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- 21 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Going Negative in Political Advertising
desperate as the day of reckoning approaches. They flood the airwaves with negative ads, especially in closely fought states like Pennsylvania and Indiana where the margin of victory was as important as who wins. Political brands, on the... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
payoffs differently than private households do. This gives the government a "social risk management" motive: projects that ameliorate market failures when household marginal utility is high are appealing. The second friction is that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
Such entrepreneurship is also the best way to allow marginalized groups such as women and those outside the existing power circles to gain a foothold in tomorrow's Afghanistan. The dénouement of the multi-stage Afghan war drama is not yet... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
financial projections for the firm. Profitability analysis begins with calculating the revenue the firm will generate from sales of its products. Then, an analysis of variable and fixed costs is undertaken. Finally, these numbers are used to calculate the profit or... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the optimal price for internal transfers exceeds View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments
government as well as embezzlement. They might very well be willing to pay the same, or higher, taxes to finance good government, which would include a profit margin to the elected firm. Corporations might find that some parts of running... View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
the beneficial effect of cost transparency holds when firms spend more on "less desirable" costs relative to "more desirable" costs. Studies 5-6 show that the effect of cost transparency weakens when high profit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
market's growth that is the primary driver of profit margins and sales growth. A few retailers have succeeded in going global by developing strategies that apply four retail-specific rules for globalization. Rule 1: The home market is the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
and the growth of shadow banking. While recognizing some of the benefits of professional asset management, we are skeptical about the marginal value of active asset management. We then raise concerns about whether the potential benefits... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
margins until their newly spawned competitors eventually overtake them. In The Innovator's Solution, Christensen and Raynor present a manual for managers of long-established companies wishing to generate their own disruptive technologies... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
presidential and parliamentary elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, disproportionately discouraging marginalized citizens. We assigned 20,500 apartments to one control or six treatment... View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
ongoing need for shark conservation and management, prevailing negative sentiments marginalize these animals and legitimize permissive exploitation. These negative attitudes arise from an instinctive yet exaggerated fear, which is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
lesson in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The risk-management tools and safety margins needed to manage normal disruptions in the market were completely inadequate to handle a major catastrophe. We got rid of the buffers against... View Details
- 26 Aug 2009
- Op-Ed
Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road
Chrysler once, have to do so again to the tune of $3 billion through the $3,500-$4,500 C4C incentives? This taxpayer money simply enabled the dealers to avoid having to offer discounts off sticker prices and to extract higher profit View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
Microsoft, as the leader in one generation of technology, becoming the dominant player in the next generation. As long as Microsoft continues to re-deploy the margins in its core business to explore new ones, chances are the market and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-008.pdf Risky Business: The Impact of Property Rights on Investment and Revenue in the Film Industry Authors:Venkat Kuppuswamy and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Our paper tests a key prediction of property rights theory: that agents... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
sometimes be thin and their conclusions questionable. But in an era of chronically slow economic growth, activists will find shareholders increasingly open to their overtures. Let the record show that they have evolved from slightly disreputable players on the View Details
- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
rare, but too many executives swing for the fences with each new innovation. This not only marginalizes people who work on smaller projects, but also tends to result in projects modeled on existing market successes—that is, not that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
majority of newsvendor settings. When demands are uncensored, subjects tend to order below the normative quantity when facing high margin and above the normative quantity when facing low margin, but in neither case beyond mean demand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
entrepreneurial channel using data from the Longitudinal Business Database of the U.S. Census Bureau. The marginal effect of taxation for growth for a state at the 10th or 25th percentile of corruption is significantly positive; on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne