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  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency

speedily sourcing garments and apparel for customers in the West. Its solid reputation is based on its ability to meet required specifications at a competitive price. Fung believes his company’s levelheaded approach to the IT revolution is a View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Faculty Books

decisions, many critical choices still come down to human judgment, based on the best available insights. Visiting Professor Davenport and his coauthor relate 12 stories of organizations that have successfully tapped their data assets,... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

demand for auditing by the licensor. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit strategy choice by the licensor. We show when the owner prefers to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

Removing Barriers

burden of paying for an education, Anita says, allows students to make career choices after graduation that are less focused on paying back student debt. She adds that bringing international students into the HBS classroom makes for a... View Details
  • 11 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 11

initial relative firm capabilities, market attractiveness, market-firm fit, and knowledge transferability. By explicitly incorporating firm rivalry across multiple markets, our model offers a comprehensive approach to understanding the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 9

clients. We stated that even honest auditors were incapable of independence within the current regulatory framework. We document the failure to make sufficient changes to our institutions, highlight the barriers to needed changes, and challenge society to act before... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

War & Peace: The Lessons of History for Leadership, Strategy, Negotiation & Humanity - Course Catalog

competing ideas, ideologies, and narratives. Examine the powerful role that our implicit models and “theories of the case” play in the choices we ultimately make as leaders and strategic actors. Face the... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

The Road Less Traveled

Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas... View Details
Keywords: Janine White; illustrations by WACSO; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation
  • 27 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 27

http://bit.ly/BuySocialzStrategyBook August 2013 Marketing Letters Structural Models of Complementary Choices By: Berry, Steven, Ahmed Khwaja, Vineet Kumar, Andres Musalem, Kenneth C. Wilbur, Greg Allenby,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

fully extended attraction models (Cooper and Nakanishi 1988). Utilizing a database of store-level scanner data for 25 categories and 127 brands of frequently purchased branded consumer goods, we find that about 18 percent of a total of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

different results and have divergent implications. We find evidence that the choice to pool is influenced by changes in the underlying newsvendor model parameters in our setting. In robustness tests, we show... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

Many people today are focused on the global economic crisis, but Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter sees also a global crisis of business. The model of American capitalism that worked so well to raise the fortunes of... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Faculty Books

employees (what we buy, how we manage others) to the choices we make more broadly as human beings (whom we date, how we deal with friendships). She identifies the factors likely to sway decisions in wrong directions and how to correct for... View Details
  • 10 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 10

a comprehensive approach to understanding the drivers of firm location choices by modeling not only the impact of location and firm heterogeneity, but also the strategic interaction among firms. August 2013... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2011 (Revised November 2015)
  • Case

CFW Clinics in Kenya: To Profit or Not for Profit

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee
Ten years after having launched a chain of non-profit health clinics, its founder is now debating the merits of scaling the operation by converting to a for-profit enterprise. View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Model; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Transformation; For-Profit Firms; Health Industry; Kenya
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  • 20 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 20, 2008

Life-Cycle Funds Authors:Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract We investigate optimal consumption, asset accumulation and portfolio decisions in a realistically calibrated life-cycle model with flexible... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

(category demand expansion or market share stealing). To help brand managers make informed marketing mix decisions, it is essential that marketing mix models appropriately measure the different effects of marketing instruments. Discrete... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

innovations might impact—and be impacted by—workers, consumers, organizations, and society. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55845 March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Choice... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision

same choices in terms of open source and proprietary software. There is no simple ranking of open source and proprietary software, either in terms of the full costs of adoption or the quality of the software. The basic reason is that open... View Details
Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Mark Schankerman; Technology
  • 20 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

Competitiveness: Paths Forward," an HBS initiative, was an appearance by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, who was brought in by wheelchair but rose to his feet to speak about how the city could be a model for the nation. "I believe... View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette