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- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Menges, and Francesca Gino Abstract—To get to work, employees need to commute. Across the globe, the average commute is 38 minutes each way per day. It is well known that longer commutes have negative effects on employees’ well-being and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
the “breakeven inducement percentage,” noting that “inducement” refers to use that would not occur in the absence of assistance, even if it is medically appropriate. Among the 10 conditions with the highest drug spending per patient, the... View Details
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Hiroshi Mikitani
hyper-efficient supermarket with standardized offerings,” Rakuten is more like a bazaar “where the owners of many small shops curate the merchandise and interact personally with customers.” Starting out, Rakuten charged its merchants $650 View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
recently a mere price "spike" in oil, we may be entering an era in which we have to adjust our thinking to prices that fluctuate around, say, $40 per barrel, a level long thought to be unsustainable even by OPEC, the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
will see vast increases in reliability and the number of devices connected to one antenna as well as reductions in the cost of data per gigabyte, Menard says. Beyond that, fixed wireless access could enable fiber-like speeds to homes or... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
spite of the fact that the Constitution of 1891 included a literacy requirement to vote and gave states the responsibility to spend on education. That is to say, Brazilian states had a significant improvement in education levels and a significant increase in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
proposal involved changing a basic design feature of LinkedIn by allowing members to contact each other without intermediaries for a fee. Fewer members would avail themselves of this feature, but those who did would be willing to pay as much as $5-$15 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future
Photo courtesy of Daniel O’Keefe Photo courtesy of Daniel O’Keefe The HBS Alumni Board welcomes 22 new members for 2020–21 this fall. The complete roster is here. The Board is a representative group of 81 alumni from across graduation years, geographies, and programs.... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
mornings building a list of vendors and afternoons knocking on doors, selling $19 subscriptions for the referral service. Averaging only 1–2 per day, the rejection was painful and Oesterle provided pep talks and Kleenex. At some point he... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 27 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Opportunity Abounds
U.S. has more small businesses per capita, but that metric is skewed because working age India’s population is not much larger than America’s.) And more than 50% of 1.2 billion are below the age of 25. The potential for India is exciting... View Details
Keywords: Technology
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Employer Reimbursement Options | HBS Online
of employment or hours worked per week to qualify? Step 2: Gather the Appropriate Documents If you want to request reimbursement from your employer for an HBS Online course, there are a few documents that will help make this process... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
To understand the remarkable success of the tiny island city-state of Singapore (250 square miles, 4.1 million people, annual per capita income $24,150), one really need look no farther than Philip Yeo, one of the republic's true... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
off 2,300 employees and costing the jobs of another 2,000 temporary, contract suppliers’ workers. That action cost the company 700 million euros in sales and 100 million euros in profit in the German market—and at 80,000 euros per... View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
facilitate the efforts of professionals there by decreasing the time required per case. It provides a good solution where expertise is limited if no one has significant thoracic experience, for example. It creates the potential for... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
explicit limit on carbon emissions from oil sands and a price on carbon. Suncor, which produces more than 400,000 barrels per day of bitumen and synthetic oil must reduce its emissions at the same time that crude oil prices have been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
tranches. Overall, a one standard deviation reduction in average time on the market decreases the interest rate for institutional loans by over 30 basis points per annum. While this effect is significantly larger for loan tranches bought... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
‘cosponsor this’ or ‘please fight against this.’ ” Jameson now sells such services at about $18 per call to a lawmaker’s office. They keep the firm occupied in odd-numbered years, defying the traditional boom-and-bust cycle faced by... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
Operations Management. The thoughts laid out here are based on conversations we had with Paul relating to the drivers underlying sustainability as a management issue: population and per capita consumption growth, the limited nature of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
electrical current, they pressed the lever over and over again, hundreds of times per hour, foregoing food or sleep, until many of them dropped dead from exhaustion. Further research found pleasure centers exist in human brains, too.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
global business environment. Among this year's FIELD 2 countries, Ghana has both the lowest GDP per capita and the highest rate of GDP growth. "The country has a large and growing wealth divide," notes Leach, who said the team was struck... View Details