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- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
Search, a Google travel search service, we identify and measure the impact of diverting search away from non-paid algorithmic links to competing online travel agencies. Controlling for search intent, we find that Google's differential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 22
PublicationsPathologies of Online Display Advertising Marketplaces Author:Benjamin Edelman Publication:ACM Sigecom Exchanges, June 2010 Abstract Much has been written about online search advertising, where... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
transaction data from a Japanese bank's home loan application processing line. We find that over the course of a single day, specialization, as compared to variety, is related to improved worker productivity. However, when we examine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
oneself is also a purely positive proposition (that says nothing about what that commitment should be other than it be bigger than oneself). Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1850544 Cases & Course... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
who need them, especially among vulnerable populations. Racial inequities, laid bare by the pandemic, and social unrest provoked by recent police killings have escalated tensions. In the course of writing Problem Solving: HBS Alumni... View Details
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
Strategy and Entrepreneurship—Course Architecture Note faculty namesHarvard Business School Course Overview 911-069 This note provides an overview of the Harvard Business School course "The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
Working PapersHighbrow Films Gather Dust: A Study of Dynamic Inconsistency and Online DVD Rentals Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
messages I received were that if leadership involves control, it is only over setting an organization's course and priorities." HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't) For HBS professor Andrew McAfee, Wikipedia is a surprisingly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
two-week online contest broadcast to participants outside academia and biomedical disciplines. Participants in our contest produced over 600 submissions containing 89 novel computational approaches to the problem. Thirty submissions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
tax rates at high incomes are lower than in standard analysis and closer to those observed in policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-064.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsHome Depot and Interconnected Retail José... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
modern organization is less and less about looking inward and creating strong teams inside the company and more about teaming across boundaries—that often are in flux. Extreme Teaming is a must-read book for all courses related to leading... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
changes in financing constraints. Cases & Course Materials Avid Radiopharmaceuticals and Lighthouse Capital Partners Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Ann LeamonHarvard Business School Case 810-054 In fall 2008, a venture lender must decide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
long-tail view suggests that consumers will purchase an increasing number and a wider variety of videos, everything from Hollywood classics to obscure foreign films. Long-tail proponents believe that consumers have very different tastes, and View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
Working PapersTo Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts Authors:Benjamin Edelman, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract We examine the profitability and implications of online discount vouchers, a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4
reformulated in light of the new data, methodology, and findings presented in this study. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-072.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsReal Blue? Viagra and Intellectual Property Rights Law... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
Abstract We study the effect of small windfalls on consumer-spending decisions by examining the purchasing behavior of a sample of online grocery shoppers over the course of a year. We compare the purchases... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
their appeal and bundles offered by producers with a strong reputation suffer less from the negative impact of the shift to mixed bundling in online channels. What Would Peter Say? The Continuing Relevance of the Drucker Perspective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
Leading in the 21st Century is an HBS Executive Education program being held in January 2000. Professors Gary Hamel and John Kotter talk about the course and the new realities of leadership and competitive success. Q: What led the two of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
conditions in 1994 to instrument for incumbent conditions in 2000-2005. The results highlight that the traits of business owners in incumbent industrial structures influence the types of entrepreneurs supported. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
says. “We wanted to see if just making the notion salient that your donation could be better would be sufficient to trigger an excuse not to give at all.” Using the online marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk, Exley and Kessler set up an... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding