Marginal Propensity To Consume - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Mar 2015
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Walter Salmon Remembered

grocers, drug stores, and discount stores like Costco. Peter asked me (a banker) what I thought of supermarkets accepting credit cards for groceries. I said that the grocery margins (~1%) wouldn’t support the discounts on card purchases,... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking

professional French-horn player, Brooks came to the subject of happiness by way of art. His early research focused on why people produce and consume art and beauty as well as the motives behind human... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

are in a good position to sound the alert about "policies or practices that may have the unintended consequence of marginalizing international students," Walker says. One example is the common tendency of... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

Course descriptions by Elaine Gottlieb, Judith A. Ross, and John Simon (sidebars by Elaine Gottlieb) Whether they come to HBS with a business plan in mind or become entrepreneurially inclined later in their careers, students who take HBS... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

political theater of the last quarter century. One might think these moments were cases of bad luck, but King argues they were symptomatic of our broad appetite for public embarrassment, the media’s business imperatives in satiating that craving, and the View Details

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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

intended to intrigue audiences and lend legitimacy to the dubious product. Here, the dance is presented to potential consumers as the “Ghost... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

that prevented small units from sharing their resources and competencies with one another." Information and other kinds of technology have enabled people to communicate laterally within their organizations — View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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