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  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55053 2018 Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Revenue Farming Reconsidered: Tenurial Rights and Tenurial Duties in Early Modern India, ca. 1556–1818 By: Sheth, Sudev J... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54553 May 2018 Harvard Business Manager Was kostet die Zeit? By: Thomke, Stefan H., Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Christina Kestel Abstract—A German luxury watch manufacturer wants to offer a new collection,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

Market Governments—Qualitative Evidence from a Biotechnology Multinational Authors:Prithwiraj Choudhury, James Geraghty, and Tarun Khanna Publication:Global Strategy Journal 2, no. 1 (February 2012) Abstract We build on the emerging literature of influence-based View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2016
  • Op-Ed

Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

Funding. TripAdvisor recently compromised perceived objectivity by accepting hotel bookings on which it earns commissions. Previously, TripAdvisor revenues depended on travel-related advertising on the site. Having become the highest... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
  • 13 May 2008
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First Look: May 13, 2008

by Sony with the launch of its PlayStation 3. Information based on the 2006 and 2007 holiday seasons and the success of rival consoles is outlined. In addition, the case allows examining the costs and revenues associated with a business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • November 2004 (Revised September 2019)
  • Background Note

The U.S. Health Club Industry in 2004

By: John R. Wells, Gabriel Ellsworth and Benjamin Weinstock
In 2004, the $16.8 billion U.S. health club industry continued its strong record of growth. There were almost 27,000 health clubs in the United States, up from 6,700 two decades earlier, and these clubs claimed 41 million members, over 14% of the U.S. population.... View Details
Keywords: Health Clubs; Fitness; Gyms; Chain; Weight Loss; Obesity; Exercise; Personal Training; Bally Total Fitness; 24 Hour Fitness; YMCA; Gold's Gym; Curves; Franchise; Franchising; Subscription; Promotional Sales; Promotions; Fixed Costs; Body; Accrual Accounting; Revenue Recognition; Buildings and Facilities; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Trends; Customers; Demographics; Age; Income; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Nutrition; Business History; Employees; Retention; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Contracts; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Operations; Service Operations; Franchise Ownership; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Salesforce Management; Situation or Environment; Opportunities; Nonprofit Organizations; Welfare; Sports; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Expansion; Segmentation; Hardware; Health Industry; United States
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  • 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

(shortest expected processing time). Moreover, they exercise more discretion as they accumulate experience. Exploiting random assignment of tasks to doctors’ queues, instrumental variable models reveal that these deviations erode... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

value-relevant before disclosure, for negative earnings adjustments it is value-relevant only after disclosure. This finding is consistent with managers delaying the communication of bad news until IFRS compliance. A finer model shows... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

flexible childcare options, would be well-received by U.S. consumers and help it stand out from the existing, more-standardized options. The question now is how, and how fast, to grow. Should it just replicate the exact model it has... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

of the most-downloaded and most-revenue-generated app charts; it has recorded multi-million daily revenues and around a hundred million daily users; it has nearly 200 employees in its Helsinki headquarters and support offices around the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

depends on (i) how changes in the number of developers affect the incentives to invest in the open platform, and (ii) how investment in the open platform affects the revenues of the proprietary platform. Finally, a proprietary platform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

a summary measure of revenue generation and cost control. They should be controllable in that employees in the organization can actually influence improvement in the factor measured. Some of the metrics shown here are evaluations of... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

intensity, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider four alternative business models—two pure models (subscription-based and ad-sponsored) and two mixed models that are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

research as well as economic, organizational, and cross-disciplinary methodologies. The innovative process is broadly considered here, as well as the technologies that result from it, including business model innovation, service-level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

When In-House Research Isn’t Enough

in a marketplace that you have a good chance to dominate. Bottom line: higher margins and more revenues for you. These sorts of assumptions may still prevail in, say, pharmaceuticals, but all bets are off as far as the IT sector is... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

Tequila Mobile SA, a mobile gamers developer, publisher, and service provider, had to make some important strategic decisions. Tequila Mobile SA had already decided to shift to a new "free2play" revenue View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 14

  Working PapersIndustry Equilibrium with Open Source and Proprietary Firms Authors:Gastón Llanes and Ramiro de Elejalde Abstract We present a model of industry equilibrium to study the coexistence of Open Source (OS) and Proprietary (P)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

become the Amazon of freelance labor, and transforming its business model from a marketplace to software-as-a-service (SaaS). Each of the three paths was risky and required financial and human resource investment. Could and should the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices

the question driving the panel discussion "Monetization in a Mobile World." Panelists included Janet Balis (HBS MBA '99), partner and chief revenue officer at Betaworks; Glen Otis Brown, a senior director for Twitter's Twitter Amplify... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

tribes and U.S. states often find themselves at the bargaining table, often negotiating "compacts" to govern gaming operations on tribal lands. The operational success of the Pequot gaming operation in Connecticut, Foxwoods, and the substantial View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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