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- 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23
that pursue a social mission through the use of market mechanisms. These hybrid organizations, often referred to as social enterprises, combine aspects of both charity and business at their core. In this paper we distinguish between two...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
favor of the client, criminal cases in which advisors were found guilty, and any firing for cause. The findings are contained in the forthcoming paper The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct, scheduled to be published in the Journal...
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- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
entertainment: building a business around blockbuster products-the movies, television shows, songs, and books that are hugely expensive to produce and market-is the surest path to long-term success. Along the way, I reveal why entertainment executives often spend...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.' " For the past several decades Silk has devoted himself to prying open the black box, understanding the economics underlying the work advertising agencies...
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- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Star-Kist was under fire because its fishing practices for tuna in the eastern tropical Pacific involved accidental deaths of many dolphins, since tuna typically swim under schools of dolphins. Preliminary marketing research confirmed...
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
research on financial markets and regulation and who, in many cases, have held leadership positions in the financial sector, think about the bill and its intended (and unintended) consequences? Below, HBS faculty members Robert Steven...
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- 29 Sep 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property
percent over the 2002-2007 period. Since 2000, the annual release of new albums has more than doubled, and worldwide feature film production since 2003 is up by more than 30 percent. How markets for complementary goods (such as concerts,...
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- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
Talk of the recent financial crisis often falls into a simplistic narrative of villainous banks, marketing toxic financial products to innocent customers who did not understand their risks. Among the storied victims are municipal...
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- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
election, the Athens stock market index is down by almost 20 percent and the bank index by 45 percent. Investors, which are so badly needed in order to restart the Greek economy, are fleeing the country expecting that the economy will get...
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by George Serafeim
- 26 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time
also provides a visual progress cue, as borrowers see purchases vanish from their statements. Norton worked on the project with Grant E. Donnelly, an assistant professor at Ohio State University; Cait Lamberton, a marketing professor at...
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- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
CEO Corie Barry, who says that making money is the company’s business imperative, not its purpose. Barry explains how the company manages to balance pursuing its mission of enriching people’s lives through technology while also focusing...
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by Ranjay Gulati
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
constrained by its prior thinking about the industry and what its strengths were. It sort of said, "We have a razor/razorblade business model, and the way that we make money is through selling film, so we need to find a way to...
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- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
I see the Open Source Application Foundation (OSAF) as an example of the next wave. Mitch Kapor, a successful venture capitalist who founded Lotus Software, invested $5 million of his own money into building a personal-information...
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by Mallory Stark
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
in the world is crazy." It's evident in labor markets, where the case of India and the software industry is just one example of how incredibly active things are right now. "Of course, the idea market is what scares us all,"...
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by Kenneth Liss
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
"hot" financial markets to get through the initial period of diffusion. Our work underscores that financial markets may play a much larger and under-studied role in creating and magnifying bubbles...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
just on clicks and not on calls and direction requests, I’d be less inclined to think that Yelp ads work for these businesses.” Ad effectiveness best for small businesses In recent years, internet advertising has become the fastest-growing View Details
- 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007
Working PapersStrategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016
forthcoming World Scientific Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets By: Iyer, Lakshmi Abstract—Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
the efforts of Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, to improve liquidity in money markets during the subprime crisis. The case explains the four main new tools for monetary policy (or quantitative...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
fuel, (2) they equate cost with quality, turning the idea of rational markets upside down, (3) individuals' decisions regarding wellness affect the rest of us, (4) rationing is necessary but difficult to achieve, (5) there is an agency...
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