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- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
in stock price when Easterbrook was first removed, but 30 days later it was back to pre-termination levels.” 7. Do our CEO compensation policies address the consequences of misconduct for CEO pay? Should a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Sharon Patrick
Patrick acknowledges the challenges of the last sixteen months due to the federal investigation and indictment of Stewart for a personal stock sale unrelated to MSO. However, she remains upbeat. “The strength of our content and business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Pharma Suits a Farm Gal
GRAHAM: From rodeo to CEO. Amylin Pharmaceuticals CEO Ginger Graham (MBA ’86) had a good year in 2006, with Amylin stock up as much as 45 percent, with Byetta and Symlin, its two innovative diabetes drugs, performing well, and with the... View Details
- 02 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
Four Companies that Conquered America
market. There are no national furniture retail chains, making market penetration easier. IKEA's location selection expertise and their established global supply chains enable them to offer exceptional category-killer prices that are... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
emissions by more than 30 percent; create housing for an expected 1 million new residents; expand and improve public transportation; cut solid waste in landfills by 75 percent; and achieve the cleanest air quality of any large US city (in part by adopting congestion... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was... View Details
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
case. “I remember just being struck and thinking, ‘What are you doing?’” Soon afterward, Domingues began pitching his idea to grocery chains: Customers would use a mobile app to buy food at a discount before it got discarded. Customers could therefore acquire food at... View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
success, a story that has seen revenues multiply, share prices jump many times, and customer satisfaction become an industry benchmark. The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything by Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) (G.P.... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
economists treat as being a black box, look inside to see what’s going on. So an auction’s a perfect example of a price formation process. Like I worked with oil exploration leases, the value of exploring a tract is pretty much the same... View Details
- June 2002 (Revised September 2005)
- Case
Online Music Distribution in a Post-Napster World
By: Youngme E. Moon
Provides a description of the rise and decline of Napster, the free Internet music-swapping service. Also describes second-generation peer-to-peer services (e.g., Gnutella) as well as paid subscription services (e.g., MusicNet, pressplay). View Details
Keywords: Distribution; Internet and the Web; Price; Marketing Channels; Service Operations; Music Industry
Moon, Youngme E. "Online Music Distribution in a Post-Napster World." Harvard Business School Case 502-093, June 2002. (Revised September 2005.)
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
also take an integrated approach. And even in the discipline-based foundations courses, we often look at issues from a general management perspective, which requires some integration.” The new curriculum comes with a hefty price tag. To... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Student Trio Advance Health Payment Reform
focused on how to calculate a fixed price for all services related to a specific condition — knee replacement. (The hospital is nationally recognized for expertise in orthopedic surgery.) The “bundled” price... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
companies (in terms of both stock market and accounting measures) that adopted almost none of these policies. Energized by Eccles’s work, the effort to advance integrated corporate reporting as a vehicle for transforming capitalism is... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price impact hold larger cash... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
activity in Europe and Asia and how managers can use restructuring techniques to help the stock market more accurately value their companies. Gilson, who was previously on the finance faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, has... View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
Sloan Management Review (forthcoming) Abstract Many people today in the information technology world and in corporate boardrooms are talking about "big data." Many believe that, for companies that get it right, big data will be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
associated with a 0.5% increase in housing prices. Moreover, Yelp measures of local business activity provide leading indicators for housing price changes and help to forecast which neighborhoods are gentrifying. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
effect the information will support and raise current levels." Guy Higgins commented, "Recall that CEO compensation began to balloon only when the CEOs could see each other's comp packages and began thinking, 'I'm better than... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett