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- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
forthcoming Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, Mathias F. Hoeyer, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract— The well-known weak empirical relationship between beta risk and the cost of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
the "Faster, Better, Cheaper" initiative, and what did it try to achieve? A: FBC was a response to rising development costs and the high-profile failures of several missions in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Its aim was to move... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
ablokhin Free shipping is an increasingly important tool in the online retailer's marketing arsenal, but few sellers understand the intricacies of the strategy and are leaving significant profits on the table, new research suggests. "Retailers need to be View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
markets—a far cry from the buffer zones and spheres of influence surrounding the large twentieth-century hierarchical organizations. They typically didn't know whether their product would work, what it would really cost to make and sell... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
South Africa over its attempt to reduce the cost of HIV drugs through parallel importation (buying pharmaceuticals in countries with lower prices and then importing them) and compulsory licensing (requiring patent holders to allow others... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
through signature—e.g., at the end of tax returns or insurance policy forms. Yet even when people care about morality and want to be seen as ethical by others, they sometimes transgress when beneficial to their own self-interest, at great... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
them lack of public credit for prevention (as opposed to recovery), political opposition to preemptive actions, and the sheer cost of insuring against meltdowns (Phil Clark). David Physick responds with questions: "Is the question... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
Brain Sciences Vicarious Contagion Decreases Differentiation—and Comes with Costs By: Sezer, Ovul, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Baumeister et al. propose that individual differentiation is a crucial determinant of group success. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=606090 Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing Harvard Business School Note 106-068 Introduces the role for time-driven activity-based costing. Identifies the value from an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
to help organizations better access, integrate, and leverage the talents and insights of their employees. An earlier career as an organizational change consultant led me to realize how many thoughtful, caring individuals were stymied in... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
employed mother spend more time caring for family members than men whose mothers stayed home fulltime, and daughters raised by an employed mother spend less time on housework than women whose mothers stayed home fulltime. The pattern of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
Clinics in Minnesota. That effort produced enduring behavioral and cultural changes regarding an issue (medical errors) that has proven very difficult to address for many health care institutions. Moving... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
Publication:Hamburger Wirtschafts-Chronik 9 (2012) Abstract This article examines the growth and ultimate demise of the toothpaste brand Pebeco, which was created by the German personal care company Beiersdorf in 1903. The brand was an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
make purchases. Retailers, however, felt that major credit and debit card issuers had too much market power which was leading to higher costs for retailers to accept such payment forms. Consumers were increasingly adopting smart phones... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
and prosperous than others. And the third, which arose from the second, examines how you can take competitive thinking and apply it to social problems such as the environment, inner cities, and health care. Most of my readers have tended... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
War I, the management of political risk became a central concern for firms operating internationally. These risks were on many levels, from expropriation to exchange controls and other economic policies. The issue is explored in multiple chapters, but the chapter on... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
calendar became a bottleneck, and organizational decision making virtually ground to a halt. For a while, the CEO was oblivious to the high cost of his intrusive approach. As an outsider new to the company, he felt good about being part... View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
was to make a series of unsustainable promises that sustained the illusion of prosperity" by extending easy credit to fuel consumption, covering health care and retirement costs, and directly employing... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
and AIDS: The Macroeconomic Impact of a Health Crisis Authors:Eric D. Werker, Amrita Ahuja, and Brian Wendell Abstract Theories abound on the potential macroeconomic impact of AIDS in Africa, yet there have been surprisingly few empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
bridges, water, power and more? It’s not because they don’t aspire to. It’s because they lack the money and the expertise (in African cities) or because they can’t get to political consensus (in the United States)—or because there are other priorities for limited... View Details