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- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
shopping environment. We build a demand model in which consumers choose how to allocate their spending over different product categories to maximize their direct utility under contingent free shipping. We estimate model parameters using... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
over 80 of her lipsticks to the luncheon as table gifts. Unlike most lipsticks at the time, these were housed in metal cases. Lunch guests noticed the unusual packaging and the lipstick's color and texture. As the event broke up, Fiske... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
housing policy. Our counterfactual simulations estimate that relaxing GSE eligibility requirements would have significantly increased refinancing activity in response to QE1, including a 20% increase in equity extraction by households.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
values - of identifying them, communicating them, demanding compliance to them, and living them. Wagoner: Be on top of your business and know what's going on. If you don't know how you're making money, you could be in for a big surprise.... View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
further, the researchers ran the experiment again, except this time they added another twist. Four different fraternities took part, each knowing that the other three were competing, too. Before the experiment, each brother received a note from his View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
have another car blow up or another thing on the house that goes wrong. We’re not on the razor’s edge by any means, but...we go to reunions, and of course you know some classmates are pretty well off, and sometimes they’ll confide in me... View Details
- 10 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
relationships that are more intense and involve joint value creation. "The shift," they continue, "represents an opportunity to magnify the social value and the benefits to the partners, but carries with it greater challenges and managerial View Details
- Web
Democratizing development: Inequality in Latin America | Institute for Business in Global Society
protests in October 2019, as its citizens demanded reforms across healthcare and education systems, and protested inequality and rising costs of living. Although business drove growth, it was also the sector that had escaped the troubles... View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders
their family after years spent working in house cleaning and other physically demanding jobs . He decided to stay in the US “I loved it here, this was home now,” he explained. So Westphal stayed on his own... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
sugarcoated: balancing the challenges of a demanding career with motherhood. "You've got three choices," Hunt tells her students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she runs the Women and Public Policy Program. "You can go... View Details
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
years, I believe I have a clear sense of the state of corporate governance in the United States and in much of Western Europe. Not surprisingly, my crystal ball for predicting future developments and demands on boards cannot be so clear.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
opportunity came knocking four years later when college fraternity brother William F. (“Rick”) Cronk (AMP 92, 1983), with whom he shared the daily commute, invited Rogers to join him as a partner in a restaurant venture. Rogers hesitated but eventually left McKinsey to... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52166 Harvard Business School Case 317-034 La-Z-Boy (A) Kurt Darrow, CEO of La-Z-Boy furniture, must decide whether to continue an overhaul of the company's strategy in the face of a collapse in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52102 forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Credit-Induced Boom and Bust By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Amir Kermani Abstract—Can a credit expansion induce a boom and bust in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
John F. Kennedy School of Government, presented the second scenario, a view of a world where "the demands of networks in houses are as different as their floor plans" and where "there are a range of options... View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
Wall Street. Though many believe this happens because firms have a "fiduciary duty" to maximize shareholder returns, U.S. executives do not, as a matter of law, have any such obligation. Yet it's hard for them to resist demands... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
of capital within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus, as shaped by the demand for and supply of financial information, is on the use of the income statement and balance sheet for performance measurement and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
conference in December 2008, Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, told several hundred prominent board members that he couldn’t conceive of how they might do their jobs successfully:... View Details
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni
12:00pm (noon) ET Apply to GO:ASIA Demand for the program (i.e., the size of the applicant pool and availability of funds) determines the number of GO: ASIA Fellowships granted each year as well as the amount of each fellowship award.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
behavior. Then we can understand that rationality also includes things that were once considered irrational, such as altruism or sacrifice in the interest of the greater good. The Economics of Housing Finance Reform Authors:David S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne