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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
average cardholder owned 4.6 credit cards. On some of these cards, interest rates were as high as 30 percent. The use of consumer credit, while by no means new, reached unprecedented levels in the early twenty-first century .... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
stylized facts: (i) shocks to N have a large effect on S, (ii) business cycles in N lead over medium-term fluctuations in S, (iii) the outputs in S and N co-move more than their consumption, and (iv) interest rates in S are... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
important, and there’s been great progress on educational attainment rates in general. But if you think about most states have adopted sort of a singular attainment goal, like a single number—like, let’s shoot for 55 percent or 60 percent... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
networks or manufacturers to procure goods across complex global supply chains. These standards-shaped by standard-setting organizations (SSOs) and participating engineers, academics, lawyers, and executives-in turn shape how new technologies evolve, specifying rules... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
despite rates comparable to or better than those offered in this country. Deighton and Barwise also warn that interacting digitally with marketers may not remain a favorite use of consumers' scarce leisure time, especially after the... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product which can be easily stockpiled by end-consumers as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
the menu, have insight into their financial performance, and realized I thought the market could support a higher end product with the right operating model. And that's when I felt confident I could move into it. DM: You're doing all this... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
clothing and accessories inspired by Hellenic heritage, was to source silks and embroidery from traditional craftswomen throughout the region, whose skills were no longer finding demand, and sell the products internationally. It was a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
PublicationsThe New M&A Playbook Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Alton, Curtis Rising, and Andrew Waldeck Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Companies spend more than $2 trillion on acquisitions every year, yet the M&A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
Publications December 2014 Journal of Political Economy Transition to Clean Technology By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth where clean and dirty technologies compete in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
begins with 150-plus diverse teams working with global partners to develop new products and services. To help facilitate this process, faculty teach the concept of "design thinking," allowing students to generate ideas, quickly... View Details
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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024
Year in Review Degree Programs Nearly 8,150 applicants sought a place in the MBA Program and approximately 890 applicants in the Doctoral Programs; the acceptance rate for both was highly competitive, at 14 percent and 4 percent,... View Details
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
product based not on what it costs or what people want to pay for it, but based on another format that is completely different, just because you want to keep that format alive," he remarks. So the ongoing power struggle between... View Details
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
momentum with the passage of time after the stall. Of the companies in the study, 87 percent had experienced a stall. Fewer than half of those were able to return to prior rates of growth within a decade after the stall. Of the reasons... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
take a look at America Online. My recollection is that they had about 10,000 subscribers at that time who were paying a little less than $20 per month. That gave them a running rate of $2.4 million in gross revenues per year. I thought... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
whom he regularly rubs shoulders. Instead, they include the likes of Dick Serafin, a production manager at Time Warner, and Sherill R. Heron and Jonathan A. Kraft, HBS classmates whose support he is "determined to pay back." Clinkscales's... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
unprofitable—made to satisfy California’s stringent zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) mandate, which stipulates that to sell their products in the state, automakers must commit to making 15.4 percent of their fleets zero-emission by 2025. In... View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
design of our establishment-level analysis, our methods for distinguishing between leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and other private equity transactions, bankruptcy rates among firms acquired in LBOs, their assertion that we undercount large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
could influence zapping, such as brand familiarity, the ad's visual complexity (too much or too little shows higher levels of zapping), and product category (perhaps you'd be more likely to watch a commercial for a "hedonic"... View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
approximately welfare neutral. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-011.pdf Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity: Evidence from Software Development (revised) Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Abstract In knowledge-intensive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace