Filter Results:
(418)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(418)
- News (23)
- Research (379)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (13)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(418)
- News (23)
- Research (379)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (13)
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
private governance of working conditions, initiated and implemented by companies, labor unions, and non-governmental activist groups. Whether these codes represents a substantive or merely symbolic approach to governing working conditions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
higher prices can increase use, either by targeting distribution to high-use households (a screening effect), or by stimulating use psychologically through a sunk-cost effect. We develop a methodology for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
model reconfigurations. We consider three business models: the proprietary model (where all software modules offered by the firm are proprietary), the open source model (where all modules are open source), and the mixed source model... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
Moskowitz, and Annette Vissing-Jørgensen Abstract We provide new evidence on the success of long-run risks in asset pricing by focusing on the risks borne by stockholders. Exploiting micro-level household... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
"Dubai's answer to Pixar" in a recent magazine article, Lammtara's first animated television show, FREEJ, had taken the Arabian Gulf region by storm a year ago. It was November 2007, and the second season of FREEJ had aired... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
technological development, corporate strategy, and organizational change. Viewing cartels only as a "conspiracy against the public" short-circuits many important questions and obscures the great variations in objectives, type, and services provided View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
Working PapersMental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, John Beshears, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman (revised March 2008) Abstract We study the effect of small windfalls on consumer-spending decisions View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
alternative collaborative modes should be driven by a number of factors including characteristics of the technology, the capabilities of the firm, and the distribution of competences in the environment. We develop a set of guidelines for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
that the regional location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non-economic factors and heuristics rather than existing industrial conditions. Relocating firms increased the likelihood of incumbent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
Working Papers Using By-Product Synergy for Competitive Advantage Author: Deishin Lee Abstract We study how a manufacturer can leverage by-product synergy for competitive advantage. By focusing on the economic impact to the firm and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
institutional theory, we hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms whose legitimacy is threatened—and thus are shamed—by these ratings. We extend existing theory by drawing on the strategic choice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
asked to consider whether entry into web services by Amazon, which had established its brand in retail, represented a prudent move by the company. The case provides an opportunity to highlight the benefits... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
not only experience project-level success with the implementation of new work practices, but also organizational-level success as indicated by overall measures of performance. We tested our hypothesis in a longitudinal study of 23... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
revolutionary functionality. We explore a second path to entry that does not rely on Schumpeterian innovation: platform envelopment. By leveraging shared user relationships and common components, one platform provider can move into... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 17
process is impacted by a consumer's motivation to purchase the rebated product. In particular, we propose the anchor employed will be driven by the valence of a consumer's underlying motivation.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
changing perception of such strategies by the analysts. Moreover, we find that higher visibility firms receive more favorable recommendations for their CSR strategies. We also find that analysts with more experience, broader CSR... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
recipients' actual trustworthiness. This lax approach gives rise to adverse selection: the sites that seek and obtain trust certifications are actually less trustworthy than others. Using an original dataset on web site safety, I demonstrate that sites certified View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
of the Contract: How Contract Structure Shapes Inter-Firm Dispute Resolution Authors:Fabrice Lumineau and Deepak Malhotra Publication:Strategic Management Journal (in press) Abstract This paper investigates how contract structure influences inter-firm dispute... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace