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- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
important, we found no evidence that new ecommerce shoppers were less loyal than existing customers. In fact, we observed quite the opposite: Customers who started buying online during the most severe lockdown conditions exhibited higher... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
"Taxation, meet Representation." Following up on his pledge to provide greater support for manufacturing, President Obama has announced a proposal to cut the effective tax rate for manufacturers to 25 percent. A number of economists... View Details
- Profile
Alika Phipps
great way to learn about industry,” Alika says, “at a time when I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do. The internship opened doors and gave me a glimpse of multiple opportunities.” Specific reasons for general management Alika returned... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
years the growth rate of the vaccine industry will be between 15 and 20 percent, making it a very attractive industry. The margins are, again, not as high as in patented, branded products, but they still are View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
would expect that the temptation would be to continue to play your strong suit and try and express your own taste and your ideas because it’s worked for you for 50 years. The second issue you’d expect of anybody in this situation would be that they’re probably View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
affordable housing instead of allowing developers to build new higher-priced housing? If there was more high-priced housing in the market, wouldn’t other tiers become cheaper? —Gene Pao (MBA 1997) OAKES: We have to make it easier to build both market View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
kidney and liver transplants, and less pain medication when they are operated on. Furthermore, women with heart disease receive less angioplasty than men; Hispanics have a lower rate of recommended health-care services such as... View Details
- 02 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
Four Companies that Conquered America
company does not have a strong presence in the USA. So how do you penetrate the U.S. market? The annals of business are littered with foreign companies that have never quite succeeded in the USA. But here are four companies that have.... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 28 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business
restaurants awarded five stars on the popular Yelp review service managed to carry on business as usual, despite a $1 increase in the minimum wage. But restaurants with a mediocre 3.5-star rating didn’t fare as well; the same $1 wage... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
company. Most people think that will change the firm, but it won’t. It gives Goldman access to the Fed window which is very useful for liquidity management and, on the other hand, it reduces the amount of leverage they can use in trading operations, which reduces the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
Approximately 5 percent of the sample chose to respond online. The overall response rate was 53 percent. Q: What was the overall reaction to DTCA from physicians in your sample? Weissman: Quite mixed!... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
interest rates (the slope of the yield curve) is currently quite large by historical standards. Some observes attribute this to the fact that the Fed policy of lowering short-term interest View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
It’s one thing to look at the entertainment business from an executive’s point of view. It’s quite another to see it through the eyes of a professional basketball player, supermodel, or actress. That mix of perspectives is exactly what... View Details
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
Most compelling is the high return rate for apparel products purchased online, which mirrors the rate for catalog apparel purchases: By one estimate, returns for apparel bought from catalogs ranged from 12... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories
to rate each item on a 7-point scale ranging from practical (1) to pleasurable (7). Keinan also asked the shoppers to circle one of two answers for each item: "Because I need it" or "Because I want to have it (although I... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
case capturing some of the dilemmas faced by African economies. South Africa is the largest economy in Africa by quite a distance, and is an illustration of the macro determinates of foreign direct investment, he said. Werker, whose... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
the start of the influenza season in the United States. “It’s quite strong evidence that just the natural course of your day bringing you by the flu shot clinic increases your likelihood of getting a flu shot” Getting employees to go to... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Bounce Back
Illustration by Michael Sloan/The i Spot Illustration by Michael Sloan/The i Spot The rate at which people have been signing on to social media in the last decade had many marketers wondering if it might replace email altogether as a way... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
recommendations being made to restore trust? A: I think a lot of the recommendations will turn out to be helpful—whether it's trying to either ensure rotation of engagement partners (which we've had for quite some time now) or,... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update