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- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal
rejects the deal, the landlord is free to offer the property to a third party. But the tenant is still in the game. If the owner and a third party agree on a price below the $100,000 originally offered to the tenant, the tenant has the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
How The 2016 Presidential Candidates Misled Us With Truthful Statements
Well, I think you know what it means. It means that there is not a sexual relationship, an improper sexual relationship, or any other kind of improper relationship. Lehrer: You had no sexual relationship with this young woman? Clinton:... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
worker shared a trick for keeping track of information customers share at the beginning of calls, reducing a source of stress. Another advised a colleague not to “unbundle” the price of features when presenting customers with potential... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
in a number of important ways from twentieth-century organizations to twenty-first-century organizations. "Place" and "time" of work are two of the most important changes, and we have incorporated these changes throughout the book. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
companies were overpaying for some tasks, especially lead generation, demos, and certain types of meetings—many of which can be accomplished with either less expensive people or, sometimes, algorithms. Senz: What's the most important piece of advice about View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
no one knows which half. "On the Web, we can tell you which half isn't working," asserts Barry M. Salzman (MBA'89), president of the international division of New York-based DoubleClick, Inc. In just five years, DoubleClick has... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
In a 1992 article for Harvard Business Review, HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett and co-author Sumantra Ghoshal tackled the question, "What is a Global Manager?" Their answer then was that "there is no such thing as a... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
interested in playing can join the simulation. New HSX traders receive "Hollywood dollars" and can increase the value of their portfolio by, among other things, strategically trading "MovieStocks." The prices of those... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
exponentially since we were at HBS. I marvel at how quickly things have changed. When I started in this business, if a client wanted price and volume information, someone had to literally go to the library to consult the books put out by... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
resolution settings. It is believed that by making people more aware of their failure to notice and punish indirect unethical behavior, others can create a world where the use of intermediation will no longer provide harm doers an easy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2015
- Blog Post
3 Ways to Fund Your HBS MBA
helpful! HBS Fellowships HBS has an incredible need-based financial aid program. The administration firmly believes that funding should not be a barrier for anyone to attend business school and they ensure that no student is required to... View Details
- 26 Sep 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga
such large halls, jumping headfirst into a solo tour would be a huge challenge. On the other hand, with ticket prices averaging $100 to $125 each, the prospect of a sold-out 20,000-seat arena was tempting. By developing a smaller schedule... View Details
- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
wage rates and inflation, and therefore low unemployment and inflation. One way to think about the model is that nirvana is the point at which the economic benefits of lower unemployment no longer exceed the economic penalties of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani
do already in modern portfolio theory." Modigliani doesn't attribute the market's rise entirely to technology stocks. "Technology is a big part of it -- technology-related stocks are now about 30 percent of the S&P 500 -- but there are other stocks that are trading at... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
company in January 2001. In the late 1990s, the company increased prices and lost many consumers to less expensive soup brands. Rather than bring prices back down, to maintain earnings Campbell cut costs by... View Details
- 25 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout
the dollar losses were related to physician turnover and reduced clinical hours. The research adds to previous work showing how physician stress generates negative clinical and organizational outcomes. No studies have previously been... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?
automatically covers all residents in its National Health Service, a public system with no out-of-pocket costs, and Germany and Israel have systems of coverage through competing nonprofit plans. Like programs in other countries, the... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 16 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
deposit; in the fifth, the control group, no intervention took place. As background, Rigol and her coauthors note that the federal work program featured in the study transitioned from cash to electronic payments in 2008. In late 2012, the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna