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- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
real and sustainable; to decide how low a company must bid in order to win a competitive contract from a rival; to identify opportunities for internal cost reduction; to estimate, in the context of an...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
census. We document a shift to smaller shops following a 1996 regulatory change that increased the costs of opening large stores. Our analysis suggests that total factor productivity (TFP) of multi-store retail chains fell after the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
economic theory of the costs and benefits of corporate culture—in the sense of shared beliefs and values—in order to study the effects of 'culture clash' in mergers and acquisitions. I first use a simple...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2017
- Blog Post
The 23rd Annual Harvard Business School Tech Conference
key is to learn and keep marching forward. Throughout the day, the conference had many different panels. In order to expose the HBS community to trends in the technology space outside the U.S., the conference for the first time saw a...
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Technology
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
of at least 51 people in Panama after they ingested medicine made with diethylene glycol, an industrial chemical similar to antifreeze that a Chinese company used as a substitute for pharmaceutical-grade syrup. In June, officials at the National Highway Transportation...
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- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
currency. This reduced profitability because Clearwater's costs were in Canadian currency while its sales where largely in other currencies. The case also discusses the challenges of maintaining a sustainable fishery and uses the collapse...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019
It's been quite a year for HBS students, and as 2019 comes to a close we wanted to share some of the highlights from the MBA Voices Blog. In no particular order (since we love them all) here are the top 10 posts from 2019: How Being an...
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- 18 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East
orders, the relationship is yours to lose. Handing over the last mile to someone else would be a big mistake." Fortunately, bulk orders make it easy for BulkWhiz to justify deliveries. But it's the transparent data that gives the...
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- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
these models, the demand curve alone can be used to make welfare statements, a fact relied on by much empirical work. There is ample evidence, though, that people misuse care for a different reason: mistakes or "behavioral hazard." Much high-value care is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
garment factory owners engaged in cutthroat price competition to secure orders from Western manufacturer and retailer brands. These brands conveniently sourced their requirements at arm’s length through third-party intermediaries to avoid...
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- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
Rich with examples and thoroughly researched, Rethinking the MBA reveals why and how business schools must define a better pathway for the future. Order this book:...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
in-store, but rather by rebalancing its own revenue sources. Realizing that its manufacturers have the most to lose if customers can't try out their wares in store, Best Buy has begun charging shelving costs to electronics makers in View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
General Motor's Rick Sutton, the site manager for two Saginaw, MI, power-train plants employing 3,000 people. "The way I look at it is, in order to build pride, you have to have trust, and in order to...
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by Theodore Kinni
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Authors: Ferguson, Niall, and Moritz Schularick Publication: International Finance 14, no. 1 (2011) Abstract For the better part of the past decade, the world economy has been marked by an economic order that combined Chinese export-led...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
relatively cost efficient and scalable source of electricity. The reviews will happen across the world and each country will consider their own energy mix characteristics together with local sentiment." Todd was one of several...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
much bigger, which is the amount of time we are “on”—meaning at work or monitoring work remotely. Workaholics are nothing new in the managerial ranks, but technology has made a 24/7 connection to work the norm for many more people than ever before. What kind of...
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- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
order to reduce the technological and market risks, where reducing technological risk is of paramount importance. As a reward, pioneers ultimately realize a higher likelihood of acquisition, but among acquired firms, early entrants wait...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
gun restrictions. Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of Cost Transparency By: Mohan, Bhavya, Ryan W. Buell, and Leslie K. John Abstract—Firms do not typically disclose information on their costs to produce a...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
and conditions. Sophisticated consumers might try to game the system by posing as customers who failed to read the "small print." What exactly is a merchant to do when a consumer violates one of various small-print rules? Requiring customers to present...
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- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
from frustration with the existing supply, agreed the panelists. Entrepreneurship, in part, is the skill of connecting different patterns in order to create a product or service that's more useful and convenient, said Stephani Khurana...
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by Martha Lagace