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- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
financial services. Its user-friendly interface is designed so that customers only need to fill out one application for all the products it offers. The services that Wingspanbank offers include checking and saving accounts, bill paying,... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
provides one-stop shopping for financial services. Its user-friendly interface is designed so that customers only need to fill out one application for all the products it offers. The services that Wingspanbank offers include checking and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
a comprehensive sample of shareholder activism between 2004 and 2011, we find that directors are almost twice as likely to leave over a two-year period if the firm is the subject of a shareholder activist campaign. While it has been argued that proxy contests are an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in designing regulation. This study examines a unique energy efficiency standard for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
killing of Native American children in compulsory “residential schools” designed to destroy their culture, and the incarceration of Japanese Americans, you are not alone. The seeds of today’s inequalities were sown in events in the past... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
variables approach. The negative effect is strongest in poor countries, suggesting that high profits stymie economic development rather than enable it. Consistent with the rent-seeking mechanism of the model, we find that high rents are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
rate. We discuss the implications of our findings for retail inventory and assortment planning and for the design of retail stores. Working PapersDoes Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower
pollution and greenhouse gasses, block by block, and focuses on low income neighborhoods. Augmented Construction - this architecture and construction management firm is optimizing access to job specifications with cloud technology.... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
designed to enhance safety and effectiveness created a culture that unintentionally released men from societal imperatives for "manly" behavior, prompting them to let go of masculine-image concerns and to behave instead in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog
Management, Strategy Fall 2025 Q2 1.5 Livia Alfonsi Negotiation Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Tomomichi Amano IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem Strategy, Marketing January 2026 J 3.0 Innovation and Renovation: View Details
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
implications for the efficient targeting of social programs more generally. A key issue in this debate is whether higher purchase prices lead to more intensive product use and, therefore, greater health benefits. We present results from an experiment in Lusaka, Zambia,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
the case method to do some things that it's not designed to do." Adds Datar: "Figuring out the exact mechanisms for how we do that is the job ahead for the committee." For his part, Dean Light... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
Using a sample of commercial logo design competitions, and a novel, content-based measure of originality, I find that intensifying competition induces agents to explore novel, untested ideas over tweaking their earlier work, but heavy... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
most part, because committed mutual fund consumers are investors who hold portfolios of diversified securities and have long-term goals, they are less likely to engage in such frenetic trading. Instead, the Internet's real impact, according to Jay Light, will not be as... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
surprising that many retailers have adopted loyalty programs as a convenient mechanism of meaningful differentiation. Ultimately, loyalty programs should offer incentives for shoppers to reduce their store switching by offering them... View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
the resulting dual-process learning model experimentally, using a mixed-method design that combines two laboratory experiments with a field experiment conducted in a large business process outsourcing company in India. We find a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
following questions: Was Centerbridge valuing Great Wolf correctly? Would CMBS be the optimal financing structure, and why had no other firm contemplated this type of financing? Would the company, in partnership with Centerbridge, be able... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
inventing high-quality, cost-competitive products. One problem is that it's hard to tell when moving production far from R&D will do damage. To make that determination, we say that executives need to examine two things. The first is modularity, or the degree to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Beyond By Brooks Fenno (MBA 1962) Prime Publishing A Purposeful Life: Ages 80, 90 & Beyond offers a positive learning approach for optimizing our latter years, and is designed to be helpful in enriching and... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
and breadth is reconciled by the concept of related diversification (i.e., a firm with multiple operating units, each specializing in distinct but related activities). We consider whether there are similar benefits to related diversification within an operating unit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne