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- Stop Apologizing -- Be Bold About Your Eco Profits
- Why are companies so sheepish when it comes to driving profit off of green initiatives? It's a great question asked by Andrew Winston on a new blog post in the Leading Green series posted by Harvard Business. He looks at the recent Home Depot announcement that it...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Helping Cash-Strapped Families Save for the Future
- Will you be spending or saving your US stimulus check? Uncle Sam, of course, is betting that you will spend it and improve the economy. But Harvard Business School professor Peter Tufano has devoted many years exploring ways that society can encourage non-affluent citizens to save for...
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- What the 'Idea Guy' is Worth at Equity Split
- You and your partners in an entrepreneurial venture are about to determine the equity split of your new business -- who gets what percentage. So what's the premium earned by the person who came up with the original idea? Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman conducted a...
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- The Press Release of the Future
- The proposed merger between Delta and Northwest Airlines has already produced one visionary byproduct: the press release of the future. That's the word from Harvard Online blogger Scott Berinato, who drools over the effectiveness of this joint announcement, which is not so much press release as communications...
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Why Don't More Companies Use Prediction Markets?
- The basic idea behind James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds is that a collection of complete strangers in aggregate can make a better decision than a single expert. A crowd at the county fair, when polled in aggregate, can guess the weight of a giant pumpkin unfailingly within a few...
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Warren Buffett and the Return of the Railroads
- Sky-high energy prices, increasingly crowded commuter corridors, and worries about the environment are setting the stage for trains to thunder once again across the US moving commerce and people, predicts Harvard University professor John R. Stilgoe. "Train travel will supplant highway and air travel in the next few decades....
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Are Private Equity Buyouts the Devil's Work?
- Private equity deals have always had a bad rap. The naysayers argue that PE-driven leveraged buyouts of public companies lose money for investors, victimize employees, lead to massive job cuts, and pretty much steal money from orphans and widows when given half a chance....
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- When Your Boss is Doogie Howser
- A friend of mine recently was part of a merger that left him reporting to a boss in his mid-30s. Since my friend is 53 -- about the age of his superior's own parents -- he found the relationship more than a little awkward. So I was...
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Women 'Stars' a Better Investment than Men
- If you hire a male superstar stock analyst from a competitor his performance often drops -- along with the market value of your company, says Harvard Business School professor Boris Groysberg. But hire a female star analyst and your investment is much more likely to be rewarded, Groysberg writes...
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Fixing the Customer Lifetime Value Equation
- You've likely heard of the Customer Lifetime Value calculation, or CLV. Run your actual and projected costs in attracting and keeping a customer over a fixed time period and compare those expenses to the sales said customer is expected to produce. The result is a number called Net Present Value....
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Lawrence Summers: Odds Favor U.S. Recession
- For business strategists and business owners trying to handicap the chance of a recession in the U.S., news earlier this week has been encouraging. Triple-digit stock market gains, dropping oil prices, decent Black Friday sales, and and hints of another interest rate cut by the Fed has somewhat lightened the...
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
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