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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
work. I also learned that spending an hour talking to your girlfriend on the company phone when the boss is trying to call in is a quick way to get seriously reprimanded. Kwinters customers had two options: a ready-made steamed dog or a barbecued View Details
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
the estimation of the fair value of complex financial securities. The paper encourages accounting scholars to devote more resources in order to obtain a fundamental understanding of contemporary and future practice and how analytic tools... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
as more options hit the market. Some countries, such as Israel, have been quite successful in getting vaccine adoption. Others, such as the United States and members of the European Union, have struggled, while many others, such as... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
may target the most successful complementors so as to appropriate value from their innovations, or they may target poor performing complementors to improve the platforms' overall quality. Using data from Amazon.com, we analyze the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
exciting opportunity, but it still felt like my side passion project, versus my “career search.” Long story short, I ended up receiving the offer. I wouldn’t know what park I would be placed at until after accepting the offer, but options... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
for company stock, they will nonetheless receive more value than they would have had the business been shut down. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
Almost all CEO and executive bonus plans have serious design flaws that limit their benefits dramatically. Such poorly designed executive bonus plans destroy value by providing incentives to manipulate the timing of earnings, mislead the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America
food-service market is valued at more than $200 billion but is nonetheless highly fragmented. While a handful of mega-brands like McDonald’s and Domino’s have thousands of branches, mid-size chains are rare; and 85 percent of... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
personalized selling (cosmetics, for example), online shops have a hard time creating a satisfying experience. Hence stores have much to offer in these product categories. What strategies can retailers implement given the increasing lack of productivity of their retail... View Details
- Web
Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
[jharvard@rhrcscli01:~]$ bjobs –l MEMORY USAGE: MAX MEM: 788 Mbytes; AVG MEM: 446 Mbytes This MAX MEM values in bold can now inform how much RAM you would ask for next time you do similar work or work with the same data. If you would like... View Details
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
will be smart to unbundle the services and come out with a pricing table.” As Munyaradzi Mushato put it, “implement an authentic platform strategy where users pay, advertisers pay, and developers pay for the value they get.” Clearly,... View Details
- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
Washington, D.C. REASON FOR SERVING: Joining the Marine Corps was putting my personal ethos into action. Like many, I had other options after graduating college which had shorter hours and better-looking paychecks. None of these View Details
- Web
Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
pricing strategies Benchmark costs compared to competitors through relative cost analysis Apply conjoint analysis to understand what features customers value most Understand the power of network effects to drive demand Identify sources of... View Details
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
profitable. The banking partnership proved problematic in that it was hard for a second-tier bank to compete with its larger brethren, which by 2008 were forced by government mandate to offer low-cost banking options for the poor. But... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
actions the activist investors took to get the attention of management, the board, and other investors. The businesses, secure transportation, and home security monitoring are described from both a business strategy and a financial perspective so that the potential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
negotiation have much in common. Specifically, both involve the interaction of motivated agents with distinct interests, perceptions, and values (especially in high-stakes contexts). As a result, robust strategy, creativity, and nimble... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
Even as COVID vaccines begin early deployment, pressure on leaders continues to mount to engage in “Big C” change: rapid course corrections through job cuts, recruiting a fresh management team, and redesigning roles and responsibilities to score quick wins. Clearing... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
well-regarded multi-sector leader asked to revive Wisconsin’s African-American chamber. This case study examines the lending options that a minority chamber of commerce considers when seeking to maximize View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
economically stressed areas where property values remain low, preferring instead to wait until someone else has taken the first-mover risk and values have begun to rise. These structurally disadvantaged... View Details