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- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
an 85% increase in click-through rates for paid advertising and a 65% decrease in click-through rates for non-paid algorithmic search links to competing online travel agencies. As search engines increase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
presented from the perspective of the company CEO and its global brand director who is also part owner. In 2015, Mavi had sales of $419 million, up 20% from the previous year. Growth rates like these were becoming routine at Mavi. But,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
students, and staff displayed the resilience, flexibility, and innovative spirit that have become our hallmark in these challenging times. Students Arrive More than 9,700 applicants sought a place in the MBA Program and nearly 1,000 applicants in the Doctoral Programs;... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
data to recover parameters including the depreciation rate and adjustment costs of managerial capital (both found to be larger than for tangible non-managerial capital). Our model also predicts (i) a positive effect of management on firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
Rumie's software and services from the physical tablets to achieve greater reach and scale. In October 2015, Rumie opened the LearnCloud, its proprietary online content curation portal for NGOs, to the public. Now anyone could discover, share, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees
five-point scale, the respondents rated themselves on adjectives such as "reserved," "introverted," "talkative," and "bold." The employees rated their teams' general... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
interest rates is driven by four state variables: the real interest rate, temporary and permanent components of expected inflation, the "nominal-real covariance" of inflation, and the real interest rate with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number
the higher the rate of success. Precise bidding also increased the likelihood that the targets would accept the bidders’ initial offers. Bidders whose initial bids were divisible by $5 ended up increasing their offers by an average of 18... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
consumer-facing businesses in China, Japan, and Korea. With nearly $30 billion in capital under management, the firm is raising its sixth flagship fund, targeting $8 billion; the firm’s average aggregate internal rate of return is 22... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
and customers. At the same time, the new approach provides more accurate cost-driver rates by allowing unit times to be estimated even for complex, specialized transactions. Estimating the cost per time unit of capacity. Instead of... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
large due to either product characteristics or the distance between exporter and importer. Finally, we find that in countries with well-developed finance, total exports and the allocation of exports across importers are more sensitive to exchange View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
inches, which I mean, the ball itself is only five inches- DM: ... Right. Right. CM: ... you know, in diameter. You're talking about a pretty big error rate there when you're talking about plus or minus two inches. The technology now with... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
June 2016 Medical Care Vaccination Rates Are Associated with Functional Proximity but Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
failure and making it work for us. Why Startups Fail Professor Thomas Eisenmann (DBA 1998, MBA 1983) + More Info – Less Info Most startups fail. About two-thirds of venture capital investments do not earn a positive return. Surprisingly, late-stage startups fail at the... View Details
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Pet Project
Finally, failure rates for new consumer packaged goods that target retail distribution are very high. New brands can often get some traction in independent retail outlets, but to win big, they must then... View Details
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
level of debt as a percent of nominal GDP; the interest rate; the inflation rate; the growth rate; and changes in the exchange rate if some debt is owed in a foreign currency. The note discusses how these factors interact to affect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations
of the division that had lost the account, to ask if she could try to win it back. After all, RLX had nothing to lose by letting her try, she argued, and she had her own reasons for taking on this formidable task—as part of her work... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra