers selling substitutable products to a customer that engages in supply learning. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
to write about globalization, accounting standards and, in particular, Indian accounting standards? Gregory Miller: Globalization is the major issue in determining the future of financial reporting. As financial and product markets become... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
objectives. Identifying how to best achieve our mutual objectives can be challenging, but also provides a great learning and growth opportunity.” How do you use what you learned at HBS in this position? “In some way or other, every class... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- April 2003 (Revised July 2003)
- Teaching Note
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Teaching Note for (9-703-040). View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
assessments of corruption such as enforcement actions, independent directors, and more rigorous auditing. Furthermore, relative to firms with high anticorruption rankings, firms with low rankings had higher sales growth in regions... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
individuals seized the context of their times—some individuals created new businesses, others maximized growth opportunities, and still others found success in turning around dying or declining businesses. We called these the three... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
Throughout his career, Kuhns says, he has never forgotten an exchange that took place in his first-year MBA production course taught by Professor John Bishop. In response to a student whose answer to a question had clearly missed the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
business-focused products and broaden access to lending,” says Mills. Research suggests that fintechs were responsible for some 50 percent of PPP loans to Black-owned businesses. “As the recovery evolves, adopting new technologies will... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide that are released into the atmosphere when coal and petroleum products are burned. That same day, the Wall Street Journal reported that in California and Arizona, General Motors would this year... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
disruptors and not just rising income inequality, even though that is certainly a major disruptor and one that businesses have been starting to take seriously by, for example, developing products and services for low-income customers,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
electronics, internet services, health care. And they are the caregivers of their families and their communities, and so it's a huge opportunity that has yet to really be tapped in terms of really creating IP and products that really... View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
(iStockphoto/Mladen Zivkovic) Several years ago, my spouse and I turned to concierge medicine. We no longer wanted to deal with a US health care system that often provides basically anonymous, production line diagnosis and treatment... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Nov 2024
- Book
Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech
great sense of their cash flow, the sales they might make, when customers will pay, or what cash needs they could have based on the season or a new contract. Small businesses have low cash buffers, and a miscalculation, late payment, or even fast View Details
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Digital Innovation and Transformation: Resources useful for Course Assignments
Sullivan Industry research, reports on growth & opportunities, and... View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707027 eClinicalWorks: The Paths to Growth Harvard Business School Case 807-025 In January 2006, eClinicalWorks (eCW) had an acquisition opportunity that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
counterparts. In most countries, firms have become less diversified over time. However, there is no such trend in China. The level of diversification of Chinese enterprises does not vary over our study period (2001-2005), making Chinese firms the most diversified in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
many of these businesses is still challenged," says Lal, the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing. "From a profit perspective, from a growth perspective, and more importantly from a return on investment perspective." In addition to... View Details
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
innovative new product for the treatment of acne that they hope to sell to consumers via direct-response television. The unconventional nature of the product and its distribution has led the company to seek... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace