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- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
Target's faltering performance during an economic downturn led an activist shareholder to initiate a proxy fight. Target Corporation, the second largest discount store retailer in the U.S., had competed successfully against industry... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
is folded into everyday operations of a company can mask good performance, Serafeim says. “You might be making great investments and great efforts around climate change and decarbonizing your business,” Serafeim says. “But if you are really lacking in data privacy, the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
investors, it’s a different story. Since they are more exposed to transitory changes in market value, they are less able to ride out those discount shocks caused by investor sentiment. “If you have to liquidate your holdings in the short... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
theoretical and empirical investigation of the risks of globally diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds and of optimal intertemporal global portfolio choice for long horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and transitory View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
results in a strict increase in global emissions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-029.pdf To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts Authors:Benjamin Edelman, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
payouts-to-price, and earnings-to-price. That approach would tell an investor whether a stock is cheap or expensive with more confidence. Go beyond ratios. Consider doing a discounted cash flow analysis to estimate the intrinsic value of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
they focus on the main price component and mistakenly discount smaller fees. Alternatively, consumers might assume that something is discouragingly expensive just because it has several fees attached to it. Our research suggests that... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
was beginning to take hold in the 1920s. Chains and department stores opened across America, using volume sales to offer lower prices on a variety of goods. Gleason encountered competition from these chain stores as well as “pineboards,” View Details
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
domestic savings in economic growth has been discounted in the past? How has your research advanced knowledge in this area? Diego Comin: There are several literatures that have studied the relationship between savings and growth. At least... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
acknowledge the value of spending time with one's family, but I do not discount the overall advantage a society enjoys when its members are at the peak of their productivity." Clearly, many organizations regard work-life benefits (as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
pressure increases, team members begin to over-rely on general expertise while discounting domain-specific expertise, leading to suboptimal performance. I use longitudinal qualitative case studies to explore the underlying behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
customers by providing them adequate functionality in return for lower prices. The technology of this sort of disruptive innovation offers "good enough" performance along traditional metrics and is supported by a business model that generates attractive... View Details
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
messages, stating that if the case was not settled before a specific date, it would no longer be eligible for the fee reduction. This time, the needle jumped. Whether they described the lower costs as a discount or waiving the surcharge,... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
check. In sheer terms of gaining favor among consumers, a firm with a high CEO-to-worker pay ratio must offer a substantial 50 percent discount to keep up with a firm that maintains a low pay ratio. This is among the key findings in the... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
but out of self interest," Porter told the group. "Economic development in inner cities must be approached from a competitiveness perspective and be based on business opportunities in the inner city that are genuinely profitable." While not View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
has two main methodological innovations: First, we implement empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2010) to accommodate unobserved latent class heterogeneity with a computationally light two-step estimator. Second, the bonus setting helps estimate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
of the founder discount changes dramatically as the venture evolves. In the early stages of growth, the discount is much bigger, but it largely disappears in later-stage ventures. The result is even more... View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
potential customers, how the company will capture a share of that value, and what types of innovation to pursue. Critics tend to discount "routine" innovation that leverages a company's existing technical capabilities and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
Harvard community. "Not to discount your street credibility," he added. Sherman said he in fact had deliberately avoided obscenities in the rant. Still, "They threw [the word] 'thug' out there, I think because I'm African... View Details
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
environments. We find that candidates benefiting from favorable situations are more likely to be admitted and promoted than their equivalently skilled peers. The results suggest that decision-makers take high nominal performance as evidence of high ability and do not... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino