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- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
review. By sharing my experience, I can reduce risk and increase convenience for other consumers, but would I bother? I may need to book another hotel next month, but hopefully, surgery is a rare occurrence. The frequency of purchase View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
months. Marketing for the program was also eliminated. While all banks sell bonds, the $.50 to $.85 they earn for each transaction gives them little financial incentive to make the process easy for consumers. Finally, the Treasury's... View Details
- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
suggest that even those who had accepted payment during the first encounter did not view the transaction as an ordinary exchange. Rather, the willingness to let someone cut in seems to be based on seeing the situation as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
prices for stock trades and other transactions plunged through the 1990s. The shift to employee-controlled pension plans succeeded—despite enormous skepticism.— Regina E. Herzlinger The shift to employee-controlled pension plans... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
Pick up most business magazines these days and you'll probably find an article on some venture capital transaction involving millions of dollars. From HBS Associate Professor Benjamin Esty's perspective, however, these deals are small... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
Where once "corporate giving" meant writing an annual check to a favorite charity, more recently businesses and nonprofit organizations (NPOs) have joined forces to achieve their separate, but related missions. When these partnerships crossed the line from engaging in... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
transaction that was perhaps the ultimate fulfillment of the founders' original vision. She was reminded of the company's founding just 15 years earlier and its meteoric growth. With a considerable sense of achievement and satisfaction,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
integration, but only when those investments are made jointly with both suppliers and customers. Our results provide less support for the view that IT investments led to a decline in vertical integration by lowering transactions risks.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
their homework: Their loans perform much better than loans chosen by less experienced investors. The researchers looked at all transactions executed by LendingRobot users for a three-year period between January 2014 and February 2017,... View Details
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
today provides core benefits that align with the conditions necessary for democracy. A critical takeaway is that billions of marketing transactions help to develop the social glue that holds democratic societies together. Q: How can the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
so,” Kempf says. “We see it in views of the economy or views of certain risks, like the risk posed by certain political events or climate change or by the pandemic. There’s even the growing importance of partisanship in determining who works together and who does... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
borrowers are defaulting less.” Before recent interest rate hikes, American homeowners had been reaping the benefits of record home prices, cashing out amid a buying frenzy. However, data from the National Association of Realtors showed that these View Details
- February 1999 (Revised March 2001)
- Case
Egghead to Egghead.com (A)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
Over the course of 12 months in 1997 and 1998, Egghead senior management decided to shut down its 180 brick-and-mortar retail stores and move to an electronic store. The case describes the evolution of that process, and the role of its CEO George Orban, and poses... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Internet and the Web; Transformation; Decisions; Corporate Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Market Transactions; Buildings and Facilities; Retail Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Marie Bell. "Egghead to Egghead.com (A)." Harvard Business School Case 599-093, February 1999. (Revised March 2001.)
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
of athletic footwear, should respond to Adidas' planned acquisition of Reebok—a transaction that would join the second- and third-largest companies in the industry. Highlights the unique aspects of New Balance's strategy—focusing on fit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
them opportunities to learn. In this paper, we investigate how these two strategies may bring different productivity benefits over time. For our empirical analyses, we use two-and-a-half years of transaction data from a Japanese bank's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
reporting requirements for US senators and representatives mandate the disclosure of all financial transactions in a given year, which allowed Minor to construct their risk preferences. Coupled with no shortage of examples of misconduct,... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
organic and indulgent items. Photo: iStockPhoto Looking at loyalty card data from a large grocery chain in California, Karmarkar and Bollinger tracked and analyzed 936,232 purchases by 5,987 households across two years. To assess organic purchases, they looked for... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
Edmondson Abstract—In this paper, we examine whether and how traditional team structures can be adapted to accommodate fluid personnel and to what benefit. Previous research has shown that team membership stability fosters familiarity, trust, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
shift to professional management in 1983-1986; the Xerox acquisition in 1987; the MBO in 1993; and the ING acquisition in 1997. Presents the transactions from multiple points of view: the founders and their associates; the professional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
companies that have tried to improve their go-to-market strategies, we have learned that almost everyone agrees it is difficult to effect significant change in distribution channels. Even though technology has made access to customers easier, View Details