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- 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016
widened. By 2015, 20 business groups—nearly all family owned—controlled one in four listed companies through corporate pyramids. Public anger over the high cost of living, which many believed was due to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
failsafe mechanisms will kick in to prevent things from getting to the edge of the proverbial cliff. This time, however, it seems that those failsafe mechanisms haven't kicked in. All these factors lead to a very high level of anxiety. Q:... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
ones. Findings: Our key counterintuitive finding is that Japanese and American founders of entrepreneurial firms are more similar than is often suggested. We first find that in both Japan and the U.S., achievement motivation is positively related to customer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
Hollen, is at a critical juncture: Weighing the cost of capital, construction, and expected market prices for developed units, should Hollen meet the government’s minimum bid for one of five development contracts, submit a proposal well... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
machetes and constant fear, where friends and neighbors somehow switched off their humanity for four months. The hotel where I stayed—the Serena, Kigali’s main business hotel—was called the Hotel des Diplomates during this awful... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
suggest that in many commonly regulated markets in which firms share similar cost structures, firms are likely to experience incentives to ratchet down and delay the introduction of innovative products. The study highlights the importance... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the optimal price for internal transfers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
appear invulnerable blocked precisely the kinds of actions that encourage safety and effectiveness. Covering up mistakes, for example, curtails learning and allows for the repetition and escalation of errors. In complex systems with high... View Details
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
lawsuits against Blitz had followed. A former Blitz employee has testified that Blitz presented a revised gas can design to Walmart that would prevent the burn injuries by installing an "arrestor," a device that would prevent a flame from flowing into the... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
currency. This reduced profitability because Clearwater's costs were in Canadian currency while its sales where largely in other currencies. The case also discusses the challenges of maintaining a sustainable fishery and uses the collapse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
of tech upgrade the world food system needs given our increasingly insecure ecosystem, says Sonia Lo (MBA 1994), CEO of Crop One Holdings, which owns and operates the FreshBox brand. Sitting in FreshBox’s makeshift conference room—a long table, chairs, and a monitor,... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016
competition only when the incumbent offers high (low) quality service relative to existing competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that these results are due to a sorting effect, whereby firms trade-off service quality and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
accordingly. But despite this favorable trend in the business climate, further improvements are urgently needed. HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, whose research focuses on cross-border competition, notes, "It's hard to make generalizations about the region, but the View Details
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
out of the brinkmanship of the past weeks, but not after payments to the International Monetary Fund have been missed, and European funding has ended. These tactics have created high and unnecessary uncertainty that has brought the Greek... View Details
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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
to launch and operate. Funding sources are identified and a plan for securing initial investment is articulated. Performance Measurement : The plan takes a practical approach to milestones and organizational outcome measurement and provides a clear plan to deliver... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
Underprice an innovation, and you leave profit on the table. Overprice an innovation, and you may not be able to sell it. Price discipline is another critical issue. “It’s very difficult to start with a high price and then go down because... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen, the three industries most plagued by high cost, inconvenience, and inconsistent quality are healthcare, higher education, and legal services. A problem with all three, said Christensen, author of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
through Shopify and social channels with influencer gifting. Consider investing in a PR/marketing agency if you aren’t good at content curation and creation. Then, after you have a brand identity and foothold, you can also consider wholesale or consignment. The View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
College is launching Level Up, a program that will partner with Scranton and other local high schools to enable juniors and seniors to work toward an associate’s degree at the cost of $100 per credit.... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
compare those clicks with users' subsequent purchases. Ever-cheaper IT makes this tracking cost effective and routine. In addition, a web of interlocking ad networks trades inventory and offers to show the right ad to the right person at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne