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  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details
Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities
  • 03 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

“The evidence suggests that public sentiment influences investor views about the value of corporate sustainability activities and thereby both the price paid for corporate sustainability and the investment returns of portfolios that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Negotiating with Wal-Mart

joint vision and problem-solving process, information sharing, and generally moving away from the “lowest common denominator” pricing issues that had defined their interactions previously. From 1987, when Muccio initiated the changes, to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.

trying to affect climate change? Harvard Business School faculty share their thoughts. Unless those CO2 emissions are stopped, that growing cloud will all too soon increase global temperatures, raise sea levels, acidify ocean waters, and... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Utilities
  • 16 Aug 2010
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers

retailer penny profit and retailer margin. Q: In addition to CLV and pricing and profitability, what other toolkits are available for marketing managers? A: There are five toolkits currently available that cover the key analytical tools... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 15 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Infographic: Can I Please Speak to an Actual Person?

Leaving? Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car? Deconstructing the Price Tag Do you appreciate having access to human help in automated service? Share your insights below. View Details
Keywords: by Katherine Vizcardo and Danielle Kost; Service
  • 09 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Incentives and Operational Excellence

hard to detect, he said. Usually, they cannot be ironed out by a common culture, shared belief system, or what he called "administrative fiats." As in the Ford/Firestone case, if not addressed adequately they can sometimes lead... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

style, and thus set prices that limit market penetration. The winning strategy diverges from this approach in almost every respect. When innovators develop products that people want to pull into their lives, they create markets that serve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

despite the limited powers of central authorities. We also offer a framework for reasoning about future prices of IP addresses and then explore the role of rentals in sharing information about the value of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Status: When and Why It Matters

like to believe that people pay for status for purely symbolic reasons, but the empirical evidence for that has been weak at best” Think of the Bugatti Veyron, for example, a car with 1,000 horsepower that goes 252 miles an hour. "The $1 million View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Hedge Fund as Activist

removal of a poison pill (a device that makes it difficult for a firm to be acquired), ask for a share repurchase or dividend increase, or, in extreme cases, ask for the removal of the CEO. While a few pension funds, like CalPERS, have... View Details
Keywords: by Robin Greenwood; Financial Services
  • 26 Feb 2014
  • News

The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)

share by offering designer-crafted lingerie at an incredible price with the convenience of online shopping." What have been the best and most challenging parts of starting and running Adore Me? "The best... View Details
Keywords: online shopping; fashion; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-005.pdf Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

FDI increase when we account for the quality of FDI. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-072.pdf The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data Authors:Laura Alfaro and Faisal Z. Ahmed Abstract In this paper we use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Alumni Books

odds to make his company successful. The Best Chapter: Keeping It Real As We Get Older By Teri Martin (MBA 1980) NFI Publishing Through a series of short and quick vignettes, the author lightheartedly shares her views, tips, and advice on... View Details
  • 03 Sep 2020
  • Op-Ed

Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC

Employers, insurers, taxpayers, and individual consumers pay widely varying prices for treatments, medical technology, and for digital information of fluctuating quality. One patient may receive a small charge for a treatment, while... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger; Health
  • 10 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

revolutionary functionality. We explore a second path to entry that does not rely on Schumpeterian innovation: platform envelopment. By leveraging shared user relationships and common components, one platform provider can move into... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 17, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208108 Radiohead: Music at Your Own Price (A) Harvard Business School Case 508-110 In October 2007, the British band Radiohead caused a stir when it announced it would allow... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

MacCulloch Publication:Chap. 6 in Policymaking Insights from Behavioral Economics, 309-355. Boston: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2009 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download chapter: http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/conf/BehavioralPolicy2007/chapter6.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

  Working PapersEconomic Catastrophe Bonds Authors:Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek, and Erik Stafford Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace