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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
role. “I probably wasn’t ready to quit cold turkey,” she says. “But to be honest, I’m not a good part-time person. I only operate at one speed. If I take on a task, I throw myself into it with a vengeance.” Before long, she recalls, her... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
was probably a pretty likable guy and much like his characters — funny, tenacious, and creative. And that’s the way he really is.” Hood is now completing her third year as CEO of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, the... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
individual students. Oscar Tendilla was a young man, a Mexican immigrant, who gets admitted into P-TECH. His family is under severe financial circumstances, and he's significantly behind in grade eight. He believes he probably won't be... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
place diminishes wait satisfaction while increasing the probabilities of switching and abandoning queues, with detrimental implications for service capacity. The research suggests that last place aversion can lead to maladaptive customer... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
recent firm performance? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/say-on-pay-qualcomm-inc-shareholders-vote-maybe-in-2012/an/114005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 213-047 Aqua Bounty Valuation of a pre-revenue biotech company at IPO using View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
as well as something with enormous social value because a lot of food goes to waste. Q: Can you give us other examples of how this works in practice? A: In Brazil, Banco Real has grown in 10 years from a small behind-the-pack bank to the second largest and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
everyone is affected identically by noncompetes. Our research shows that those with specialized skills (such as speech recognition engineering) are impacted more than those with more generally applicable skills. For instance, C++ programmers can View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
until recently. "Over the past 24 months, cap rates have dropped probably 200 to 300 basis points," says Furber. "That's a monster change and somewhat unprecedented." Up for debate is whether the structural changes of... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
reasons why the leadership literature has been recast so that it is solely focused on economic performance, but we believe probably the most important thing is that the obsession with shareholder value beginning in the 1980s led... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
long-term economic growth and inflation. The Fed can affect long-term rates only to the extent that it can influence those expectations. Long-term conservative investors should not probably be in the business of speculating on the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
whether it's going to be awesome and you're going to miss it if you don't take this risk. And I think about that advice all the time. All of this will find its place in your story. And ultimately, you will probably have a more interesting... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
level, they do so at the club level. You've probably heard of Arsenal, the big football team, the soccer team. Well, they come from the social clubs. And just as it is with soccer, in almost every small town to large city, there's one or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
many organizers use high-pressure tactics to get cards signed. Probably the most damaging however is the impact unions have on innovation. Unions fight change — any change — on the factory floor. Over the years, management gives up trying... View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In emerging Asia, real depreciations are associated with faster growth of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), sales and cash-flow, higher probabilities... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
increase the discount rate so that it includes the cost of capital plus the probability of a downside Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-036.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsPricing, Profits and Customer Value Frank... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
important determinant of delegation and the provision of incentives. Using a sample of convenience store chains, we show that market-type dispersion is related to the degree of franchising at the chain level as well as the probability of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007
quality of the search service offered to consumers is more likely to be degraded (i.e. the probability that consumers find their favorite store in the first round of search is less than 1) when the intermediary derives higher revenues... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
suppliers in particular. Intel became a near monopoly in microprocessors, and Microsoft, which provided the operating system, is probably the most powerful regulated monopoly in the history of U.S. industry. Tedlow: When I joined the HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
company encourages its instructors to stick to English and keep the spirituality to a minimum. “If you talk about a life philosophy, maybe that’s OK,” says DeCoons. “But I think that [yoga’s spiritual side] probably draws a little too... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
say there. So it needs to flow from the moment. And if it doesn't, it probably won't work. Because that means that you went in there determined not to learn. Morrell: You obviously have spoken to your fellow negotiators. And your fellow... View Details