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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
plants. The company offered these customers incentives to invest in energy-efficient lighting systems, replace old electric motors with more efficient variable-speed systems, and improve the View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
generated by the primary product to improve the process efficiency of the by-product. We also examine the market structure where two firms practice by-product synergy, as well as conditions under which the by-product becomes the primary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
HBS and the Arts
managing the investment of their assets. That being said, we also had the opportunity to advise clients on how to best achieve their philanthropic goals. To this end we were able to guide artists on establishing foundations to preserve... View Details
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
the unit level." Saravanan introduced the old/new, product-market 2X2 matrix to argue that top-down resource allocation is most appropriate when both products and markets are new. But he reminded us that "The decision on the total spend available and the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
handle transactions are decreasing, "the need to have confidence in the people on the other side of the structure is as strong as ever." HBS senior lecturer Sandra J. Sucher worked at Fidelity Investments for a dozen years before joining... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
time it takes to handle transactions are decreasing, "the need to have confidence in the people on the other side of the structure is as strong as ever." Wingspanbank.com HBS senior lecturer Sandra J. Sucher worked at Fidelity Investments... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
measurement of the inefficiency due to early transaction times in a naturally occurring market." Lessons about the value of better matching go far beyond the football field, however. As Roth describes in this e-mail Q&A with HBS Working Knowledge, View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that newfound status on the strength of market-stabilizing structural changes that took root after the last crash. "Everything we do... View Details
- 04 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should You Outsource Your Marketing?
she was president of the Fidelity Personal Investments unit of Fidelity Investments, serving 4 million customers with $500 billion in assets. She answers our questions in this e-mail Q&A. Poping Lin: We are familiar with the benefits... View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Allston
many catalysts that are launched by this inspiring and large vision that is Allston.” Dupré expects that the Allston investment will have a ripple effect on the city of Boston. “We hope that it underscores and magnifies all of the amazing... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
crucially so—on whether or not the platforms subsidize one side of the market in equilibrium. For example, with prices being strategic complements across platforms, we show that a cost-reducing investment by one firm may have a positive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
efficiencies and lower costs. Publisher's link: http://people.hbs.edu/asheen/consumer%20mergers%206-28-13.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 413-013 Women MBAs at Harvard Business School: 1962-2012 Eight women... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
been designed to create a new kind of offshore operating environment, where safety was the priority. Management attacked the safety issue from the top down, investing extensively in leadership training, policies, and practices intended to... View Details
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
Publications March 2015 Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic Foreign Direct Investment: Effects, Complementarities, and Promotion By: Alfaro, Laura... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
economy, a large share of exports and foreign direct investment [FDI]. But when you look at the trajectory over time—job growth rates, wage growth rates, changes in export or FDI share, particularly compared to emerging economies—the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
couple of years to start getting traction on the data that has been published. Also, it will require significant investments in research to fill in all the "blank spots" in discovering how genes interact with proteins to govern... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
5 Facts About HBS Conferences
organization in which I was going to invest significant time and effort. I meshed well with the Club’s leadership and they were naïve kind enough to ask me to co-chair the 2015 conference alongside a student from the Graduate School of... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
How to Approach Your Equity Compensation
there are tax efficiencies to be gained by holding shares for at least one year (there is not). Rather, this is just a confusion between how ordinary income and capital gains taxation works. Forgetting that market returns are generated by... View Details
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
developed market, or battle for consumers in a bigger, more established market? Where do you locate your activities? "People rushed into China, and now wage rates are going through the roof," Collis says. Building a manufacturing plant is a long-term View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
buyout. Others maintain that PE fund managers are better at managing firms and making them more efficient than many corporate executives. Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff professor of investment banking at... View Details