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- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
rare, but too many executives swing for the fences with each new innovation. This not only marginalizes people who work on smaller projects, but also tends to result in projects modeled on existing market successes—that is, not that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact
and dispose of them. The circular economy uses what is already there, which saves on the extraction and processing piece, then keeps those materials in the system. If you can avoid both extraction and waste disposal costs, it can create significant View Details
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
door-to-door canvassing increased Hollande’s lead over rival conservative candidate Nicolas Sarkozy by 1.9 points in the first round and 2 points in the second, accounting for a fifth of his final margin of victory. “A likely... View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
"going public" and "going private'" transactions. We then find that majority PE-backed private firms engage in less book-tax nonconforming tax planning than public years; nonetheless, they exhibit substantially lower View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
There are, however, important structural offsets: oversight and interventions by government and industry overseers, and most importantly, collateral posting. As we know, in the case of contracts traded on exchanges, the daily required View Details
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
employees accept these marginal increases in demands on their time, while their expectations of each other (and themselves) rise accordingly. Eventually, the cycle grows (unintentionally) vicious; most people don't notice that they are... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
firm performed extraordinarily well after a leveraged buyout in 2004 and recently executed a highly successful IPO. The company sources its goods primarily from Asia. It has strong brand recognition and competitive advantages in operations, purchasing, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
on firm exit in the restaurant industry, exploiting recent changes in the minimum wage at the city level. We find that the impact of the minimum wage depends on whether a restaurant was already close to the margin of exit. Restaurants... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
their willingness to pay for two product characteristics and marginal costs are increasing with the quality level chosen on each attribute. We show that while firms seek to manage competition through product positioning, their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
majority of newsvendor settings. When demands are uncensored, subjects tend to order below the normative quantity when facing high margin and above the normative quantity when facing low margin, but in neither case beyond mean demand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
for example, it diminishes that person and marginalizes the brand," Deighton says. "I think the central idea here is that in the future, brands will be more talked about than talking." View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Diversifying HBS's Case Collection
diversity of the HBS classroom and society as a whole. This is the first step in broadening the range of cases featuring protagonists from the full array of underrepresented and marginalized populations. The goal is to use these cases for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
times. Rigby ex-plains how to craft an action plan tailored to the specific situation, providing tools for cutting costs intelligently, sustaining margins and the brand, boosting revenue by refocusing the sales force on the right... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
the dollar stores and others who provide the low end, and those targeting the high end. Both of those are doing fairly well from a traffic and margin perspective. Ecommerce is making life most difficult for players targeting the middle... View Details
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
own profits when one side is subsidized in equilibrium. By contrast, if platforms make positive margins on both sides, the same investment has the regular, expected effects. Our analysis implies that the strategy space and the logic of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
operations are not well integrated across media. As a consequence, a frequent shopper may be given first-class treatment in the physical store but receive marginal service on the telephone or via the Internet. Retailers need to tap into... View Details
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
attention to the disruptive proposal. For example, when DEC launched the minicomputer, IBM might have looked at that new business and said, "let them have it." IBM's mainframe customers didn't need it, the small business market was nascent, and the View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
negative trend. For example, to welcome people back to its stores, J.C. Penney ran deep discount sales for Mother's Day and Veterans Day. By November 2013 the retail stores posted positive sales comparisons year over year, the first time since December 2011. However,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
in those areas. However, those incremental sales were offset by lower margins and return on equity, negating the benefits of those higher sales. "This evidence suggests that multinationals that tolerate corruption are able to grow their... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5
classmates further marginalized because you don’t have the words to say. We need you to step up way more and do the hard work, too. What you should do As students, what better time than now to unlearn (implicit bias) and learn... View Details