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- 21 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?
worries do not apply for the vast majority of the players, they add. The results suggest that companies generate revenue by exploiting behavioral biases of whales, leading them to overspend on loot boxes. Given the concentration of overspending among whales, spending... View Details
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Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950 (BOOK)
In my first book manuscript, Experiments in Financial Democracy, I challenge the idea that it was colonial institutions that sent Brazil, a civil law country, down a particular path of corporate governance and finance. Detailed archival research reveals... View Details
- 17 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Getting Away with 'Cheap Talk' on Climate Goals?
Companies regularly set ambitious climate goals, but these plans often end up like many people’s New Year’s resolutions: unmet aspirations that quietly fizzle out. While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas... View Details
Keywords: by Tim Gray
- 12 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.
least-well-attended game to 93,370 spectators for the highest. “A lot of the stadiums seat 60,000; and the largest stadium seats upwards of 100,000 people,” Ferguson says. “Given the size of these stadiums, we don’t have to worry about sell-outs View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains
scenarios are: A more stringent cap on immigration regardless of education and skills. A tougher approach on undocumented immigration, with enhanced border security and possibly a tougher limit on the number of unskilled immigrants, but a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 30 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?
of that hole: The company was worth $3.3 billion as of June 21, a fraction of its almost $50 billion market cap in January 2021. Its shares now trade for less than $10 a share, down from an intraday high of $170 in December 2020. “That’s... View Details
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
years, the company reported it had hastened the creation of partnerships by 55 percent, grew sales by 44 percent, boosted operating income by 300 percent, increased market cap 155 percent to over $10 billion, and enhanced its reputation... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
restaurants pre-COVID. Some localities, including New York City, have sought to cap those fees. The viability of the economics of third-party delivery for both restaurants and the delivery providers post-COVID will continue to be... View Details
- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
cost of only $2,000. GE's Change Acceleration Process (CAP) represents the very best of experiential learning. The successor to the Work-Out Program, CAP grew from CEO Jack Welch's realization that the future was inherently uncertain —... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 14 Jun 2021
- Op-Ed
When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative
he picks up the ball and again says, “I’m the greatest hitter in the world!” He tosses the ball in the air, only to whiff again. “Strike two!” he cries out. The boy carefully examines the bat and the ball. He spits on his hands and rubs them together. He straightens... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
Its market capitalization represents a larger portion of the ecosystem—typical for a keystone because of its powerful position—but it has never been higher than 0.4 percent. Even in the much smaller software ecosystem, in which the company plays an even more crucial... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
the real deal, capping two decades of investment in developing software algorithms and AI technologies. It showed that AI had moved to the center of the company, to the core of its operating model. Increasingly, AI would be the common... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher
was his foray into energy conservation and baby products in the 1970s and '80s, followed by Cap Toys, offering toys and candy, in the 1980s and '90s. The latter venture, which produced the uniquely American and insanely popular SpinPop... View Details
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
retailer destroyed more jobs in 2005 than it created. Indeed, from low wages to limited healthcare coverage, the company has a number of employee-related issues to tackle, as well as many nonmarket ones. (Wal-Mart announced August 8 an increase in starting wages at a... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
expressed as profits, sales, output, or any number of things; for our purposes, it doesn't matter what's being measured.) When the manager exceeds that hurdle, she receives a bonus, often a substantial one. The bonus then increases as performance mounts above the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
in the nation. Some communities have attempted other measures to reduce the public’s soda consumption, including New York City’s proposed cap on portion sizes and Berkeley’s one-cent-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks. Donnelly hopes these... View Details
- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
they found further evidence to bear out those general findings. For the past two decades, firms have lobbied to raise the cap on so-called H-1B visas, which allow companies to offer jobs to skilled foreign workers. Back in the late 1990s,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
you look at FreeMarkets, we have over 400 people now. We've got 50 people in Europe, 325 people in Pittsburgh, and about 25 people strewn across America and the rest of the world. And today's market cap is over $6 billion. We finished the... View Details
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
of 2,414 of those were randomly offered surprise expansions, while another 755 firms were not, serving as a control group. Companies that were offered increases were notified via phone or text. The increases did not affect borrowing costs, due to an interest rate View Details