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19 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 19

stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas where seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to pay dividends, initiate dividends, and have View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

local governments can be used to predict the number of public workers that governments laid off during the early months of COVID-19’s spread, with higher sales tax dependence leading to more layoffs. “State and local governments deriving... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

15 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

A New Model for Business: The Museum

Weaver lists Facebook, Apple, and Progressive Insurance as other examples of successful curators. In the case of Facebook, he argues that the social media giant is wildly successful in part because it exacts precision over how users... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Apr 2014
What Do You Think?

Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?

and using 'money' facilitates the exchange of goods and services. So we are still capitalists " Barry Shere commented that "I do not see how profits are neutered as a result of the pressure on prices and margins per transaction.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

06 Oct 2020
News

Clearing the Path to Citizenship

celebrates the final approval with them. The price for its assistance for a marriage green card application: $950, a fraction of the cost of a personal immigration attorney. “We are doing this at scale,” Wang says to explain the savings.... View Details

Keywords: April White

15 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Coming to HBS with a Non-Finance Background

interesting topics such as statistics, Excel functions, price discrimination, etc., but it’s incredibly interactive and well-designed, and taught by HBS professors! Having experience as a teacher and at an Ed Tech startup, I really... View Details

01 May 2006
Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

higher due to the extra career-related effort. The end result is that the firm may pay for more effort than it wanted to consume. Q: Why is non-contractible information about executives important? A: Non-contractible information distorts... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

19 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways

24/7, with limited downtime mostly for planned maintenance work. It does not need sun or wind to operate at full capacity, and while the operators chose to use higher quality imported Indonesian coal to run the plant, in a pinch they... View Details

09 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

status, we find that groups benefited—up to a point—from having high status members, controlling for individual performance. With higher proportions of individual stars, however, the marginal benefit decreased before the slope of this... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Feb 2019
News

Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

need new technology, Perry said—we need to apply capitalism and government regulation to these problems to provide incentives to farmers or convince consumers they should pay for this change either through higher View Details

17 Jan 2025
News

Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details

01 May 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics

events can boost brand awareness, preference, and sales over competitors who cannot afford the global sponsorship prices set by the International Olympic Committee. Lenovo hardly wishes to be known as the Chinese PC company that consumers... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Sports

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?

including K-12, higher education, and executive education. Interesting Opportunities Frustrating yes, but full of interesting opportunities to try new ideas and make a difference, said the panelists. The "baby boom echo" will... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Education

29 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing

football. “I am hesitant to say schools choose to invest in athletics just because of the spillover effect into academics” "The primary form of mass media advertising by academic institutions in the United States is, arguably,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Advertising; Sports

01 Jun 2006
News

CEO Compensation Troubles

Ask any thoughtful corporate board member what they are most concerned about these days, and it is not Sarbanes-Oxley. It is CEO pay. Directors worry because shareholders continue to express outrage, and the media attention to the issue... View Details

Keywords: Jay W. Lorsch; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

25 Jan 2012
News

Is Tax Reform Viable?

My Beautiful Capital Gain An investor ponders taxes and the 99 Percent Will President Obama succeed in passing the "Buffett Rule"? This past year was a very good one for me: a large media company purchased the enterprise in which I had... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

negotiations regularly culminated with the seller going from buyer to buyer extracting successively higher prices. The students adhered to the letter of my rules, but the auctions looked a lot like negotiations, and the negotiations... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

19 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

private equity partner, was planning its options after seven years of investment. There were four growth levers Mavi could pull, but each involved selecting one growth path while neglecting another. Should the company invest in growth domestically or internationally?... View Details