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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
discounted services or brand association might benefit the local lender. Finally, given the business strategy of no long-term commitments, I wonder if the centers could be sold to or subsidized by local large employers that would want the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
how organizations can create moral behavior using unspoken cues. Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway Why do businesses evaluate candidates solely on past job performance, ignoring the job's difficulty? Why do university admissions officers focus on high GPAs,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
getting these organizations to pay for the service at full price or a discount and then provide it to the winning startups as an in-kind prize or investment? Assuming this activity will generate a significant amount of publicity, and as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
indicator relative to competition—[and on the] elegant user interface/user experience, too." —Mark Crowther (MBA 2003) "Finding popular applications and getting information from these applications should be their strategy. If they know a user has an iPhone 4, they... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
frequent-flyer programs) when discounts on future flights or other products and services are offered in exchange. "Many of our MBAs plan to run their own business after graduation. Having a good partner is extremely important." "Many of... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
courses, I’ve spent so much time teaching the tools that are based on theory. What is really interesting is that professionals in lots of industries, in particular the VC industry, totally disregard them. Using derived cost of capital and View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
that Grab does. Grab says it has half of the ride-hailing market. Uber won’t say. But all three companies are in what appears to be an escalating arms race to discount fares. Last spring, Grab offered 20 free rides to users who signed up... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
investments, enabling them to forecast higher returns and discount reported liabilities at a higher rate, making the funds appear less under-funded than they were. “The cycles of optimism and pessimism in financial markets will always... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
would bring interested citizens from around the country to Washington for face-to-face meetings, were thought to be highly effective but had to be planned far in advance and were costly. Online petitions and email form letters were easily View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
physicians’ services? Health-care providers are as constrained by managed care as consumers. Other industries enjoy much greater freedom. Grocery retailers, for example, serve a variety of customers in outlets ranging from discount clubs... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
employees. This seems both ill-considered and unlikely to work. I doubt this bill will become law. But when capitalism goes unchecked and unexamined, and management is seduced by a narrow and myopic perspective, the pendulum can quickly swing in directions where... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
right things were done that day." It's easy to hear the note of satisfaction and pride in Smith's voice, and while he's too modest to openly acknowledge his leadership role in Starbucks' phenomenal success, he's too honest to discount the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
or later — and many experts say sooner — lead to the demise of their livelihood. There are a number of cognitive issues here, but one of the most universal is the tendency people have to dramatically discount the future. For the most... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
as its discount prices and large selection of merchandise. As Sprint and Walgreens have shown, Porter notes, companies that invest in the inner city and entrepreneurs who start businesses there are well positioned to take advantage of a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
she says, noting that Brazil offers incentives in the form of discounted transmission rates for biomass-generated electricity. (Brazil is almost entirely independent of fossil fuels, relying primarily on hydroelectric energy for its grid... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
monetary loosening since August 2007 — the steep cuts in the federal funds and discount rates, the various auction and lending “facilities,” the underwriting of JPMorgan’s acquisition of Bear Stearns, and, most recently, the shift to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
one was surprised. On the retail side, the large discount chains — WalMart and Target in particular — had steadily taken market share from specialty toy stores, in some cases using toys as a loss leader to pull in traffic. The ripple... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
intense pricing wars by electronics chains and discount department stores destabilized account bases." Some record executives have admitted to losing touch with their audiences and to alienating consumers by relentlessly pursuing and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
(MBA 2009) “Space companies are starting to look like tech companies, and that’s huge.” ——Sunil Nagaraj (MBA 2009) While SpaceX is a relatively august entrant into the market, it wasn’t until three years ago that it shook up the industry by offering very aggressive,... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley