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  • 23 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

work pace patterns provide evidence for a time discounting mechanism: workers discount idle time when it is relatively distant but act to avoid it increasingly as it becomes more proximate. Finally, Study 4... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2011
  • Op-Ed

Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis

the European Financial Stability Fund, have been remarkable. Nevertheless, the markets have discounted every announcement and have continued to operate in a state of quasi-panic, as they move at a different speed than the political... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

A View from the Top

he cited the restructuring of WPP in 1991 and 1992 as a difficult time. Sahlman then noted that Zobel had guided his firm through volatile markets in the Philippines. “It’s easy to discount bad times,” Zobel observed. “Make the assumption... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Brick by Brick

founder. Under his management, product demand was so high at times that executives actually found themselves discussing ways to slow sales. That all changed in the early 1990s as seismic shifts pounded the toy market. Big-box toy View Details
Keywords: toys; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

profitability. There are at least two antidotes to this scenario. One involves serial acquisitions. But research has suggested that most acquisitions destroy value. This helps explain why the stock of acquiring firms is often discounted... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

understand MPVs, discount rates, and CapEx; Business, Government & the International Economy helped me consider the regulatory and political elements of the market; and lessons from Strategy allowed me to better evaluate questions... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 24 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Reducing Risk with Online Advertising

But even something as simple as how quickly a supplier is paid could be an important strategic decision. Paying more quickly might offer a benefit sometimes—consider a cash-strapped supplier that really needs the money and will offer a big View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services
  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 21

Target's faltering performance during an economic downturn led an activist shareholder to initiate a proxy fight. Target Corporation, the second largest discount store retailer in the U.S., had competed successfully against industry... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Aug 2009
  • Op-Ed

Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road

Chrysler once, have to do so again to the tune of $3 billion through the $3,500-$4,500 C4C incentives? This taxpayer money simply enabled the dealers to avoid having to offer discounts off sticker prices and to extract higher profit... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Auto
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

Short Takes

bathroom tissue manufacturer offers you a discount on its product. How much should you buy? If you stock up now, will the manufacturer have any incentive to give you a good deal later? Will your decision affect the competition between... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
  • 03 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

is folded into everyday operations of a company can mask good performance, Serafeim says. “You might be making great investments and great efforts around climate change and decarbonizing your business,” Serafeim says. “But if you are really lacking in data privacy, the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 12 Oct 2016
  • Blog Post

Interning as a Software Engineer while at HBS

doing this summer? I’m working on the payments engineering team at Instacart, a same-day grocery delivery service. My team’s job is to handle everything that relates to the ordering process: we work with Stripe, our payments API, build the View Details
  • 01 Jan 2009
  • News

Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985

grown the concern into one of Brazil’s largest nonfood discount retailers with some 500 stores and a powerful Internet presence: Today, half of Lojas’s sales take place online. In 1993, Sicupira, Jorge Paulo Lemann, and Marcel Telles,... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Alumni Books

by Gabriel Wisdom (OPM 26, 1998) (Wiley) Wisdom shows how to capitalize on value plays where the fundamentals are strong but the “general wisdom” about the security has turned negative. Most promising are the stocks Wall Street has marked down without regard to their... View Details
Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

market share. Its Mach3 shaving system was a blockbuster product, but the company was suffering the effects of its own reliance on trade loading—the practice of offering discounts to retail customers at the end of a quarter in order to... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 06 Apr 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

effort to combat global warming. It raises the question, of course, of whether the free market has the patience for investments that may not pay out for many years. The end value may be huge (even infinite?), but the discounted value of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities
  • 19 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Finding Success in the Middle of the Market

company control midfield by playing only in midfield? The answer is "yes" but only if there is a precise and persuasive value proposition. Until three years ago, Charles Schwab had lost its way. The former king of discount... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Auto; Retail
  • 07 Jul 2016
  • Blog Post

Can You Learn Finance through the Case Method?

to make sense of what’s happening.  Similarly, in our finance classes, we learned to construct realistic discounted cash flow spreadsheets, among other things, which is similar to what many of my classmates were asked to do in their... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Case Study: Growing the Family Business

discounted services or brand association might benefit the local lender. Finally, given the business strategy of no long-term commitments, I wonder if the centers could be sold to or subsidized by local large employers that would want the... View Details
Keywords: childcare; Finance
  • 14 Oct 2020
  • News

Sewn with Love

raise money by selling merchandise in New York, London, and Tokyo. “It was a win-win for consumers who were able to buy beautiful clothes and bags at discount and still feel like they were doing something good for others,” she observes.... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
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