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  • 30 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

agree with the voter. Substantial equilibrium turnout emerges with nontrivial voting costs and modest altruism. The model can explain higher turnout in close elections as well as votes for third-party candidates with no prospect of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2003 (Revised April 2004)
  • Case

Pharmaceutical Industry, The: Challenges in the New Century

By: Stephen P. Bradley and James Weber
Provides a broad overview of the numerous internal and external forces that were driving change in the global pharmaceutical industry in 2003. These forces--including downward price pressures, political and social pressures, increased development costs, new... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Change; Cost; Price; Globalization; Government and Politics; Brands and Branding; Industry Growth; Society; Competition; Consolidation; Technology; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 30 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

the three-year analysis he conducted with coauthors Hongyu Xiao and Jaeho Kim, both of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. The results provide an important lesson for companies: “If firms want to make sure their best... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

United States began to use standardized color, achieved by synthetic dyes, as part of their marketing strategies. The emergence of the synthetic dye industry paralleled the growth of mass production and mass marketing in the American food industry. It View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and the Internet

competitive advantage—by operating at a lower cost, by commanding a premium price, or by doing both. Cost and price advantages can be achieved in two ways. One is operational effectiveness—doing the same things your competitors do but... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
  • 31 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

approach, you can get more efficiency out of the system and still have a nice balance of fairness when you have two conflicting programs in the system." According to the US Congress Joint Economic Committee, the cost associated with... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation
  • 06 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn

eugeniek Companies looking to shed costs in an economic downturn rarely cut compensation—typically, they slash jobs instead. New research confirms the wisdom of that decision. The study concludes that when a company cuts employee pay the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 04 May 2021
  • Book

Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

to boost revenues: matching prices at Amazon, and speeding deliveries by shipping directly from stores. He also cut costs by reducing waste and streamlining processes. “We were breaking $200 million-worth of TVs every year,” he says. “By... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
  • 08 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How to Demotivate Your Best Employees

company. Perfect attendance was defined as not having any unexcused absences or tardy shift arrivals during the month. The plant managers had all the right intentions when they implemented the award program. Absenteeism and tardiness View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Service
  • 10 Feb 2020
  • In Practice

6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy

providers will themselves inevitably compete with and threaten their own customers and partners as they expand their offerings. As companies incur increasingly massive cloud usage costs that threaten their... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 19 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

low (-0.16 and 0.006) and decrease over time as network effects become increasingly important. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-035.pdf The Demise of Cost and Profit Centers Author:Robert S. Kaplan Abstract The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

on a single position and promises to do "everything possible" to enact it. None of them mentions the possible tradeoffs or costs related to each new policy. Nor do they discuss how their proposed policy would interact with other... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk
  • fall 2008
  • Article

The Intermediation of Financial Risks: Evolution in the Catastrophe Reinsurance Market

By: Kenneth A. Froot
In this paper, I provide evidence concerning the imperfections in the reinsurance market. I try to get at some of the root causes of these imperfections, e.g., the behavior of ratings firms and the agency problems associated with the corporate form of ownership. I also... View Details
Keywords: Catastrophe Risk; Corporate Finance; Banking And Insurance; Hedging; Banking; Financial Markets; Insurance; Policy; Risk Management; Natural Disasters; Cost of Capital; Asset Pricing; Insurance Industry
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  • February 2016 (Revised July 2017)
  • Case

Leadership and Independence at the Federal Reserve

By: David Moss and Marc Campasano
“From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy.” Ron Paul, a Republican from... View Details
Keywords: Government Legislation; Central Banking; Policy; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
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  • 04 Aug 2006
  • What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?

commented, "The cost of creation is increasing in every creative area ." Len Bullard wrote, "As Yeom Tae Seon points out, scarcity based on digital format is only one domain. The other is scarcity of ideas and talent."... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 13 Jan 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Intermediaries for the IP Market

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & David Yoffie
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

efforts and occasional spurts of good financial performance, the company's returns to shareholders remained low and well below the cost of capital. Over an extended period of time, Scott Paper had managed to destroy wealth. This was... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

to monitor TARP expenditures and recommend regulatory reforms. Led by Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren, the panel recruited Moss, an expert in risk management, to provide historical context to the financial crisis and a... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 29 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Do Outlet Stores Exist?

have more data than they know what to do with." Do outlets cannibalize? One leading product manufacturer in the fashion apparel and accessories category agreed to provide Ngwe with consumer data in return for a detailed analysis of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Retail
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

threat lack credibility, but you also have no way of changing course if the situation becomes dire. 3. Visibly incur sunk costs Suppose you are negotiating with a consulting firm to renew its contract to View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

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