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  • 02 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Four Companies that Conquered America

consumers but exclusively on an online basis. Taking advantage of its low no-bricks-and-mortar cost structure, ING was able to offer generous rates on certificates of deposit. Just four years on, ING is the third-largest holder of... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Shop Talk, Different Avenues

disruptive business model: an online site that requires customers to register, featuring flash sales of discounted luxury goods for men and women in categories including designer clothing, accessories, home goods, food and wine, and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; shopping; e-commerce; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Jan 2003
  • News

Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.

uninsured, needy CML patients, guaranteeing that no one would be denied this therapy for economic reasons. On a broader front, Novartis has joined with other pharmaceutical companies to institute a comprehensive discount plan in this... View Details
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

spent with insiders is correlated with profits; time spent with outsiders is not. A possible interpretation is that spending time with outsiders might be more beneficial to the CEO than to the firm. To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 13 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril

advice was rejected rated themselves as more inept and expressed more concern about their social worth than advisors whose recommendations were followed. Discounting the advice of an “expert” can have even... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

flows equal the forecasted cash flows plus an omitted downside. When the omitted downside is temporary, the adjustment is to deflate the forecasts and to set the discount rate equal to the cost of capital.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Brick by Brick

founder. Under his management, product demand was so high at times that executives actually found themselves discussing ways to slow sales. That all changed in the early 1990s as seismic shifts pounded the toy market. Big-box toy View Details
Keywords: toys; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

and Heidi Liu Abstract— Eleven experiments provide evidence that people have a tendency to “shoot the messenger,” deeming innocent bearers of bad news unlikeable. In a preregistered lab experiment, participants rated messengers who... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

that these spillover effects cannot be seamlessly offset, even though issuers are large, highly rated firms. Our results illustrate that instabilities associated with money market funds persist despite recent changes to the regulations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors

attracting top talent,” says Cheng. “I don’t want to discount the day-to-day concerns board members deal with, but they don’t seem to match up with the critical issues we see covered in the popular press.” The researchers wrote up their... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 17 Apr 2017
  • HBS Case

This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly

NPLs—including mortgages, credit cards, and car loans on which customers had defaulted. “At a certain point, it becomes clear to banks that they can’t collect without a lot of effort, so their choice is to write the loan off completely, or sell it at a deep View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods. Furthermore, our results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

permanent cash flow shocks and transitory discount rate shocks to asset prices and returns. An increase in the cross-country correlations of cash flow shocks raises the risk of a globally diversified... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

belief that her own ability in math is lower.” Women Discount Positive Feedback About Their Abilities In an experiment for Coffman’s working paper Stereotypes and Belief Updating, participants completed a timed test of cognitive ability... View Details
  • 20 Jul 2020
  • Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

who pays Medicare’s rates to providers. (For the purposes of this example, we assume Medicare pays providers 50 percent of the rates paid by private plans, at the midpoint of the 35 percent to 65 percent... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance
  • 16 Jul 2008
  • Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

In the United States, employers have often treated health benefits as a necessary evil. They have focused on the rising cost of providing health insurance benefits and taken aggressive steps to bring costs down, or at least to slow the View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Case Study: Growing the Family Business

centers profitable more quickly. — Bob Poulin (MBA 1985) The premium in the hourly rates is well deserved, but you are giving too much value away by not covering fixed/setup costs. I believe the source of funds to finance the expansion is... View Details
Keywords: childcare; Finance
  • 23 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up

messages, stating that if the case was not settled before a specific date, it would no longer be eligible for the fee reduction. This time, the needle jumped. Whether they described the lower costs as a discount or waiving the surcharge,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing
  • 23 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

work pace patterns provide evidence for a time discounting mechanism: workers discount idle time when it is relatively distant but act to avoid it increasingly as it becomes more proximate. Finally, Study 4... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

of the founder discount changes dramatically as the venture evolves. In the early stages of growth, the discount is much bigger, but it largely disappears in later-stage ventures. The result is even more... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology
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