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- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
of health care delivery, and thus its quality. This begins with redefining relationships with health plans away from cost reduction and discounts to quality and value. Employers must expect health plans to direct patients to excellent... View Details
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
was still the world’s largest company, with over $480 billion in annual revenue and operations in 28 countries. Although it had mostly vanquished its rival discount retailers in the U.S., it was struggling to find the right growth... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
announced that it had passed Walmart in global sales to become the biggest retail platform in the world. To add to Walmart’s woes, in the United States traditional dollar discount stores and convenience outlets were gaining ground, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
with opportunities to discuss shareholder activism, the interaction between a company growth strategy and business model and its valuation, discounted cash-flow valuation analysis, multiples valuation, transaction-based valuation, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
framework of Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis and apply it to two unique perspectives of an identical problem. The students will then use this DCF approach to rationalize observed stock prices, connecting the two, and further reconcile... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
installations. Q: What are you working on next? A: These days, online shoppers face deceptive offers that promise discounts ("$10 off your next order") while they attempt to check out at ordinary retail Web sites. Because an... View Details
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
get a comparable discount on the other. The equalizer thus serves as a rolling BATNA as the negotiations unfold. 2. Assess Feasibility Having two birds in the negotiation bush is better than one. But what if the birds are perched on... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (B) CIC engages in "guerrilla warfare," offering free or highly discounted rates in order to get its empty offices filled before the opening day of its St. Louis branch. Opening day is a huge success, and CIC... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
would extend its payment terms to suppliers by 30 days. At the same time, P&G announced a new supply chain–financing (SCF) program giving suppliers the ability to receive discounted payments for their P&G receivables. Fibria... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
discounts that are nearly 50% greater than existing customers who are purchasing upgrades of a product. On the product side, one common lock-in strategy—the offering of broad product "suites" which span multiple product... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
NPLs—including mortgages, credit cards, and car loans on which customers had defaulted. “At a certain point, it becomes clear to banks that they can’t collect without a lot of effort, so their choice is to write the loan off completely, or sell it at a deep View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
2014, Longbow was deciding whether or not to maintain its position in NiSource. To make this decision, students must perform a discounted dividend analysis to determine the fundamental value of NiSource's stock. Students are also asked to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
and other retailers are experimenting with offering rewards program members discounts on gasoline, for instance. And Stop & Shop recently rolled out Scan It! Mobile, an app that turns a customer's iPhone into a mobile scanner and... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
outstanding. The increased debt from the deal would increase the risk to the company and to the existing bonds, and the bonds' prices would fall significantly as a result. Students can use discounted cash flow techniques to value the LBO.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
Guaranty, a municipal bond insurance company that is trading at a discount to book value. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/213100-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-094 BTG Pactual: Preserving a Partnership Culture No... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
his manager's approval—from the cash register. That practice is a gray zone, but would hardly qualify as a moral one. By contrast, the same employee setting aside a clothing item in a storage room to later purchase for himself when the item will be deeply View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
effects, but find negative causal brand effects for discount stores on mall sales. We find that a developer is better off creating a mall in an affluent versus a populated market. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
Commercial banks had more capital as a function of complying with the regulatory requirements. They could access deposits as a stable source of funding, as well as the Federal Reserve discount window, which, if they lost access to all the... View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
allowed users to "check in" to a location using an application on a smartphone. Foursquare kept track of a user's check-ins, shared them with users' friends, and unlocked "Specials" that gave users discounts at nearby... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
hyperbolic discounting and shows in the field that the impact of intrapersonal conflict can be large in magnitude. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-099.pdf How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace