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- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
refers to the types of tradeoffs an assortment demands of a consumer. An alignable assortment is one where products vary along a single dimension—such as size or speed or capacity. Therefore, the tradeoffs...
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- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
a tradeoff here, in terms of how similar a product will be around the world and what sort of product range a company will offer," Collis says. Will a company allow for local variation and differences in taste, and what will its...
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by Julia Hanna
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
some way—there's no substitute for real contact with the whole organization. Finally, specify simple exit provisions at the onset and then don't be afraid to walk and go it alone. I think understanding and then incorporating risk-return View Details
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
advertising agency industry: What accounts for the shift from bundling to unbundling of services and the slow pace of change? Using Evans and Salinger's (2005, 2008) cost-based theory of bundling, we develop a simple model of an agency's decision to unbundle as a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
points, relative to non-Hispanic voter turnout, in markets where local Spanish-language television news became available. We conclude that the tradeoff between integrated media markets and civic engagement is real. The results of this...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
a permanent reality in corporate boardrooms—whether or not executives have a deep-seated passion for the social issues involved. Expectations are changing, agreed panelists. Oil corporations, for example, are well versed in the standard View Details
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by Julia Hanna
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman
"So here, fifty years before Virginia Woolf would write A Room of One's Own, is a room of our own, an income of our own, and time of our own." From the start, she added, women made implicit and explicit tradeoffs when they left...
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
impact to a grant. However, the analysis illuminates some of the core tradeoffs at play and, hopefully, will enable a more informed discussion about the role that impact investing can play in the broader philanthropic landscape. About the...
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by Rachel Layne
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
that this tradeoff is shifted towards the reseller-mode when marketing activities create spillovers across products and when network effects lead to unfavorable expectations about supplier participation. If the reseller has a variable...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
concerning whether patents are a creative or a destructive influence on the process of technological development. In this paper I examine the basic patent tradeoff between incentives and monopoly distortions in light of recent...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw
wrote the paper with Raviv Murciano-Goroff, an assistant professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, and Ran Zhuo, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. The tradeoffs of software...
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- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
clear, our research is aimed at the organizational level. And in that context, the idea of tradeoffs is nothing new. Peter Drucker and others have said it, and people accept the concept when you are talking about companies that make...
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- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
substitutability of agents’ preferences over contracts and makes stable outcomes more likely to exist; however, bundling also makes the contractual language less expressive. Consequently, we see that, in choosing contract language, market designers face a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
Kaplan says. Implemented in the right way, such a sustainable ecosystem wouldn’t be a one-time handout to check the CSR box for the year, but a long-term solution to making companies a positive force in the communities in which they operate. “It doesn’t require a View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
parameters, which must be learned from sales data. In the presence of these unknown demand parameters, the retailer faces a tradeoff commonly referred to as the exploration-exploitation tradeoff. Towards the beginning of the selling...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
studies to demonstrate how researchers can easily implement our two-dimensional evaluative framework. Overall, our findings support the trend towards characteristic-based ERPs. We also document a tradeoff between time-series and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
cost of being matched to an inefficient supplier when the relationship lasts too long. For commodified goods and services, this tradeoff can be the primary determinant of the duration of supply contracts. I develop a model of optimal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information technology investments, I find that a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50749 The Risk Anomaly Tradeoff of Leverage By: Baker, Malcolm, Mathias F. Hoeyer, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract—Higher-beta and higher-volatility equities do not earn commensurately higher...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10
capabilities across markets: no learning, local learning, and global learning. Three equilibrium strategies arise: accommodate, marginalize, and collocate. We identify how these strategies emerge depending on the tradeoff between the...
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Sean Silverthorne