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- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/long_rate_paper_20140814_FINAL.pdf August 2014 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Guilt Enhances Sense of Control and Drives Risky Judgments By: Kouchaki, M., C. Oveis, and F. Gino Abstract—The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
empowerment, engagement, and innovation are subordinated to control aspects. No wonder people aren't engaged and having fun! Finally, we have lost sight of the importance of first-line employees—the people actually doing the work—and have... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
customers. Both established firms and new market entrants frequently use introductory offers to accumulate customers and then raise prices later on, assuming customers will choose to stay over the cost of switching again. This works on... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
the brand in all major facets of the store experience," he said. "The one thing we pride ourselves on is the presentation of the merchandise in our stores." While many of Abercrombie's customers are Web-savvy teens, Nuzzo said it is more difficult for... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
SEEQC’s digital control chips should also make quantum computing more affordable: Levy and his team estimate that the infrastructure required to maintain a single qubit currently costs between $8,500 and... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
was enough to spur the innovation, offering inventors a "seal of approval" they could then use to show investors that their idea had merit. "When you think about the cost of launching a new innovation, it is clearly an... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
has become more concentrated in recent years, with most of it now controlled by just 1,000 companies. That allows economies of scale and scope and very high returns of capital, all of which give those companies tremendous power. With that... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
curb cost increases while ensuring quality treatment. Those goals have not been reached, largely because patient and physician resistance to stringent gatekeeping has led to more relaxed controls and freedom... View Details
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
maintain majority control of their company. As attractive as the plan seems, they worry about the high cost of the loan and the risk that the offering might fail. In January 2005, with no time left to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
contributions. “Similarly to how the internet and web browsers dramatically reduced the marginal cost of information sharing,” they write, “AI may also be lowering the costs associated with human thinking... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
Harvard Business School. The experiment was typical of thinking in those days: If only we had better ways of communicating, especially better ways of tracking customer preferences and demand. Now we do. Another notion prevalent in those days was that of the “total... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
The United States has serious health care problems: More than 27 million uninsured people, costs that are growing faster than income, and a staggering $37 trillion of unfunded liabilities in the Medicare program. Perhaps most alarming:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
entrepreneur than as a doctor. Luckily there is a solution, but there is only one: consumer-driven health care. Let’s take back our $2.2 trillion from the entrepreneur-suppressing status quo and allow consumers to reward those entrepreneurs who lower View Details
- August 2009 (Revised July 2010)
- Case
Choosing a GAAP for Canada
By: Karthik Ramanna and Beiting Cheng
Explores Canadian regulators' decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The Canadian decision in 2005 to adopt IFRS is particularly interesting because Canada had well-developed domestic accounting standards and because a significant... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Cost vs Benefits; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Standards; Accounting Industry; Canada
Ramanna, Karthik, and Beiting Cheng. "Choosing a GAAP for Canada." Harvard Business School Case 110-023, August 2009. (Revised July 2010.)
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
(Frank) Li, and Dylan B. Minor Abstract—We link the corporate governance literature in financial economics to the agency cost perspective of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to derive theoretical predictions about the relationship... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
coffee, revitalizing the quality of its standard beverages. But none of these moves addressed the fundamental problem: Starbucks is a mass brand attempting to command a premium price for an experience that is no longer special. Either you have to cut price (and that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
It's easy to think that the 2010 disaster at the BP drilling platform Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico was the result of a chain of cascading events beyond the control of anyone to stop. But as the authors of Avoiding Corporate... View Details
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self-mounted displays, multimedia displays, and installations must be proposed in writing to the Campus Services team for approval. Schools and non-School based units may restrict the use of exhibits/displays in the spaces under their View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Can Brian Shortsleeve Fix the MBTA’s Budget Woes?
table.” The answers, Aloisi said, will have to come from Baker and from Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack, not from Shortsleeve, who serves as more of a chief financial officer than lead visionary. But Shortsleeve said View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
control so no problems are hidden." But recent research proves the virtue of letting employees do at least some work unobserved. In a series of studies, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ethan S. Bernstein shows that... View Details