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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
financial need who have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to serving Black and African American, Latinx, and other marginalized communities of color prior to enrolling at HBS. The School’s Doctoral Programs is committed to build a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 18 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew
Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, who were helping us with everything from patent filing to supplier selection. Us at the iLab with our first, marginally functional prototype. And then everything shut down. No more 3D printers, no more coffee... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
while effective, are the “low hanging fruit” in meeting sustainability goals. “Going those last few yards to become 100 percent waste-free costs much more than the earlier steps,” agrees HBS’s Marquis. “The marginal economic benefit can... View Details
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
leadership education falls at best on the periphery rather than at the center of most schools that profess to educate leaders as their animating purpose. Many of today's most popular leadership courses are delivered by external consultants, senior lecturers and adjunct... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
information to maximize their consumption-based utility. Emotionally, prices can induce regret and anger among consumers. The optimal responses of firm's prices to these reactions can explain why firms charge prices below marginal cost... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
5 percent a day to 5 percent a week. The poor are often faced with the market failure of no commercial banking, Chu said. Where capital is so scarce its marginal productivity is enormous, he added. "But at prevailing rates, the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
not solely be the burden of the marginalized to correct historical injustice; we need all of us, especially those of us with privilege, to push for equity in the boardrooms we have access to. In my future career, I hope to use my... View Details
- 10 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice
to dramatically change the lives of marginalized communities. It's also helped me understand how I want to focus my efforts moving forward. While there are a lot of issues I want to tackle after HBS, I want to focus on companies that help... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
goof around. We have to publish very robust, well-thought-out ideas or else we’re hurting our readers and our legacy. To tell you the truth, there’s a very small margin for error in what we do. What keeps you awake at night? I have four... View Details
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Understanding Africa: Business, Entrepreneurship, Political Economy and the Complexities of a Continent - Course Catalog
optimistic narrative more broadly. In many ways, Africa is home to contradictory trends – trends that are rooted in the present and past. On the one hand, Africa's old margins are new frontiers, where mobile, globally-competitive capital... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
the beneficial effect of cost transparency holds when firms spend more on "less desirable" costs relative to "more desirable" costs. Studies 5-6 show that the effect of cost transparency weakens when high profit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
but increased Hollande's vote share in the first round and accounted for one-fourth of his victory margin in the second. Visits' impact persisted in later elections, suggesting a lasting persuasion effect. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
as "high" or "low," with "high" being anything from pretty satisfied to very satisfied and "low" being anything from deeply unsatisfied to marginally satisfied. Prediction is the second dimension we... View Details
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
particularly bad. The marginal cost is almost 75 percent, so every time you give a dollar to someone in the form of a turkey, or a ham, it's costing you 75 cents. In contrast, if you look at offers from the airlines, the cost of miles... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Much Is Enough?
company results as their own personal results; and do the reverse too, dealing with family as just a company exercise." Tak Okamoto suggested that the concept poses real problems for managers. As he put it, "I judge 'just enough-ness' on the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Mar 2024
- News
OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC
leaders and policymakers understand the disproportionate impacts of climate change on low income and marginalized communities. Spar and Choi touched on a range of issues, including the vital importance of trees for poor urban areas, the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
recommended by theory, top marginal income tax rates have declined, marginal income tax schedules have flattened, redistribution has risen with income inequality, and commodity taxes are more uniform and are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
discovers somebody else doing something that works, they'll enter that. They'll bring capital or they'll bring people, some type of resources, and mostly squeeze the margin out of it. And so, you need to always be doing new things. And... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
margins until their newly spawned competitors eventually overtake them. In The Innovator's Solution, Christensen and Raynor present a manual for managers of long-established companies wishing to generate their own disruptive technologies... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
We exploit households’ portfolio weights in previous years as an instrument for actual capital gains and dividends payments. We find that unrealized capital gains lead to a marginal propensity to consume (MPC) of 13% for the bottom 50% of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne