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Frank E. Gannett
Gannett owned and operated daily newspapers in small-to-medium sized, one-newspaper towns, like Ithaca, Rochester, and Hartford. Gannett’s one-newspaper town strategy was extremely profitable. At the time of his death, Gannett’s... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
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internship in the second summer. A typical candidate will follow the sample schedule outlined below. MBA/MPP Year 1 Harvard Kennedy School Fall Term Resources, Incentives and Choices I: Markets and Market Failures Quantitative Analysis and View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why Evolutionary Software Development Works
Given the importance of software, the lack of research on the best ways to manage its development is surprising. Many different models have been proposed since the much cited waterfall model emerged more than 30 years ago. Unfortunately, few studies have confirmed... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 30
operational measures of social enterprise success. Finally, we identify present trends along both dimensions that contribute to changing the research infrastructure for empirical social enterprise research.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
The Oxford Handbook of Business History edited by Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (Oxford University Press) This handbook surveys research in business history, a broad area of study generating empirical data that have sometimes... View Details
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Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17
founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where founders trade off the simplicity of accepting an equal split, with the costs of negotiating a differentiated allocation of founder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20
examine whether multi-location firms increase internal ties when they face appropriability risks from direct competitors. Our empirical analysis of the global semiconductor industry shows that when leading firms co-locate with direct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
The Simplest Taste
parlaying that one emporium into an empire of stores nationwide. Neiman Marcus introduced a number of innovations such as weekly department store fashion shows, personalized gift wrapping, a national advertising campaign (unheard of for a... View Details
- 29 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 29, 2006
the firm-size distribution; controlling for level of economic development, regulation, institutional constraints, and other variables that might affect the business environment; and using different empirical specifications. We further... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
these models, the demand curve alone can be used to make welfare statements, a fact relied on by much empirical work. There is ample evidence, though, that people misuse care for a different reason: mistakes or "behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
rate. Our results suggest that low pay rates are, in and of themselves, unlikely to promote dishonesty. Instead, it is the salience of upward social comparisons that encourages the poorly compensated to cheat. September 2013 Empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters
portfolio," says Stuart. "All that is premised on the coordinating role of the corporate headquarters and corporate staff positions." The key word is theoretically. As Stuart explains, there is actually very little View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Jun 2008
- News
Whistle While You Work
Evil Empire once again, you won’t hear jukebox music that celebrates work and jobs. In fact, it’s a slam dunk you’ll hear the opposite (e.g., “Sixteen Tons,” “Get a Job,” “Workin’ for the Man,” “Take This Job and Shove It” .your favorite... View Details
- 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006
previous work that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc.). Our objective is to study the joint determination of these three features (beliefs, punitiveness and economic system) in a way that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015
some ways in which firms' business models may impact their negotiation outcomes. Several of the proposed pathways work intuitively through the intrinsic characteristics (motivation, personality, etc.) of agents negotiating on behalf of the firm; others View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Research Brief: So Many Sites, So Little Time
Greenstein adds, such as television and radio. “Online advertising is still a work in progress, with considerable effort being invested in improving its cost-effectiveness,” he says. “Those efforts—and lessons learned—are relevant across many formats, not just PCs.... View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50822 forthcoming Manufacturing & Service Operations Management How Do Customers Respond to Increased Service Quality Competition? By: Buell, Ryan W., Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
would find a new owner, continuing to operate very successfully to the present time. I Really Meant to Tell You : Finding the Courage for Kindness by Jeff Hutsell (MBA 1978) BookLogix Have you ever regretted not telling someone you love... View Details
- 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008
specialize in different stages of a complex production process. This paper considers the pricing behavior and profitability of these so-called modular clusters. In particular, we investigate a possibility hinted at in prior work: that for composite goods, a vertical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace