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  • 29 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?

fashionistas? And if companies focus more on these consumers, how is the broader consumer pool impacted? Farronato studies these questions in a working paper recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Written along with El Hadi Caoui of the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
  • 18 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.

doctoral student at the University of Chicago. The ‘state’ of the price gap matters Economists generally use two main data models to detect inflation and predict the pace at which retailers raise prices: time dependent and state... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking
  • 11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11

environmental performance, and social responsibility evaluation, which cover the company in the national, regional, and corporate levels for the purpose of realizing the comprehensive evaluation of economic and environmental performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008

reflect the use of higher inventory levels by retailers to drive increased profits but with overall reduced gross profitability returns on the inventory investment. These results support the notion that the increased deployment of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

studies support an economic idea known as Tournament Theory, which says that as pay differences between job levels increase, the value of receiving a promotion also rises—spurring employees to put in more effort. “People make work... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

advice to restaurant owners, staff, investors, and patrons that we offer below. How did it deteriorate so quickly? Restaurants are universally labor intensive—by any productivity metric they rank among the least productive industries.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 20 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 20

Industry Author: Geoffrey Jones Publication: Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010 Abstract The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do

as a doctoral student at the University of California, San Diego, where she conducted a series of laboratory and field experiments with UCSD’s Uri Gneezy, a professor of economics and strategy, and Ayelet Gneezy, an associate professor of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

experiences and debt loads. Specifically, individuals with lower levels of debt literacy tend to transact in high-cost manners, incurring higher fees and using high-cost borrowing. In applying our results to credit cards, we estimate that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

convenience and speed. The report’s conclusion invites further study. Explanations for the disparities that the authors document range from differences in the types of questions or requests made by patients in the messages, the syntax of the message and its View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health
  • 06 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

professor of organizational behavior at Brandeis University International Business School, have described their work in two papers: "The Emotional Tightrope of Downsizing: Hidden Challenges for Leaders and their Organizations,"... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

Daniel Kahneman, 217-247. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Abstract We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

feel malicious envy, they engage in counterproductive work to harm other people,” Brooks says. “They tend to undermine others and try to slow them down.” Revealing failures won’t tarnish your image The HBS team set out to test for levels... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

and persuasive. However, little is known about the downsides of using too much entertainment. This research focuses on why, when, and how much to entertain consumers in TV advertisements. We collected data in a large-scale field study using 82 ads with various View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

of the University of Texas-Austin and Amit Seru of Stanford Graduate School of Business. A spate of alleged fraud by Wells Fargo has highlighted a dirty little secret in the financial industry: Misconduct by financial advisors is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 22 Feb 2018
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The New History of American Capitalism

the New Deal, even as those events shape political economy in important ways. The project to understand how capitalism both observes and obviates borders at the global level has had, it seems, an impact even in the most local matters.... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
  • 16 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

adjust their directional reality to one of three proposed growth strategies. The pace firms should use to adapt to this directional reality will be based on their level of demand, with those with decreasing demand required to urgently... View Details
Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service
  • 28 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

Employment,” which Rouen co-authored with Stanford professor Rebecca Lester and University of Texas professor Braden Williams. As the American economy slowly recovers from the pandemic, corporate leaders, policymakers, and researchers are... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 14 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

psychology at the University of British Columbia. She co-authored the study with colleagues Hanne K. Collins, now a research associate at Harvard Business School; Ashley V. Whillans, now an assistant professor in the Negotiations,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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