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06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

years or, more often, 10 years. Researchers can’t observe the potential immediate adjustment costs faced by native workers, such as temporarily lower wages or higher unemployment. It’s thus impossible to conclude that immigration has no... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries. The financial sector could promote the health and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

real actions to boost earnings to meet different types of earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a price to pay, with the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

spending. Real estate costs are high. The taxation and legislation system is complex and difficult to navigate. Vijay Jain said he left a "cushy" job in investment banking to take advantage of the huge potential promised by... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle

venture process. The presence of such expertise on the part of lawyers, accountants, and real estate brokers, among others, has substantially lowered the transaction costs associated with forming and financing new firms. The increasing... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner; Financial Services

17 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 17

feedback influence order quantities. We find that the portion of mismatch cost due to adjustment behavior exceeds the portion of mismatch cost due to level behavior in three out of four conditions.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

May 2024
Supplement

DRSi (A)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

In March of 2019, Jen Ransom Fuller purchased DRSi. DRSi, located in Bellevue, Washington, printed and reproduced architectural plans and drawings. Fuller planned to use her first year of ownership to learn the business and to run it in much the same way as the seller.... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Health Pandemics; Selection and Staffing; Employee Relationship Management; Production; Logistics; Safety; United States; Washington (state, US)

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03 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders

"The beauty about the mathematical model is that it allows us to show mathematically that our intuition works; it also allows us to investigate how various factors such as different platform production costs and exclusive content affect... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information; Publishing; Technology

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

data. The emphasis in all of this, Iansiti and Lakhani point out, is on doing, whether in teaching, learning, or research. "There is a direct engagement with the world that is bringing HBS closer to the medical school or engineering school model," says... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

03 Sep 2009
What Do You Think?

Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?

a penalty to the company for doing so. Shouldn't we expect some recognition on the part of the employee, perhaps expressed in terms of greater loyalty, about the company's role in doing this? Should an organization impose a quid pro quo for funding such development? Or... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

12 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Accounting Information as Political Currency

red flag of 2004—outsourcing—as well as to ensure future benefits and avoid future costs in regulatory matters. As Ramanna and Roychowdhury write in their working paper [PDF] "Accounting Information as Political Currency":... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Aug 2004
What Do You Think?

For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?

whether the Section and the Law of which it is a part will have the desired effects. This suggests the importance of tracking both the costs and benefits of the Law. There is little or no provision to do either in the Law itself. What is... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

capital on their ability to secure resources. "In biotech it can take eight to ten years to develop a product and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to bring it to market," says Higgins. "Therefore, funding is... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

05 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

may not be a pure-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A has negative... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

number of additional analyses we conducted confirm that our findings are most likely driven by changes in individuals’ opportunity costs of starting new ventures as a result of worsening labor market conditions and not by changes in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon

showrooms. "I think a large part of what this work is about is displaying how costly it is, underscoring the importance of setting your shipping fees" As growth in online retail has outpaced expansion in traditional retail stores, the higher View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

12 Mar 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist

the last three years, Exxon continues to invest heavily in capital expenditures around the world to discover and produce more oil and natural gas, yet it is continuously cutting its internal costs to be more efficient. Once companies fall... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Banking

27 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad

that there's actually a cost of privilege," Neeley says. "People often think that they need to cater only to those who they perceive are on the losing end of something that is spurred by an organizational change. This study shows that in... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

24 Jul 2014
Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

facilitate the expatriation of US corporations. Such transactions reflect the effects of policies and of the changing structure of multinational firms. From a policy perspective, the transactions highlight the increasing costs of... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical

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