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- 24 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
differences between schools and classes. Do some schools tend to have more tests in the morning than others?” The research also holds lessons for adults in the corporate world. Bottom line: Managers need to encourage employees to take... View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
cost advantage over integrated mills. But the quality of the steel they produced was inferior. The rebar market at the bottom rung of the industry (rebar is small steel bars made from scrap and used to create reinforced concrete) was the... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Ray Dalio: Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed
share of society’s resources.” What’s to be done? Dalio suggests a series of reforms, including improved leadership from the top, more public-private partnerships to invest in “double bottom line projects,”... View Details
Keywords: capitalism
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
double digit comparable store and delivery sales growth. In 1998, Todd left Staples to co-found dry cleaner Zoots with Staples founder, Tom Stemberg (who remained Staples C.E.O.). Todd was C.E.O. of Zoots for five years, building the... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
leave vacant positions unfilled for immediate, measurable savings. That's the retail way. Moreover, the costs of understaffing aren't easily quantifiable; who can say how many customers are lost to long lines or stock-outs? “You can... View Details
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
for it to be effective, it has to be done all the way down through the organization. And the only important thing is when you get to larger consequence decisions or irreversible decisions, then you need to push that up. So if you push it down to the front View Details
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
steam engine, electricity, and openhearth furnace allows businesses to expand nationwide Influence: Medium 10 1910 s 19 First widespread use of auto assembly line Self-starter increases popularity of automobile Influence: Medium-High 20... View Details
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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
markets. The top left figure displays treasury yields at different maturities, and shows that yields, particularly short-term yields, have begun to rise over the recent time period. This is in line with expectations that the Federal... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay
Besides, prior studies have shown that other factors motivate self-employed people more than salary. Their bottom lines are not entirely measured in dollars, Kerr says. “It’s about being your own boss,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
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Negotiating - Alumni
offer is made Know your bottom line in terms of salary, benefits, etc... Negotiate base pay first, then other points the employer would likely agree to Save other issues of conflict for last Seek to... View Details
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
community around a worthy cause and to develop leaders capable of co-design, he has sought volunteers (people in the company willing to work on their own time) to come together and start up profitable business lines in the so-called View Details
- 22 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance
12,000 jobs to workers who applied for employment via Wonolo’s on-demand job marketplace, the study reports. “The bottom line is that there’s a much bigger pool of talent out there waiting to be tapped,”... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
number of students elected to take advantage of the School’s deferral and leave policies because of COVID, reducing enrollment by 14 percent from fiscal 2020. By contrast, enrollment in fiscal 2022 was 1,870 students, in line with the... View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Four Strategies for Making Concessions
that a concession was, in fact, made. For example, the manufacturer could have explained the effect of a 3 percent wage increase on his firm's bottom line or discussed how difficult it would be for him to... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
the line, are not directly replicable in software as there is no line to stop. "What we hope to do," Upton says, "is to distill the relevant aspects of lean manufacturing so that managers can see how these tools were... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
possibly to an extent where even meritorious lawsuits are not being brought, though that is hard to establish empirically. “The bottom line from our study is that the balance has moved away from investors... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
running throughout—you have to page back to an earlier chapter of Dixon’s life, in 2017. That’s when the bottom dropped out. That fall, she was raising money for a tech/beauty startup called EverythingDid, designed to help women and girls... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
suspect some companies that appear to be really out of sight today will look like they were fairly priced. Obviously others will turn out to be flashes in the pan. As in any other industry, there will be winners and losers, but the bottom... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Amir Kermani & Kaveh Majlesi JULY 2020 What is the causal impact of changes in stock market wealth on households’ consumption? Using Swedish data on households’ stock holdings, the authors find that unrealized capital gains lead to a marginal propensity to consume of... View Details