Filter Results:
(1,011)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,011)
- People (1)
- News (186)
- Research (704)
- Events (9)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (356)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,011)
- People (1)
- News (186)
- Research (704)
- Events (9)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (356)
- 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
- 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
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
5 percent a day to 5 percent a week. The poor are often faced with the market failure of no commercial banking, Chu said. Where capital is so scarce its marginal productivity is enormous, he added. "But at prevailing rates, the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
not solely be the burden of the marginalized to correct historical injustice; we need all of us, especially those of us with privilege, to push for equity in the boardrooms we have access to. In my future career, I hope to use my... View Details
- 10 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice
to dramatically change the lives of marginalized communities. It's also helped me understand how I want to focus my efforts moving forward. While there are a lot of issues I want to tackle after HBS, I want to focus on companies that help... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
goof around. We have to publish very robust, well-thought-out ideas or else we’re hurting our readers and our legacy. To tell you the truth, there’s a very small margin for error in what we do. What keeps you awake at night? I have four... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
By: Agrawal, Ajay, Christian Catalini, Avi Goldfarb, and Hong Luo Abstract—Traditional innovation models assume that new ideas are developed up to the point where the benefit of the marginal project is just equal to the cost. Because... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
potential stopgaps. “It’s something we thought might help at the margins with the immediate liquidity crisis,” he said. As it turns out, Yelp had similar ideas and ended up making changes to the platform. The company has now made it... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
it" Often companies take the lazy way out, Thomke says. They look at their costs and the margin they need to make, and bingo, there’s the price. The Richard Lange Jumping Seconds watch. (Courtesy A. Lange & Söhne.) Even though... View Details
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
Gerald Nanninga added: "The pressure to turn a profit in massively competitive mature industries with razor thin margins makes it hard to (do what Google has done). And the business world is a lot more like this than it is like... View Details
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
the number of active borrowers plummeted, and the profit margin dropped, too. "They basically had to deal with conflict that became intractable," Battilana says. Los Andes's launch in 1995 came three years after that of BancoSol's,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
whereas the contemporaneous marginal effect is higher for generalists. The paper also provides a key methodological insight to the marketing and economics literature. In the Nerlove-Arrow framework, moment conditions that are typically... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
simultaneously with many employees, each of whom finds himself matched with a firm only after a process of search. When employment increases as a result of reductions in market power, the marginal product of labor falls. This fall tempers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
eye-opening account that challenges our preconceptions of identity as it shines new light on the long shadows of white supremacy and marginalization that continue to hamper progress for Black Americans. The Able Archers By Brian J. Morra... 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