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- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
a bet that the global economy will be in a better position in 20 or 30 years than it is today” The other possibility for increased market correlation is not because national economies have become more intrinsically similar, but because investing has become more global... View Details
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
more uniform than they are. With “one best price,” only firms with excellent management practices would thrive. But if hospital prices have a wide range—even for the same service—then managerial quality can be very uneven. Sadun: Of... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
are overly sympathetic to management, while still technically independent according to regulatory definitions. We explore a subset of independent directors for whom we have detailed, micro-level data on their views regarding the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
advertising be effective? If friends influence the purchases of a user in a social network, it could potentially be a significant source of revenue for the sites and their corporate sponsors. Using a unique data set from Cyworld, this... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
The past 10 years have seen some level of this direct marketing model bear out. But according to an HBS working paper to be published in the Journal of Interactive Marketing, consumers are using technology to learn about marketers, rather... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
specialized intermediaries emerges over decades to address these issues. There might be auction houses for the wholesaling of goods, companies that specialize in gathering price data for various commodities, others that authenticate the... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
was positively related to the decision to commercialize, the researchers discovered. While men proved more likely to commercialize social ventures overall, the difference decreased in communities with high levels of female business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 13
Internet channel to a retail store channel should produce different effects than adding a retail store to the Internet channel. To test our theory, we analyze a unique data set from a high-end retailer using matching methods. Unlike... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
which is good news for the industry because it helps save on fixed cost. But unfortunately, the level of sales that today’s blockbusters achieve is disappointing when compared with earlier hits.” Given the trends documented in Elberse and... View Details
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
commercial dating sites. What they found was a high level of dissatisfaction. "People spent hours and hours and hours a week online to generate one cup of coffee with one person. That's not a very good system," says Norton.... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
with data about the relative importance of courses and (2) to provide faculty with information about how to improve the curriculum and best advise students. The most salient result is that students were strongly advised to study... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
It's a startling idea: Instead of relying on regulators to protect our privacy against telemarketers, data miners, and consumer companies, we should capitalize on the value of our personal information and get something of value in return.... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
Internet-based companies like Google record every click and keystroke of every customer, analyzing the data to continuously improve their products and marketing. Customers are courted and supply chains are managed via websites, social... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19
insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor market insurance mechanisms. Venture capital investors are especially sensitive to these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
should be able to command more compensation, but never tried to see if that was true. So I decided to collect data on the executives in new ventures and on the ventures themselves, to see what the real story was. My dataset for this... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
primarily to beat price reductions out of the supplier. This problem will persist unless senior retail executives work to reset employees' expectations and incentives at the working level when they forge what they see as a strategic... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
Publication:Social Choice and Welfare (forthcoming) Abstract We take a decision theoretic approach to the classic social choice problem, using data on the frequency of choice problems to compute social choice functions. We define a family... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
as to how to improve the link between high level corporate strategy and the marketing function. Selecting the wrong metrics can actually cause firms to lose ground with customers. First, participants are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
force them to move production destined for China to somewhere else. Such unintended consequences make businesses uneasy. Firms conduct business under a set of accepted rules, just like athletes want to compete on a View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications