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- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
overview of key issues that Lebowitz and his team must consider as they plan for the firm's growth—how to raise capital, how to gauge the optimal size for the company, and how to manage an expanding staff. A major highlight of the case is...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2017
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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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
that even more than the student-to-teacher ratio, this is optimizing the student-to-valuable-time-with-the-teacher ratio. This model we’re experimenting with gels with the best learning experiences I had in my own public school in...
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- 23 Oct 2019
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After the Storm
optimism and tremendous focus. I went through the whole spectrum of feelings and emotions, but that was very necessary for me to get to a placewhere I could then lead with tremendous clarity. And that clarity was important, because when...
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- 11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11
theoretical and empirical investigation of the risks of globally diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds and of optimal intertemporal global portfolio choice for long horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and...
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- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
deliberate and optimal allocations to passive and highly skilled active investment vehicles, and they should eliminate commitments to structurally underperforming long-only active managers, unless the evidence of ability to generate alpha...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
regulators. Moreover, our findings highlight the trade-off between slow execution and potential information leakage in the decision of optimal trading speed. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55258 Summer...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
public finance, but it has been largely set aside in the modern theoretical approach to optimal income taxation, where welfarist objectives dominate. A prerequisite for that gap to close is the clarification of what benefit-based income...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
While this module is designed to be used alone, it is part of the Strategy Execution series. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117115-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-110 Strategy Execution Module 10: Using the Job Design View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
the code, which increases quality and value creation. Opened modules, however, are available for others to use free of charge. We derive the set of possibly optimal business models when the modules of the firm and the open source...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
distribution. We also find that households’ consumption is significantly more responsive to dividend payouts across all parts of the wealth distribution. Our findings are broadly consistent with near-rational behavior in which households View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21
optimal choice of proxy may vary across research settings. Our results illustrate how researchers can use our framework to critically evaluate and compare a growing body of ERPs. Download working paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2
downstream party's optimal sales effort and, as a consequence, lead to different order quantities. We provide a formal characterization of both effects, insight into how these effects interact, and information on which conditions the...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
"Profitability Optimization Model" (PROM) in the first half of the 1960s that appeared to explain a significant fraction of the variation in the return on investment afforded by its various businesses.20 Over time, like many...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
need help. The students also teach each other. So every student is working at their own pace, and time is freed up in class to work on more open-ended projects. We think that even more than the student-to-teacher ratio, this is optimizing...
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- 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
is mediated by perceptions that their own advice will not be followed. Advice seekers fail to anticipate this negative relational impact, exposing them to unanticipated adverse consequences of their advice-seeking decisions. These findings challenge previous...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
Calibrating the model to data from the Financial Accounts of the U.S., the optimal capital requirement is around 20%. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51305 Bias in Official Fiscal Forecasts: Can...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
correlation has implications for managerial actions regarding targeting and optimal discounting. We find that retailers can make misleading inferences about the impact of targeted discounts when they ignore cross-category effects in...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2020
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New News
going through the process of pricing discovery over time and optimizing for the best LTV to CAC [customer lifetime value to customer acquisition cost] ratio, which brings you to questions of scale. As of yesterday, we have over 8,000...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
transcend rational thinking." The course, which debuted in 1995, is designed to optimize the marketing efforts of entrepreneurs, who typically lack the time and resources for conventional marketing activity. The course is organized around...
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