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John Smith-Ricco
by how multi-faceted everyone is here. The business titles don’t really speak to their passions or the ways in which they contribute on campus. At the Social Enterprise Club and Conference, for example, so many different kinds of people View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
hospital, we find support for our hypotheses. Our findings suggest that frontline workers' participation in problem solving is motivated by some inherent characteristics of the problems as well as by particular management practices.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
Rob Gierkink
their customer data collection and digital marketing capabilities through enhancing their existing point-of-sale assets. Index was sold to Strip in April of 2018. Previously Rob was Chairman and CEO of Datalogix which he founded in 2007.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health
but most have been driven away by fears of liability and government discount price-setting. “No one company or handful of companies can undertake all the research” necessary to produce needed vaccines, he said. Incentives must be introduced, so as to attract more View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
before I arrived. The Gap, Inc., our parent company, was struggling to find a niche for Banana Republic. They knew that the original safari theme was no longer working, and they were aware that they needed to make serious changes. When I got here we did some classical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
With the sequencing of the human genome running ahead of schedule (see sidebar), the American Stock Exchange's "BTK" biotech index registered an annual increase of 232 percent in February, prompting exuberant headlines ("Move Over,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
and environmental standards. Natura began to seek international markets in 1982, but experienced many setbacks until surviving the economic crisis in Argentina in 2001. The company opened operations in France and Mexico in 2005, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
Cournot-style competition. Meanwhile, each advertiser must pay a participation cost to use each ad platform, and advertiser entry strategies are derived using symmetric Bayes-Nash equilibrium that lead to the VCG outcome of the ad... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
amount of talk about free markets or balanced budgets will make a difference. The solution is an entirely new engine of change: a World Development Corporation (WDC). This entity could be chartered by the United Nations and established as... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
profitability. There are at least two antidotes to this scenario. One involves serial acquisitions. But research has suggested that most acquisitions destroy value. This helps explain why the stock of acquiring firms is often discounted... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
has been 12.1 percent. Second, this remarkable return differential doesn’t reflect a more general differential in investment returns. During this same period, the equity markets in the United States outperformed the rest of the world in... View Details
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—We conduct a field experiment in which we vary the sales force compensation scheme... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
development occurred after I had left the School. I had the good fortune of participating in a luncheon in New York City to honor the Dean after his retirement. He told a moving story about service, friendship, and HBS involving a friend... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
issue, and I thought, Maybe I’m uniquely situated to do something about this,” she says. A year later, Kapila launched ProInspire in Washington, DC, with an inaugural group of five fellows. Six years later, the organization spans both coasts and engages 100 View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
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Daniel Serna
marketing projects. To learn more about agriculture itself, he studied at Yale. "Most people don't think of Yale as a big 'aggie' school," Dan explains. "But it has a long history in environmental and agricultural economics... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
author detailing his current four-year journey through all 54 African countries at Africa54.com "Consumers will acquire a greater appreciation of targeted, personal marketing. A growing number of advertisers will embrace online marketing... View Details
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
agrees, of course. Comparing the simplicity of (especially short-term) responses to the complexity of the pay-for-performance challenge, Ravindra Edirisoorlya went so far as to say that "Current P4P model(s) may lead to another economic bubble and another strong... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks By: Campbell, John Y., Carolin E. Pflueger, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract—The exposure of U.S. Treasury bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
completion. In addition, the ERC has been involved in about thirty course development projects, for instance by searching for appropriate case sites for a faculty member, facilitating company contacts, or participating in European... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
religious norms. We report on a field experiment that examines when auction participants will respond to an appeal to continue bidding for secular charitable causes. The results reveal that religious individuals are more likely than... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace