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- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
barriers to terminating relationships), the nature of performance change (a gradual decay in performance can increase the likelihood that firms will persevere in underperforming relationships),... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
incorporating some aspects of the open source development model, or else be ready to exit. In fact, the model suggests ways in which the likelihood of OSS winning out can be... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
change; otherwise, the likelihood is high that board members will continue to be unaware of their shareholders' displeasure. We would also urge shareholders to seek each other out and to work in concert on... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
increased the likelihood that participants would buy both indulgent and organic items. Moreover, it increased the amount of money they'd be willing to pay for those items. But the researchers had another... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time
average, customers who took advantage of the option to apply their payments to specific spending categories paid 12.18 percent more toward their debt than the control group, the research found. “There’s a strong View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
we consider determinants of equal splitting. We identify three founder characteristics-idea generation, prior entrepreneurial experience, and founder capital contributions-regarding which greater team heterogeneity reduces the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
bankruptcy reorganization on June 1, 2009. What are some of the key issues the company faces? Three Harvard Business School faculty members--Joseph Bower, an authority on general management; Vineet Kumar, a marketing expert; and Dante... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
restructuring as the process through which a company radically changes the contractual relationships that exist among its creditors, shareholders, employees, and other stakeholders. The goal of restructuring is to increase the overall... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
our account suggests, people default to the belief that others have relatively narrow and homogeneous preferences, and thus predict that dissimilar items are disliked,” the researchers write in “The Role of... View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
Talk of the recent financial crisis often falls into a simplistic narrative of villainous banks, marketing toxic financial products to innocent customers who did not understand their risks. Among the storied... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
iPhoto For businesses and other organizations seeking to overcome roadblocks to sustainability over the last few decades, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
mistake to miss a false negative, and there are indeed steps that companies can take to mitigate the likelihood of their development. Spotting Them, Managing Them By their very nature, false negatives are... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
over-promising regarding the likelihood of potential breakthroughs, which required painstaking research and stringent clinical trials. The leadership also questioned whether the mission should remain focused... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
employment rolls in the form of reduced enforcement? To test his theory, Heese gathered 30 years of data on publicly traded companies, classifying them by "employment intensity"—that is, the number... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
personality.” So how do firms increase the likelihood that their ads will go viral? For starters, they need to prioritize entertainment over facts and figures. To paraphrase an old campaign, these are not your father's Oldsmobile ads.... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
order to reduce the technological and market risks, where reducing technological risk is of paramount importance. As a reward, pioneers ultimately realize a higher likelihood View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This
the likelihood of participation by more than a third. This discouragement, Beshears said, stemmed from employees being reminded that they were already behind in their own investment efforts. “It ended up... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
will make significant commitments to nuclear power internally and aggressively export nuclear power plant components, the bulk of its power generation will remain with coal, serving markets—domestic and foreign—where demand for low-cost... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
architecture." Because many of these crises involved defaults on sovereign bonds, an important component of the discussion revolved around the composition View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Wall Street goes shopping. Wall Street surveyed the mountain of defaulted S&L loans taken over by the federal Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) and saw an opportunity to get into real estate investing... View Details