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19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

Frei. Their customers are better off and the organizations earn a disproportionate share of the profits over their competitors. Frei, who spoke with HBS alumni on June 4 in a session titled "Capitalizing on the Power of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light

The Texas town of Marshall has a population of 25,000 people, 2,000 of whom are students attending one of the four colleges that have earned Marshall the nickname "Athens of Texas." Marshall is also home to a historic pottery... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

Environmental pressures, including the risk that we could destabilize the climate through the emission of green-house gases. Poverty and inequality, with fewer people taking greater pieces of the earnings pie. "Should business get... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

03 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates

programs? What management practices work best? Catching Affiliate Fraud Edelman and Brandi, admitted computer geeks, developed software that allowed them to observe management structures within companies using affiliate branding. Edelman, who View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Publishing

14 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

probability of a crash; (3) attributes of the price run-up, including volatility, turnover, issuance, and the price path of the run-up, can all help forecast an eventual crash and future returns; and (4) some of these characteristics can help investors View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

March 2025 (Revised April 2025)
Case

Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News

By: Vincent Pons, Jesse M. Shapiro, Bharat Anand and Susan Pinckney

The case examines the Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News defamation settlement based upon statements made on air in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. View Details

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Educators

28 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

Earnings Management, Corporate Tax Shelters, and Book-Tax Alignment Authors:Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Publication:National Tax Journal (forthcoming) Abstract This paper reviews recent evidence analyzing the link between View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

financial reports have strong implications for firms' future returns: a portfolio that shorts "changers" and buys "non-changers" earns up to 188 basis points per month (over 22% per year) in abnormal returns in the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 19

pessimistic forecasts for banks that could be their future employers. This pattern is not observed when the same analysts forecast earnings of companies that are not likely to be their future employers. Moreover, we use the Global... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

consortium inhibited competition. The FCC finally approved the new cable in July 1999, and also announced that it would launch a broad inquiry into the undersea-cable business. Global Crossing's carefully constructed lobbying campaign View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

28 Jul 2016
Op-Ed

Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

Funding. TripAdvisor recently compromised perceived objectivity by accepting hotel bookings on which it earns commissions. Previously, TripAdvisor revenues depended on travel-related advertising on the site. Having become the highest... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

months. Marketing for the program was also eliminated. While all banks sell bonds, the $.50 to $.85 they earn for each transaction gives them little financial incentive to make the process easy for consumers. Finally, the Treasury's... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

can write whatever they want about growth in their strategy or annual report, but top management responds to the capital market's need for quarterly earnings, and it turns out that quarterly earnings drive the resource allocation process.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

registered users, almost a third of the country’s adults, within 18 months. Lesson 5: Earn consumer trust One critical component to the success of any mobile money venture is building consumer trust, a challenge tough to overcome in many... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

Kleiner Perkins's Vinod Khosla of a prominent mentor, "People like him have earned the right to advise entrepreneurs. They are qualified to do it, they've done it right, they've done it wrong, and they know the difference." It... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

customers' college-savings accounts. Firms like Salomon Smith Barney that manage these new so-called "529" savings plans would invest the rebates and maintain records showing enrolled families how much they had earned toward... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

26 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels

traditionally earned their biggest margins when rooms were scarce and customers were forced to pay higher rates—such as in Midtown Manhattan on New Year's Eve. And it's good news for travelers who don't have to pay through the roof to get... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Travel

06 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best

It's well understood that cash bonuses often motivate a sales force to step up its game, but they don't work in every scenario and in some cases can backfire, a new study from Harvard Business School has found. The key variable? Whether the sales rep had to do... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

04 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

business loan market. Often times, the biggest banks refer small businesses below such revenue thresholds or seeking such low dollar loans to their small business credit card products, which earn higher yields. As the economy enters the... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

because of what they did, but because of what they are? That's the question that intrigued Jonas Heese, who recently joined Harvard Business School as an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management unit. While earning his PhD in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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