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- 26 Aug 2009
- Op-Ed
Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road
short-term incentive programs designed to shape consumer purchase behavior. It has no experience in such initiatives and proved itself incapable of forecasting demand associated with different incentive levels. View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
bankruptcy, now they faced an equally difficult time ahead. Should they grow the enterprise by continuing with their current bootstrapped online approach, or attempt to get their product into retail stores? Should they continue to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Students of recent United States real estate history can't help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office View Details
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
mentality that made and created Silicon Valley. Hate it or admire it—it’s a place where its accomplishments equaled its hubris.” This suggests another ingredient that may have been important in tempering the... View Details
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
third party, the stock exchange, take responsibility for these functions. Stock exchanges' interests are the creation of a well-functioning capital market, where good and bad news are equally likely to be... View Details
- 31 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs
What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In "UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action?" Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest Reinhardt present the... View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once manufacturing capabilities go away, so does much of the ability to innovate and compete.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Working PapersCPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We develop a model of online advertising in which each advertiser chooses from multiple advertising measurement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
for creditworthy working families—not as a special "niche" product for a subset of low-income borrowers, but integrated into the system? How do we ensure that the government-guaranteed secondary market is open on full and View Details
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
Boris Groysberg and communications professional Michael Slind discuss the power of talk as a way to recapture high levels of employee engagement and strategic alignment. This excerpt identifies four elements... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 27 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey
of the costliest, according to an analysis of microdata from large retailers by Harvard Business School Professor Alberto Cavallo. In a forthcoming article in the Journal of Monetary Economics, Cavallo and coauthor Oleksiy Kryvtsov,... View Details
Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
flows equal the forecasted cash flows plus an omitted downside. When the omitted downside is temporary, the adjustment is to deflate the forecasts and to set the discount rate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
discussion about racial equality by having baristas write ‘Race Together’ on coffee cups.” And when chicken chain Chick-Fil-A President Dan Cathy spoke out against gay marriage in 2012, his statements... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
Marketing is important in campaigning. It is equally important in governing. In 2008, Barack Obama won the presidency with an uplifting call for hope and change. He leveraged online media to attract... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
we dug deeper, however, we found that effective firms excelled by focusing on one of the strategies and using the other in a supporting role. They did not try to use both approaches to an equal degree. View Details
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
excellence in these areas; designing management systems that help employees to succeed at their jobs; and training their customers. Q: To be a great service company, do you have to be equally good at all of... View Details
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
chose to avoid a scholastic examination of these mind-numbingly complex maneuvers and Enron's observance of equally complex Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and SEC... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
have learned, but equally eager to discover what others have been up to as well. Unfortunately, unlike some of the more well-established academic disciplines, there are few institutional resources available to support this increasingly... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
fulfillment of community needs. (Of course, Friedman's formulation leaves the manager with two problems: the sum of consumer desires does not necessarily equal community need, and many—perhaps... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
Working Papers Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace