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- 23 May 2019
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These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
and nutritious surplus food to people in need in Australia, where one in five Australian children suffers from food insecurity. Their nonprofit SecondBite distributes free food to more than 1 million people, the equivalent of 40 million meals View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?
experience and the time they commit to the company. Some advisers work ad hoc as needed while others are more prescriptive with a set number of hours per week or month that they are available for consultation. In some cases, advisers are... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
Stock returns have historically been about five percent per year on average, which would make you think that Dow 30,000 is just nine years away. But we can’t forget that the market has significant short-run volatility, and that there are... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
Nestlé's flagship product in India—Maggi Noodles—citing excessive lead content per government lab tests. Nestlé disputes the government tests, noting that internal and third-party tests show the product to be safe. There is considerable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016
healthcare—i.e., patient-centered outcomes achieved per healthcare dollar spent—can define quality and unify performance improvement goals with health outcomes of importance to patients across the entire cycle of care. We describe the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
(vertical integration) benchmark, whenever the marginal product yields higher profits per consumer exposure relative to the average product. Third, the effect of platform competition on search diversion incentives depends on the nature of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9
talented and more risk-averse managers, and these managers work less hard, earn less, and display lower job satisfaction. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-073.pdf Equity-Debtholder Conflicts and Capital Structure Authors:Bo Becker and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007
analyze the data using nonparametric tests and regression analysis. Findings—The mean number of business segments per firm varies significantly by country. Notably, there is no evidence in our sample that emerging-market companies are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
engagement. In offices with high levels of employee engagement—with above-median rates of employee retention and willingness to log onto the training platform—each additional minute of average platform engagement per employee led to an... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
consumer privacy per se. It has often been suggested that transparency, together with competition, will discipline the amount of consumer information disclosed in the marketplace. This view contends that lack of consumer privacy is a... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
the operating decisions of the waste-to-energy firm. Our analyses suggest that if the social planner's objective is to maximize landfill diversion, offering a subsidy as a per kilowatt-hour for electricity is more cost effective, whereas... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest
homes. Households refinancing in 2009 saved an average of $250 per month—or $3,000 per year—due to the lower interest rates afforded by quantitative easing, on average cashing out about $20,000 of home... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
including patients, physicians, employers, insurance companies, and the government need to recognize that value is best defined as “a given health outcome per dollar of cost expended.” In this article, we examine some of the challenges to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015
Online Advertising By: Kireyev, Pavel, Koen Pauwels, and Sunil Gupta Abstract—As firms increasingly rely on online media to acquire consumers, marketing managers feel comfortable justifying higher online marketing spending by referring to online metrics such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
Bulls In The News While not in the realm of incentives, per se, another of Parsons's papers also shows how extremely open to influence people can be. It stands to reason that news can influence events as much as it reports on them—but... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
& Company, based in San Francisco. Randy W. Goldman (MBA '76), vice president for electronic brokerage product development at Schwab, explains that her company's Internet site carries more than half the firm's trading volume and handles some $4 billion in... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
Case 218-095 Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (A) Snap, the disappearing message app, went public at $17 per share on March 2, 2017, making its two 20-something founders the youngest self-made billionaires in the country. Over the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2
capture important information seemingly ignored by the market. A long-short portfolio based on these legislators' views earns abnormal returns of over 90 basis points per month following the passage of legislation. Industries that we... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015
Hepatitis C? If so, how would its U.S. healthcare customers, who were paying $84,000 per patient, react? On the other hand, Gilead had to balance the interests of its shareholders, who paid $11 billion for an acquisition that led to the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel