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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
against extremism. Fifty percent of the population is under 25, and there are not nearly enough new jobs being created to provide opportunity. An uneducated, unemployed young person is someone without hope and a perfect potential target... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
conditions after the employee has accepted the contract-with no future employment) does lead to higher effort for the duration of the job. Targeted gifts are more efficient than hiring more workers. However, the mechanism makes this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
the probability of a borrowing firm becoming a target. We find that this effect is enhanced in cases where the target and acquirer have a relationship with the same bank and is robust to the inclusion of several firm characteristics... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
decarbonization targets are for the most part just that: targets. But in Europe, where the European Union and national governments alike tend to be far more aggressive in their pursuit of ambitious climate goals, those View Details
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
executive at J&J for 30 years and is now working with a cadre of medtech and digital (operative AR, RCM, and sales targeting SaaS) companies, including as Executive Chair of neurosurgical tissue engineering firm Nurami Medical.... View Details
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
decisions? A: Calculating CLV allows managers to identify opportunities for growing the value of their customer portfolio. CLV can guide segmentation and targeting analysis to decide which customer segments are the most valuable for the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
emotional state, which the authors call competitive arousal, often leads to bad decisions. Managers can minimize the potential for competitive arousal and the harm it can inflict by avoiding certain types of interaction and targeting the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
marketed its products as family food, targeting its messages to children as well as adults. Expanding slowly also gave Pujals the chance to work out and test his business model. He was able to determine exactly what sort of investments he... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- Profile
Marla Malcolm Beck
and with Macy’s financial support, Beck foresees an opportunity to grow to 350 stores, a number she targeted prior to the sale. “It’s a great time to start a business,” Beck said. “It reminds me of 1999, when I started... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
GMC Sierra EV. Five GM assembly plants in the U.S. Canada and Mexico will be building EVs. Japan's Mazda Motor Corp unveiled a $10.6 billion spending plan to electrify its vehicles and said it was also considering investing in battery production.The company also raised... View Details
- 06 May 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup
ideas with two of the same friends I had tried starting a company with earlier. Timing worked out well, as one of these friends had also just started business school at Sloan. To target our brainstorming, we focused specifically on how... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
follow their chosen paths. The Social Life of Information, by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, explains how many of the tools, jobs, and organizations seemingly targeted for future extinction in fact provide useful social resources that... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
of 1998 we won the “Truth” anti-tobacco account in the state of Florida. That put us on the radar. It also just happened to be targeted at kids between the ages of 10 and 14, which really anchored this agency in youth marketing.... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
and Andrew Molinsky Periodical:Academy of Management Journal 51, no. 5 (October 2008): 847-872 Abstract We develop grounded theory about how individuals respond to the subjective experience of performing "necessary evils" and how that influences the way they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2015
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November 17, 2015
dollar or one quarter. The practice of making offers at round price-per-share levels is associated with the following unfavorable outcomes for the bidder: (1) higher purchase price for target shares, (2) lower probability to complete the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
targeted advertising for the same reason: they didn't want anyone tracking their behavior. On the other hand, millions of people routinely share the most intimate details of their lives via various social media sites. With a series of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
announced a new strategy, which he called "One IBM." Having planted that stake in the ground, the company carefully chose what businesses to divest—its energy was then pointed toward the One IBM theme. Processes were streamlined, and layoffs were View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Women Find New Path to Work
choices they had made, the career choices they'd like to make in the future, and how they might actually take control of that and develop a strategic plan. New Path is a six-day immersion in everything you need to know to re-enter the professional work force. It was... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
identify risks and issues, and develop the business case. The two-month recruiting process for the first cohort included reaching out to organizations such as Autism South Australia, targeting verbal individuals age 20 to 30, either with... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
addresses interventions that firms, governments, and other parties deploy to shape household financial outcomes: education and information, peer effects and social influence, product design, advice and disclosure, choice architecture, and interventions that directly... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman