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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising
with whatever advertising materials he might agree to use in dealing with his customers,” historian Robert Jay explains. “The generous supply of chromolithographed trade cards and other advertising materials was in fact a powerful View Details
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
higher income, where there might be more of an incentive due to higher returns. Only about half of those censured for abuses, however, were fired. And half of those found a job at another firm within the next year. “The career prospects... View Details
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
Technologies' Systems Generation and Delivery Unit (SGDU), was charged with creating a single global company from a set of fragmented businesses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To gain control over product decisions being made by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
that only 30 percent of employees are engaged in their work. The issues raised are ones I have worked on for many years. With the drive for higher productivity in the workplace, there is little doubt that people are putting in longer... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
a business strategist at Booz & Company (then, Booz, Allen & Hamilton). “I got into executive compensation and performance because incentives are a way to help drive corporate strategy,” she explains. “A lot of governance infrastructure... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
currently have an incentive to keep money abroad. A temporary holiday of the repatriation tax coupled with the tax on excess cash holdings would help ensure that the disgorged cash would be used productively... View Details
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
Potential of Patient-Reported Outcomes By: Rotenstein, Lisa, Robert S. Huckman, and Neil Wagle Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53372 forthcoming Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics Innovation View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
Review 90, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2012) Abstract The article argues that U.S. taxation reform should reduce corporate taxes, incorporate an awareness of the global marketplace, and generate revenue-neutral incentives for innovation.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
operates four sales kiosks in the Boston area, with mobile retail teams that visit local fairs and markets. The kiosks offer a valuable in-person experience with a high conversion rate for the $8–$13 cards. The split between in-person and online sales is roughly 50/50.... View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
Dow, General Motors, Nestlé, and Petrobras) and smaller entrepreneurial firms (such as the U.K.'s AIFS and China's BabyCare) undertake critical financing, investment, risk management, and incentive management issues to take full advantage... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
good projects and good returns. Esty's interest in project finance evolved out of his doctoral thesis on risk-taking in the savings and loan (S&L) industry during the 1980s. "I have been intrigued with high leverage and its effects on managerial View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE privatizations, and this increase is larger in cities with strong IPR protection. Our results support theoretical arguments that IPR protection strengthens firms’ incentives... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
the Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration. Pharmaceutical companies have long opposed efforts to regulate drug prices, arguing that prices reflect the companies’ massive research investments. But Germany’s approach shows how the right View Details
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
companies can do things together without formal ownership or legal relationships. Emerging nations must create programs and incentives that encourage enterprises in free-trade zones to build linkages with the local economy. Companies must... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
problems that hold back the rest of their economy. The problem is, isolated zones for processing foreign inputs and exporting all these outputs are the antithesis of cluster development. Emerging nations must create programs and View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
expansion for U.S. Steel, increased output of steel from foreign sources began to impact domestic markets. With their post-war economic recoveries well underway, Europe and Japan emerged as major competitors in the global steel market. Tightening profit margins, rising... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Cassidy: At Google, a more intense and frenetic experience than launching his own companies. Art by Joe Ciardiello Related Links Watch a video of Mike Cassidy explaining his approach to rapid product... View Details
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
parents, they wanted to be proud of me and wanted to feel confident they had launched me on the road to a better life. Although most of us grow up as products of our families, we are also heavily influenced by the social norms manifested... View Details
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
Abstract—Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We develop a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
hair salons to real estate agencies have long organized themselves as associations of individuals, with the company itself exerting more or less control over the interaction between service provider and customer. Some hair salons employ their stylists, provide them... View Details