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- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
1,000 cars per year as compared to, say, the Chevrolet division of GM, which has an average much less than 1,000. Moreover, the Japanese company has about 1,500 distributorships in the United States; Chevrolet has about four times that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
efficiently. His new research applies a similar framework to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia. He wants to compare these four Asian economies because on the surface they share a similar perspective on FDI: They all welcome it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
would not be achieved even if the product offered a payout ratio comparable to U.S. insurance contracts. We present evidence suggesting that lack of trust, liquidity constraints, and limited salience are significant non-price frictions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
The initial impetus was when I was doing my early field research on founders and heard complaints from them about their inability to increase their compensation compared to their non-founder colleagues, which I found surprising. For... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
of Turkey from the nineteenth century until the present. It aims to place the distinctive characteristics of capitalism in Turkey within a global and comparative perspective, dealing with three related issues. First, it examines the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
students were all thoroughly trained in the technology's use. Five years later, the test scores of the school's students - 95 percent Black and Hispanic - are double the New Jersey average, and 100 percent of the students want to attend college, View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Compare this with the American saying “the squeaky wheel gets the grease,” and it’s clear that different cultures teach different values, which often translate into distinct ways of doing business. In today’s global business world,... View Details
- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
comparatively in the dark, creating an “information friction” that the freelancers can exploit. In a March 2015 working paper, Information Frictions and Observable Experience, Stanton, along with Catherine Thomas (PhDBE 2006) of the... View Details
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
Ferri, on leave as a visiting assistant professor of accounting at NYU's Stern School of Business, sees a number of avenues for future research on executive compensation, including its influence on risk-taking and the effects of regulation and disclosure regimes on... View Details
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
provided excellent comparative data of the kind that we have seen all too little in the public debate on the matter. And nearly everyone admirably avoided the political rhetoric that has clouded rational thought about a truly complex... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)
making the most of limited resources. I am eager to support government partners in navigating this complex landscape and expect I will learn a lot about policymaking, multinational cooperation, and financial management along the way. By View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Global Opportunity Fellowship: Making a Difference in Africa
worked at Kenya Commercial Bank, one of the largest banks in the country, touring different divisions within the bank. There, I got to see and understand what corporate life was like and compare it with my previous experience working at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
adoption is going to increase, then inevitably the price will go up. Epilogue from Santi Bitcoin is still small compared with the US dollar and other major currencies, but it is starting to become more relevant. Bitcoin has larger money... View Details
- 02 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?
application of their work. One could argue that a field of activity of this importance warrants a cabinet position alongside Transportation, Energy, Agriculture, and Commerce. Compare this to what appear to be faster-moving achievements... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
platforms, LendingClub and Prosper. They found that using the LendingRobot screening model paid off by reducing the average loan default rate by more than 20 percent compared to the average level on the platforms. If peer lending... View Details
- 28 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business
are the largest employer of minimum wage workers but also because they have a fairly high turnover rate—about 5 percent of restaurants go out of business each year. Using data obtained from Yelp, the researchers looked at reviews of about 35,000 restaurants and View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
have a natural authority." In retail, Trumbull found more evidence that diffuse groups impact outcome, comparing retail policy in France and Germany. Mom-and-pop stores in both countries have faced the threat of large retail chains that... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
political party registered as Republicans. The partisan divide within executive suites differs depending on where firms are located. For instance, more than 75 percent of executives in Florida and Georgia are registered as Republicans, View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
20 percent compared with the pre-transition period. Why? CEO turnover tends to cause a great deal of uncertainty about whether a new leader will make big changes, like reshuffling or reducing the workforce, as well as shifting corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
sellers, leaving people of color out of a crucial means of wealth building. The national dearth of minority loan officers is considerable. In 2019, just 15 percent of mortgage loan officers were minorities, compared to 39 percent of the... View Details