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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
reveals that "filtering" is limited. At this point, TiVo has a few real limitations: for instance, you can't watch whatever you want to watch, simply because you can't watch/record two shows that are broadcast simultaneously.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
the high $60 million range. The sell-side team, comprised of bankers from the Blackstone Group and Greenhill, and lawyers from Wachtell Lipton and Kirkland & Ellis, is forced to regroup and reconsider their options for galvanizing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
interoperability or efficiency. Openness multiplies options and expands diversity, thus increasing the platform system’s value. The last two decades of the 20th century saw the rise of three distinct types of open platforms in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
(libertarianism). Think of parents fashioning choices for children in ways that lead to acceptable choices instead of commanding them to do something. Contrast this with what happened in the related housing and credit meltdowns. Borrowers were confronted with a growing... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
government-imposed investment guidelines similar to those in Mexico, whether the money is publicly or privately managed. Several questioned whether the framing of the challenge that the column posed was even correct. In Bittner's words, the View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
isolated and abandoned to the wolves. This happens despite success, and sometimes because of how success was achieved. It happens to results-producing CEOs pushed out of companies; for example, Mark Hurd of Hewlett Packard, who fudged expense reports but whose View Details
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
Wikileaks, the US State Department does not believe that the opposition has links to Tehran. Protestors want the elected parliament to have real power. So far, the signs point toward compromise. The more the Bahraini opposition gets what... View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
that our proxy is associated with earnings and real activities management. Overall, the results show that the time horizon of conference call narratives can be informative regarding managers' myopic behavior. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
impact, those of a critical mass of like-minded institutions very well might. Over time, active investors could go a long way toward righting the imbalance in the corporate governance system. When boards and managers believe there is a View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
in potential danger. One of our interviewees noted, “As CEOs in this crisis, we have no option but to become the wartime CEO, however ill equipped or prepared we are.” You can equip yourself better immediately. Here’s what your brain and... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
They spend much more time paying attention to reviews of other people like them and trying to understand and gauge in an unbiased fashion what the real quality is of these products and services, particularly those in which you can’t... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
everything—was reportedly in conversations to buy some of those storefronts—possibly its first real beach-head in the brick-and-mortar world. As harbingers of the future of retail, these events certainly caught the attention of Harvard... View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
U.S.-based firm that rents storage facilities to consumers and small businesses, is considering financing options for rapid expansion of its European operations. Five years after entering Europe, Shurgard Europe has opened 17 facilities... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
to bolster and enhance the taste of nearly all processed foods because manufacturing techniques weaken the real flavors. The development of those added flavors requires a high degree of customization and expertise, and the practice... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
of Cohen’s goal of reaching $500 million in sales by 2018, the board is divided about what to do, and the CEO is left with what appears to be a choice between two risky options as he attempts to move Chewy forward. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
it? Kenny: It's a real lack of transparency. George: When I was writing the case I was in Europe, and the European regulations, GDPR General Data Protection Regulations, came out. You had to approve Google and Facebook if you wanted to... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact of modularity on IP protection by formally modeling the threat of expropriation by agents. The principal has three options to address this threat: trust, licensing, and paying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
"phantom stock" (typically, bonuses based on the growth in the new units' performance). Instead, XTV insisted that the employees receive options to buy real shares in the venture-backed companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
but online dating websites force them to screen by searchable attributes (such as income, or religion). We demonstrate that people spend too much time searching for options online for too little payoff in offline dates (Study 1), in part... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
forthcoming American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption Across Countries By: Cavallo, Alberto, Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, and Marcel P. Timmer Abstract—We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman