Willingness To Pay - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 May 2023
Research & Ideas

How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

immigration is high.” You Might Also Like: How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay Tech Hubs: How Software Brought... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

07 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

at the societal benefit while at the same time taking care of the individual. That in essence is what we're trying to get at. McCaffrey: In a standard marketing situation, there's usually somebody who pays... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

requires an understanding and willingness to accept the trade-offs that come with it. For example, choosing to forgo international travel and social events due View Details

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Business History - Faculty & Research

margins of academic discourses and their own institutions. There was a constant struggle to define the borders of the field and the central research questions that it sought to answer. However, the... View Details

07 Jul 2019
HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

more of workers—and an equivalent commitment to re-skilling and compensation. In the case, Kerr cites Walmart’s investments in wages and training for employees of $1.2 billion and $1.5 billion in 2015 and 2016—part of a move that boosted... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

Slayton said. Honesty, for example, is important for any leader, although it can get you in trouble. "Sometimes you'll pay the price [because] some people don't want to hear it." On the other hand,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild

03 Jan 2023
Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

inequities, Opie says companies need to dig deep, build bridges, and take collective action. Step 1: Digging deep Opie says leaders need to confront the entrenched beliefs that reinforce the View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

07 Jul 2021
Book

Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

actions. As a whole, are those impacts positive or negative? Ultimately, if a company is making a bad impact, however unintended, Sucher and Gupta say the public looks to a company to own up View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

16 Jun 2021
HBS Case

Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm

exchange outstanding debt for new common stock—all while raising over $10 billion in new debt and equity capital. What accounts for investors’ willingness to fund a company that was in near-total lockdown,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Travel

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

tell you that the world of business is not so different. “It really was all about the recognition of and comparison with their peers, and many of them were willing to pay for it.” "This is why MBA programs... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

workers’ subjective well-being,” the researchers write. How can companies ease the commuting pain? While Wu is quick to note that some “knowledge work” depends on in-person collaboration, including medical and biotech research, he says... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

personal level, for instance, by asking how everyone is holding up. “It can be harder to pay attention to a long meeting online versus face-to-face.” Afterward, managers should... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

the opposite effect,” Coffman says. “If anything, we see a larger gender gap in willingness to compete [when sponsorship is introduced].” Designing better sponsorship programs The researchers emphasize that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Launching a Career in Clean Energy

Established in 2010, the HBS Business & Environment Initiative (BEI) works to deepen understanding of the environmental challenges facing business leaders and inspire new ideas and practical, effective solutions. BEI has established a... View Details

09 Nov 2023
News

From the Brink

was a kind of a bankruptcy,” Weiss says, “one that would allow the government to continue to use the funds that the island had to pay for... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More

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