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  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

doesn't distinguish between different levels of income. Wealthy, middle class, or poor, you pay the same rate. Also, a flat tax system is often completely free of deductions, exemptions, and exceptions. These efforts aim to make the tax... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 Feb 2018
  • Blog Post

Out of PE, Into Africa

of my youth ("we should open a bar in the Bahamas!"), this nagging desire to do something off the grid as a family wouldn’t go away. I could see the last vestiges of childhood slipping away in my daughter, who didn’t yet have a cell phone and was about to... View Details
  • 04 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids

contact. While some businesses have boomed amid demand for videoconferencing and collaborative technology, the CEOs of other firms will likely face difficult decisions, if they haven’t already. On a personal level, CEOs faced many of the... View Details
Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg
  • 16 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

the middle two quartiles also had winning percentages significantly worse in the second halves of their tenures–about 17 percent worse, on average. Finally, coaches in the upper quartile had winning percentages roughly 8 percent greater... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 03 Jan 2018
  • What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

SUMMING UP Would More Women in Leadership Help Mitigate #MeToo Concerns? If a good case study is one that splits a class down the middle on an important issue while surfacing creative responses, this month's column on how best to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?

negotiations between producers and buyers, with a trader in the middle who typically knows the market better than either side. “You have to understand them and their problems and the market better than they do. You have to be an absolute... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Letters to the Editor

the middle of the picture. Nicholas S. Hill (MBA ’49) Old Saybrook, CT Married Student Housing Your “Last Look” photo shows post–World War II veterans’ housing at Harvard. I entered Harvard College in the fall of 1948 (Class of ’52), so I... View Details
  • 09 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

Buried in the middle layers of many organizations resides a strata of highly skilled experts, from HR managers to risk evaluators, whose collective wisdom and experience could prove invaluable in informing strategic decisions at the... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking
  • 01 Jan 2002
  • News

Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

Starbucks' strategy, Smith notes, centers on first-mover advantage. That approach has worked well in North America and abroad, as Starbucks, through foreign partnerships, continues to build its presence in Asia, the Middle East, Europe,... View Details
  • 17 Apr 2017
  • Research Event

The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy

question bubbled up the list: Do the panelists worry about the threat of disintermediation? In other words, once consumers and providers find each other, are they likely to cut out the middle man–that is, the platform they used to find... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Service
  • 17 Feb 2015
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

School. "There is this real squeeze on certain parts of the community—housing prices are out of sight, the middle class is leaving, and homelessness is a serious problem. This is in the face of great prosperity for many technology... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • Profile

Lisa Cousins

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I grew up in a very small town – you could call it “the middle of nowhere” – and have always been a bit of a dreamer, with aspirations to be a leader in the travel industry from a very... View Details
Keywords: Services; Entertainment / Media
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

glaring trade imbalances, and soaring political risk, particularly in the economically crucial, oil-exporting regions of the world. The key to this seeming paradox lay in China. Chongqing, on the undulating banks of the mighty earth-brown River Yangtze, is deep in the... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

R&D organization had established a culture of collaboration across scientific disciplines that some worried would diminish with larger functional departments. Others were concerned that an interdisciplinary team-based design would be inefficient and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

“Who are the world’s best negotiators? What makes them effective?” Inevitably Henry Kissinger’s name comes up as an elite, if controversial, negotiator from whom we can learn a great deal. At a time of rancorous divisions in American society, he helped to forge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 30, 2016

agility, ensuring the continued alignment of a firm’s capabilities with a changing business environment. Despite advances in our understanding of the role of IT, however, we lack robust empirical data on the precise mechanisms by which IT architecture impacts agility.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

events seems inconceivable. For decades, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler were American icons, Detroit's fabled Big 3. Responsible for a significant percentage of all American jobs, they lifted countless blue-collar families into the View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 30 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

in the subsequent periods. Pricing in installments is one way they can do this. In the case of the country club, I might advise that dues be billed in the middle of the winter when the ability and desire to play golf is low.— John... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

Inside Intel

embracing the microprocessor, the product that would drive Intel’s growth for years to come. Two beliefs that Grove said were “as strong as religious dogmas” made it more difficult than it otherwise would have been to get out of a product... View Details
Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 15 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

course, cut costs and conserve capital. Dozens of VC blogs over the past few months have already offered this advice. VCs face a more difficult decision if they expect an industrywide threat-rigidity response: When most peers are cautious... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology
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