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  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

boost earnings to meet earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a price to pay, with the cost in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

513-044 From modest beginnings as a cashew trader in Nigeria, Olam, founded by Indian nationals in 1989, has grown into a leading global agricultural trading company, with annual revenues of $14 billion. The company recently has begun... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

Corstjens and Rajiv Lal Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012) Abstract Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers the best opportunities for boosting View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

evidence and had grown very rapidly. With the firm's CFO, they believed that the firm could grow from $58 million to $72 million, a growth rate of 27% over the preceding year. However, the firm's 11 offices had submitted first draft FY 2010 plans that together added up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

recouple consumer activities or rebalance the revenues generated from each activity.   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 715-417 What Is Global? Allocating Products and Activities Across Locations No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

healthcare providers with revenue cycle management and population health management; the case provides an overview of both sectors. Conifer has been growing rapidly, leading some to question what the best relationship is for Tenet and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

Journal: Economic Policy The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying By: Kerr, William R., William F. Lincoln, and Prachi Mishra Abstract—How is economic policy made? In this paper we study a key determinant of the answer to the question: lobbying by firms. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

Overture (now part of Yahoo) and Google and present evidence of strategic bidder behavior in these auctions. Between June 15, 2002, and June 14, 2003, we estimate that Overture's revenue from sponsored... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

cashmere fibre (14 micrometers in diameter and 36 millimeters in length). It is estimated that only 2 out of 1,000 grams of cashmere measure up to the standard of 1436. Describing the brand evolution over its first 8 years of existence,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717430-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-033 A Note on Healthcare IT and Applications to the Healthcare Industry This note provides an overview of three key healthcare IT areas: electronic medical records and electronic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

of the information externality exceeds the subsidy that would be necessary to operate the service. We estimate each dollar spent on the service yields a $10 private return. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

and face disincentive effects from taxation but acquire positive benefits from public infrastructure. Political corruption governs the efficiency with which tax revenues are translated into infrastructure. The model predicts an inverted-U... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

many others. In fact, a recent estimate from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners indicates that U.S. businesses lose approximately 7 percent of their annual revenues to various forms of unethical... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

in designing and assessing policy. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54968 Large-Scale Demand Estimation with Search Data By: Amano, Tomomichi, Andrew Rhodes, and Stephan Seiler Abstract—Many online... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

estimates of real consumption across countries without the need for consumer price index extrapolations. We discuss advantages and limitations associated with the use of online prices for PPPs, including issues of representativeness and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

single year. This paper first documents that moves between paid work and self-employment are common and consistent with experimentation to learn about entrepreneurial earnings. This pattern motivates estimating the expected returns to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

stimulates greater use for a given buyer). We find that higher prices screen out those who use the product less. The amount paid does not have a psychological effect on use, but there is some evidence that the act of paying increases use. We use our data to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing

so—intercollegiate sporting events generated an estimated $2 billion in revenue and $1 billion in profit in 2010. Winning programs prosper in diverse ways including ticket and product sales, alumni... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Advertising; Sports
  • 16 May 2016
  • HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

period of flat revenues or declining revenues, that sends a message to everybody in the food industry ” China, for example, has seen its share of well-publicized cases of food contamination. In 2008, melamine was found in milk products... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

available to its customer-facing employees. In the spring of 2003, Bankinter introduced an Excel-based program called the Mortgage Simulator that helped branch managers calculate the price of a mortgage and estimate the customer lifetime... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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