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- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
to Cummins. One way to analogize this is to imagine if a fraction of your mortgage interest deduction was disallowed, and that fraction reflected the number of days you spent abroad. Such a disallowance would increase your taxes and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
catalog that professors would employ "an analogous method [to the 'case method' used at the Law School], emphasizing classroom discussion, supplemented by lectures and frequent reports, which may be called the problem method."...
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by David A. Garvin
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
to get away from that and to be able to make much smarter decisions. Morrell: But these are two different forces. You have a nice analogy where you say FOMO is kind of like a glass of wine, but FOBO's kind of like smoking a cigarette,...
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- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
always like it, but I explained to them that they ought to have pride enough in their jobs to learn about this piece of equipment and what it did." He created a simple analogy to drive home the need for accurate measurement: If you...
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by Theodore Kinni
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
whether you are doing the right thing. Your decisions are your legacy.” One of Fisher’s favorite analogies is that being in business is like rowing crew. “When the team pulls together, and everybody is at their best, there’s nothing like...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
they have the highest chance of success. Through training as well as motivations, even average players might become rising superstars. "It pays for firms to invest in hiring and developing great managers" In the corporate world, this is View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
"I'm very strong, I can handle this." And he said, "Well, you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." And I thought, "Oh, could you have a more disgusting analogy for a woman who's giving birth?" I was...
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- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
of bits and pieces that we’ve been working on into a coherent scaffold,” says Hawkins. “It helps orient us and helps us think about our research and where to go next.” VP of Research Subutai Ahmad also employs the puzzle analogy to...
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- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
and fundamental to Kodak’s identity. In January 2016, Clarke and his executive team traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, for the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) where the company unveiled a prototype of its new Super 8 camera—an analog...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
and a Pro Bowl player. And that's the analogy I garner with her. She broke her maiden after, I think, six or seven starts. All of a sudden everything changed. She was a different filly. She was eating better. She had a lot more...
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horse racing
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
these products provide. Each entrepreneur stuck with the enterprise as it grew and changed.—Nancy F. Koehn In an analogous manner, Starbucks provides an engaging, sociable experience to the more than 12 million people a week who visit its...
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by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Jason A. Kilar
missing, which is a first window. What is the goal with Vessel? By creating a first window, we can elevate the quality of video overall on the Internet. A good analogy is what I think is one of the single biggest events in the history of...
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- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
the early years of the 21st century. From a state-owned enterprise earning 97% of its revenue from television sets and other analog consumer electronics, Thomson had become a publicly traded company providing digital video services and...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
unevenly and somewhat unpredictably, alternately buoyed and buffeted by shifting oil prices, government policies, and consumer tastes. Cox’s Juan Camargo sees an analogy in the gradual adoption of internal-combustion automobiles. The...
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- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
threats on a finite set of players, N, is a function d that assigns a real number to any coalition, S ? N, such that d(S) = -d(N\S). A game of threats is not necessarily a coalitional game as it may fail to satisfy the condition d(Ø) = 0. We show that View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
latecomers, as we build a technological infrastructure, it will be the newest and most advanced," Sicupira explains. "That has happened in Brazil with our digital cable installation, which surpasses the analog cable that is the core of...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
solicit input on the ground, refine, and finally present their completed proposal to their partner organization. Moon draws on a medical school analogy to describe the immersion experience. “For decades medical schools have understood the...
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- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
for the launch by an unknown start-up, considering the wisdom of taking a B2C rather than B2B approach with a novel technology, and using analogous products to forecast demand and sales for a new technology. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
but online dating websites contain primarily searchable attributes (Study 2). Finally, we introduce and beta test the Virtual Date, offering potential dating partners the opportunity to acquire experiential information by exploring a virtual environment in interactions...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
a player's pay-off from agreement is risky. We find that a risk-averse player typically increases his equilibrium receipts when his pay-off is made risky. This is because the presence of risk makes individuals behave "more patiently" in bargaining. Strong...
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Martha Lagace