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- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54963 Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Capital By: Lerner, Josh, Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar, and Nan R. Zhang Abstract—This paper undertakes a comprehensive View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
this would have a further advantage for the team. The field-based research reported here is derived largely from analysis of team experiences with five principal Japanese baseball stars-Hideo Nomo, Ichiro Suzuki, Hideki Matsui, Daisuke...
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Sean Silverthorne
- April 2021 (Revised July 2021)
- Case
StockX: The Stock Market of Things (Abridged)
By: Chiara Farronato, John J. Horton, Annelena Lobb and Julia Kelley
Founded in 2015 by Dan Gilbert, Josh Luber, and Greg Schwartz, StockX was an online platform where users could buy and sell unworn luxury and limited-edition sneakers. Sneaker resale prices often fluctuated over time based on supply and demand, creating a robust...
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Markets;
Auctions;
Bids and Bidding;
Demand and Consumers;
Consumer Behavior;
Analytics and Data Science;
Market Design;
Digital Platforms;
Market Transactions;
Marketplace Matching;
Supply and Industry;
Analysis;
Price;
Product Marketing;
Product Launch;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Fashion Industry;
North and Central America;
United States;
Michigan;
Detroit
Farronato, Chiara, John J. Horton, Annelena Lobb, and Julia Kelley. "StockX: The Stock Market of Things (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 621-107, April 2021. (Revised July 2021.)
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a multinational as the typical decision maker. Illustrated with examples from companies of all sizes...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
Ashraf Publication:In Globalization and Poverty, edited by Ann Harrison. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming. Abstract This paper investigates the impact of rich-country agricultural support on the poor. Using non-parametric View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
effects. Overall, the analysis suggests that the global standardization hypothesis has considerably less momentum than the juggernaut that it is sometimes portrayed as. Q: You have written that customer preferences for globally...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
bunch. I believe the School will stay relevant through its emphasis on interactive learning, and by maintaining its willingness to look ahead and dive into areas for which there are no agreed-upon answers. I am concerned about the tendency to overemphasize the use of...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
variable analysis and use the differences in the likelihood of retirement driven by Social Security retirement incentives in the United States to find a sizable increase in purpose in life as an outcome of retirement.” Emotional...
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- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
site as the company experimented with different shipping policies, including free shipping and "contingent free shipping," which requires shoppers to meet a minimum purchase total to qualify for complimentary mailing. The View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
analysis is possible, commit to moving in a particular direction, carefully plan the immediate next steps, work hard to learn from execution and experiment, seize opportunities along the way, and be prepared to recalibrate an...
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by Joseph L. Badaracco
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
The framework has two parts—a business analysis and a personal analysis—each comprised of a set of yes/no questions for critical assessment criteria. The note also offers perspectives on entrepreneurship, observations about combining an...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
predict their future purchasing activities in ways never before possible. The information is then sold to corporate marketers. Combining that capability with input from social media, such as a partnership with Facebook that Acxiom announced in early 2013, adds...
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- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
LESSON FROM HBS "The secret of success often comes down to two main ingredients: think through a problem carefully and then act upon your analysis without a hint of procrastination. HBS is a very effective proving ground for this, and for...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
between the manufacturing analysis we learned and making a movie,” he says. “With a movie, you take a dream — like somebody’s script — and break it into tiny pieces, or individual shots. A film typically contains hundreds of shots, and...
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- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
cast may deviate dramatically from pure QV predictions because of the complex and refined nature of equilibrium play. Most plausibly, voting behavior and outcomes would be determined predominately by social and psychological forces, would exhibit few of the features...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index of pairwise-industry agglomeration and investigate the patterns and determinants underlying the global economic geography of multinational firms. Our View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
We propose that firms' corporate governance and firms' strategic business activities within an industry are interlinked. By conducting a simultaneous economic analysis of business strategy and corporate governance, scholars can better...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
they really need to be able to analyze what the chances are that the mortgage will be prepaid - in other words, what the risk is to them. What our analysis did, in addition to improving the means to price options, was to provide a way to...
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- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
public health effectively. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807016 Basic Techniques for the Analysis of Customer Information Using Excel: A Step-by-Step Approach Harvard Business School...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
actually consistent with design principles established by the development team? The case seeks to expand students' view of the product development process. Traditional software development projects begin with the gathering of requirements and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne