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- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Silence Spells Trouble at Work
praiseworthy. Most individuals who go against their organizations or express their concerns publicly are severely punished. If they're not fired outright, they're usually marginalized and made to feel irrelevant. Our research shows that... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
her hometown of New Orleans before moving to Miami. Gibson shifted her focus to cultivating higher-wage jobs in marginalized communities and drew on her background in environmental sciences to form EcoTech Visions, a company providing... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
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Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
the beginning Why do people take such a risk when there's plenty of other money out there? Because [friends-and-family] money is too easy to obtain, which encourages people to start marginal businesses. Beyond that, friends and family do... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
whether these trends are material to their business. One answer could lie in forecasting the impact of the Internet on sales in various categories in their stores. A more practical solution might lie in determining the trend in gross View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
Close Up). These phases are not linear, Garvin emphasizes: all three must take place for the change to work, but not necessarily in the order just described. Moreover, for each stage to be even marginally successful, certain conditions... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
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Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
customers are encouraged to trade down to lower margin merchandise or services, or just become so confused that they won't buy. It is difficult enough to compete with others; do not compete with yourself! By and large, simple product... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- Research Summary
Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration
The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
and using 'money' facilitates the exchange of goods and services. So we are still capitalists " Barry Shere commented that "I do not see how profits are neutered as a result of the pressure on prices and margins per transaction.... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
e-commerce world is a brutal competitive environment,” says Harvard Business School marketing professor Thales Teixeira. “One of the biggest levers retailers have at their disposal to bring in customers is price.” More discounts, however, means reduced View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
here cover a wide range including outright sale, renting, charging by the transaction, advertising and subscription models, licensing, or even giving away the product and selling after-sale support and services. Having a sense of price and cost yields target profit... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
Asia," as one LEGO executive put it. Uncertainties of Asian retail. Many Asian countries lack a developed retail network. And while big chains like Walmart and Tesco are growing in China, the country still relies on many small retailers, few of which use common... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
books, is enormous. Later in this chapter, we've modeled the levels of gross margin or same-store sales declines, which, everything else equal, retailers in categories particularly hard hit by eCommerce could incur before their stores are... View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
equilibria, and reduce the severity of the coordination problem faced by users. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-030.pdf The Intensive Margin of Technology Adoption Authors:Diego Comin and Martí Mestieri Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2024
- Op-Ed
Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.
electorate projected to double to 15 percent by November from 7.4 percent in 2000, according to Pew Research Center. “A new New York Times/Siena College Poll showed a steady narrowing in Democrats’ margin within this important group for... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
negative effect of added competitors on incentives. Thus uncertainty and the nature of the problem should be explicitly considered in the design of innovation tournaments. We explore the implications of our findings for the theory and practice of innovation contests.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
norton ariely.pdf Do Inventory and Gross Margin Data Improve Sales Forecasts for U.S. Public Retailers? Authors:Saravanan Kesavan, Vishal Gaur, and Ananth Raman Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract Firm-level sales... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
The small financial margin group received a 10 percent margin (50 kwacha) over the retail price for every condom pack sold. The large financial margin group received a 90... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
squatters believe that other people could be trusted? Di Tella and his coauthors found that squatters with land titles believed individual achievement is possible by a margin of 31 percent over those who did not hold title to their land;... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna