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- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
Airbnb competed with hotels, the study shows. During busy travel times, guests enjoyed an average "consumer surplus" of $57 per night. This surplus didn't necessarily amount to more money in a visitor's pocket, but it did mean... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
bonuses were equal in amount—500 rupees (about $7.80) per week, or roughly 27 percent of normal pay. Positioning a Sales Bonus The researchers set up an experiment to test the effectiveness of incentive pay based on how the extra... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
residents per hospital bed were 17 percent less likely to be sanctioned than those in the bottom quartile. "I don't say that these organizations won't be sanctioned if they provide charity care, but the likelihood is less," says... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
subscribers pay to get behind a firewall. Yet take a very long-term view of the evolution of the Web—something that Bezos is willing to do—and ask, as one possible scenario: In a world of micropayments on the Web (say at 1/10th of a cent View Details
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
hours per week) when anyone can pop into your office (or jump on a Zoom if you’re remote) and chat. Be clear that this time is to chat or bounce ideas around, not for decisions or setting strategy. Some newer employees might just want the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
Hepatitis C? If so, how would its U.S. healthcare customers, who were paying $84,000 per patient, react? On the other hand, Gilead had to balance the interests of its shareholders, who paid $11 billion for an acquisition that led to the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
of the happiest countries in spite of a tumultuous history, low life expectancy, a dismal literacy rate, a small and undiversified economy, and low GDP per capita. Everyone, it seemed, from tourists and Hollywood screenwriters to leading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
anyone can visit for $2. Today the drugstore chain has upwards of 3,500 outlets and revenues of $900 million. Two-and-a-half million people visit the doctors and 10.5 million people go through "Farmacia Simi" per month. Just by... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
Working PapersEquity-Debtholder Conflicts and Capital Structure Authors:Bo Becker and Per Strömberg Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in the vicinity of financial distress.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
that does not center on public destruction of value, a notion that managers reject in surveys. Supportive new tests involve nominal levels and changes of dividends per share, announcement effects, and reference point currencies of ADR... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
information-rich "opportunistic" trades that contains all the predictive power in the insider trading universe. A portfolio strategy that focuses solely on opportunistic insider trades yields value-weight abnormal returns of 82 basis points View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation Authors:Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen, and Per Strömberg Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures from public shareholders, or whether LBO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
management practices such as controlled irrigation and year-round harvesting. ViniBrasil "Rio Sol" wines, which have received several awards, are sold mainly in Brazil where per capita wine consumption is low and there is strong... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
average of $1,459 per salesperson—almost 20% more than they spend on workers in all other functions. Yet, when it comes to equipping sales teams with relevant knowledge and skills, the ROI of sales training is disappointing. Studies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
boasted the nation's best safety record at the time, it still averaged 46 deaths per year. Four months into her tenure, Carroll learned of a fatality that occurred during her first visit to Rustenburg. "This organization is out of... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
Western Hospital (GWH) is a community hospital in Wiltshire, South West England, and one of England's largest maternity providers, responsible for delivering over 9,000 babies per year. The case discusses the efforts of Dr. Harini... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
portfolio strategy that takes advantage of this straightforward vs. complicated information processing classification yields returns of 118 basis points per month. Consistent with processing complexity driving the return relation, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
between religiosity and pro-social behavior. To help overcome this divergence, we hypothesize that pro-social behavior is linked not to religiosity per se, but rather to the salience of religion and religious norms. We report on a field... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
time recorded was used to obtain estimates for physician documentation time on both control (no scribe) and intervention (scribe) shifts. Results: Control shifts yielded approximately 3 hours of documentation time per 8 hours of clinical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman