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- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
potential customers, how the company will capture a share of that value, and what types of innovation to pursue. Critics tend to discount "routine" innovation that leverages a company's existing technical capabilities and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
Harvard community. "Not to discount your street credibility," he added. Sherman said he in fact had deliberately avoided obscenities in the rant. Still, "They threw [the word] 'thug' out there, I think because I'm African... View Details
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
environments. We find that candidates benefiting from favorable situations are more likely to be admitted and promoted than their equivalently skilled peers. The results suggest that decision-makers take high nominal performance as evidence of high ability and do not... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
through the evening with the client relationship intact, but it also taught him a valuable lesson about personal business relationships that has informed his current work. “The idea of investing in personal relationships is something we completely View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
grocers, drug stores, and discount stores like Costco. Peter asked me (a banker) what I thought of supermarkets accepting credit cards for groceries. I said that the grocery margins (~1%) wouldn’t support the View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2011) to accommodate unobserved latent class heterogeneity using a computationally light two-step estimator. Second, we illustrate how discount factors can be estimated in a... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
suppliers and customers to reduce demands on capacity throughout the supply chain, introducing menu-based pricing in which customers pay for the features and services they use, while other customers receive discounts because they have... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
firm, minority shareholders fare poorly after listing. Parent firms often repurchase subsidiaries at large discounts to valuations at the time of listing and experience positive abnormal returns when repurchases are announced. Download... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
from real reform of the health care delivery system. The "cost savings" a public plan might achieve through volume discounts due to its scale are one-time savings and not true ongoing outcome or efficiency improvements. Instead, costs are... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
reflected in stock prices. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43177 Cost of Capital Dynamics Implied by Firm Fundamentals Authors:Lyle, Matthew, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract We provide a tractable stock valuation model to study the dynamics of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
Great Firms to Fail, which sounded the alarm on how disruptive innovations — such as the personal computer and discount retailers — caused many otherwise strong and healthy companies to fail. The Innovator’s Dilemma looked at the threat.... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
that their ex post performance is lower. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50032 Cheaper by the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
employees’ long-term prospects via continuing education/development or ownership options may allow for a discount in pay. Sharply differentiate good performance from average and poor performance. This should be based on metrics that are... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
employees’ long-term prospects via continuing education/development or ownership options may allow for a discount in pay. Sharply differentiate good performance from average and poor performance. This should be based on metrics that are... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
of Campbell, Viceira, and White (2003), updating their evidence, and reviews the evidence of Campbell, Serfaty-de Medeiros, and Viceira (2010) in detail. Consistent with the intuition that an integrated capital market is one in which there is a common View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods. Furthermore, our results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
who pays Medicare’s rates to providers. (For the purposes of this example, we assume Medicare pays providers 50 percent of the rates paid by private plans, at the midpoint of the 35 percent to 65 percent Medicare discounts reported by... View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
people intuitively discount the future to a greater degree than can be rationally defended. Second, positive illusions lead us to conclude that energy problems do not exist or are not severe enough to merit action. Third, we interpret... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
of health care delivery, and thus its quality. This begins with redefining relationships with health plans away from cost reduction and discounts to quality and value. Employers must expect health plans to direct patients to excellent... View Details