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  • 10 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), which conducts an annual analysis of available labor data. Presumably, the Dodd-Frank rule, once it's mandated, will make more data available for such... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 19 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

competitors, she said. The quotes are accurate, Progressive's are lowest less than half the time, and if they are not the lowest then the customer usually goes elsewhere. "So how does that make sense? What they're capitalizing on is that Progressive is better at... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 13, 2015

contribution is tax-deductible in the contribution year, but both principal and investment earnings are taxed upon withdrawal. Using administrative data from 11 companies that added a Roth contribution option to their existing 401(k) plan... View Details
  • 22 Jun 2011
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation

Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans Companies generally pay their sales staff with some combination of salary, commissions, and bonuses for meeting quotas—with sales force costs averaging about 10 percent of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 28 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models through the analysis of individual firm choices. We situate negotiation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • June 2024
  • Case

Arete Research on Unity Software

By: Joseph Pacelli and Tonia Labruyere
Richard Kramer had founded Arete Research, an independent financial research provider, in 2000 after a successful career as a sell-side analyst at Goldman Sachs. He reflects on his team's coverage of Unity Software, a U.S.-based mobile games software company, that... View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Initial Public Offering; Analytics and Data Science; Applications and Software; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Valuation; Value Creation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Reports; Financial Services Industry; Video Game Industry; United Kingdom; United States
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  • 10 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Governance in India and Around the Globe

engineering a transition from a stakeholder to a shareholder-based corporate governance system. Ultimately, however, the corporate governance standards at Infosys are the exception rather than the norm in India. Some data on corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu; Technology
  • 15 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

words, create a better end-to-end consumer experience, with the result being a larger, deeper pool of data to draw on and drive progress in new therapies. Data and analytics “It takes an abundance of View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 05 Dec 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

Even predictions based on an analysis of trends can have a bad name. Beatrice Haurenson, commenting on trend analysis, said: "What did the analysis of 'Trends' pre-2007 tell us?" Tom Dolembo... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Student-Profile

Alexandra C. Feldberg

spent a year working at Columbia, taking classes, and doing research. I then moved across the country to San Francisco, where I completed a fellowship with Education Pioneers doing data analysis and strategy... View Details
  • 24 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

realized. Our model aligns with many observed empirical regularities, and we quantify our framework by matching Census Bureau operating data with patent data for U.S. firms. We observe that internal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 6

for tax analysis answers this question in the affirmative. Moreover, a plausible parameterization using data on height and wages implies a substantial height tax: a tall person earning $50,000 should pay... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Everything Old Is a New Opportunity

financial abuse Big Data applications—using data analysis to identify problems before they develop and suggest improvement opportunities After HBS, he put that knowledge to use... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Health, Social Assistance; Personal Services
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

cluster analysis on all whole-body donors' data from the Universities of California at Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Two donor groups emerge from the analyses: One is made of slightly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Sep 2022
  • Blog Post

Latina Women in Leadership: Jacqueline Burgos (MBA 2014)

works at Google in their Go-to-Market organization supporting the largest media advertising agencies in the world. Tell us about your life before HBS. Before HBS, I worked at HBO as a New Media Analyst in their Financial Planning and View Details
  • 21 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 21, 2006

on original analysis provide new information to the markets while those that rebroadcast allegations from other intermediaries do not. Consistent with a dual role for the press, I find that business-oriented press is more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector neoclassical growth model, while, at the disaggregate level, has implications for the path of observable measures of technology adoption. We estimate our model using data on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54899 forthcoming Management Science How Do Sales Efforts Pay Off? Dynamic Panel Data Analysis in the Nerlove-Arrow Framework By: Chung, Doug J., Byungyeon Kim,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract This paper provides the first formal model of business model innovation. Our View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne