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- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
the dynamics, what facilitates it." The Importance Of Comparison In Diversity Studies The researchers also stress the importance of comparing minorities with similarly situated nonminorities in an organization, so as to differentiate... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
changed the rules of the game globally for an entire industry by offering both differentiated and low-price service. The focus of the case is on whether Southwest Airlines should buy gates and slots to initiate service to New York's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
firms' ownership structures affect their earnings quality and long-term performance. Focusing on a unique sample of private firms for which there is financial data available in the years before and after their initial public offering (IPO), I View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
after Craigslist's entry. The impact of Craigslist's entry on the classified-ad side appears to propagate to other sides of the newspapers' market. On the subscriber side, these newspapers experience an increase in subscription prices, a decrease in circulation, and an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
world with new clarity. If there is one strain of conventional wisdom pervading every company in every industry, it is the importance of competing hard to differentiate yourself from the competition. And yet going head-to-head with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
execution. So, the company has to figure out two things: How am I going to work with these external sources of innovation? And, at the same time, what else do I need to bring to the table to differentiate myself in the marketplace? If... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
an effort to differentiate by being more locally sourced and thereby fresher, as perceived by consumers, Chipotle was perhaps putting its brand at greater reputational risk.” Companies are increasingly outsourcing their food inspection... View Details
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
positive effects. This may be because the laws that surround skilled visas don't allow companies to pay much less than the prevailing wage. "The most extreme studies find a differential of 20 percent or thereabouts, but even that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
international banking, I am familiar with “the old shell game” of tax evasion via the transfer pricing mechanism. Differentiating between tax avoidance and tax evasion in this area is often very difficult indeed. But very big money is... View Details
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
the real insight from our analysis was that this differential is minor relative to the differential when we look at the level of financing activities of the covered firms. Q: You make the point in your... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
Dozie shared. “And this started way before Bossy Cosmetics. As a woman in banking, I recognized the connection between how I felt and how I performed. I knew the world didn’t need just another pink or red lipstick though. We needed a clear point of View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
favored destinations. Using a quasi-experiment to control for search intent, we identify and measure the impact of a search engine's exclusive award of preferential placement to its own service. We find that Google's differential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
salesmen. Business schools need to look at what differentiates a professional school from a vocational school. For management, the impetus came much more from a small cadre of academics, a group of people who were concerned about what was... View Details
- 20 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
Dozie shared. “And this started way before Bossy Cosmetics. As a woman in banking, I recognized the connection between how I felt and how I performed. I knew the world didn’t need just another pink or red lipstick though. We needed a clear point of View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
friends and classmates and gave the company added credibility with existing customers. But Shafir notes, "It also put us on the screen for our competitors." Kettle Cuisine's competitive advantage, says Shafir, comes from its ability to View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture
needs and provides real health benefits, differentiating itself from the competition. Founded as a remote-first company, Rootine was positioned well when the pandemic forced companies to move to a remote work environment. With their... View Details
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
differentiated product in a commoditized business, even if it’s becoming less so through competition. Some of the stuff we do is fun, and whimsical, so it makes good copy. The media reports on our tall beds for tall people, our “Guppy... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
predicting their current language learning. Further, we find that recipients’ cognitive and affective responses over time differentially influence two future behavioral outcomes: intention to leave the organization and willingness to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
Since its beginnings in 1978, TCS grew to a chain of around 70 stores located in over 20 states by 2013. Tindell believed TCS's employee-first culture and the seven Foundation Principles, which guided the company, were what differentiated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne