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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
which we developed cases, seem to be pure cases of these archetypes. An examination of many other organizations will show a mixture of these strategies, often in uneasy coexistence. We argue that both theories have validity. Table I-1... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
method can serve as the foundation for new bundled payment reimbursement approaches. Publisher's link: http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/docview/1634452215/fulltextPDF/4F2F96135E4D4D7CPQ/6?accountid=11311 January 2015... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods Authors: Jordan I. Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract The last decade of corporate governance research has been focused in large part on identifying what leads to superior or deficient... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
insight from behavioral economists and organizational consultants is also included. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52264 December 2016 Journal of Business and Policy Research Corporate Sponsorship in Culture—A View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
difficult to glean from the available data. Our estimates can inform ongoing policy discussions on both sides of the Atlantic about the economic implications of biosimilar policies. Harvard Business School Case 817-100 Deutsche Bank:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
a firm's headquarters—for the presence of large, non-managerial individual shareholders in firms. These shareholders have a large impact on firms, controlling for selection effects. Course Research: Using the Case View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
different methods of selecting peers, sampling, different proxies and estimation techniques. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55265 Corporate Legal Structure and Bank Loan Spreads By: Sikochi,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
collect the data, and then expect machine learning methods to spit out insight for you.” “We tend to think that when we have all this rich data and this machine learning technology, that the machines are going to just come up with the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
the Panama Canal to make use of both conventional historical methods and the tools of quantitative analysis, The Big Ditch examines the impact of the Panama Canal on the Republic of Panama, the United States, and the world. Noel Maurer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- July 2008 (Revised May 2009)
- Case
The Springfield Nor'easters: Maximizing Revenues in the Minor Leagues
By: Frank V. Cespedes, Christopher H. Lovelock and Laura Winig
The marketing director of a new minor-league baseball team must design, conduct, and then interpret survey research to determine optimal ticket pricing that will yield large attendance figures and contribute to the owner's goal of breaking even in the first year of... View Details
Keywords: Market Research; Quantitative Analysis; Consumer Marketing; Pricing Strategy; Price; Marketing Strategy; Mathematical Methods; Product Launch; Sports; Sports Industry; Massachusetts
Cespedes, Frank V., Christopher H. Lovelock, and Laura Winig. "The Springfield Nor'easters: Maximizing Revenues in the Minor Leagues." Harvard Business School Brief Case 082-510, July 2008. (Revised May 2009.)
- 11 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide
health care, utilities, energy, real estate, and technology by as much as 2.5 percentage points on an annualized basis. The TOPICS method uses sophisticated financial models to spot hidden similarities in risk and return profiles among... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
resource deployment. Methodology: The predictive model developed is based on a regression tree combined with copula-based simulations. We generalize the tree method to predict complete distributions, moving beyond point forecasts. To... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
processing orders) but how long it takes to complete one unit of that activity (the time required to process one order). Once again, precision is not critical; rough accuracy is sufficient. In the case of our example, let's suppose that... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
Lal, Rajiv, and Ishan Sachdev Abstract—Mobile money services are being deployed rapidly across emerging markets as a key tool to further the goal of financial inclusion. Financial inclusion, the development of novel methods to enable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
and applied levels. First, the field will broaden its boundaries to include genetics and molecular neuroscience, each of which will provide important new insights into individual differences in decision making. Second, recent advances in computational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2007
- Working Paper
The Political Economy of 'Natural' Disasters
By: Charles Cohen and Eric D. Werker
Natural disasters occur in a political space. Although events beyond our control may trigger a disaster, the level of government preparedness and response greatly determines the extent of suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Government and Politics; Strategic Planning; Mathematical Methods; Natural Disasters; Welfare or Wellbeing
Cohen, Charles, and Eric D. Werker. "The Political Economy of 'Natural' Disasters." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-040, December 2007. (Revised November 2008.)
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
entrepreneurial firms explicitly devoted to making a profitable business out of conserving and returning valuable resources to productive use, while maintaining public sanitation and in many cases offering nascent environmental... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
proof of one-sided strategy-proofness for worker–firm matching under continuously transferable utility. A new “Lone Wolf” theorem (Jagadeesan, et al., 2017) for settings with transferable utility allows us to adapt the method of proving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2021
- Working Paper
Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Enterprises
By: Benjamin N. Roth
I present a model of financing social enterprises to delineate the role of impact investors relative to “pure” philanthropists. I characterize the optimal scale and structure of a social enterprise when financed by grants, and when financed by investments. Impact... View Details
Roth, Benjamin N. "Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Enterprises." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-078, February 2020. (Revised June 2021.)
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
desires of sports fans, alumni, and athletes themselves are at the crossroads of these realignment decisions. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46476 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne