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- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
We know surprisingly little about mergers and acquisitions, despite the buckets of ink spilled on the topic. In fact, our collective wisdom could be summed up in a few short sentences: Acquirers usually pay too much. Friendly deals done... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
concentrate on the human element, calling people rather than e-mailing them, talking about their family as well as their business. We also set our salaries higher than our competitors, and then add to them with pay based on performance.... View Details
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
stakeholders and integrate values into your work to catalyze system-level change. 3 weeks, 7-9 hrs/week Pay by August 7 $1,850 Certificate Economics for Managers Professor Bharat Anand Gain economic insights and learn how markets work and... View Details
- Research Summary
Platform Competition
Technology has challenged the underlying foundations of business, and firms must evaluate and change strategies accordingly. Professor Halaburda studies the interaction of technology and economic theory, and her findings indicate that conventional wisdom and rules... View Details
- 17 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage
benefits. Now, they say, we are reaping the consequences of that misapprehension. Employees left their jobs at alarming rates over the past year as they reassessed their lives in the face of COVID-19. Other workers are “quietly quitting,” resolving to do the bare... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
them to reveal in the first place. The bigger takeaway from both studies may be that it pays for consumers to be aware of the information they should be looking for — whether that means going directly to U.S. News & World Report for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
employed in the business—would be completely wiped out if Wal-Mart's million-plus employees were to receive a $2-per-hour pay increase, modest though that sounds. And since such a scenario would be unacceptable to Wal-Mart's shareholders,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sumit Malik
sweat in a brick kiln enabled the first in our family to go to college. I am indebted to my grandfather. His sacrifice is not mine to waste. I can’t pay him back, but I will pay it forward. In his footsteps,... View Details
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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online
What Is Entrepreneurship? Evaluating Ideas John Osher: Illustrating the Entrepreneurial Process Featured Exercises Sizing the market Estimate willingness to pay 6-8 hrs Module 2 Building a Business Apply the POCD (People, Opportunity,... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
have a business model that will get us to profitability. We make money when users buy offsets. So currently the primary service we provide that customers want to pay for is if they want to offset their footprint, the average subscriber... View Details
- 25 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?
baseball players high on that list. Gazette: Sports gambling is now legal in most states. Massachusetts is expected to begin allowing it in early 2023. When people have money riding on games, they tend to pay closer attention to that... View Details
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
They have been able to walk away from homes they couldn't afford with, in many cases, no penalty. Meanwhile, responsible citizens, and their children and grandchildren, will pay in extra taxes to clean up the mess. Hardly any politician... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
paper doesn’t explicitly examine why government-funded patents are so important, Yao speculates that government institutions, relative to companies, tend to fund broader scientific initiatives that are more likely to lead to more novel discoveries. Government funding... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993
be a banker. We work with major endowments, foundations, and countries that entrust us with their money. We assist millions of people every single day—to buy their first home, get their first credit card, or pay for college. I have a... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Veteran Financial Aid Outlook
post-HBS by industry. On the low side, Non-profit’s median salary is $95,000 while Consulting’s median salary is $145,000. Both numbers were higher than my O-3 over eight years pay rate even with “flight pay”, so I was confident I could... View Details
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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society
issues over his career. He led Open For Business, where he worked with business leaders and activists to collectively advocate for LGBT+ equality in challenging regions. He has also worked on developing new approaches for companies to account for their progress toward... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
lower total cost. Further, cannabis businesses pay a much higher share of net income as taxes, compared to other businesses of similar scale. That’s because, according to the Internal Revenue Code, businesses that “traffic” in Schedule I... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
performing department receives a bonus, while the worst performing department receives a pay cut. Determining whether departments were awarded the bonus or pay cut depends on objective rankings in the point... View Details
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
globalization and global value chains. But it does entail paying attention to potential bottlenecks, risk, and diversification of trade partners. Economic policy should also further try to foster local currency debt markets, although this... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne