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  • 05 Dec 2007
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing

Networked Customers? How Do You Value a 'Free' Customer? Sometimes a valuable customer may be the person who never buys a thing. Professor Sunil Gupta discusses how to assess the profitability of a View Details
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

American Dream

ice-cream fountain boasts a marble counter, and customers eat 100 percent buffalo burgers in a walnut-paneled dining room hung with original oil paintings by Western artists. In another part of the store, there are 1,400 historical photos... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Accommodation; Hospitality
  • Profile

Hiroshi Mikitani

followed that path, he said later. In Rakuten, which means “optimism” in Japanese, Mikitani foresaw a way to revitalize Japan’s sagging economy by helping small business owners find a profitable presence on the Internet.... View Details
  • 11 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

is required,” Sunderam says. That type of “soft” information can make a difference for loans that require human discretion—applications that the automated system sends back for further analysis by a loan officer. Minority loan officers... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 11 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

own profits when one side is subsidized in equilibrium. By contrast, if platforms make positive margins on both sides, the same investment has the regular, expected effects. Our analysis implies that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets

Chairman of Nalli Silk Sarees, explains how his grandfather's commitment to honesty in business has been handed down through the generations, and how it has helped to engender customer trust and loyalty. Rahul Bajaj Rahul Bajaj Chairman... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

"Economists are puzzle solvers..."

they really need to be able to analyze what the chances are that the mortgage will be prepaid - in other words, what the risk is to them. What our analysis did, in addition to improving the means to price options, was to provide a way to... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

Enron’s Legacy

Private-equity boards are typically composed of members with substantial wealth at risk. Private-equity boards know how to structure financial incentives that deter reckless gambling and reward profitable growth. Private-equity boards... View Details
Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Enron; Finance
  • 25 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

or she will pay. The study, Consumer Protection In An Online World: An Analysis Of Occupational Licensing, is the first to look together at what consumers care about and the effects on demand and metrics of View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service
  • 29 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

not commercialize the innovations. It was Steve Jobs and his Apple team that saw the possibilities during visits in 1979 and made them the cornerstone of the Macintosh. In other words, while Xerox may have invented many wonderful things, it did not necessarily View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • 28 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 28

  PublicationsManager-Specific Effects on Earnings Guidance: An Analysis of Top Executive Turnovers Authors:Francois Brochet, Lucile Faurel, and Sarah McVay Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2016
  • News

Smart Moves

lot of our business involves selling the data we gather to governments and corporations.” In fact, much of what INRIX has achieved is classic disruption, taking over the roadway data gathering and analysis that previously was done by... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation
  • 16 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices-such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation-and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have trouble... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 22

and overly restricting access to credit and consumer choice. Nicolas Retsinas, Eric Belsky, and their colleagues aim to stimulate debate based on analysis of the opportunities and challenges presented by the various components of global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 3

Brightwork Brand Holdings Corp. acquired it as an asset purchase in 2011. Ghurka, under CEO John Reuter, worked to re-launch the brand with a ten-year, three-phase growth plan. The company aimed to be profitable by 2016. Management worked... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

profits at the extensive rather than the intensive margin, outperforming competitors by attracting a larger customer base. And fourth, higher competition intensity need not improve consumer privacy when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2005
  • Article

Increasing Exploration: Evidence from International Expansion

By: Juan Alcacer, Heather Berry and Wilbur Chung
While firms balance exploitation and exploration to maximize profits, specifics of how firms pursue this balance are scarce. We focus on how firms increase their exploration after obtaining greater capabilities and experience via sequential international expansion.... View Details
Keywords: Price Bubble; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Industry Growth; Research and Development; Profit; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Disruptive Innovation; Five Forces Framework; SWOT Analysis; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; United States
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  • 25 Jun 2018
  • Blog Post

The Internship Search: “Is this just a personal interest, or is there a real professional opportunity here?”

end of January, he had secured an offer from Barry’s to serve as a business analysis consultant. “It’s a cross-functional role working with the head of customer insights,” says Aaron. “I’ll be working on... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • 05 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Understanding the Process of Innovation

prostituted into something lackluster, or by which the wrong idea gets put forward." Break the innovative process down and analyze each component, Christensen recommends. That will help you understand "where the competitive advantages lie." His View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gray
  • Fast Answer

Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship

2019-2020 report has a section on African-American consumers. Consumer & Business Demographics Demographic profiles of potential target customers including jobs and occupations, educational attainment, employment status,... View Details