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- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
nation’s high school dropout rate. City Year also worked with partners to help schools transform themselves to better meet the needs of low-income students as well as with policy makers and elected officials to promote the value of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Xu Abstract—We investigate how dynamic pricing can lead to more product returns in the online retail industry. Using detailed sales data of more than two million transactions from the Indian online retail market, where price promotions... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20
and follow through on a goal and not related to impulsivity, suggesting that some children are poorer at holding the norm in mind and following through on enacting it. We discuss the implications of these results for education and programs that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8
promoting the sustainability system as a stand-alone product? What were the next steps in sustainability reporting, and should COSCO try to attain even higher reporting standards in the future? Moreover, related issues facing the company... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009
Rachael Ray's career, beginning with her first appearance on NBC's Today show in March 2001. The case chronicles her success, exploring her various brands, promotional work, and expansion into new media markets. The case also allows... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
governance mode (make, ally, or buy) and also promotes substitution effects on governance mode choice while impacting exchange performance. We evaluate hypotheses using a novel three-stage switching regression model and a sample of 222... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
family-oriented. Strategy: Advertise in Spanish-language media to inform people how to sign up. Stoic Skeptics (20%): Older, often single people who doubted the success of healthcare reform. Strategy: Promote "Healthy Chats"... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
and incentives—whether organizations promoted and rewarded employees based on performance and tried to keep the best performers from quitting. To collect the data, the researchers hired teams of MBA students who could interview managers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 23
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-048.pdf Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America Author: Gunnar Trumbull Abstract Theories of legitimate regulation have emphasized the role of governments either in fixing market failures to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
managers must take a significant role in pushing for a multilateral agreement on foreign direct investment, or at least become active in promoting lesser changes that will lead to more balance and security in the current system. Otherwise... View Details
- 16 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Is MySpace.com Your Space?
revival band that is promoted from a MySpace site, is a case in point. The site is credited for their explosive global growth, yet the commercial exploitation of the social network is welcomed by fans. In true punk style the band claims... View Details
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
deliver this extra-added value service." Electronic Health Records Promoted In 2014, health care spending in the United States exceeded $3 trillion and was expected to reach $4.5 trillion by 2020. To reduce health care costs and... View Details
- 27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27
result of the efforts of two fledgling local entrepreneurs with a business model they believe can achieve a substantial and profitable share of a potential $150 million market. With the backdrop of the 2002 banking crisis, the governing leftist coalition is View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
task force effort was consistent with IBM's history of promoting equal opportunity, the use of the task force structure to address issues of diversity represented a significant culture shift. IBM was an organization that had discouraged... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
depends on how the leaders of various societies try to construct the national identities, and interact to form national identities in relation to the global economy. It may sometimes be in a way that inhibits economic cooperation among countries, and it may sometimes... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
develop new ways of working together. To bolster out-of-the-box thinking at their companies, boards should promote diversity among members. They should foster "creative abrasion" to keep ideas flowing and rethink traditional methods of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016
of CP Group This case describes the megafarm model launched by the CP Group as part of their efforts to ensure the safety and quality of their supply chain of agricultural products (particularly eggs) in China while also promoting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
promoting the government's goal of increased homeownership. Although lawmakers had already partially privatized Fannie Mae in 1954 and again in 1968, the agency in 1987 still retained close links to the federal government, including an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007
and economist Warren Persons, gained international renown for its three-curve A-B-C chart, which rendered business fluctuations as the ebb and flow of speculation (A), business (B), and banking (C). The service was directed by C. J. Bullock, who View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
stereotypes and does not address why, then these differences—in temperament, values, attitudes, and behaviors—take on a determinative quality. In a culture that readily promotes gender essentialism—the belief that sex differences are... View Details