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- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
check. In sheer terms of gaining favor among consumers, a firm with a high CEO-to-worker pay ratio must offer a substantial 50 percent discount to keep up with a firm that maintains a low pay ratio. This is among the key findings in the... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
Here's a snapshot of department stores today: Regional brands have all but disappeared; larger players like Federated and May are merging their multi-brand companies, and consolidation continues. Meanwhile, all sorts of retailers from single-brand stores to big-box... View Details
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
has two main methodological innovations: First, we implement empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2010) to accommodate unobserved latent class heterogeneity with a computationally light two-step estimator. Second, the bonus setting helps estimate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
of the founder discount changes dramatically as the venture evolves. In the early stages of growth, the discount is much bigger, but it largely disappears in later-stage ventures. The result is even more... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
was beginning to take hold in the 1920s. Chains and department stores opened across America, using volume sales to offer lower prices on a variety of goods. Gleason encountered competition from these chain stores as well as “pineboards,” View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
clean out their closets and earn some cash or score discounted used clothing and lighten fashion’s carbon footprint. Revitalizing Bricks and Mortar Under the guidance of product manager Soufi Esmaeilzadeh (MBA 2010), Google Maps comes... View Details
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Expanding Perspectives Across Board Leadership - Alumni
complimentary access to Equilar's governance knowledge center Receive exclusive member discounts to Equilar's board education forums Do you want to share a board opportunity with us? Fill out this form , or contact Daniella Diniz (... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
physicians’ services? Health-care providers are as constrained by managed care as consumers. Other industries enjoy much greater freedom. Grocery retailers, for example, serve a variety of customers in outlets ranging from discount clubs... View Details
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
domestic savings in economic growth has been discounted in the past? How has your research advanced knowledge in this area? Diego Comin: There are several literatures that have studied the relationship between savings and growth. At least... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
acknowledge the value of spending time with one's family, but I do not discount the overall advantage a society enjoys when its members are at the peak of their productivity." Clearly, many organizations regard work-life benefits (as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
customers by providing them adequate functionality in return for lower prices. The technology of this sort of disruptive innovation offers "good enough" performance along traditional metrics and is supported by a business model that generates attractive... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
true of her techno-savvy son Adam (MBA '98). "He's had a million ideas forever," Kanner laughs. "I was always Adam's sounding board." One of those ideas was for an e-commerce Web site that would offer discounted goods and services to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
illusions and overcommitment, as well as the tendency to stick with the status quo and to discount the future. Organizational vulnerabilities arise because of structural barriers to the effective collection, processing, and dissemination... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
that were revolutionary to the French marketplace -- innovations such as "one-stop shopping, self-service, discount prices, quality products, and free parking," the Uhlmann Award winners noted in their 171-page report on the company. In... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
pressure increases, team members begin to over-rely on general expertise while discounting domain-specific expertise, leading to suboptimal performance. I use longitudinal qualitative case studies to explore the underlying behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
but out of self interest," Porter told the group. "Economic development in inner cities must be approached from a competitiveness perspective and be based on business opportunities in the inner city that are genuinely profitable." While not View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
eligible for a discount on the purchase price conditional on their achieving the sales targets set by the franchisor. We show that car dealers (franchisees) who exclusively deal in cars of the brand offered by the franchisor receive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
proxy for inflation and economic uncertainty. A decomposition of bond betas into a real cash flow risk component and a discount rate risk component shows that yield spreads have offsetting effects in each component. A widening yield... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Make Plans for Washington GLF
alumni and their guests will experience a “State Dinner,” modeled on those hosted by U.S. presidents for foreign dignitaries. As always, the Alumni Board strives to ensure a great event at an affordable price. To encourage greater participation among recent grads, we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Tap into Valuable Alumni Resources
boards. In addition, there are international job opportunities and reciprocal access to listings posted by Stanford, Kellogg, and INSEAD. Lifelong Learning: This is perhaps the area about which alumni are least aware, but where HBS excels. Did you know that alumni get... View Details