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  • January 2020 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

Salary Finance US

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In October 2019, Dan Macklin, the newly-appointed chief executive of Salary Finance Inc., was weighing his options for the future of the business. The company’s value proposition was quite simple: partner with employers to offer employees affordable loans that were... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Credit; Financing and Loans; Wages; Innovation and Invention; Expansion; Growth Management; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 26 Aug 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

Thanks to the Internet, entrepreneurs are no longer confined to a local geography when building a new business—the world can be their market from day one. But building a startup as a global business requires managers with skills and... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

marketing profile and putting measures in place to distinguish BrightStar’s services as higher quality than those of its competitors. A shifting regulatory landscape and labor shortages posed challenges, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006

2002, fell nine spots to 64, according to the ISC. "This year's decline was driven especially by higher levels of corruption, weaker assessment of buyer sophistication, and concerns about labor relations," the study found. Also... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

component for the link between labor and liking to emerge; participants who were not permitted to finish their creations did not show an increase in willingness-to-pay. The marketing challenge lies in... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • July 2018 (Revised November 2018)
  • Case

Hidrovias do Brasil: Navigating Unchartered Waters

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
Since its founding eight years earlier, Hidrovias do Brasil (“Hidrovias”), an integrated logistics provider serving corporate customers exporting products from South America via the Atlantic Ocean, had grown to 900 employees and $253 million in annual revenues.... View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Private Equity; Brazil; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Operation Management; General Management; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Growth and Development; Leadership; Operations; Problems and Challenges; Transportation; Human Capital; Strategy; Emerging Markets; Brazil
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  • 09 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 9

market reaction to attempts to enforce sovereign debt contracts via U.S. "dollar diplomacy" in Latin America in the pre-World War II period and by legal action in the 1990s and early 2000s. We argue that dollar diplomacy created... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

examine whether multi-location firms increase internal ties when they face appropriability risks from direct competitors. Our empirical analysis of the global semiconductor industry shows that when leading firms co-locate with direct View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 1975 (Revised October 1976)
  • Case

Cross River Products

By: Steven C. Wheelwright
Describes production task of meeting peak seasonal demands in a light manufacturing plant. Information is provided for evaluating the options of overtime, second shift, second production line, and inventory buildup. View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Information; Labor; Demand and Consumers; Production; Supply Chain
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  • 20 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

automated way, for instance by screening out weapons manufacturers stocks or overweighting LGBTQ friendly companies, while still closely tracking the overall stock market performance. In 2017, bolstered by $3.25 million in seed funding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

identify characteristics of stocks that an investor who is worried about bad times should buy— a “rainy day” portfolio. Diversity in Innovation Paul A. Gompers and Sophie Q. Wang discuss a systematic and persistent lack of female, Hispanic, and African American View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 15, 2015

supervisory responsibility if employed, work more hours, and earn marginally higher wages than women whose mothers stayed home full-time. The effects on labor market outcomes are non-significant for men.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

lower. But sniping isn't a universal strategy for success, says Roth, who teaches in the School's Negotiation, Organizations & Markets unit. It's all in the rules of the game. On Amazon.com, for example, where end-of-auction deadlines... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology
  • 22 Mar 2017
  • Research & Ideas

What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?

More frequent quotas can motivate underperforming sales reps. StockPhoto Personal selling is a key ingredient in making the American economy go. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 10 percent of the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records

favor of the client, criminal cases in which advisors were found guilty, and any firing for cause. The findings are contained in the forthcoming paper The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct, scheduled to be published in the Journal... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 30 May 2000
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride

of the other members. It also flourishes in communities where resources are mobile. Q: Does this help explain the phenomenal increase in entrepreneurial activity we have witnessed over the past few years? A: Changes in the financial and View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

of lighter labor market regulations and more human capital specialize relatively more in people management. There is evidence for complementarities between information and communication technology,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, a specialist in strategy and the dynamics of globalization, says that while market integration has made deep inroads in the last few decades, according to the evidence, it's still far short of what economic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

market development, the tax system, labor market regulations, and public spending on research and development correlate with venture capital activities across countries. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2019
  • Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy

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