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- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
literacy stifle demand. A second view argues that demand is rationally low, because formal financial services are expensive and of relatively low value to the poor. This paper uses original surveys and a field experiment to distinguish between two View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
be attributed to donor firms' concerns about the potentially negative consequences of scrutiny over outsourcing for themselves and for their affiliated candidates. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-103.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAdvanced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
reputation” Keinan: In this case, the goal of the different brands is to complement each other, so they don't compete or cannibalize each other. HBSWK: And what about Noma? You mentioned that margins aren't very high, and in the case you... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22
company's first product, QuietRock, originated the soundproofing drywall category and created a steady stream of revenue. It was now considering how to expand its product line to compete in the rapidly developing green building markets.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
that recording moderately successful practices can be counter-productive, since doing so may inefficiently reduce employees' incentives to experiment. This "strong-form competency trap" forces firms into an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
a platform-based market socially efficient? We analyze a dynamic model where an entrant with superior quality competes with an incumbent platform, and examine long-run market outcomes. We find that the answers to these questions depend... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
organizational structures such as codes are associated with improvements in supplier labor practices, especially in organizations in which they compete with productivity-driving incentive structures. We investigate under what internal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11
Maintenance of Certification Examinations By: Valentine, Melissa A., S. Barsade, Amy C. Edmondson, A. Gal, and R. Rhodes Abstract—Context: Physicians can demonstrate mastery of the knowledge that supports continued clinical competence by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17
in engineering and infrastructure construction, its challenges in planning and innovation, and the special things that a firm must do to compete successfully in the Chinese market. We conclude with China's approach to the global economy... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
Shih-Ta Chen, and Keith Chi-Ho WongHarvard Business School Case 210-089 A residential real estate developer competes in a heated auction for a prime retail development site in the interior of China during the 2009 boom. Total project cost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
of the board, or at least appointing a lead director, is so important. We all need to feel accountable to a higher authority. Contrary to the Business Roundtable's assertion that a lead director is needed only when issues of CEO succession or View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
customers. Often, this process leads to new strategic partnerships with targeted customers. For example, Rockwater, an undersea construction company in the Halliburton organization, competed mainly on price, a typical practice in the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14
stimulate innovation must often be set before specific investments in innovative projects are made, this creates a tradeoff between a policy that encourages experimentation ex-post and one that funds experimental projects ex-ante. In equilibrium it is possible that all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
environmental needs and its core competencies and institutional capacity. Using a "three theatre" CSR framework, the paper demonstrates why the question for corporations is not whether to engage in CSR, but why they need to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
trade perceptions of competence for likeability-the more successful they appear, the less positively they are regarded. Such trends affect both organizational openness to female leaders and the conceptions women have about themselves as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
around Los Angeles, is faced with a crucial choice about how to open its next several schools. Should it pursue an opportunity to collaborate with the public school district, or act on an equally attractive opportunity to compete head-on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
including a monopolist, two competing multichannel retailers, as well as a mixed duopoly. Though self-matching can negatively impact a retailer when consumers pay the lower price, we uncover two novel mechanisms that can make... View Details