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- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
information is aggregated is a central decision faced by consumer review websites. Given a set of reviews, what is the optimal way to construct an average rating? We offer a structural approach to answering... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
Working PapersSecuring Jobs or the New Protectionism? Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms Author:Mihir A. Desai Publication:(Forthcoming in Tax Notes) Abstract Tax policy toward American multinational firms would appear to be View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
"advanced leadership" in a complex social system such as a community or region. There was no central leader; instead there was a collection of coalitions and collaborative activities that contributed to the end result. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
We develop a model of the productive opportunity space for SEOs as a basis and an inspiration for further scholarly inquiry. Order the book: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0733-558x&volume=33 Egalitarianism, Cultural Distance, and FDI: A New View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
centralized and collocated R&D team, are rapidly becoming outdated. Instead, innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, selected for their unique capabilities, and operating in a coordinated manner. This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
approach to the “pitch or spec” dilemma by constructing a model that links this choice to writers’ past experience and their confidence level about this particular idea. The model also predicts the average quality of ideas offered for... View Details
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
Immigration will be a central issue in the upcoming US presidential election, just as it motivated the recent snap elections in France. After all, the number of migrants rose 27 percent to 281 million globally in 2020, compared with 2010,... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
approach is through Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs), a resource that enables employees to reach out confidentially for assistance on any number of issues—stress management, finances, or life changes, alongside more serious issues such... View Details
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
selling accounted for Barack Obama's victories in the 2008 and 2012 elections. Advertising was critical only in a close election—George W. Bush's (HBS MBA '75) victory in 2004. There was no one-size-fits-all marketing approach that swayed... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
http://www.smi.ethz.ch/news/news/docs/ResearchAlive.pdf An Organizational Approach to Undoing Gender: The Unlikely Case of Offshore Oil Platforms Authors:R. Ely and D. E. Meyerson Publication:Research in Organizational Behavior 30 (2010)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
50 employees) but was poised for significant growth. For founder and CEO Michael Lebowitz, the central challenge was to figure out whether and how the agency could retain its boutique culture while transcending its boutique size. The case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
them. Our approach can also help retailers design discounts that better serve their objectives. Q: You recommend that retailers disallow the purchase of multiple discount vouchers from a single customer, or else run the risk that the... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
decision strategic and what makes strategy valuable, the paper considers the effect of commitment, reliability, and irreversibility of a decision; the presence of uncertainty (and the type of uncertainty); the number and strength of its interactions and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
heart and injecting cold fluid. So health care has always been 15 years behind, and it has remained phenomenally behind. Even after this worldwide explosion of technology, everyone just continues to approach it in kind of a random motion:... View Details
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
perspectives, and it's aimed at the general manager. Participants acquire a set of principles and perspectives for looking at the pieces of the supply chain and understanding how to develop an approach or system that enables their supply... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
Business, Government and the International Economy required course as well as a course on Managing Regulation, Deregulation and Privatization. His research work focuses on privatization and on the interaction between private enterprise and the state. Current research:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
it, sell it only online? If not, what is the requisite assortment we should carry? What's the appropriate pricing in the store? They decided on a limited assortment in-store, that is mostly private label and where price comparison is not possible. Jose Alvarez: This... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
copied the sales approach of Kut-Price. Gleason ultimately bought out the Kut-Price store and liquidated its merchandise, but only after McMaster had left town. To further the cause, in 1929 Gleason found an ally in W. Bruce Philip, a San... View Details
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
supermarket, stopping to linger as long as they wanted or moving as quickly as they wished. A one-size-fits-all approach to health care doesn’t work. ©iStock/AndreyPopov “There is more choice available to the consumer than ever before,... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
Authors:Diwas KC, Bradley R. Staats, and Francesca Gino Abstract Learning from past experience is central to an organization's adaptation and survival. A key dimension of prior experience is whether an outcome was successful or... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel