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  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

staying away or unable to pay and rising costs for personal protective gear and new technology. “Compounding the problem, SUD treatment and... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
  • Article

When Talk Is "Free": The Effect of Tariff Structure on Usage Under Two- and Three-Part Tariffs

By: Eva Ascarza, Anja Lambrecht and Naufel Vilcassim
In many service industries, firms introduce three-part tariffs to replace or complement existing two-part tariffs. In contrast with two-part tariffs, three-part tariffs offer allowances, or “free” units of the service. Behavioral research suggests that the attributes... View Details
Keywords: Pricing; Nonlinear Pricing; Discrete/continuous Choice Model; Three-part Tariffs; Free Products; Price; Consumer Behavior; Analysis; Learning; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • January 2006
  • Tutorial

Alternative Choice Decisions Analysis

By: David F. Hawkins, V.G. Narayanan, Jacob Cohen and Michele Jurgens
Shows how managers use information on costs and revenues to decide between possible alternative courses of action. Presents two case examples of differential cost analysis. The first, a make or buy decision, examines two alternatives in which only costs vary. The... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Profit; Revenue; Information; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Problems and Challenges; Conflict and Resolution
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  • 21 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness Keep Your Weary Workers... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden
  • 02 Dec 2018
  • News

An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

consumers bear the true cost of their own energy consumption. This event was part of a series of alumni events focused on climate change organized by BEI and leading up to an HBS alumni conference in the... View Details
Keywords: Allison Webster; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

strength of the country, is increasingly failing to provide stable policy decisions addressing the issues Sweden is facing. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53584 October 2017 Review of Economics and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

shocks that disfavored what had been a successful growth model. Finally, scholars have also stated that exceptionalism is a consequence of poor policy choices, in particular a tendency towards state intervention View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

and sets up the class discussion. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618034-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 618-038 McKinsey & Company: Early Career Choices (B) The (B) case outlines the choices made by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

Sales Productivity, Not Just Sales Technology

By: Frank V. Cespedes
This article discusses the reasons behind the rapidly increasing investments in “Sales Enablement” (SE) technology, including the declining costs of that technology, a change in company cost structures, and a consequent shift in the focus of productivity improvements... View Details
Keywords: Sales; Information Technology; Performance Productivity
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  • 07 Feb 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual Fund Portfolio Choice

Keywords: by Lauren H. Cohen & Breno Schmidt; Financial Services
  • Research Summary

Workforce Change

By: Sandra J. Sucher

This research encompasses layoffs, furloughs and restructuring, global practices that affect millions of employees and thousands of companies every year. In this work I aim to replace bad practice that damages trust with good (or at least better) practice through... View Details

Keywords: Layoffs; Leadership And Change Management; Global Innovation; Strategic Decision Making; Multinational Corporations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; United States; France; Germany; Hungary; Finland; United Kingdom; Netherlands; China; Japan; Brazil

    Electronic Trace Data and Legal Outcomes: The Effect of Electronic Medical Records on Malpractice Claim Resolution Time

    Information systems generate copious trace data about what individuals do and when they do it. Trace data may affect the resolution of lawsuits by, for... View Details

    • 01 Dec 1999
    • News

    The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World

    increases only modestly. The traditional face of the industry has changed, with "full-service" agency-client relationships giving way to cost cutting, streamlining, and consolidation. Outright alternatives... View Details
    Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
    • October 2004
    • Article

    FDI and Economic Growth: The Role of Local Financial Markets

    By: Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Selin Sayek
    The purpose of this paper is to examine the various links among foreign direct investment, financial markets and growth. We model an economy with a continuum of agents indexed by their level of ability. Agents have two choices: they can work for the foreign company in... View Details
    Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Financial Markets; Economic Growth; Cost; Wealth; Investment Return; Knowledge
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    • 16 Jan 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

    candidates. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53708 Transaction Costs and the Duration of Contracts By: MacKay, Alexander Abstract—The duration of a vertical... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Jun 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

    services firm, comprising over 1,000 applications and over 3,000 dependencies between them. Our methods allow us to disentangle the effects of different types and levels of coupling. Our analysis reveals... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • July 2012 (Revised February 2013)
    • Case

    Société Internationale de Plantations et de Finance (SIPEF)

    By: David Hawkins
    Management of a company with extensive palm oil tree plantations questions the usefulness to management and investors of IAS41's requirement to value palm oil trees at their fair value. View Details
    Keywords: Financial Accounting; International Financial Reporting Standards; International Accounting Standards; Biological Asset Accounting; IAS41; Historical Cost; Equity Valuation; Financial Ratios; Plant-Based Agribusiness; International Accounting; Valuation; Financial Reporting; Fair Value Accounting; Equity; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    successful value measurement system. In the process, you will learn how to use the Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) method, which will enable you to more accurately measure costs for individual... View Details
    • Web

    Work With Us - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    interested in working with individuals and organizations who are doing action based research in value-based health care. We are interested in projects that involve integrated practice units, outcomes measurement, View Details
    • 18 Jul 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

    to better connections rather than superior skill. Knowing When to Ask: The Cost of Leaning-in By: Exley, Christine L., Muriel Niederle, and Lise Vesterlund Abstract—Gender differences in the propensity to... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne