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- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
render their brick-and-mortar formats unable to earn their cost of capital. A few retailers face the challenge of successfully capturing the opportunities ecommerce presents to increase the productivity of their existing brick-and-mortar... View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
costs for the company contacts outsourcing the work, as the workers in India are paid about the market wage for their work. These results and other observations lead to the conclusion that diaspora connections continue to be important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3
supply chain system. When commodity prices became more volatile in 2007 and 2008, executives at Domino's changed the way they worked with suppliers and franchisees to manage costs and risks and better leverage the assets of the supply... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
that women often leave client service to work in industry where they experience better work/life quality but limit their ultimate career progression. Her team focuses on creating policies to influence the costs and benefits of those... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 18 May 2010
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First Look: May 18
interviews at the January Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) meetings. Second, the AEA now invites candidates who are still on the market, and employers whose positions are still vacant, to participate in a web-based "scramble" to reduce search View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
watches the program at its original time be valued in terms of cost for ad space the same as a person who watches it 3 days later via his DVR? This same problem is cropping up within the online medium as well. Q: How are advertising... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
be important to determine how often physicians feel pressured into prescribing drugs inappropriately, and if this affects patient health. Silk: An important question facing policymakers is rising health care costs that some attribute, in... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
on mainframes. DEC moved up-market with a much lower cost structure and eventually attacked IBM. In the newspaper industry, we saw that firms can overcome this resource commitment problem by recognizing the challenge and framing the... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
forthcoming Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, Mathias F. Hoeyer, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract— The well-known weak empirical relationship between beta risk and the cost of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
challenging the modern supermarkets. Since its founding in 1995, BIM has adhered to a business model based on a relentless focus on costs and operational efficiency, built on private labels and an unswerving limit on SKUs. Unprecedented... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
whether there might be an emerging professionalism with Chinese characteristics and how this might have an impact on the professions elsewhere. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 Cost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading a company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Supplement
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details
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- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
article proposes that the review process initially be adopted on a pilot basis. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53264 September 2017 Health Affairs Narrow Networks on the Health Insurance Marketplaces: Prevalence, Pricing, and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
non-local investments suggests that policy makers in regions without local venture capitalists might want to mitigate costs associated with established venture capitalists investing in their geographies rather than encouraging the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
claims, and an infusion of new equity financing. The Chapter 11 process has generated both costs and benefits for the company. Its future profitability, and the value of the reorganized business, are both highly uncertain. Purchase the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
handle on channel costs and margins and other operating features. When you choose multiple channels, conflict becomes a management issue. Even when you choose a single option, you may have to address questions of coverage and dealer... View Details
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
for Leaders: Protect and Pivot Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and... View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
appears to owe more to management fads than to serious underperformance. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54369 Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice By: Blunden, Hayley, Jennifer M.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
lowers costs compared to competitors and allows Cotopaxi to offer lower prices, but they face a challenge in positioning their products as high quality. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717488-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel