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- 03 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates
network, but pay only for those ads that entice a consumer to make a purchase. (This setup is different from other online advertising such as banner ads, where the seller pays... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
insurance premiums for the average plan are expected to rise by 9 percent in 2017. Aetna’s decision prompted commentary from both sides of the political spectrum. Republicans see it as proof that the public exchanges simply won’t work,... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
offset the cost for treating the uninsured and providing medical education, and federal health-care regulators such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are looking the other way View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
Management; and Fiona E. Murray, associate dean of innovation at Sloan and Kearney's thesis adviser. “Our paper provides concrete proof that gender discrimination exists in the context of entrepreneurial pitching” As View Details
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
destroy value by adding administrative costs and leads to structures involving health plans and providers and other actors, which are misaligned with patient value. In a world of zero-sum competition, for example, providers will... View Details
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
mobile phones, tablets, as well as desktop computers. Do some retail executives mislead investors to win in the stock market? Source: Rawpixel Ltd Consumer activity data included counts of specific events... View Details
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
situations as well.” The decision to study alumni connections was borne of the professors' personal school ties: both received their PhDs in finance from the University of Chicago. In 2007, each landed a... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
video case studies of laid-off workers, as well as a couple of technical notes for students—one focusing on best practices for managers as they... View Details
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
explored how great companies often lose their ability to innovate and eventually fail at the hands of much smaller, "disruptive" competitors. "Basically any stock you wish you have owned started out as View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
dishes. That's also what makes growth issues harder—it's much more cumbersome to re-create. But anything less than the Noma experience would have to be called something else. As View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
increase is largely driven by more functional specialists like CIOs or CMOs, not general managers.” “There ultimately is no such thing as effective selling that is not tied to the company’s strategic objectives” The reason for that is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 May 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals
As a Harvard Business School professor for 20 years, V.G. Narayanan has significant experience using the School's pioneering case method to teach business concepts—introducing View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
different product life cycles. Making the transition has been extremely hard. What made the iPod transition easier is that the iPod began as a PC peripheral, even though it's ultimately View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
When Standard & Poor's Rating Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States from AAA to AA+ on August 5, it was a shot heard 'round the world. Stock markets plummeted,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
central board of directors. In contrast, affiliates are independent, 501(c)(3) organizations that have an agreement with a coordinating, central organization to be part of an identifiable network. Each affiliate has its own governing... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), allowing businesses to cite religious freedom as a defensible reason to deny service to a... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
created by the parties' relational, substantive, and procedural acts, we call these six forms improvisations. Just as each musical improvisation plays on an established melody or a set chord progression, the... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
Want to gain more respect at the office? Consider wearing red sneakers to work. OK, so maybe it's not quite that cut-and-dried. But recent research does find that people who wear offbeat clothes in a professional setting are often... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
high-paying ones. Wherever possible, health care professionals have shifted from their normal service lines to serve COVID patients. Primary care provider offices and outpatient services are empty. View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost