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- 04 May 2016
- What Do You Think?
What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
When Should Control Over a Brand Be Ceded to the Public? The verdict is in. Our hardly scientific poll has endorsed the name of Boaty McBoatface for the new research vessel being commissioned by the UK’s National Environment Research... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
and CEO of Natalist, a direct-to-consumer fertility company. We talked with Tecco about how the pandemic has impacted the health care startup and venture capital ecosystem. What ideas and companies have seen... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
of Total Cost of Care management. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/accretive-health/an/812061-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 914-032 Emotion in Negotiations: An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
disproportionately affect the debt financing costs faced by low credit quality firms. As a result, time-series variation in the average quality of debt issuers may be useful for forecasting excess corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
does this theory imply about the employment contract? ... I believe that many people join organizations to be part of something, to make a contribution, and to be a valued member View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
advertising. It is well documented that brands that increase advertising during a recession, when competitors are cutting back, can improve market share and return on investment at lower cost than during good economic times. Uncertain... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
in Developing Countries Authors: Diego Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha, and Luis Serven Abstract We build a two-country asymmetric DSGE model with two features: (1) a product cycle structure determines the range of intermediate goods... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Angela R. Hicks Bowman
categories, from plumbers to roofers to exterminators, and created a membership model that they spread into an increasing number of geographies. As a startup venture, being able to get its customers exactly what they wanted was crucial... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
banks—a mortgage delivery system that was populated by brokers, mortgage banks, and investors. "This opened the door to new sources of capital from around the world. Holding that door wide open were... View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
revealed a consistent pattern: most people choose experienced happiness for longer time frames but not for shorter time frames. Since people typically live hour-to-hour, these findings imply that people may end up living a different... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
"Where was (the) support for manufacturing when it really counted, before much of it escaped offshore? Why should we believe this 'new thinking' now?" Citing " high labor costs and... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
2007, Google responded by organizing the OpenSocial Initiative. OpenSocial provided an application programming interface (API) that was adapted by many of Facebook's social networking rivals, including MySpace and LinkedIn. Relying on a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Ads Improve Consumer Decisions
Advertising can be good for you! Sounds fishy to the average consumer, but it's implied by conclusions from research by HBS associate professor Bharat Anand and his colleague, Ron Shachar, of Tel Aviv... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
other, offering thirty channels of programming in eight languages. STAR's evolution indicates, first of all, the abiding preference—demonstrated in all regions around the world—for local TV programming, even... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2017
- Blog Post
The 23rd Annual Harvard Business School Tech Conference
inspire and educate the HBS community, but who are leading organizations that will likely dominate the next decade in technology. Our group of 70 speakers (largest ever) included Corporate Executives (CXOs), founders, and senior... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
share, customer satisfaction, and return on capital employed, which allow them greater freedom. The span of control and the span of accountability are not independent. They... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
increase the discount rate so that it includes the cost of capital plus the probability of a downside Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
production quantities of the two products based on the characteristics of both markets. We find that increasing disposal cost increases the cost... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
escalating real estate costs of her hometown and company hub of Austin, Texas, and how developing the first FDA-approved at-home COVID-19 test was not a pivot but a natural... View Details
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace