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- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
attempts to calculate the economic value of the lead, with an estimate of conversion rates. Competitors also do this to some degree, but probably not to the level View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
local economic development. The reserve was in a region in the northeastern part of the country, not far from Mozambique, that sorely called out for progress in both these dimensions. The Sabi Sand Game... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
four decades. "There are many people who believe the government is doing too much, and that the government interferes with economic growth if it enacts and implements policies around climate change; therefore, they choose not to believe... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
on the shaky side. That difference is a critical concern in Eastern Europe and Africa. On an optimistic note, I think that entrepreneurship is going to be the most important economic driver in a lot of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
The recent twin economic and pandemic calamities should cause us to rethink the status quo for health insurance compensation. Must General Motors be a benefits company that happens to make cars? Is it in the best interest View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
be able to experiment with the economics and logistics of a pizza business and gain firsthand experience of his customers as well. The outlet was an instant hit, but Pujals... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
the firm's walls: customers. It is riskier economically and organizationally to adopt. "The thing that struck me right away was that e-buying and e-selling for the firms in my sample were fundamentally different activities," McElheran... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
Located in Mumbai, India, Dharavi is home to an estimated 700,000 people living on just 551 acres. Featured in the 2008 Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, Dharavi embodies the characteristics of a slum as defined by the United... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
of improving women's economic well-being. In 1998, women householders who had founded a business had an average income level 2.5 times that of those women who were wage... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
layoffs project, Malden Mills, describes how a leader handled a disastrous event: Two weeks before Christmas 1995, a fire destroyed three factory buildings at a textile company, one of the largest employers in the already View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
racial discrimination. In Digital Discrimination: The Case of Airbnb.com, Benjamin G. Edelman and Michael Luca investigate the possibility of racial discrimination against people who advertise properties on... View Details
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
assistant professor of economics at the University of Michigan, demonstrate that adopting advanced pricing technology can allow a firm to seize an edge relative to its... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
a book about immigrant entrepreneurs from the 1790s to the present day, and planned to begin with Alexander Hamilton. It turns out that he was more of a policymaker than an entrepreneur, but if I had to single out one person as the most... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
The Pattern While certain improvisations are more common in some types of negotiations than others, there is no ideal form. Try to guide your negotiation toward the improvisational pattern that best fits its unique View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
juxtaposed the School's historic roots as an institution dedicated to American management practices with the increasingly global nature of business. Today, there's a clear sense that this will be a global century in which View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
American ideology that had emerged. Once again, Holt traces this brandtopia from beginning to end and finds that it too melts down, this time in the early '90s as widescale economic restructuring led to new ideals View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
We suspect that the mistakes happen when firms choose managers at any level—from CEO to business unit head to project manager—based on what we call "right stuff" thinking, borrowing the term from Tom Wolfe's famous book and the 1983 movie View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
written by Lal with HBS colleague David Bell, was published in Quantitative Marketing and Economics last June. Lal discusses his findings with Manda Salls. Salls: Frequent shopper programs have become part View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
A: The compensatory consumption thesis is particularly focused on how straight white men from working and middle class backgrounds, those below the top 10 or 15 percent, create a meaningful sense of identity as men. These men have lost... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls