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- 05 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers
relatively quickly at the consumer level,” Cavallo says. “That didn’t happen.” Instead, companies seemed to adopt a wait-and-see attitude with the trade war, frontloading some purchases before the tariffs took effect to minimize their effects, and View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
Author:Andrei Hagiu Abstract This paper provides a simple model of two-sided platforms, in which one side (W) values not just the quantity (i.e., number) of users on the other side (M), but also their average quality in some dimension. In this context, platforms might...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
It’s never been easy to make money in the restaurant industry. A highly fragmented sector dominated by 70 percent independent owners and operators, the average restaurant’s annual revenue hovers around $1 million and generates an operating View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
insufficient) risk, forgo profitable projects, and ignore the cost of capital. We describe the causes of the problems associated with widely prevalent executive bonus plans and offer our recommendations for fixing them. We focus on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Moreover, we find that contingent free shipping shifts demand to more popular products and that the effects of category-level price changes on profits depends on the active shipping policy. Our findings...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
issues of econometric and scientific uncertainty. As a result, the basis for the broader legitimacy of the WTO is shifting from questions of representation that have long drawn attention to epistemic issues, especially concerning the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—In the presence of managerial short-termism and asymmetric information about skill and effort provision, firms may opportunistically shift earnings from uncertain to more certain times. We document that firms...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2022
- Book
5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries
Group, formed in 1945 as a builder of utility vehicles and now a conglomerate spanning a number of industries, helps educate 90,000 girls in schools each year. “That's a very important thing,” says Jones, “that a company can allocate resources to try and View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
performance indicators that shifts strategic decision making to customer-facing edges of the organization. Others advocate less sweeping but still significant changes: Housing the budgeting and strategic planning functions in one office,...
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by Loren Gary
- 27 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall
patients. “The extremely high profit margins in medical devices offers a setting in which the risks are often overwhelmed by the potential rewards to innovate, especially when competitors face their own product failures,” according to the...
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- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
follow a herd mentality, as do most fund managers of any sort. When they all go long, the market rises—when they all go short, it falls. They tend to go one way, then the next—and the market experiences violent shifts from day to day, but...
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
taking the subject as given, they explore it as politically constituted. If “the market” is neither a discrete phenomenon nor marginal to human experience, then basic structures of governance become important. Rather than assuming that exchange for View Details
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Manufacturing
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
for very long. After all, an outsourcer of these services enjoys economies of scale that virtually no internal support unit can hope to match. An outsourcer can shift operations to the lowest-cost regions of the world, such as India or...
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- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
(virtually) talked with more than 50 “resilient” businesses across a variety of countries and sectors. The results of this exploration show that managers are trying to ensure safety and maintain profitability with tremendous energy and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
homogeneous Europe.” CJL stated the issue with correlation this way: “Maybe organizations with an edge in their markets are more profitable and therefore can afford to devote more effort to diversifying their workforce.” Another issue is...
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by James Heskett
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
77 percent of its profits from outside North America. But Goizueta's strategy soon ran into trouble, due in large part to the Asian currency crisis. By the end of 1999, when Douglas Daft took the reins, earnings had slumped, and Coke's...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
construction technologies, residential and commercial buildings remain stubbornly energy inefficient. This book looks beyond the technological and material aspects of green construction to examine the cultural, social, and organizational View Details
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Anna Secino
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
mean? Desai: People think finance and accounting are fundamentally the same when, in fact, much of the finance approach is a reaction against accounting. If you take the information problem as central, then measuring cash becomes important, as View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?
concept that has been used to describe phenomena in which retailers use low-price strategies to build market share, to the point where the goal shifts from attracting new customers to building margins and View Details
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
combination of both. In my framework, there are four types of innovation. Routine innovation builds upon a company’s existing technological competencies and exploits the existing business model. Disruptive innovation, a concept made popular by my colleague Clayton...
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by Martha Lagace