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- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
offering wages higher than the local competition experienced both increased productivity and lower turnover, but did not address the issue of employee theft. Employee theft comes with a huge price tag for US businesses, accounting for up... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?
gauged by monitoring nearly 1 million reader reviews using, in part, supervised machine learning in addition to searching for keywords such as “original,” “creative,” “surprisingly clever,” “innovative,” and “unexpected.” The researchers... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
that minor emotion induction, the anxious negotiators made lower initial offers and bartered less favorable prices than the neutral participants. Anxious buyers, for example, ended up with a $6.60 final profit versus $7.94 for those who... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
average price to bring a new high-risk medical device to market. That extra cost can dampen the ability of companies to pursue new innovations. Indeed, Stern found that small firms (defined as non-publicly traded companies with revenues... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
month of completing your third course, please contact us through our Support Portal . Is there a discount offered for completing multiple courses? Yes. If you’re a new HBS Online learner, you’ll pay full price for your first course and... View Details
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
performance, most investors have found it easier to vote "with their feet" by selling shares, rather than making formal complaints. Large shareholders, however, have stronger incentives to monitor management. The conventional... View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
file sharing has robbed them of billions of dollars after four consecutive years of falling music sales, they criticized the team's methodology, which consisted of monitoring 1.75 million downloads over 17 weeks in 2002, scouring through... View Details
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
malfunction. As the cameras monitor and collect data used to make recommendations about which roses to cut, they need to function properly to optimize production. While challenges persist, the brothers continue to test lighting options... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Incentives and Operational Excellence
50 percent. This allowed the retailers to break even with just one or two rentals. Monitoring and technology, however, were key to the implementation, and these had to be introduced by a third company, Rentrak. Rentrak filled a niche... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog
bonds outstanding. Every day, public markets set prices for CEOs and CFOs, financial institutions, and investors, all seeking to raise and invest money in a way that drives the economy forward. A public exit - whether through an initial... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
has become derailed after BCG's first major presentation to the RBM board. Will this end the Change Initiative prematurely? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Roll-Back-Malaria-and-BCG/an/910023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 914-037 Setting View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Incentives and Operational Excellence
on the retailer’s shelf, however, is less than $3. Demand for an individual movie is highly uncertain and usually declines rapidly after the first few weeks, Narayanan said. One contracting solution to bridge the divide between studios and stores was for the studios to... View Details
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High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment... View Details
- 23 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?
this information. This provides us a very rare opportunity to monitor the performance of individual board members," says Ma. "In the United States you know this happens, but you don't get to observe it." Social Influences... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
Competition Corrupts Business Practices, suggests that many organizations in highly competitive markets are likely to bend the rules if doing so will keep their customers from leaving for a rival firm. "Competition is generally thought to be good for economies... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
However, if you're Fitbit or any of the other tracking and monitoring devices on the market today, you should be very concerned. The Apple Watch claims to render everything in these devices relatively obsolete. For $200 more than the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
that monitors radio broadcasts and frequencies and identifies songs as they air. Songs are scanned into a computer to create a digital "fingerprint," which is then matched against music played by radio stations View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
defeated by a less reformist coalition. Stock prices of government-controlled companies that had been slated for definite privatization by the BJP dropped by 3.5 percent relative to private firms. Surprisingly, government-controlled... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
Treasury has proposed that systemic risks be monitored by a newly formed Financial Services Oversight Council, with the Fed becoming the primary regulator of all institutions posing such risks. I disagree with making the Fed the primary... View Details