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- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
1980s. On a macroeconomic level these four economies did not differ that much; they all had high savings rates, healthy growth prospects, political stability, and cheap labor. Local Entrepreneurship, Yes Or No A far more important driver... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
much. In this interpretation, it shouldn’t really matter whether the default is for employees to be automatically enrolled or not; in both cases, employees would think about their options and make a wise decision. After all, retirement View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
savings market, but they were reluctant to invest in risky new ventures. Custom and prudence dictated that the trustees of these firms confined their investments to high-grade bonds or blue-chip securities. [ARD's acting president Ralph]... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
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Dental Quality and affordability are the hallmarks of Harvard's medical and dental plans. Work/Life Balance Harvard offers an array of resources for working parents. Retirement Planning Learn about saving for retirement through our... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
12, bought his first sailboat with money saved from collecting and recycling his neighbors’ newspapers. Although he dreamed of being a marine biologist, Frey’s academic passion was engineering, which sprang from working in a machine shop... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
grip on corporate America. Starting salaries averaged $22,500 in 1977. Neckties were wider, and the corporate uniform was dark business suits for men and conservative skirts and jackets for women. Saving time for family commitments was a... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
shared savings and capitated arrangements and away from fee-for-service, they will be better positioned not only to withstand any COVID aftershocks but also to gain patients during the recession. Leemore S. Dafny (@LeemoreDafny) is the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
matter if they come from pure-play online retailers or omnichannel retailers, suck volume out of a store and often lead to more intense price competition. For reasons we'll cover later in this book, neither buy-online-pick-up-in-store nor ship-from-store are enough to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
and its most likely future rival. For China, the key attraction of the relationship was its potential to propel the Chinese economy forward by means of export-led growth. For the United States, Chimerica meant being able to consume more, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
outlet innovation only after sales, distribution, and the other departments had an open, fact-based discussion of their issues. At that point, they realized that the outlet store would benefit all of them. Sales could maintain better margins by avoiding discounting,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
lost a third of their retirement funds. Saving is on everyone’s minds these days. It’s one of the factors that spurred people to come into our stores in Texas, where we initially had some difficulties when we entered the market in 2003.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
retirement security. Retirement contributions by employers went from 8–9 percent of payroll in the 1970s to 1–2 percent of payroll over the last ten years. If we’re not going to put real money into retirement security, then there is no structure and no investment... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
are areas where income lost to unjust enrichment would have been saved or invested by black people. It’s not a big proportion of GDP, but it will require a huge emotional and psychological shift in the public’s thinking. I believe it can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
free to initiate their own changes. An employee at one of our Seattle hotels said, “I just noticed that they’re delivering all these phone books on a huge palette. Do we need those?” No, we don’t. You save a lot of trees if you eliminate... View Details
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
Margolis described a couple quick and simple tools that allow us to get a better handle on the adversity we face: Write it down: Taking a few minutes to write down a problem can save all that time you might have spent commiserating with... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
of Transportation; and US Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Further reading from Rosabeth Moss Kanter Big Data in the Driver's Seat What Good Are Airports If You Can't Get There? Private Investors Can Save Public Infrastructure View Details
- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
decisions that we expect we will make based on our finely developed plans are often different from how we actually behave. We get sidetracked. We set a new career path, we choose a diet to follow, we make plans to save for retirement, we... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
release date. Doing so, however, would negate cost savings achieved by reusing film copies across staggered release dates. Studios could also limit a film's distribution to digital, not analog, screens, the copies tagged with electronic... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
performance that are derived through an aggregation of measures of individual business units and functions. It is important to evaluate the performance of both overall e-commerce performance and the specific aspects of e-commerce that lead to revenue enhancement or... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
mothers could use. Engineers who do whiz-bang things are not welcome at Intuit. Intuit's philosophy is to increase the customer willingness to pay via e-commerce; the other is take operational savings and wrap it up in a stealth kind of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace