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- 31 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” “There are no gains without pains.” “One today is worth two tomorrows.” Some phrases are so familiar they seem to have always existed. Referenced in every imaginable... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
might invite your biggest competitor to follow suit, instigating a costly bidding war. If you lost the war, your company would almost certainly take a hit in the stock market. Even if you won, the bidding war may have driven the price so... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 16 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management
workers around and demanding higher levels of output, even monitoring what they ate and how long new mothers breastfed their babies. And the slaves had no recourse. "If you tried to do this with a northern laborer," Rosenthal... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston
- 12 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches
The modern world is fueled by matchmaking. Going out on the town? Uber pairs you with a driver you can choose based on ratings, proximity, and even car model. Craving a vacation? Simply filter getaways based on locale and price through... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
recouple consumer activities or rebalance the revenues generated from each activity. Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 715-417 What Is Global? Allocating Products and Activities Across Locations No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: LEGO
management, product demand was so high at times that executives actually found themselves discussing ways to slow sales. A Shock To The System That all changed in the early 1990s as seismic shifts pounded the toy market. Big Box toy discounters trampled mom-and-pops... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
held. But having no stock price is a double-edged sword, as the case of Donald Salter Communications Inc. illustrates, since it is then harder to give managers incentives to maximize value during the... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- Research Summary
3D Negotiaton
In articles and books, often with David Lax, I have been developing a broad approach to effective negotiation that encompasses three "dimensions." In this "3D" approach, our first dimension — "tactics"-- is the most familiar territory. Tactics are the persuasive... View Details
- 12 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.
Lakhani, the Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration. “A vibrant sports scene is the lifeblood of many cities.” Take the suspense out of the game and you’ll lose spectators; no one—not even die-hard fans—wants to... View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?
Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
brand and introduce an entirely new pricing scheme. Early financial results from the strategic shift are not favorable. Based on the experience of U.S. retailer J.C. Penney, the piece raises fundamental questions about repositioning... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
fit. We study competing retailers that can operate dual channels ("bricks and clicks") and examine how pricing strategies and physical store assistance levels change as a result of the additional Internet outlet. A central... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Demotivate Your Best Employees
a 6 to 8 percent productivity decrease The plant's attendance award program began in March 2011 and continued for nine months. Employees with perfect attendance for a month, including no unexcused absences or tardy shift arrivals, were... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
followed a series of events that seriously damaged ChuoAoyama's reputation. We use these events to provide evidence on the importance of auditors' reputation for quality in a setting where litigation plays essentially no role. Around one... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
Participation in daily unit management had no effect on unit mortality, while participation in process improvement was positively related to improvement in unit mortality. The positive relationship between collaboration and improvement in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922
and white, I then, if I think it advisable, undertake to educate him on the different registers, and see that he gets one best adapted to his work. High prices, of course, is one of the hard things to contend with. On this point I generally say, "to you, View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 25 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?
access to therapies in low- and middle-income countries, told the BiGS Fix: “It is no longer acceptable that these highly innovative medicines and vaccines are only available to high-income countries. The rationale for this dichotomy is... View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Working PapersCPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We develop a model of online advertising in which each advertiser chooses from multiple advertising measurement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
percent increase in housing prices. Moreover, Yelp measures of local business activity provide leading indicators for housing price changes and help to forecast which neighborhoods are gentrifying. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?
Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne