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- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
necessary to reduce cost structures and generate the incentives for business involvement. Companies that have productive relationships with NGOs and nonprofits can find it very useful as well. Through partnership, companies can leverage... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
for our tax system. For example, we might want to split the costs of government equally among all taxpayers, letting each of us keep whatever income we earn above our fair... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
parents, students, and educators experience the school day. Ventilla focuses on three aspects: 1) using technology to reduce operational costs of the traditional school; 2) intense focus on customer service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
as a pull instrument. Given that shrinking release times can also have important disadvantages for movie marketers (e.g., it necessitates additional costs of movie prints, limits possibilities to adjust... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11
organization. Coordination in this case, however, also leads to inequitable allocation of costs and benefits across the different departments, which then provides students with an opportunity to explore... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016
high-quality output. To evaluate this tradeoff, I develop a procedure to estimate agents' effort costs and simulate counterfactuals under alternative feedback policies. The results suggest that feedback on net increases the number View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
facilitate the expatriation of US corporations. Such transactions reflect the effects of policies and of the changing structure of multinational... View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
clamped down. A lot of constraints were put on growth of companies, until Rajiv Gandhi became prime minister in 1984. Before that, a lot of multinationals—Coca Cola,... View Details
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
that there's actually a cost of privilege," Neeley says. "People often think that they need to cater only to those who they perceive are on the losing end of something that is... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006
Working PapersEveryday Failures in Organizational Learning: Explaining the High Threshold for Speaking Up at Work Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines how people working in organizational hierarchies wrestle with the challenge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
the Spanish superstar for the 2018 tournament after all. What is the best course of action? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/518041 Harvard Business School Case 218-033 Tesla Motors (A): Financing Growth The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
leaders thus provide another source of competitive advantage because they have the potential to attract, leverage, and retain talented employees at lower overall cost to the firm. Overall, one can conclude... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
finding homes for dogs and vice versa. The Wagaroo website describes the company as “a team of fun humans with years of dog experience and a desire to create a healthier, happier marketplace for matching... View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
continuation of the process of globalization. I think this is a safe bet, although one has to be rather nervous right now with the higher costs View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016
information aggregation treatments do not affect total equity investment when we make the investment environment more realistic than in prior experiments. Previously documented aggregation effects are not robust to changes in the risky... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3
revolutionary. The sequencer would be substantially less expensive-potentially costing just a few thousand dollars-and smaller than other sequencers, many of which were large devices View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809109 Evaluating M&A Deals: Floors, Caps, and Collars Harvard Business School Note 209-138 As equity consideration has become more popular in acquisitions, so has the use... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
care costs? Quelch noted that in the cases of the grocery retail market and the financial services market, higher empowerment typically leads to lower costs because more of the... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9
price information to maximize their consumption-based utility. Emotionally, prices can induce regret and anger among consumers. The optimal responses of firm's prices to these reactions can explain why firms charge prices below marginal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace