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Jeff Bernstein
experiences better." An observant Orthodox Jew, Jeff also appreciates the accommodations the school makes such as providing kosher options whenever food is brought to student classes or events. Lessons for the future Jeff got married... View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
sold, inventory, and gross margin (defined here as the ratio of sales to cost of goods sold) as three endogenous variables. We construct a simultaneous equations model, estimated using public financial and non-financial data, to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation
marginal cost of experimentation and allow companies to create more learning more rapidly, provided that managers can capture that potential. My book provides a roadmap of how... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Connecting with Clubs
provide IT and Web site support. This year, for the first time, we have created a standing committee that will spend the next several months developing recommendations to make clubs stronger, enhance the links with HBS, and make the club... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
does not trust Microsoft and its use of 'customer' information to market to customers and hold them digitally captive. This demographic will continue to provide sales to (a judo master competitor)." These comments reflect general... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
is currently provided by GAAP financial reporting. The purpose of this paper is to examine the optimal design of information intermediaries that can increase the impact of sustainability information on corporate conduct. Specifically, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
companies to develop ever more sophisticated technologies, products, and systems — typically for the market's high end, where margins are greatest. However, the market's ability to utilize and pay for these advances grows more slowly,... View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
excess inventory was a perennial problem for the company. The inventory could be sold off only via heavy discounting, which tended to depress margins for all sales. Since the warehouse was close to a major Canadian city, a group of... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
Whereas the for-profit capital markets provide transparent objective criteria for making early- and later-stage investment decisions, balance risks with return, and create a "performance-driving cycle" by View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 22 Feb 2017
- News
Funding Solar’s Future
later stages, with a model that rewards in the longer-term. The article also lays out the current challenges for solar, including the falling price of fossil fuels and the potential lack of political appetite for clean energy. But the... View Details
- 18 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew
Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, who were helping us with everything from patent filing to supplier selection. Us at the iLab with our first, marginally functional prototype. And then everything shut down. No more 3D printers, no more coffee... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
information and of the suppliers being asked to provide it. We test our hypotheses using data from the Carbon Disclosure Project's Supply Chain Program, a collaboration of multinational corporations requesting such information from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
cofounder and president, Deena Malkina (MBA 2008), offered this case study query to alumni: “KitNipBox is laser-focused on differentiating its brand by sourcing the most unique, high-quality products on the market, committing to healthy and natural goods, being... View Details
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
In a Harvard Business School classroom, students in the Dynamic Markets class may have one minute to make a decision in a pressure cooker one called "the most stress I've experienced in ten years." It's margin call time in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Force for Good
“In doing so, we can open up access to economic opportunities to traditionally marginalized groups and bring more equity into our economy, all while making hiring an easier, better experience for companies.” “We have to help companies as... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
analyses indicate that "All-Star" recognition proxies for buy-side client votes on analyst research quality used to allocate commissions across banks and analysts. Taken as a whole, our evidence is consistent with analyst compensation being designed to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
Michael Chu (MBA '76) is president and CEO of ACCION International, a private nonprofit corporation founded in 1961 and based in Somerville, Massachusetts. ACCION's affiliates in thirteen Latin American countries and the United States seek to reduce poverty and... View Details
- 20 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting
but this logic overlooks the fact that managers don't always do the right thing for shareholders. If managers are opportunistic, then the extra latitude provided by the dual-reporting system can be costly to investors. Imagine if you were... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
affairs. Enron’s approach to compensation and incentives included many perverse features, such as encouraging growth over profitability and rewarding employees for closing commodity deals and power-generation projects without concrete... View Details