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  • October 2001 (Revised November 2001)
  • Case

Club Med (C): The "Re-New" Plan

By: Frances X. Frei, Daniel Rethazy and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar
Supplements the (A) and (B) cases. View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Industry Structures; Competitive Advantage; Organizational Culture; Cost; Customer Satisfaction; Accommodations Industry; United States
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  • 13 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

to then cover their positions once asset prices start recovering. Predation leads to profits of about 25 basis points over ten days and increases the liquidation costs for the distressed fund by 40%. These results suggest a broker’s role... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 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
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 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
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing
  • 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
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 05 Dec 2007
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing

direct sales? Should I break out individual costs on a price tag? How Can Marketing Better Align With Corporate Strategy? Fixing the Marketing—CEO Disconnect In many companies, the marketing function has wandered far from the firms'... View Details
  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Technological Disruption Changes Everything

could only be accomplished by specialists in less convenient, centralized settings. PCs, for example, brought computing power to individuals at a fraction of the cost of minicomputers, replacing the minicomputer specialist and centralized... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • 05 Mar 2019
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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
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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
  • Web

Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

"An Analytic Derivation of the Cost of Deposit Insurance and Loan Guarantees: An Application of Modern Option Pricing Theory." Journal of Banking and Finance 1, no. 1 (June 1977): 3-11. ** Merton, Robert C. " Applications of... View Details
  • Web

1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA

bill that is unpaid for 60 days or more may be subject to collection activities. The costs associated with collecting an unpaid account will be added to the student’s outstanding debt and must be paid in full. Students expecting a refund... View Details
  • 30 Nov 2017
  • News

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

they had lost in the last five years and current owner-operators, impatiently awaiting a salve. For the latter, buy-in took a bit of pot-sweetening. Historically, when McDonald’s offered to partner on upgrades, it would pay up to 40 percent of the View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia
  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

also find that people's willingness to punish wrongdoers is consistent with their judgments, and we offer preliminary evidence on how to reduce these biases. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers0809.html#wp09-020 The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006

Garry Twite Abstract U.S. corporations hold significant amounts of cash on their balance sheets, and these cash holdings have been justified in the existing empirical literature by transaction costs and precautionary motives. An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne