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- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
an important factor in explaining cross-sectional variation in the loan interest rate and covenant structure. Our results indicate that two channels allow leveraged buyouts sponsored by private equity firms to receive favorable loan terms. First, bank relationships...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
Ann Leamon Abstract—In the past two decades, patents of inventions related to financial services ("finance patents"), as well as litigation around these patents, have surged. One of the repeated concerns voiced by academics and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East
value" with her professional ambition to "close the data gap working with advertisers." Amira arrived at a concept that would personalize the shopping experience by concentrating on the virtual shopping list, a personal convenience that recognized...
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- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
comparisons based on independent performance evaluations. (Although for online purchases, as for catalog purchases, brand names help consumers infer certain aspects of quality or fit, especially for consumers making repeat purchases.)...
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- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
incident of misconduct, female advisers are 20% more likely to lose their jobs and 30% less likely to find new jobs relative to male advisers. Females face harsher outcomes despite engaging in misconduct that is 20% less costly and having a substantially lower...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
Hanna Hałaburda Abstract In this paper we address the question of learning in a two-sided matching mechanism that utilizes the deferred acceptance algorithm. We consider a repeated matching game where at each period agents observe their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
participating firms' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a discount voucher service can benefit affiliated firms: price discrimination and advertising. For vouchers to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
in support of eight things that great service leaders know and do. Great service leaders know that (1) leading a breakthrough service is different, and they take steps to ensure repeated memorable service encounters; (2) customers buy...
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
way a centralized clearinghouse can fix them, and the effects on market outcomes. In the conclusion we discuss aspects of the experience of the gastroenterology labor market that seem to generalize fairly widely. Purchase the paper from...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 29, 2007
first, should Schibsted allow Google to crawl its online news sites in Scandinavia? Second, were Schibsted's successes within Scandinavia repeatable outside it? Indeed, how far could Schibsted's competitive advantage travel? View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
company. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/719456-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-038 Index In December 2017, Marc Freed-Finnegan and Jonathan Wall, the co-founders of retail technology company Index, had to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
ad auctions as a dynamic game of incomplete information, so we can study the convergence and robustness properties of various strategies. In particular, we consider best-response bidding strategies for a repeated auction on a single...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
on a sustained and balanced growth trajectory? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715008-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-078 Ghurka Ghurka was a 38-year-old luxury leather goods brand that specialized in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
intellectual-property lawsuits by practicing entities (e.g., IBM and Intel) nor of any other type of litigation against firms. We find further suggestive evidence of NPE opportunism: targeting of firms that have reduced ability to defend themselves, View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
poor execution. For example, the Checkout Channel repeated its broadcasts every ten minutes. That was just about the right length of time for consumers, who spend an average of eight minutes waiting in the checkout line. However, it...
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- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
evidence of NPE opportunism: targeting of firms that have reduced ability to defend themselves, repeated assertions of lower-quality patents, increased assertion activity nearing patent expiration, and forum shopping. We find moreover...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
specifically, we show how forgetting in a firm's ongoing rhetorical history-here, the bulletins' repeated omission of contradictory elements in the firm's past (i.e., structural omission) or attempts to neutralize them with valued...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
Buyers are more apt to use a product right after they purchase it, a fact you need to ponder as you consider how to keep customers coming back for more. In this e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge's Manda Mahoney, Harvard Business...
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by Manda Mahoney
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
startup in the face of fierce competition. From 2011 through 2016, the business evolved from a hobby to a startup with $22 million in revenue and 45 employees, all of whom worked remotely from home. Customer acquisition was becoming more difficult and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
latter's poor behavior in other relationships is unlikely to have much marginal effect. We test the resulting hypotheses by examining how a venture capital firm's reputation for unreliability, triggered by repeated withdrawals from...
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Sean Silverthorne