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- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
"bonus" long-term policies that reward those who switch to healthy lifestyles. Insurers and providers will receive risk-adjusted payments, so the sick will become financially attractive enrollees and patients. With today's pricing—the same for the sick and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
the risk associated with investing the potentially significant time and money necessary for the R&D, equipment, and talent that could eliminate these bottlenecks, or focus on growing the business with its current industry-leading... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
the great cities of America. But there will likely be massive arguments about how to raise the money and how to invest it. The solution may lie in finance models that have proven successful in several nations across the Atlantic Ocean—not... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
businesspeople, we've seen ourselves as helpless" in eradicating seemingly intractable problems like poverty, he said. Though giving money and volunteering time are good things to do, a better solution, he insisted, is to apply View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
companies' market prices. More seriously, however, the claim simply ignores the fact that a lack of cash need not be a barrier to compensating executives. Rather than issuing options directly to employees, companies can always issue them... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
was fresh and contemporary when it was created, and was available cheaply. There may be only one or two pieces among a million that will endure for centuries. However, if there is no market for these million paintings now, there is no... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 19 Sep 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems
think a little outside the box. Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager? Few of us want to take less money to move to another organization, but research shows that hooking up with the right manager—whether in sports or... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Charity
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit Credit and Charity Pre-Industrial Credit in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Up Your Time Affluence
wealth weakly predicts happiness. “It’s okay to be money-focused,” says Whillans. “But beyond a certain point, the amount of money you have has little bearing on happiness levels.” Finding quality time in an already hectic schedule can... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
operations, analyzing what is already available for delivery in target markets and mining its own data to see what works and what doesn’t. “The industry is hard. You need tons of money to get started. Almost... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
focusing on disruptive technologies, offers his analysis of the Twitter IPO phenomenon. In our second-year MBA elective Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (a course developed by my colleague Clay Christensen), one of the concepts we study is new View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Frictions in Shadow Banking: Evidence from the Lending Behavior of Money Market Funds By: Chernenko, Sergey, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We document the consequences of money... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
stimulated by advocates of agency theory over the past two decades. And it brings to mind the old Milton Friedman axiom that the business of business is to make money (presumably more than the average for the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
where most players are losing money but capturing the imagination of the industry. But it's unclear how you make money on Wi-Fi. For example, the service-provider model would be difficult, he said, because... View Details
- 10 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice
says. “The mentor might suggest, ‘Why don’t you do a better marketing campaign?’ The problem is, I’m not sure money spent on ads would improve help, and the cost of marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
trademark lawsuit, or spending money on a domain name or logo that turns out to be unusable. As head of Master-McNeil, a Berkeley-based naming and branding agency behind names like Ariba, PayPal, Athlon, Affirm, and over 60 projects for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
there were about 9,000 bulk carriers, which varied in dimensions from small to supersized. The bulk shipping market was valued at roughly $180 billion. Owners in this highly competitive industry make money... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
Atlas Venture's Montanus cautioned that "providing money alone is no longer enough." From business development and marketing to human resource management, firms today have to be able to supply... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
profits would have to go to charity. "To make money off that would be so tacky," he noted. From the outset, Newman eschewed costly market research and ignored industry wisdom that new product launches... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
programs," he says. "The money is there at refund time. We just need to help families try to save some of it." Easy To Buy Other recommendations Tufano offers include marketing the program... View Details