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- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
basic savings account with a standard 0.3 percent real interest rate, similar to the highest available alternative in the Chilean market; a basic account combined with meetings in a self-help peer group; and a high-interest account. The... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets
capital markets is highlighted by our study.— Suraj Srinivasan We find that companies that have business operations in the U.S.; U.S. listing, and international equity ownership follow disclosure practices that are similar to those of... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
encourage voter turnout among customers, similar to Facebook's Election Day notifications or Lyft’s discounted rides to polling stations. Support election administration by donating resources such as ballot boxes, office supplies, and... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, in joint work with Joe Long, Carlo Medici, and Qian, we found similar results. After 1880, parts of the US West that were more impacted by the Chinese Exclusion Act grew at considerably lower rates... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
California passed a similar law last year, which will go into effect in 2020. It’s an open question whether that law will spur the US Congress to enact similar measures, or water down California’s law.... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
are focusing on; that is, the most important and defining feature of these organizations is whether their central mission is social rather than private. We refer to them as "social-mission-driven organizations" (SMDOs). We are arguing, in effect, that SMDOs... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part One]
of many different sizes and types, what similarities did you find in the new culture they established because of the Internet? A: One of the striking things that was similar across successful... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
potential participants in their ecosystems.” Leveraging the momentum and great reviews on Amazon, the company started selling through its direct-to-consumer websites as well as penetrating other sales channels. For example, Anker also sells products in Apple’s official... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
fixed costs/scale sensitivity on the supply side, are all capable of reducing the equilibrium level of global standardization, as is the ability of local producers to pre-commit costs to particular markets. Convergence of the price of the globally standardized product... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
shows. Partisan divides exist even within specific professions. Democrats accounted for more than 50 percent of chief or general legal officers at firms, but Democrats made up only 27 percent of chief financial officers. Similar fissures... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
conditions, but the egregiousness of the dodge varied. We initially came up with a few different responses that we thought were of roughly similar "quality" and had participants read the same question followed by the different... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
capabilities, connections, confidence, and cognition that might be associated with having worked at GE during a particular point in time—this would be a "GE career imprint." And, we can compare the career imprints of different organizations during View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 12 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Break the Rules of How Business is Done
or managers to report to. Many other companies have taken similar approaches not only to attempt to operate more efficiently, but also to attract and retain talent by differentiating their companies from the mainstream. Whether or not the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
it for the first time last December in the elective course Managing International Trade and Investment. Some said flatly that they would walk away from the deal, while others thought that it was a worthwhile risk to take, particularly since the project could inspire... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
“raises similar issues in the context of building more personal connections and relationships in the workplace.” Others disputed the notion that these values are making a comeback. J. T. Goh commented: “I don’t see these values as trendy... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
(Search-Based Peers or SBPs) are fundamentally similar on multiple dimensions. In direct tests, SBPs dominate GICS6 industry peers in explaining cross-sectional variations in base firms' out-of-sample (a) stock returns, (b) valuation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
"It's a contrarian strategy. When everyone is ordering ships is the time you should be selling." The shipping and real-estate industries are, unlike the stock market, quite similar in their long-term predictability, he says. High... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
similar ways for a limited array of traditional services, and last for only one year. In essence, managed care comes in just two flavors: plans that place constraints on access to physicians and hospitals for a lower price, and plans that... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
practice is an anomaly or is only confined to her team. An obvious next step is to do away with it, explaining precisely why it should be discontinued. Second case: The "morality" of the practice is confirmed. For instance, all View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
pursuing growth strategies in adjacent markets or new geographies should consider how similar the needs of new customers are to those of existing customers. Offering complements also allows incumbents to reach additional customer groups.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne