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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
in 1979, had a budget of only $2 million, and many of Barry's peers questioned her decision to leave one of the world's most prestigious institutions to join a much smaller player in the global economy. "On day one I had to order my own pencils," she recalls with a... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
is down, therefore basket size is down—so everybody in the mall is affected by traffic being down. If you have two or three major traffic-driving tenants in trouble, this affects the entire mall. This then creates a domino effect in the... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
We find that the deregulations reduced financing constraints, particularly among small startups, and improved ex ante allocative efficiency across the entire firm-size distribution. However, the US deregulations also led to a dramatic increase in 'churning' at the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
and size of the cross-sector problems related to climate adaptation and resilience, but the necessity of its solutions to be at such a local level. (3) the opportunities to help realign stakeholders and price in climate risk in sectors... View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- What Do You Think?
How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?
largest organizations an average of 30 percent of all options granted. This occurred despite evidence suggesting that beyond a certain size of grant (well below the "mega" level) there is a much greater payout from granting... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Taking Care to Prepare Leaders: Lessons in Leadership Development from DaVita Kidney Care
practice, how should one be designed? Fitzpatrick encourages flexibility. “No one size fits all,” she says. She identifies four common models: 1. Informal Leadership Track: The least formal approach in which, Fitzpatrick says, “There’s no... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
will join this fall, the School can enroll a smaller class size if necessary, thanks to resources like the HBS Fund. The School is also preparing to meet MBA students’ changing needs for financial aid next year. HBS IT staff logged many... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
calculate breakeven, and charts and graphs that help visualize the results. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510080-PDF-ENG Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Market Size and Market Share Analysis Thomas Steenburgh and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
amount of waste generated to improve the efficiency of the by-product process. In addition to the managerial implications, this analysis can inform policy as we show that increasing disposal cost decreases the size of the primary market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Carving a Niche
strategy for building Faction embraces that aura of distinction (“for the few” is one tagline) while leveraging several key retailing trends. “The average size of an interesting, exciting brand is smaller and more premium than it used to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
high leverage and its effects on managerial incentives and firm performance,” says Esty. “The projects I currently study are financed with 65 to 90 percent debt, compared with 25 to 35 percent for the typical industrial firm.” Both the View Details
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
affected by how similar (in both size and valence) those causes were to event consequences. Additional experiments further suggested that this "consequence-cause matching" arises because people are motivated to see the world as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?
generally agreed upon is that perhaps as many as two-thirds of all acquirers fail to achieve the benefits planned at the outset of an acquisition. In part, this is thought to be due to the fact that too many acquirers are more concerned about View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age
principle—and perhaps the most important—involves leveraging the size and strategy of opponents against them. "You need to find areas where your competitor will have incentives to avoid responding to whatever move you make," says Yoffie.... View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
—Stever Robbins (MBA 1991) I'd continue to work the size markets you already have a handle on, but I agree, you could/should start approaching the larger cities. Treat their various neighborhoods with the same savvy you've developed in... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
electrified, both because of the greenhouse-gas issue and economics. “Here’s an interesting piece of data: The size of the storage market for transportation is potentially 10 times the size of the storage... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
— JH Jenny Abramson Abramson When Jenny Abramson arrived at Stanford from a “progressive” high school in Washington, D.C., she was concerned about the large size of her classes. Seeing an opportunity to bring this up with then–Stanford... View Details
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
size up the exposure risk of different activities, Luca says. Easy-to-understand risk information—to the extent that it’s feasible—could complement the ongoing and evolving restrictions, and empower people to own their actions, including... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
She hopes the results make business leaders think twice about how they size up their customers and rely on previous purchases to predict the products they want. “For instance, imagine you see a person buy a plain black backpack,” she... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
existing customer is the ultimate objective of any CM strategy. Because new-customer acquisition is difficult and expensive, it only makes sense if the size of the ensuing relationship can dramatically exceed the cost of acquisition. Many... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton