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  • 28 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

clamped down. A lot of constraints were put on growth of companies, until Rajiv Gandhi became prime minister in 1984. Before that, a lot of multinationals—Coca Cola, Pepsi—decided to leave because the government wanted them to give a majority View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising
  • 21 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

door-to-door marketing of a home water purification solution. We find that higher prices screen out those who use the product less. By contrast, we find no consistent evidence of sunk-cost effects. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

(61%). Note that this 61% penetration rate is essentially at parity with home ownership (64%) and higher than that of 401(k) retirement account ownership (53%). Life settlements, or life insurance settlements, allow individuals to sell... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

customers on Valentine's Day, so we decided to offer the best customer service ever. We called every single customer and explained that our reshipment would be late. We sent a follow-up letter of apology from me and included a discount coupon on a future purchase. It... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

U.S. corporations, which enjoy ready access to the deepest capital markets in the world. Venture capital, for example, and the public equity markets that support it, has channeled money to innovative ideas that have transformed industries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

solvable roommate markets, we provide the first characterizations of the core using either competition or resource sensitivity. On the domain of all roommate markets, we obtain two associated impossibility results. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

with less efficient governments. The findings suggest that country-level factors have an economically significant impact on the rate of corporate profitability mean reversion. The study has implications for forecasting profitability and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

the board take into account? Bagley: The Business Roundtable is to be commended for its clear stand on the importance of selecting an ethical CEO. Anyone who ever wondered whether ethics matters need only look at the outflow of funds from the View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

Harvard Business School Note 706-044 Describes the emergence of several kinds of efforts to assure the safety of foreign investment in emerging markets: international arbitration, expanded official political risk insurance, credit from government agencies, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

& Course MaterialsFinancial Networks and Informal Banking in China: From Pawnshops to Private Equity Harvard Business School Note 809-111 Provides an analysis of why informal financial networks and institutions still play an extremely... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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