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- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
not yet attained, product upgrades (not just mere replacements). Carelessness toward currently owned products and product neglect stem from a desire to justify the attainment of upgrades without appearing wasteful. A series of studies with actual owners of a wide range... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
good tertiary-care hospitals. Medical tourism usually refers to the idea of middle-class or wealthy individuals going abroad in search of effective, low-cost treatment. But there is another dimension of medical tourism that is not called... View Details
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
memories took place in national parks. I spent 80% of the pandemic going up and down parks along the Pacific Coast Highway. Using business skills to give back to an organization that had provided so much joy sounded too good to be true. I... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
confidently maintain and expand its leadership in education and research for future generations. HMC's investment portfolio is evolving. Repositioning of the portfolio's liquid assets— public equities and hedge funds—is well underway.... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
evidence that “short-termism" and “quarterly capitalism" are impairing firms' ability to invest, innovate, and provide good wages. We explain why S&P 500 shareholder-payout figures provide a misleadingly incomplete picture... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
by adding a more transactional nature to the relationship” It’s well documented that women are underrepresented in the executive suite. For instance, women have comprised nearly 50 percent of entry-level public accountants for more than... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
but have proliferated in recent years. Goods covered by patent pools totaled at least $100 billion in the United States in 2000, while multiple standard-setting bodies today cover virtually every high-technology product. Moreover, the... View Details
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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising
capita income and a more educated public also contributed to the creation of a consumer culture. Within this emerging national market, it fell to the advertiser to encourage consumers to buy goods not... View Details
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
capital to the best ideas, weeding out the bad ones. Investors have the challenge of sorting through the overwhelming number of ideas to discern the good ones, a process compared to finding a needle in a haystack. They often lack the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
“particularly on high cost of failure situations where good information on potential service providers is correspondingly of high value.” Angie's List had a paid subscription model as it charged “members” for access to the information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
that launch anticorruption efforts grow their businesses more slowly than firms that don't, especially in regions where bribery is the expected norm. “If you think of the cost [of bribery] as just fines and regulatory actions, you're missing a big piece of the puzzle.”... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
such, from the perspective of the trader, the market works much like any other stock exchange. Movies have an initial public offering once the project first takes shape, and traders can buy, sell, cover, and short stocks just as they can... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
response to it, particularly in the developed economies, fits this description. Environmentalism, as we have known it since the 1960s, has been grounded in the physical sciences, law, economics, and public policy. Advocates for strong... View Details
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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
J. Ely : Awarded the 2021 Outstanding Practitioner-Orientated Publication in OB from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management for “Getting Serious About Diversity” (November–December 2020) with David A. Thomas.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
book) is accelerating that trend. “There are substantial public health impacts in wildfire smoke, extreme heat, and the aftermath of flooding,” notes Macomber, who teaches the MBA electives Business Opportunities in Climate Adaptation and... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
Evidence from the Hospital Industry By: Dafny, Leemore S., Katherine Ho, and Robin S. Lee Abstract—We consider the effect of mergers between firms whose products are not viewed as direct substitutes for the same good or service but are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
able to realize the sales before the end of the quarter and thus fulfill their budget goal and make their bonuses. But the high cost of assembling the goods at a distant location—it required not only the rental of the warehouse but also... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 21 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)
certainly controversial, but political pundits rarely ask a key question: Do they actually work? A new research paper reaches a surprising conclusion: These rules don't impact voter fraud or public confidence, nor do they dampen... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
one—including how things like data sourcing, volume, diversity, privacy and security will be handled. Data can be acquired in a number of ways including crawling public data, finding data-rich partners, gathering it from customers, or... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu