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- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
“I don’t know if it is my favorite, but a case that comes to mind that I really enjoyed was “Europe, Russia and the Age of Gas Revolution.” I’d always thought about natural gas prices largely on economic terms. The shale revolution and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
serves as a rationale for global brands to charge premiums. Global brands "are expensive, but the price is reasonable when you think of the quality," pointed out a Thai participant. Consumers also believe that transnational... View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
Working PapersIf You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? The Effects of Education, Financial Literacy and Cognitive Ability on Financial Market Participation Authors:Shawn A. Cole and Gauri Kartini Shastry Abstract Household financial market participation affects... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
the incentives of brokers, and brokers price discriminate based on a consumer's level of sophistication. The model estimates indicate that costly search is a key friction in retail financial markets, but the effects of search costs are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
entire supply chain, from purchasing thread to delivering finished goods complete with price tags to individual stores. William Fung (MBA 1972) and his older brother, Victor (PhD 1971), who taught at HBS for four years, are the third... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
incomplete contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the pecuniary benefits of coordinating production... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
would receive comprehensive treatment from a team designed to deliver it. Insurers would require that hospitals set fixed and transparent prices covering various ailments and their treatment. This approach, Herzlinger says, would produce... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
deployed after the Boston Marathon bombing, as well as during world wars, previous pandemics, and other disasters. With that structure in place, the hospital was able to make the “crisp decisions that are required in warlike times,” says... View Details
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
interactions reduce inefficiencies from information asymmetry. Second, banks price loans to cross-sell other fee business. These effects are additive. A one standard deviation increase in both bank relationship strength and cross-selling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
resulting wine. This decision is further complicated by the fact that ripe Riesling grapes can be vinified in two ways, resulting in two different styles of wine. Their relative prices would depend on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
stock prices had been reached. Despite Fisher's poor prediction on that occasion, he played a neglected, but significant role in the growth of the forecasting industry and in the rise of a class of early business analysts. An... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
system, it also shaves about $1 million off the cost of HVAC installation. That savings, says Mulpuri, cancels out any price premium on Soladigm’s product over “ordinary” glass. But the numbers don’t tell the whole story, he continues.... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
multinational firms requires a similar fortitude. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-107.pdf Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank Authors:Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker Abstract We test for evidence of corporate misgovernance at the World Bank.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
numbers, many of those responsible for social engagement online reached out to key decision makers in the company to try to obtain an ever-larger budget for such efforts. Invariably, however, they are met with the same question: "How much... View Details
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
"changes in firm performance account for only 4 percent of the variance in CEO pay." That said, to what extent can you really argue that a CEO can affect the stock price of a company? There may be some connection, but the state... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
an aircraft carrier, meeting with the King, police escorts when I travel. But you get used to that — well, maybe not the aircraft carrier. Security is tight, but any freedom of movement I have to give up is a small price to pay for the... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
about the outcome of wrongdoing influence both ethical judgments and decisions to punish wrongdoers. Our studies show that people judge behavior as more unethical when (1) identifiable versus statistical victims are involved and (2) the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
general managers for global businesses," he says. "They are going to make decisions based on reports from countries where they've never set foot. FIELD helps them understand the limitations to this decision-making process."... View Details
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
uncommon service: You can't be good at everything. You must be bad in the service of good. Excellence requires underperforming on the dimensions your customers value least so that you can overperform on the dimensions your customers value most. Once you choose this... View Details
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace