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it for just three hours in sunlight, families can get seven and a half hours of light for the evening blackouts. “The average family spends approximately $60 a year on kerosene,” Raghu explains. “I priced my lanterns at $25, so that they... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
selling the client firm's stock. This overweighting is not explained by superior information. We quantify a potentially large benefit to the 401(k) sponsor firm of having its price propped up by its trustee fund's more severe... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3
competitive uncertainty. In this paper we explore how a firm's conceptualization of products in this context, reflected in its introduction of product features, is influenced by prior industry affiliation. We hypothesize first, that prior... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
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Reforming Company Boards
taken to achieve them, and there was a need for new and practical solutions to improve governance and increase accountability. How can you tell when a company is playing the “share price game”? The biggest warning sign is when companies... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
middlemen and defaulted on their loans. The risk of such events may explain, at least partly, why many seemingly more profitable export crops are not adopted. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-065.pdf Catering through Nominal Share View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
MBA Voices Blog: A Year in Review
need-based financial aid that considerably reduces the price of our program. Read More How to Fit in at HBS “I realized that for the past decade, my focus on success had led me to believe I needed to ‘fit in’ in order to get the... View Details
- 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17
Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency (revised) Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda Abstract Katz and Shapiro (1985) study systems compatibility in settings with one-sided View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
for the creation of jobs and wealth among urban families. Moderator Randall Pinkett of M.I.T. Laboratory Anne Habiby, executive vice president of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a national nonprofit founded by HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27
many managers overestimate the attractiveness of using IP to exert market power. Rather, the value of the various means to protect and benefit from IP depends on firm strategy, the competitive landscape, and the rapidly changing contours... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
How Alumni Can Recruit When They Aren’t Recruiters
to campus, hosting virtual events, and more, you can find their contact information here. Make use of 12twenty and the Resume Databases 12twenty is the recruiting platform HBS uses to connect employers with students, and it’s where you... View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2
stick with practicing medicine. This essay argues that physicians currently in practice could be equipped over time with the management skill necessary to develop and implement new models of primary care. A Choice Prediction Competition... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
Psychology. Vol. 40, edited by Mark P. Zanna, 61-149, 2008 Abstract The stereotype content model (SCM) defines two fundamental dimensions of social perception, warmth and competence, predicted respectively by perceived competition and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
in the oil patch during that boom—that’s how I put myself through college. But once the price of oil dropped in 1982 and 1983, then that boom went bust because it was no longer cost effective to extract the oil. It was a very painful... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
to last-mile business from FedEx, UPS, and Amazon. Unfortunately, the online retailer is piloting its own delivery service that would put it in direct competition with the Postal Service. And Amazon isn’t alone in the search for last-mile... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
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Innovation and Renovation: Optimizing Product Line Architecture - Course Catalog
product or service over time, and in satisfying customer needs more precisely and blocking competitive advances. Cases include Evernote, an online notetaking app. We will discuss the company’s reconfiguration of its product line and View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55194 Large Banks and Small Firm Lending By: Bord, Vitaly, Victoria Ivashina, and Ryan D. Taliaferro Abstract—We show that since 2007, there was a large and persistent shift in the composition of lenders to small firms.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
that the markets expect strong deregulation, and that impacts every other sector that is highly regulated in the economy. So you saw the rising stock prices of financials, for example, as well as energy stocks. The second effect comes... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
history of these entities.... When it is monetized" (whether by competition or government) "the for-profit enterprise will select the lowest price alternative." But Allen Howlett expressed... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2013
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The New Rules of E-Commerce
Mikitani (MBA 1993) is not shy about pursuing the big idea, in this case a belief that English is the lingua franca of business and learning it would give his organization a competitive edge. Rakuten, founded in 1997, operates an online... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries. The financial sector could promote the health and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne