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04 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

performance that are derived through an aggregation of measures of individual business units and functions. It is important to evaluate the performance of both overall e-commerce performance and the specific aspects of e-commerce that lead to revenue enhancement or... View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

mothers could use. Engineers who do whiz-bang things are not welcome at Intuit. Intuit's philosophy is to increase the customer willingness to pay via e-commerce; the other is take operational savings and wrap it up in a stealth kind of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

energy or saving the planet. If the federal government had said this will be our equivalent of putting a man on the moon, which energized the economy and the country under John F. Kennedy, we could be the leader in a range of new... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

virtually every medical condition in some way. Most of the time, the best quality healthcare is also the lowest cost care. The reason is that the lowest costs arise when the patient stays healthy, or gets healthy faster. If you get the diagnosis right, you View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

18 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

precautionary saving literature. We show that the effect of risk on receipts can be sufficiently strong that a decreasingly risk-averse player may be better off receiving a risky pay-off than a certain pay-off. View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

bring back what they've learned to their organizations? "Graduates walk a fine line," Simons remarks. "On the one hand, it's not wise to come back with the attitude that they know it all and are ready to save the company.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

to Choice. Under positive-sum competition, all restrictions to choice at the disease or treatment level would disappear, including network restrictions and approvals of referrals. Reasonable co-pays and large deductibles combined with medical View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

dividends as well. Test and benchmark. Security professionals have a terrible habit of starting with a dramatic security audit—a staged attempt to defeat a company's defenses. But companies should save their money because the results of a... View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby

05 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

they are saving existing positions or slowing the process of shrinking them. The process does turn into kind of a second-best solution for creating new jobs." “We try to put the students back into CEO Wendelin Wiedeking's shoes at... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing

02 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories

We all know the moral of Aesop's fable about the industrious ant and the fun-loving grasshopper: Work now and save for the future, or else regret the consequences. And who hasn't been confronted with a similar dilemma? You know you should... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

16 May 2016
HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

in some cases, less finished-product testing. Outsourcing food safety testing A growing number of food manufacturers, grocery stores, and restaurants are choosing to outsource some or all of their food testing—and in many cases, they are View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

26 Jul 2016
First Look

July 26, 2016

Business School Case 716-444 Detroit: On the Right Track? As this case opens in 2012, a cross-sector alliance to bring new rail transport to the Motor City seems about to collapse, and civic leaders have one last chance to save it. The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 10

http://amr.aom.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/content/early/2015/02/10/amr.2015.0042.abstract February 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison By: Beshears,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

Lehman Brothers reduced their lending to a greater extent. Nobel Laureate Panel Discussion: What Retirement Means to Me Authors:Robert C. Merton, Paul A. Samuelson, and Robert M. Solow Publication:Chap. 1 in The Future of Life-Cycle View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk

divest a recent acquisition or buy other assets to build this business area would check the same column. The law partner who is thinking about retirement from a lucrative law practice and who really wants to go into teaching and shape minds or become a missionary and... View Details

Keywords: by Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

1980s. On a macroeconomic level these four economies did not differ that much; they all had high savings rates, healthy growth prospects, political stability, and cheap labor. Local Entrepreneurship, Yes Or No A far more important driver... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

water on the idea that there’s no tradeoff—that you will naturally both save in real estate costs and get more collaboration from this kind of design. If the cost motive were sufficiently strong, there might be other things a manager... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

25 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation

segregation and could be contributing to growing wage inequality among workers in the last generation. Decades ago, companies employed their own janitors, cafeteria workers, and other low-wage support staff. Now, companies often look to View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

suppliers, tertiary suppliers such as steel and aluminum manufacturers, the dealer network, and providers of financing, especially GMAC. The task of saving two major auto makers was all the more difficult because the companies appeared... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

meal, so the calorie savings during purchasing translated into calorie savings during consumption. Labeling the calorie content of food during one of the experiments had no measurable impact on ordering... View Details