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- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
customers more control and set their brands apart. The online apparel retailer Everlane provides detailed descriptions about the factories that produce its clothing. And Lemonade has upended traditional insurance by taking a set portion... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 13 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
2021 48th Annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference Honors Black Women Leaders
and the first Black woman in 1969. That’s quite a gap. By highlighting Black women we’re hoping to celebrate their successes and push the school forward on its journey towards equality.” The opening keynote... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
Once upon a time, suppliers held all the cards. Henry Ford's dictum that consumers could have any color car they wanted as long as it was black proved wrong in the extreme, but for years manufacturers in this country kept their hands... View Details
- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
commercials. From one vantage, the credit industry is to blame for our economic woes. The solutions have centered on tightening credit—loaning only to homebuyers who can make a 20 percent down payment, returning to the standards of 20 years ago where buyers were... View Details
- 26 Aug 2009
- Op-Ed
Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. Today, let us celebrate the end of an... View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
economic model. Even a simple time-driven ABC model will fundamentally change the way the company manages its process improvements, its product variety, and its individual... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
away, might encourage more people to use it. The early, surprising answer: yes. Whereas free is sometimes equated with no value, people who pay even a little bit for Clorin are more likely to use it and use... View Details
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
minimized." Mercadona always takes store operations into account when making supply-chain decisions, Ton continues, and pays particular attention to the design and management of store processes. It also... View Details
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
its citizens, including its corporations, on their domestic or worldwide income. The United States taxes its citizens and corporations on worldwide income. As a result, when... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and accounting irregularities can go unnoticed. However, when... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
literature when it comes to linking sales efforts with strategy. Part 1 of this book provides data indicating how and why sales remain (by far) the biggest part of strategy implementation in most firms, the issues involved in linking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
address this threat: trust, licensing, and paying agents to stay loyal. We show how the principal can influence the value of these options by modularizing the system and by hiring clans of agents, thus exploiting relationships among them.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
merchants? What should they know before signing a contract? A: The main insight in my paper is that default contract terms—obvious contract terms—are not the only possible terms. It may be that you pay most... View Details
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
much mid-cap European stock you should have in your portfolio, any more than it would enable you to perform surgery on yourself." Intelligence is not the issue, he emphasizes; it really is a question of... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
here we investigate the effects of time. We show that when social influence is intermittent it provides the benefits of constant social influence without the costs. Human subjects solved the canonical traveling salesperson problem in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
to the "Arauco: Forward Integration or Horizontal Expansion?" case. This short case looks at the company in late 2007 after it has decided to invest in a Brazilian joint venture involving forests,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
to platform leadership change that does not rely on Schumpeterian creative destruction: platform envelopment. By leveraging common components and shared user relationships, one platform provider can move into another's market, combining View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2009
- HBS Case
The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine
the same price to maximize profits. Ukraine responded by telling Gazprom that it would refuse to pay the increase, and furthermore, it intended to charge Gazprom more to use... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
Publication:Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming) Abstract It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable giving because they know little about the persons who receive their help. This concern is particularly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
product based not on what it costs or what people want to pay for it, but based on another format that is completely different, just because you want to keep that format alive," he remarks. So the... View Details