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- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
employee departure rates in stores where the manager is likely to be more informed than headquarters (e.g., in stores that are far from headquarters or that serve repeat customers). Download working paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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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- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
WhiteHarvard Business School Case 713-015 For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms-inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit, and growing dependence on China. Between...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
penalty for not achieving quota. We find unconditional compensation in the form of reciprocity to be effective at improving sales force performance only when given as a delayed reward of which the effectiveness decreases with repeated...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
we show that individuals who spend money on time-saving services report greater life satisfaction. A field experiment provides causal evidence that working adults report greater happiness after spending money on a time-saving purchase...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-078.pdf Deep Dives: The Role of Top Management in Linking Relevant Capabilities to Core Activities Authors:Howard H. Yu and Joseph L. Bower Abstract The inability of established firms to make necessary and obvious changes has been a...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
15% at some of the largest advisory firms. Roughly one-third of advisers with misconduct are repeat offenders. Prior offenders are five times as likely to engage in new misconduct as the average financial adviser. Firms discipline...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
markets? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708443 Canyon Johnson Urban Fund Harvard Business School Case 706-442 Basketball star Earvin "Magic" Johnson and K. Robert Turner,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
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, repeated assertions of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
unconditional compensation in the form of reciprocity to be effective at improving sales force performance only when given as a delayed reward of which the effectiveness decreases with repeated exposure. We also find heterogeneity in the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
not increase the quality of employee-company matches but is associated with relatively higher employee departure rates in stores where the manager is likely to be more informed than headquarters (stores that serve repeat customers, stores...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
continued to encounter conflict and resistance, but he kept repeating the balanced mantra, "No money, no mission," emphasizing the need to achieve harmony among these seemingly incompatible objectives. During the next three...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
under risk), one-shot decisions from experience, and repeated decisions from experience. Each competition was based on two experimental datasets: an estimation dataset and a competition dataset. The studies that generated the two datasets...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=25120&i=25122&cs=0b17ff7f3d16c64e4a6b72b71b876054 2013 pub Information and Subsidies: Complements or Substitutes? By: Ashraf, Nava, B. Kelsey Jack, and Emir Kamenica Abstract—Does providing...
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Anna Secino
- 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
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
She hopes the results make business leaders think twice about how they size up their customers and rely on previous purchases to predict the products they want. “For instance, imagine you see a person buy a plain black backpack,” she...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
who display stable INR over time. For complex anticoagulation patients, the total cost of medication and monitoring for warfarin anticoagulation therapy is similar to that for NOACs. Conclusion: Despite warfarin being significantly less expensive to View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
magnified in the online channel. Customer analysis suggests that opening retail stores paves the way for higher rates of customer acquisition and higher rates of repeat purchasing among existing customers in...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
Matthew, and Michael Ewens Abstract—This paper investigates whether individual venture capitalists have repeatable investment skill and to what extent their skill is impacted by the VC firm where they work. We examine a unique dataset...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
the prior year's stock selections, suggesting that investors believe that a successful process in one year is likely to be repeated the following year. We believe that these findings are particularly interesting given recent efforts to...
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Martha Lagace