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- 01 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes
be less shocked by your electricity bill, or the price of the eggs when you visit the grocery store. Chiara Farronato is Glenn and Mary Jane Creamer Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS. Emily Williams: Sustained higher... View Details
- 12 Mar 2024
- HBS Case
How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones
Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional... View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World
the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard, teamed up with HBS doctoral candidate Ta-Wei Huang to discuss their advice for businesses and their recent research about this rapidly changing landscape. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. View Details
- 10 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?
that also receive significant media attention. But there are so many other settings like the service sector, non-white elite, and middle class women that don’t receive the news coverage. We need more systematic research on the movement’s impact in other settings.”... View Details
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
“It's important to help creditors understand that this might be an unusual circumstance, and that if they could just be patient, accept some equity in this firm instead of liquidating the assets, that equity could be really valuable post-pandemic,” Antill says. About... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 29 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.
of the planet—voters in adjacent soybean and cattle-raising regions seem to think so, finds a recent working paper co-authored by Harvard Business School assistant professor Paula Rettl. “What we're trying to show is that, for some... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 05 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can
much as they did." Instead, markups—the difference between prices charged at checkout and the marginal costs incurred by a company in order to make a product—climbed about 25 percent between 2006 and 2019, according to research View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
to create a “routineness score” by layering them on top of seven-day periods. For example, the model groups someone ordering a car at 3 p.m. and someone ordering a car at 4 p.m. as more likely to have similar routines than two people who... View Details
- 16 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers
postings and social media and impressions from informal conversations. “Companies invest tens of millions of dollars on user experience for customers, but don't bring any of that discipline to applicant experience.” That puts employers in a quandary. They grapple with... View Details
- 22 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?
that, then that company has more capital and can do things that it couldn't otherwise do.” Doing well by doing good is an important trend in business generally and venture capital specifically, with the sphere of impact investing no... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 25 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine
Do top venture capital firms add value to startups simply by attaching their names? If attracting talent is any measure, they sure do. New research finds that job seekers are two-thirds more likely to apply to a startup if they know it is... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 13 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors
Tempura Women having a heart attack are less likely to die if their doctor is also female, a new study shows. How much less likely? When treated for a heart attack by men, the risk for women goes up 1.5 percent. That means roughly one in... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
companies have room to grow—and yet will still maintain slack in their total borrowing capacity. “I knew that [small] firms have to be cautious in the way they finance,” Kim says. “I was just surprised by how much. The level of... View Details
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
widespread distress: Corporate credit quality and growth, says Harvard Business School Professor Victoria Ivashina. “It's only in the US in 2007 and 2008 that we observed the highest fraction of the non-performing loans coming from households.” Debt incurred View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
person who's in charge of the project, who's going to say, ‘OK, these are the reviews that I got, and these are the ones that I'm going to go forward with.’ But they're going to be informed by the experts that they select to evaluate,”... View Details
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
Rachel Layne is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: Laurence Dutton] Related Reading Inflation with COVID Consumption Baskets China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers What... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 27 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie
the user is intoxicated, they must correctly answer math questions for the text to be sent. So think before you send. And then think about how people will perceive you long after you hit the button and what you shared no longer exists. View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
market against the more incumbent and larger companies, particularly during times with great uncertainty.” About the Author Rachel Layne is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: coldsnowstorm] Related... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
have to elect marketplace coverage after you lose insurance, as some states have done. “Policymakers just need to recognize that while they haven't had to deal with a major loss in coverage yet, it's coming down the pike.” About the author View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains
applicants hold a bachelor's degree or higher and there are minimum salaries that must be met for positions. Visas are requested by the employer for a specific individual. Microsoft, for example, is the lead actor when it makes an H-1B... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne