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- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Circuit City was forced into liquidation. Unable to meet creditors' demands, and with no acquirer in sight, Circuit City began the process of liquidating its remaining 567 U.S. stores. Circuit City had been the leader in consumer...
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Carmen Nobel
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
and local governments should invest in it. But the idea of investing in ECD for economic development was new and had never been tested on a large scale, particularly in the way that Rolnick and Grunewald recommended in a later paper—using market View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
serve as the glue across functions and business units. But without clarity about strategy and the ability to articulate strategy, people can only pick up random, disconnected cues about priorities, and alignment is then hit-and-miss, especially when it comes to linking...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
small-business owners can take now Mills offers three recommendations to cash-strapped business owners: Focus on social media and email to reach customers. The coronavirus pandemic forced many analog companies to embrace digital...
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- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
who somehow have maintained enough detachment from the local traditions, ideologies, and shibboleths that they have retained the objectivity of an outsider," Bower writes. Think Anne Mulcahy, CEO of Xerox, who started out as a sales...
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- 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10
introduces methods for increasing the efficiency of retail store liquidation, which we define as the time-constrained divestment of retail outlets through an in-store sale of inventory. The retail industry depends extensively on...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
presence of iTunes has a negative impact on the size of p2p networks resulting in reduced congestion and more efficient file sharing. Better functioning p2p networks, in turn, result in more content exchange, affecting positively iPod View Details
- 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30
rankings are more likely to disclose their Princeton Review certification, suggesting that schools treat different certifications as substitutes. Third, conditional on displaying a ranking, the majority of schools coarsen information to make it seem more favorable....
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Anna Secino
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
For millions of TV watchers, the commercial break is an annoyance of the past, thanks to the fast-forward button on their digital video recorders. Consequently, advertisers are turning to the web, where popular sites such as YouTube and Hulu View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
its critics within Xerox. One senior research manager felt that Documentum had "stolen" some of PARC's best work. He believed that much of Documentum's success had been achieved through sales to Xerox's top corporate accounts by...
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by Henry Chesbrough
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
Inc.—Engineered Products Division Harvard Business School Case 709-434 Curled Metal Incorporated has declining sales but has developed a new product (curled metal pile driver pads) that, in field tests, deliver customer benefits that are...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
government intervention, two of the principal forces that influence variation in firm profitability. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54835 forthcoming Journal of Economics & Management Strategy...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
that supplier-side pricing didn't work, that you have to charge the party who receives the greatest benefit for the cost of the marketplace. If you try to shove the cost of the market off on to the parties who are being forced to compete,...
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- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
activities makes them less attractive to leader brands. They prefer, ceteris paribus, heavier, less scalable promotional activities, like in-store demonstrations, big prize sweepstakes, and the like, which are less affordable for challenger brands. However, leader...
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- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
entrepreneurs constitute a key economic driving force for many countries, they often face unstable environments due to violence and civil unrest. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized by high levels of political...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Network Utilization and the Impact of Academic Research in Marketing By: Rosenzweig, Stav, Amir Grinstein, and Elie Ofek Abstract—The forces that drive the impact of academic research articles in the marketing discipline are of great...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
may respond to this additional uncertainty by purchasing more products, thereby generating additional sales for the retailer. We refer to this phenomenon as the value of concealment (VoC). We develop a model of consumer choice that is...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
deployable, as TaKaDu engineers were spending up to two months implementing the system per client. Peleg also wondered if the company should continue to pursue sales leads from anywhere in the world or focus on one geographic market (and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
inequality due to forces like skill-biased technical change. Exploring movements around these long-term levels, however, this study finds mixed evidence regarding the vicious cycle hypothesis. On one hand, larger compensation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
of collective action. While the available evidence is generally consistent with these theories, there is a dearth of quality evidence. Moreover, a large part of the variation in access to public goods seems to have nothing to do with the "bottom-up" View Details
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Martha Lagace