Recovery Rate - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 18

PublicationsOptimizing Organic Waste to Energy Operations Authors:Bariş Ata, Deishin Lee, and Mustafa H. Tongarlak Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract A waste-to-energy firm that recycles organic waste with energy View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Feb 2023
HBS Case

Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

to expand its political platform, linking the migrants to a rising crime rate and other ills. “It’s a problem that’s playing out not just in Europe, but in the US as well,” Spar says of rising immigration numbers. “Sweden is an indicator... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

expansion of the world economy prompted a recovery in the growth rate of world FDI. The system of international cartels was dismantled. By 1960 the world stock of FDI had reached $60 billion. By 1980 it was... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

10 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Are Prices So High Right Now—and Will They Ever Return to Normal?

early in the pandemic, but has become more widely available. Why empty shelves mean rising prices Missing merchandise is a sign that retailers are facing higher costs of replenishing inventories, which leads to higher inflation. In the US, a stockout View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

unable to tell whether each child was honest or not, we speculate about the proportion of reported white outcomes. Children report the prize-winning outcome at rates statistically above 50% but below 100%. Moreover, the probability of... View Details

08 Mar 2021
In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

1990s produced relatively more patents by the early 2000s. Second, we compare the extent of invention in counties that were leaders in Internet adoption to those that were not. We see little difference in the growth rate of patenting... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

to shareholders. So any attempt to cut labor expense could well have provoked a public backlash—especially since at the time the company's home city of Schweinfurt had an unemployment rate of 16 percent. For publicly traded companies, the... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

Double-Digit Growth Experiences By: Werker, Eric D Abstract—This extended memorandum identifies episodes of sustained double-digit growth in real GDP, defined as a compound annual growth rate of 10% or more over a period of 8 years or... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

The pandemic is winding down, and the world is moving toward an endemic approach. In the world's COVID-19 epicenter, New York City, businesses, restaurants, and Broadway have reopened now that 4 million New Yorkers have been vaccinated. Testing centers have begun to... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

20 Jan 2022
Op-Ed

3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic

Professor Julian Zlatev found that verbally acknowledging other people’s emotions, particularly their negative ones, builds trust. In one of the studies, participants who commented on negative emotions were rated up to 20 percent more... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

each segment, for example, of both the seniors in the early majority and the seniors that are laggards less keen on taking the vaccine. The diffusion of innovations research indicates that a combination of personal and societal factors influence the View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

thought would be short-lived. But when we looked at the turnover rates again a few years later, we discovered the rate was about the same, but the driving cause was more than just the rapid change in IT: It... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis

difficult decisions over what investments to keep and what investments to cut. How they made those choices and what effect they had on business and national recovery in the long run hasn’t been well understood, however. Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking

20 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55281 Fall 2018 Eighteenth-Century Studies Cosmopoleis: Empire and Capitalism By: Reinert, Sophus A. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55279 Issuer Default... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

Marketing After the Recession

the result will be continuing downward pressure on prices. Economic recovery will not allow producers to let up on tightening cost controls and improving productivity. Know your lead indicators. Every good marketer knows the specific... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

down on recovery costs and avoid costly complications later on. View VideoProfessor Emeritus Robert Kaplan explains his research to lower health care costs and engage with practitioners. “Once you take this perspective, it becomes obvious... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

28 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

immediate impact of the financial crisis on small business and, second, driving economic recovery in the years following. Together, the three-the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking

14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

how sensitive corporations are likely to be to facing a negative rate of return on their cash holdings. But the goal would be more to trigger behavior that feeds that economy rather than raising revenue for the government. Ideally, firms... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

07 Oct 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers

JetBlue today is considered one of the top airlines in the world, and its customer ratings are as high as its airplanes. But not that long ago JetBlue was a prime business school example of a nightmare scenario displacing 130,000... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Air Transportation

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