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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
(MBA 1981) I wouldn’t say there’s a big focus on “media speculation” per se, but Fed officials have to be attuned to market sentiment, and they consume a great deal of information. Fed policies work through financial markets. Sometimes it... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
of real-world systems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-059.pdf Quality Provision, Expected Firm Altruism and Brand Extensions Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper studies quality choice in a model where View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
STUDENTS "Enjoy whatever you are doing or move on." CURRENT READING Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements, by Austin Burt and Robert Trivers As the overseer of Singapore's economic direction for many years, Philip Yeo... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
All good managers understand the importance of making sure that every member of a team feels personally motivated and necessary throughout the workday, lest their work should stagnate and suffer. But what's the key to igniting creativity,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
people have all agreed that it has value. Dollars, or other established fiat currencies, are useful because lots of people are willing to exchange them for goods and services. Which means that if you’re holding a dollar, you’re pretty... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
favoring the US are unambiguously good news. For instance, it has become significantly more expensive to move goods, so if you want to tap America's market, the largest single market in the world by a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
believe most patients are more knowledgeable about their own health care than they are given credit for. The popular press has done a good job of covering advances in genetic research, and consumers are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Double Vision
novice, peppering a Best Buy sales associate with a series of rapid-fire product questions, including "What's LTE—is it contagious?" AD TYPE: Product focus. This is also an attempt to move viewers to act, but sans the heavy sell. "Instead... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
process. Railroads are also indispensable for the shipment of agricultural products as well as factory-finished goods like consumer products and automobiles. Because railroads play an important role in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
will want to repeat. When we move into a new location, we try to get the word out by inviting people to sample our products. We also try to be good citizens in our communities. Last year we contributed over... View Details
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
the promise to significantly change how we buy and pay for goods and service in the future. Could you elaborate on this? What impact do software platforms have for the consumer on the street? A: Software... View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
conduct research and gain access to company managements. Clusters allow companies to operate more productively than where they must do things themselves (vertical integration) or where they must outsource goods and ideas from distant... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’
and in their place jointly create the bestselling jazz album of all time. Sarath's 80-20 rule is a good standard for negotiators too. You need the 80 percent so that you can move forward and dampen fears... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
New Venture Competition. Parents are lining up. “We sold our inventory nine months faster than we’d expected,” Saigal says. The Question: Kudos has been selling directly to consumers through its website, in keeping with other eco-friendly... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
of both their consumers and regulators. “Usually, with debt collection, the object is to dial for dollars—collect as much as you can in the first phone call, and then outsource the work to the legal system,” says Campbell, whose research... View Details
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
example by refurbishing electronic products and selling them in stores to contribute to the recycling effort. “Purpose becomes your lighthouse in the storm,” Barry says. “Purpose is the direction you’re always going to move the company.... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
lead to price paths exhibiting three phases: initial underreaction, followed by overshooting (the bubble), and finally a crash. With learning from prices, the model generates price extrapolation as a byproduct of fast View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
address climate change: policy, joining startups or building your own, investing, scaling new technologies in large corporations, and beyond. Mitigating emissions requires reimagining entire sections of the economy - from where we live, what we eat, to how we View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
climate change: policy, joining startups or building your own, investing, scaling new technologies in large corporations and beyond. Mitigating emissions requires reimagining entire sections of the economy - from where we live, what we eat, how we View Details
- 20 May 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
multiple sectors were managing through crisis, while building his own business acumen. Post HBS, Surette rejoined Parthenon for four years focusing on education and consumer goods consulting. Then when it... View Details