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  • 24 Sep 2020
  • News

The Race for a Vaccine

safe and effective vaccine. But the ultimate goal is even more ambitious than bringing an end to the current pandemic as quickly as possible. True success, say those involved, will be building the infrastructure necessary to prevent the... View Details
Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. We use "quality" to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 16

forthcoming Abstract Capitalism, as defined in this book, is an indirect, three-level system of governance for economic relationships (i.e., economic, administrative, and political). Whereas economic markets can coordinate supply and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

designed to enhance safety and effectiveness had the unintended effect of changing how men enacted their masculine identities at work. Interview and participant observation data show that the major... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

safe and from a large supply of investors who view them as such. Domestic Effects of the Foreign Activities of U.S. Multinationals Authors:Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, Renata Lemos, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs and on whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

driven To Lead: Good, Bad, And Misguided Leadership By Paul R. Lawrence To deal with the much-discussed but still poorly understood complex of economic affairs known as globalization, we must examine its several forms from a Renewed Darwinian Theory point of view. Some... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • 05 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

traditional question of how the inflow of foreign workers affects native employment and earnings to explore effects on innovation and productivity, wage inequality across skill groups, the behavior of multinational firms, firm-level... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

that a sizable decline in mortgage payments (up to 50%) induces a significant increase in car purchases (up to 35%). This effect is attenuated by voluntary deleveraging. Borrowers with lower incomes and housing wealth have significantly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

corporations have it in their power to become the world's most effective means for reducing poverty—George C. Lodge The success of a DaimlerChrysler project in Brazil's poverty-stricken northeast provides a particularly good example of... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

heterogeneous impacts of a common network characteristic across votes. We find that the effect of alumni networks is close to 60% as large as the effect of state-level considerations. The network View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

citing the examples of Motorola, Southwest Airlines, Revlon cosmetics, Hewlett-Packard, and MTV. Good ideas are not hard to come by. The more complicated part is to harness the diminishing supply of capital. But capital can still find its... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store

Frequent shopping programs that reward customers with discounts or other perks are commonplace in grocery stores, but many are not as effective in influencing buying behavior as they could be, argues HBS professor Rajiv Lal. "The... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

and Noble in books, Best Buy in electronics—offer similar rewards. Boots, the UK-based pharmacy and beauty supply retailer, offers a substantial reward of 4 percent, but that rate is more exception than rule. This type of reward is... View Details
Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 16 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 16

effects on citation rates. Our findings suggest that subfields can increase the impact they have on the broader intellectual discourse by situating their phenomena in rich contexts that illuminate the connections between their findings... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Nov 2022
  • Blog Post

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change

government. The renewables world has significantly changed in the past 5 to 10 years though – our scientists and engineers have delivered massive design improvements and our manufacturing and supply chain leaders have delivered... View Details
  • March 2021 (Revised October 2021)
  • Teaching Note

Afterpay U.S.: The Omnichannel Dilemma

By: Antonio Moreno and Anibha Singh
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 519-086. In 2018, Nick Molnar, the founder of the Australia-based online payment service Afterpay began its expansion to the U.S. market. The service had gained a loyal following in Australia by enabling customers to pay for online... View Details
Keywords: Omnichannel Retail; Digital Marketing; Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Change Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Satisfaction; Financing and Loans; Microfinance; Global Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Product Development; Supply Chain Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Network Effects; Internet and the Web; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Australia
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  • 14 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It

less, but you still have to get people to your site. There is no price that will cause people to allocate between different choices, which makes this unlike any other market activity.” The bursty nature of online attention also helps define what is required for View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Web Services
  • 16 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

ecosystem of complements, a 1% increase in the use of nonpecuniary OSS leads to an increase in value-added productivity of between 0.002% and 0.008%. This effect is smaller for larger firms, and the results indicate that prior research... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 22

unaffected countries finds a substantial portfolio reallocation towards the former. This effect cannot be explained by several potential alternative hypotheses, including differential changes to the preferences of American investors,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace