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- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
concerned. Hopefully, the longer-term economic response will also be executed in ways that will avoid unleashing yet another round of deflationary forces. Unfortunately, there is little margin for error this time. Tom Nicholas, Associate... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
operations of any company that wishes to flourish in the new age. And yet, a decade of organizational delayering, destaffing, restructuring, and reengineering has produced employees who are more exhausted than empowered, more cynical than self-renewing. Worse still, in... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
"Ukraine's national identity was too contested and fragmented regionally for the government to make a decisive break from the CIS and toward Europe, as did the Baltics," writes Abdelal. "At the same time, Ukraine's nationalism was too well-developed to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
its origins at the Harvard Business School in the late 1920s. Over the following century, the editors show that the discipline and its practitioners often found themselves on the margins of academic discourses and their own institutions.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
the commercial recording industry because you can play the notes reliably, ultimately you may find that you've lost your brand specialness. In business terms, if you're in a margin business and you want to command high margins, if you're... View Details
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
spillovers) and (2) whether the marginal benefit of a hospital's focus in cardiovascular care depends on the degree to which the hospital "co-specializes" in related areas (complementarities). In our setting, we find evidence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
opinions that challenged what he viewed as the company’s politically liberal belief system. Reactions to both the memo’s content and Google’s decision to fire Damore were swift and varied. Some praised the company for signaling intolerance of any View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
the dynamic effect of sales calls across heterogeneous doctors, we provide guidance on the design of optimal call patterns for route sales. Our analyses reveal that the long-term persistence effect of detailing is more pronounced for specialist physicians; the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
they might get upset," John says. "But that's not necessarily the case." Consumers enmeshed in private, longstanding relationships with the brand were just as likely as newcomers to respond favorably to cost transparency. Cost transparency benefits weaken as a... View Details
- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
and the growth of shadow banking. While recognizing some of the benefits of professional asset management, we are skeptical about the marginal value of active asset management. We then raise concerns about whether the potential benefits... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
use marginal farmland. “The reason that’s critical is because it’s an important source of incremental income for a farm,” Cummings explains. He wants to support the Davids of the sustainable food world that have long lived in the shadows... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
renewables, in particular solar and wind, means that our electricity system is going to be Capex-driven, and the marginal cost of power will essentially be zero much of the time. Matching demand closer to supply, rather than the other way... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
focusing the company on consumer goods. "We had a lot of marginal pieces in our portfolio," explains Harf. In those early years, Harf acquired around 25 companies. "I'm not afraid of taking risks. I'm not afraid of losing. I'm not afraid... View Details
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
couple significantly strengthened the organization's talent, focused on innovation, growth, and provided a learning environment for their employees. Through cost efficiencies and pricing strategies, Elasto Therm was able to achieve higher View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success,” the authors contend. “It is not on the margin of what companies do but at the center.” Nor is shared value about redistributing the wealth already created... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
other factors when seeking startup opportunities. "Businesses where there are high margins available with low economies of scale are more likely to survive," he says, citing institutional money management as an example of an area that... 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