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- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
At the same time, he adds, there will be "a new set of management and pop psychology books with dubious claims ." Among the potential benefits making it highly relevant, according to David Skinner, is that "its output might... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
threaten our world competitiveness. It may actually help us find ways to be more productive." Susan Seitel agreed, saying "there are ways to have both and we have proof. The country's dramatically increasing output comes... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
purchasing life. The CLV formula incorporates metrics that capture the outputs of three key customer strategies that firms employ: asset acquisition (attracting new customers to the firm); asset maximization (maximizing the value the firm... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
limited reserves—Sinopec was struggling to increase output rapidly enough to keep pace with the rapid growth of their automobile sector. And it had to make money soon. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Students learn to (1) carefully articulate the business ask; (2) reason carefully from the ask, through metrics and models, and outputs; and (3) evaluate outputs from models to (4) develop a plan for action. This case gets students to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
"lean," capacity-constrained firms. As demand varies, the industry switches between symmetric and asymmetric phases, generating predictions for firm size and costs across the business cycle. Surprisingly, increasing available capacity can cause a reduction in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
easing off the growth accelerator, can Chile overcome this loss? A: Not easily. Chilean copper output has fallen over 14 per cent in one year. While Chileans got used to nearly 5 per cent annual growth during the 2000s, the economy hasn’t... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
and output markets are strongly linked to higher establishment entry rates. We also find substantial evidence for the Chinitz effect where small local incumbent suppliers encourage entry. The importance of agglomeration economies for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
database. Conclusions—Major benefits of the model include its basis in expert judgment, its straightforward application, the flexibility of transforming its output ratings to any linear scale, and its ease of interpretation. This metric... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
they largely go unused. For some, they even make access to "need to have" functions more confusing. How has this come to pass? Is it that much of the information technology we confront these days is the output of a small group... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
problems that hold back the rest of their economy. The problem is, isolated zones for processing foreign inputs and exporting all these outputs are the antithesis of cluster development. Emerging nations must create programs and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
expansion for U.S. Steel, increased output of steel from foreign sources began to impact domestic markets. With their post-war economic recoveries well underway, Europe and Japan emerged as major competitors in the global steel market.... View Details
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
minds to wander were correlated with activity in this network. The Persistence of Inflation versus that of Real Marginal Cost in the New Keynesian Model Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Periodical:Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking (forthcoming) Abstract This note provides... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
less predictable than the clockwork tides that drive Verdant’s turbines, but it is still far more predictable than sunshine and wind. While offshore winds produce the waves that power Oscilla’s buoys, the ocean buffers them, leveling out some of the variation in energy... View Details
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
industries and exploit cross-section and time-series variation in import tariffs to examine their impact on firm boundaries. Our empirical results provide strong support for the view that output prices are a key determinant of vertical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
more—possibly just a little bit at first—and firms might decide to expand production as well, and back and forth, driving a recovery in output and employment. In this way, the downward spiral of contracting consumption and business... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
downstream exposure, we construct firm-specific exogenous credit supply shocks and estimate their direct and indirect effects on real activity. Credit supply shocks have sizable direct and downstream propagation effects on investment and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
make their own investment, thus reducing their potential output. When the output reduction by the large sellers is substantial, the platform may not want to provide the ancillary service even if it could do so at no cost. To encourage... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
lightning-fast." It would of course be impossible for one manager to do all that in a larger organization, and McElheran can't say for sure which part matters most. "Is it the flatness of the organization? Is it a process where the IT View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
Union is funded through consumer subscriptions to Consumer Reports, and through private grants. This model has several advantages. By directly linking its output to consumer use of its service, it provides a powerful incentive to meet... View Details