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- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
utilizes a very rare "no haggle pricing" strategy and extended sales cycle when selling pieces to collectors. Though it remains profitable and very respected, the size and scope of the gallery will be brought into question when...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
increased by 0.75 percentage points, increasing sales dispersion. Calibrating conventional inventory-ordering models, we show that to respond optimally to the observed increase in dispersion, the retailer would need to increase its cycle...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
organizations and in society disrupts the learning cycle at the heart of becoming a leader. Women must establish credibility in a culture that is deeply conflicted about whether, when, and how they should exercise authority. Practices...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Research Triangle in North Carolina think very hard about focus in order to create a virtuous cycle of complementary successful ventures. The results have been extraordinary. A generation ago, it would have seemed farfetched to predict...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
an economic analyst," states George B. Kaiser (MBA '66), president and CEO of Kaiser-Francis Oil Company, a private concern based in Tulsa. "Analytical skills are indispensable when it comes to understanding and projecting pricing cycles...
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- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
support to for-profit social enterprises, in the form of a debt or equity relationship. The idea is to recover a portion of that investment, at least 1x or 2x, and cycle it back into supporting other organizations. What I find interesting...
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by Julia Hanna
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
have been touched by the powerful winds of change. Widespread recessions are not new, of course. The United States, like most other industrial countries, has been buffeted by business cycles in different forms and to different degrees...
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- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
cycles could leave on rural and postindustrial America. And having taught special education at a high school on New Mexico’s Navajo Nation reservation as part of Teach For America after finishing his undergraduate degree, he understood...
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- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
can’t get the information (or skill or experience) in, and if you don't get sleep afterward you can’t make the information stay. What you need: The ideal amount of sleep varies for individuals—“enough” is what allows you to feel rested. Sleep needs to View Details
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
recommendations cover the entire hiring cycle in seven steps: anticipating the need for new hires, specifying the job, developing a pool of candidates, assessing the candidates, closing the deal, integrating the newcomer, and reviewing...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
policy resolution. In so doing, they engender excess burden. This paper posits, calibrates, and simulates a life cycle model with earnings, lifespan, investment return, and future policy uncertainty. It then measures the excess burden...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
mistaken idea that you can actually find ultimate satisfaction through success. Happiness science helps people break that cycle because it helps them to understand the nature of true satisfaction—how to get it and what true rewards should...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
the influx of U.S. and European venture capital firms over the past decade, “many went through boom-and-bust cycles and didn’t survive, or decided to withdraw,” explains Khanna. “Those that remain have stopped doing venture capital the...
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- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
politicians from politically contested areas are also more likely to turn to toxic loans. Using a difference-in-differences methodology, we show that politicians time the election cycle by implementing more transactions immediately before...
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
decades, we find that the firm internalized the broader social discourse through iterated cycles of analysis and action, punctuated by evolving beliefs about gender and work. Outside experts and shifting social understandings played...
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
virtuous cycles of exploitation and exploration by deliberately perturbing their own processes. We provide illustrations from Toyota and formulate testable hypotheses about the mechanisms of perturbation. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
property rights in developing countries on the level and composition of industrial development. We develop a North-South product cycle model in which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are all endogenous. Our model predicts...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Art Nature Business
expands his explorations in Solid Geometry . For example, in his 2019 exhibition Portrait of a Room , which was inspired by the water cycle that regulates life on the planet, some of the works change in relation to the climate of the...
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- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
for positions of international leadership in research and education. Bargains-then-ripoffs: Innovation, Pricing and Lock-in in Enterprise Software Author:Ian Larkin Periodical:Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (2008). Abstract In industries with quick...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
ruling radical left-wing SYRIZA party. During the campaign, Mitsotakis pledged to bulldoze the barriers that have long made Greece a difficult place to do business and set spinning a virtuous cycle of foreign and domestic investment, job...
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Jen McFarland Flint