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- 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
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
risk-taking incentives. Under reasonable parametrizations, the marginal benefit of higher capital requirements related to this channel significantly exceeds the marginal cost, indicating that U.S. capital... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
may not be a pure-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A has negative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
potential stopgaps. “It’s something we thought might help at the margins with the immediate liquidity crisis,” he said. As it turns out, Yelp had similar ideas and ended up making changes to the platform. The company has now made it... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
it" Often companies take the lazy way out, Thomke says. They look at their costs and the margin they need to make, and bingo, there’s the price. The Richard Lange Jumping Seconds watch. (Courtesy A. Lange & Söhne.) Even though... View Details
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
Gerald Nanninga added: "The pressure to turn a profit in massively competitive mature industries with razor thin margins makes it hard to (do what Google has done). And the business world is a lot more like this than it is like... View Details
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
the number of active borrowers plummeted, and the profit margin dropped, too. "They basically had to deal with conflict that became intractable," Battilana says. Los Andes's launch in 1995 came three years after that of BancoSol's,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
comparatively straightforward corporate bonds by citing 10-year historical data from Fitch on their default probability. Within the 10 investment grade rating categories of AAA to BBB-, the annualized default rate only varies between .02 and .75 percent, leaving little... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
market share. Its Mach3 shaving system was a blockbuster product, but the company was suffering the effects of its own reliance on trade loading—the practice of offering discounts to retail customers at the end of a quarter in order to move products and achieve sales... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
regulatory, and quality control expertise. On average, the client eventually accepts only 15% of all new flavors for full market evaluation, and only 5% to 10% make their way to the marketplace. Meanwhile, margins in the flavor industry... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
By: Agrawal, Ajay, Christian Catalini, Avi Goldfarb, and Hong Luo Abstract—Traditional innovation models assume that new ideas are developed up to the point where the benefit of the marginal project is just equal to the cost. Because... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
decompose the productivity decrease that arises from taxation, we estimate that 40% is due to the lower net wage and the remaining 60% to tax aversion. This tax aversion affects labor supply more on the extensive margin (working less)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
employees, surviving on razor-thin margins from book sales. One way stores have dealt with those challenges is by curating an additional stock of higher-margin items, such as gifts and clothing, that appeal to their literate customers to... View Details
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
value-added products like yogurt. The entry of large multi-brand retailers like Walmart and Carrefour in the Indian market threatens to squeeze Amul's margins and undermine its low-cost distribution network. India's large young rural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
suppliers—run with thin margins and minimal cash reserves, even in the best of times. “When COVID-19 hit, they felt the shock immediately,” Mills explains. Beginning in March 2020, the pandemic and unprecedented public health measures... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 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 higher View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
show that optimal policy may simultaneously include substantial redistribution across income-earning abilities, as in the standard model, and reject three prominently proposed tags-gender, race, and height-as in actual policy. This explanation for limited tagging also... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
and other marginalized communities of color in their activities prior to attending HBS. How critical is the support of alumni and friends to the School’s efforts to make the MBA Program more accessible? Chad Losee: We have been able to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
of overoptimism during good times and overpessimism in bad times. So how do you design a financial system around human nature? “I would want to build in extra margins of safety,” he says. As an example, perhaps financial firms should be... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
three prominently proposed tags-gender, race, and height-as in actual policy. This explanation for limited tagging also implies that optimal marginal tax rates at high incomes are lower than in standard analysis and closer to those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne