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- 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
earned relatively high margins on products rooted in science and innovation. However, Lyons believed downstream integration would allow Alltech to better communicate with its end customers (farmers), increase sales of its supplements, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
employed mothers are more likely to be employed, more likely to hold supervisory responsibility if employed, work more hours, and earn marginally higher wages than women whose mothers were home full time. The effects on labor market... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
create workplace cultures that successfully leverage individual difference and convey respect for individual contributions, particularly from members of historically marginalized groups. Beth Livingston Associate Professor, Management and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
Once papers were completed, the only after-action assessments were the readers’ comments, penciled in the extra-wide margins of the special green report paper, with a page-long overall commentary attached at the end. “We each read about... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
Westmoreland had a low break-even point. It needed margin then—not volume; and so, prices were increased. Although this was an unsound business decision, the records show my grandfather had kept his prices low during the Depression,... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
extent to which a hospital's specialization in areas related to cardiovascular care directly impacts performance on cardiovascular patients (positive spillovers) and 2) whether the marginal benefit of a hospital's focus in cardiovascular... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
them a game plan. After that, winning is up to the players on the field. It is their leadership that matters. The actions of many leaders seizing the moment create the margin of victory. When people have confidence in one another, they... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
this company ”, I was almost embarrassed to tell you, “ and they make gift baskets”, and you had the same face. RR: That I have now. RK: Yup. Royce, you encouraged me. You said, “Look at the margins and there’s something there. There’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
similarly strong margin across both groups saw two other dominant issues at century's end - health care and education - as getting better. Teaching tomorrow's leaders As for the role of business in the coming decades, 73 percent of alumni... View Details
- 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
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
market's growth that is the primary driver of profit margins and sales growth. A few retailers have succeeded in going global by developing strategies that apply four retail-specific rules for globalization. Rule 1: The home market is the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. As a simple theoretical framework predicts, we find that leverage is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
driven by categorization threat—feeling unwillingly reduced to a single identity—which is induced when a) the identity deployed is that of a typically marginalized group (Studies 3-4) and b) the appeal evokes a stereotype about that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
conventional logic of diminishing marginal social welfare. Moreover, these two views are linked: respondents who more strongly resist equalization are more likely to prefer the classical benefit-based principle. Though the Amazon... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is between 1.6 and 2.4 depending upon weighting. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52089... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
margin to a core group of loyal users and you don't talk much about market share? (Market researchers pinpoint the Mac share at 2 to 4 percent of the overall PC market.) Is this a viable strategy for Apple? A: Over the long run, no. There... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
shocks—measured as CDS portfolio margin payments—account for 12% of the time-series variation in weekly spread changes, a significant amount given that standard credit factors account for 18% during my sample. In addition, seller shocks... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
amortization (EBITDA) margin of over 8%. At the executive education program, Jaime had learned that entrepreneurs could build on their unique attributes and capabilities to expand and grow their businesses. Should he continue to expand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
grocers, drug stores, and discount stores like Costco. Peter asked me (a banker) what I thought of supermarkets accepting credit cards for groceries. I said that the grocery margins (~1%) wouldn’t support the discounts on card purchases,... View Details
- 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