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- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
think so. In this study, researchers looked at how the policy announcement affected the stock valuations of 471 Fortune 500 firms. “We find that the June 22 shock eroded the market valuation of the 471 companies in our sample by an... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
professionals can make and investments that only the firm can make, while at the same time minimizing distortions in decisions that either party could make (e.g., promotion and marketing of professionals' services, price setting, choice... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
enterprising companies, the current threats to market capitalism present vital opportunities. Drawing on discussions with business leaders around the world, the authors argue that companies must stop seeing themselves as bystanders and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
President Trump’s infrastructure plan and a counterproposal by Senate Democrats are rising toward the top of the national agenda. All agree that there is a pressing need to fix the collapsing bridges, potholed roads, crashing trains, and... View Details
- 02 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?
incompetent entrepreneur that wants to steal from the better firm and distort the market is accountable only to his bank account and ethics. So we need someone capable enough to make sure markets remain free... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
chosen strategy. By enabling an honest, organization-wide, and public conversation, senior management teams, working collaboratively with scholar-consultants and organizational members, have access to valid data (the unvarnished truth), can conduct a valid diagnosis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
Michael W. Toffel Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
supply chains, installing ERP (enterprise resource planning systems, as exemplified by SAP), and worrying about Y2K. The threat posed to our economy by Japan and Germany had eased, the stock market was going... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
Foreign investment in developing countries has always involved an element of risk. Just ask Verizon Communications, which could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in Venezuela should President Hugo Chávez follow through with plans... View Details
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
together. What's more, knowing whether two congressional members went to the same college can help predict the outcome of pending legislation on the Senate floor. “And so we got to thinking, if a school connection makes information flow so easily in informal... View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
planned to market internationally, had the potential to disrupt the global grocery retail market. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516059-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
own high-speed trains. I could list a dozen market categories where you'll find four, five, or six well-funded, well-organized, and savvy companies all pursuing this nearly identical strategy." While many of those firms are... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
success, market reaction, and merger waves. Offer prices are biased towards the 52-week high, a highly salient but largely irrelevant past price, and the modal offer price is exactly that reference price. An offer's probability of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
market failures that may arise. We explore these challenges and suggest an updated regulatory framework that is sufficiently flexible to allow software platforms to operate and deliver their benefits, while ensuring that service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
by venture groups in the upcoming years, as well as an imposition of tougher terms on venture groups by the institutions who are their primary sources of capital. At the same time, there have been some fundamental changes happening in the venture capital View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
in the capital structure of bankrupt firms according to their institutional type and track them from the initial filing until the vote on the plan of reorganization. We document several novel facts about the role of different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a randomized controlled trial, we examine whether access to and marketing of an individually held commitment savings product lead to an increase in female decision-making... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
the twentieth century, companies relied on a "full-service" agency for most or all of their advertising service needs, including both creative development and media planning and buying. Agencies were compensated primarily by commissions... View Details
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
disciplined firms are at the market and segment levels if the same focus and precision don't exist in customer choice as well," Narayandas points out. In the second phase, Narayandas identifies three key aspects of managing customer... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
proven business tactic. For every newsworthy instance of a corporation putting profit ahead of social good, there are multiple unheralded examples of companies using social good-oriented initiatives to expand their markets or enhance... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim