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- 05 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can
cost-cutting plan” to slash $3.6 billion in expenses by 2019. In 2021, well into the economic disruption caused by the pandemic, P&G management announced price increases for a range of products, from adult diapers and baby care... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
for new products, services, and entire businesses. It may look like innovators are born, not made. But according to Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen anyone can become more innovative. How? Master the discovery skills that distinguish innovative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.
Ferguson and Lakhani decided to test this theory using data from the Australian Football League (AFL), the wildly popular sport also known as “footy.” They detailed their findings in the recent working paper... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
The International Experience at HBS: Zoe Sun (MBA 2024)
Zoe Sun (MBA 2024) is a recent graduate from China. Prior to HBS, she worked at an Asia-focused private equity fund in Hong Kong. At HBS, she was Co-Chief Admissions Ambassador and Social Chair for Greater... View Details
- 10 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?
the COVID pandemic, and to recognize that a lot of them didn’t work for six months, a year, a year and a half during the shutdowns. It was like making up for the lack of tipping that we all did while we stuck at View Details
Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
Business Review 88, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the Article: http://hbr.org/2010/07/vision-statement-mapping-the-social-internet/ar/1 Working PapersForeign Entry and the Mexican Banking... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
After graduating from Ashesi University College, she pursued a dynamic career at General Electric where she fulfilled multiple roles. “I worked on products and solutions that contribute to development and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
That Was Then, This Is Now
It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details
- 17 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer
perceived by workers. Rouen set out to explore the factors at play. He obtained data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for 931 firms in the S&P 1500 between 2006 and 2013, including total employee compensation and the composition... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
CEO Lee Scott was asked a few years ago about why he thought Wal-Mart could expand successfully overseas, his response was that naysayers had also questioned the company's ability to move successfully from its View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Social Network Marketing: What Works?
the research with HBS Working Knowledge. Sarah Jane Gilbert: Your research attempted to answer this question: Do friends within a social network influence online buying behaviors of others in the group? What did you discover? Sunil Gupta:... View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
Working PapersWhen Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth? Authors:Philippe Aghion, Diego Comin, Peter Howitt, and Isabel Tecu Abstract Can a country grow faster by saving more? We address this question both theoretically and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
knowledgeable individuals can be attributed to ignorance. The less knowledgeable also report that their debt loads are excessive or that they are unable to judge their debt position. Download the working paper View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
that these are the most difficult times in memory for many, if not most people. Parents struggle to balance the demands of remote work and homeschooling. Employees who live alone strain to stay focused while isolated View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
- 13 Mar 2023
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Should Leave
and two or three adviser friends outside the organization you can trust. Your resignation should be rational, not emotional. What are the financial implications if you don’t have an immediate new job, and what benefits will you lose? Can you imagine View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 09 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?
Hydrogen is poised to move from the sidelines of global clean energy as the industry learns to produce it more efficiently and at lower cost, according to newly published research led by Gunther Glenk, a climate fellow with Harvard Business School's Institute for the... View Details
- 07 Nov 2023
- News
Love and Money
reunions and hosted by our own Jen Flint, Greenwald gives the audience a glimpse into the world of professional matchmaking—and answers all of those pressing questions and more. READ MORE Jen Flint: Let's talk about how we talk about money. And you View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Returning to the Roots
Dulles-to-Geneva flight, relying on Swiss efficiency to get to Burgundy.” Running a 226-year-old winemaking company is a bit different from the tech industry where Latour has spent his career, working in... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology
Paxton Maeder-York is a proud member of the MBA class of 2019, Section G. He deferred between his RC and EC years to complete an additional master’s degree in Computational Science. Having studied Biomedical Engineering as an undergraduate and View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
risks. This shift is attenuated for firms with stronger technological capabilities and is more pronounced for firms whose home markets have weak IP systems. Using data from the global smartphone market, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne