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- 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
- 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
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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
- 26 Jun 2018
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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
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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
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive, respectively, a small monetary margin on each pack sold, a large margin, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24
this framework for the time path of U.S. policy require central parameters of the model, namely the elasticity of taxable income or the marginal social welfare weights on top earners, to take unconventional values. We use inferred social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
consumers who have access to vouchers must generally be lower than those of consumers who do not have access to vouchers. Offering vouchers tends to be more profitable for firms that are patient or relatively unknown and for firms with low View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
margin and penny profit are discussed. The note gives students a foundation for analyzing marketing cases, as well as providing an analytical structure and process for completing a marketing plan. The note is accompanied by a free Excel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
variance. The second is the latent components approach suggesting the importance of sensitivity to losses and diminishing sensitivity to marginal increases in payoffs. The third approach, risk acceptance, relates to the willingness to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
whereas the contemporaneous marginal effect is higher for generalists. The paper also provides a key methodological insight to the marketing and economics literature. In the Nerlove-Arrow framework, moment conditions that are typically... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007
simultaneously with many employees, each of whom finds himself matched with a firm only after a process of search. When employment increases as a result of reductions in market power, the marginal product of labor falls. This fall tempers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
eye-opening account that challenges our preconceptions of identity as it shines new light on the long shadows of white supremacy and marginalization that continue to hamper progress for Black Americans. The Able Archers By Brian J. Morra... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
payoffs differently than private households do. This gives the government a "social risk management" motive: projects that ameliorate market failures when household marginal utility is high are appealing. The second friction is that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
points an hour. If I sleep less than 6 and 1/2 hours, it subtracts 20 points an hour. So a bunch of little things like that that give me a relatively holistic view of how that day was from just a well-being point of view. And then, again, on the View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
Lincoln Agnew Just Do It Ralph Sultan (MBA 1960) IT WAS DURING MBA CLASSES THAT I LEARNED THAT we are all capable of sustained effort, far into the night, and no problem is too complex to tackle analytically—as long as due allowance is given for uncertainty and View Details