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- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
assumptions about parents and kids valid to suggest the product would be in high demand once launched? Could she keep a premium price point in a consumer market that was trending downward in willingness to pay? Should she cut back on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
calendar became a bottleneck, and organizational decision making virtually ground to a halt. For a while, the CEO was oblivious to the high cost of his intrusive approach. As an outsider new to the company,... View Details
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
suited to synthesize cost effective clean ammonia with renewable energy for fertilizers, maritime fuel or as an energy carrier. Ian's roles prior to HBS were Business Development at Walmart and Management Consulting at Bain & Company.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
European Computer Driving License, a basic requirement for any IT job in Europe, which otherwise can cost as much as $500 per course.) English language, computer skills, and business management curricula are especially popular. Explains... View Details
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
quandary. “You can’t stick your head up too high here. But if you keep too low of a profile, no one will find you. So I stay in the middle, and I keep on moving.” “You can’t stick your head up too high here.... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
"My response was that there's a big difference between a really great product and a company," she said. Given the constraints of costs and the problems of marketing, to cite only two factors, "Starting new businesses is a... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- Web
Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
Hours Download full syllabus 6 hrs Module 1 Platform Fundamentals Explore what platforms are, how they create and capture value for users, and the primary mechanisms that allow them to scale. Highlights How Picabuu Started Keeping High... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
to pay for high levels of service at the front of the house may decrease. And there’ll be additional costs to maintain that level of service due to the decreased capacity demanded by social distancing. There... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
funds and budgets ready, should deploy these early to their portfolios of mission-driven organizations, especially those that may be providing critical care to those in need. High quality, well-run social impact organizations are critical... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
starting to learn to talk, walk, read. Then you're going to high school. And you're probably starting college, and then, you're starting to work. So the starting quarter. And that's somewhere I would say if you want to use age ranges... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
Care? By: Handel, Benjamin, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—Consumers suffer significant losses from not acting on available information. These losses stem from frictions such as search costs, switching costs, and rational inattention,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased transparency. Using a large cross-section of firms, we find that firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
The crucial point, though, is that the bulk of Chinese investment has been financed from China’s own savings (and from the overseas Chinese diaspora). Cautious after years of instability and unused to the panoply of credit facilities we have in the West, Chinese... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
with too few people chasing too few ideas. Now he is working to reshape the eld to nd breakthrough treatments. Thinking Ahead Eight new ideas for 2024 Complete Table of Contents September 2023 Solving for Z Gen Z workers are in high... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
and clinician-reported outcomes. These need to be used for internal improvement in health care delivery organizations, as well as for public reporting, so that patients can make informed choices about their health care. We need to do a better job measuring, reporting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
these models, the demand curve alone can be used to make welfare statements, a fact relied on by much empirical work. There is ample evidence, though, that people misuse care for a different reason: mistakes or "behavioral hazard." Much high-value care is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
investors (such as hedge funds, mutual funds, and pension funds) from 1999 to 2014. The information came from Abel Noser Solutions (formerly Ancerno Ltd.), a firm that performs transaction cost analysis for institutional investors—and... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
for gasoline in the United States to consist of five distinct regions. Other large markets where transport costs are relatively high in relation to product value, such as cement in Brazil or beer in China,... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
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Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting
empowered by the ability to analyze large amounts of data (that would be difficult with Excel) and develop recommendations as we would in an HBS classroom. HOW DID FLATIRON HELP YOU BUILD SKILLS? Paige Tsai : At a high level, I learned... View Details