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  • 01 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.

Paper, THE FUTURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PEACEBUILDING: Nurturing an Ecosystem for Peace: “The field of environmental peacebuilding still tends to see women, Indigenous Peoples, youth and other marginalized groups as passive targets for aid... View Details
  • 07 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

like this.” Concentrate on the best profit opportunities. Small-business owners must identify their most valuable products and services and eliminate everything else. If a restaurant’s tried-and-true burger has a stronger gross profit View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service
  • 19 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

$22 billion on R&D, while Apple spent a relatively paltry $2.5 billion. And yet, since that launch, Apple has far outperformed Nokia in terms of both its profit margins and its reputation for innovation. So what gives? “This was a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Oct 2016
  • News

Paying It Forward

year,” he recalls. “I made a note of it, and then came back to it in my second year. I led a field study on the problem with Professor Walter Salmon.” Kundu discovered that every retail company faced the problem of inventory loss but that, owing to the thin View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

Making History, Starting Over

was known as the “sick man” of Europe, with lumbering state-owned enterprises, high unemployment, and a crushing top marginal tax rate of 93 percent. In an ominous sign of the times, the day after Cohen launched what was to become known... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 08 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

income taxation. I show analytically how age dependence improves policy on both the intratemporal and intertemporal margins. I use detailed numerical simulations, calibrated with data from the U.S. PSID, to generate robust policy implications: age dependence (1) lowers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

Lehman bankruptcy. Baena must decide if there is an opportunity, how to structure a trade to exploit it, and how much of her fund's capital to allocate. Case exposition includes descriptions of basic financing arrangements that support arbitrage strategies, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

brokerage—direct ties to collaborators who themselves do not have direct ties to each other—leads to greater collaborative creativity. We then test interaction hypotheses on the marginal benefits of cohesion, when collaborators have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

printed on the back of your receipt? A: In those instances, the coupons that you're given are a function of what you've just bought, and in that sense they have no memory of what kind of customer you really are. So they can be [only] View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 08 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

mind? A: A few trends stand out in policymaking. First, income tax schedules have "flattened out" in most developed countries, so that marginal tax rates don't rise nearly as much at high incomes as they did 30 years ago. This... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 25 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

debt ratio of 3.2 percent. The restructuring of its portfolio raised the profit margin from 12.2 percent to 19.4 percent between 1982 and 1990, while earnings per share rose from $1.08 to $2.38. In 1991, its return on equity was 46... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

"Economists are puzzle solvers..."

widely used? Merton: One answer is, simply, that it filled a need. It wasn't intellectual interest that made people want to apply it. In the 1970s, profit margins to options dealers were driven down, competition was going up, and options... View Details
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

retailers’ margins and even increase conversion. We demonstrate using a simple theoretical framework that inducing consumers to inspect higher-priced items first may simultaneously increase the average price of items sold and the overall... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

imposing costs on marginal ones. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52388 Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey By: Amel-Zadeh, Amir, and George Serafeim Abstract—Using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

authority has been longstanding, albeit at the margins of scholarly and practitioner attention. Recently, however, organizational experiments in radical decentralization have gained mainstream consideration, giving rise to a need for new... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

dominance, with income. Given familiar functional form assumptions on utility and the distributions of ability and preferences, a simple statistic for the effect of preference heterogeneity on marginal tax rates is derived. Numerical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

income taxation. I show analytically how age dependence improves policy on both the intratemporal and intertemporal margins. I use detailed numerical simulations, calibrated with data from the U.S. PSID, to generate robust policy implications: age dependence (1) lowers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

stalled right now. As the book argues, macroeconomic reforms and stimulus packages are not going to be the answer. There's still little real change in Japan on the government side, other than some marginal improvements. The response on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 11 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

margin by 1 to 2 percent of sales within months. These improvements are significant for both small and large companies. Q: What are the key benefits to an organization for implementing this model? Can it be benchmarked and evaluated? A:... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 19 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 19

share of female candidates from major political parties in the subsequent election. This stems mainly from an increased probability that previous women candidates contest again, an important margin in India where a substantial number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne