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  • 01 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing KnowHow, for Harvard Business. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Customers are the source of all cash flow. Organic growth depends on... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

across disasters, rather than focusing on one disaster at a time, insurance-based policy reform may remain exceedingly difficult to achieve.   Cases & Course MaterialsBlue Ocean or Stormy Waters? Buying Nix Check View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

(EV) reporting by firms with life insurance operations to assess the impact of unregulated financial reporting on transparency and to examine the institutional characteristics that promote unregulated reporting. Under EV accounting the present value of future View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

global cash flows: to achieve resource independence from other state actors. In the context of state-owned entities, the power-use hypothesis of standard resource dependence theory can be used to analyze the dependence of SOEs on other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston's Walk Zones By: Dur, Umut, Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak, and Tayfun Sönmez Abstract—Admissions policies often use reserves... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

business. The book describes a conceptual framework, "the culture cycle," for managing culture that comprises setting and meeting expectations; establishing trust, engagement, and ownership among employees and customers that makes possible the successful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Name Your Price. Really.

Years ago, when I was a student in New York (and like many students, perpetually broke), I would often go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for entertainment. The museum had a policy that visitors could pay whatever they wanted, so for as... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane Abstract We study competitive interaction between two alternative models of digital content distribution over the Internet: peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing and centralized client-server... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1

look large and compelling. But it can have significant downsides. Leaders who prefer to zoom in tend to create policies and systems that depend too much on politics and favors. They can focus too closely on personal status and on turf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 14

an asymmetric market structure, with a few large P firms and many small OS firms. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-149.pdf Anticommons and Optimal Patent Policy in a Model of Sequential Innovation Authors:Gastón... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2

Publication:American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

collaborating with academic economists and other quantitative social scientists to apply such rigorous methods to the study of public finance. These developments allow for more reliable measurements of the effects of different policy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

Schoar, Jialan Wang Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-024.pdf The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry Authors:Christopher Marquis, Zhi Huang... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 22

the optimal exchange-rate regime when developing countries can borrow internationally with local-currency-denominated debt. We find that, as local-currency-bond markets develop, a "pseudo-flexible regime," whereby a country accumulates reserves in conjunction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

Michael W. Toffel Abstract—CEO activism refers to corporate leaders speaking out on social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their company’s core business. Distinct from nonmarket strategy and traditional corporate... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

been engaged in a large-scale, centrally coordinated national anti-Malaria campaign, which has become a model in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper aims at quantifying the individual and macro-level benefits of this campaign, which involved mass View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

the potential retaliatory measures of the stalwarts of the industry. And with their cash from shedding the non-core assets, South African firms had begun themselves to look for new opportunities. Q: How is it to do business in South... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

distinctly different strategy. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706518 Kinder Morgan, Inc.-Management Buyout Harvard Business School Case 207-123 Kinder Morgan, Inc., was a leader in the transportation and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/916024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-077 Environmental Health No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516077-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-072 Government View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

Charles C.Y., and Jesse M. Fried Abstract—It’s no secret that the American economy is suffering from the twin ills of slow growth and rising income inequality. Many lay the blame at the doors of America’s largest public corporations. The charge? These firms prefer to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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