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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

The Effect of Supply Chain Complementarities on Local Food

By: Baris Ata, Deishin Lee and Mustafa H. Tongarlak
We study the operational tradeoffs of a retailer and farmers in a fresh produce supply chain to determine the equilibrium supply chain structure. These operational tradeoffs arise as a result of the geographic constraints posed by the availability of arable land and... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Food; Supply Chain; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit

    Abstract: We study the impact of the minimum wage on firm exit in the restaurant industry, exploiting recent changes in the minimum wage at the city level. The evidence suggests that higher minimum wages increase overall exit rates for restaurants. However, lower... View Details
    • 01 Feb 2002
    • News

    You Can Bank on This

    The rise and fall of the Dow has been variously correlated to hemlines, Christmas tree sales, Super Bowl results, and tea leaves. But Ray Soifer (MBA '65), chairman of Soifer Consulting, a firm that focuses on global financial services,... View Details
    Keywords: Wall Street; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and Adjustment Behavior

    By: David F. Drake
    In an experimental newsvendor setting we investigate three phenomena: Level behavior — the decision-maker's average ordering tendency; adjustment behavior — the tendency to adjust period-to-period order quantities; and observation bias — the tendency to let the degree... View Details
    Keywords: Cost; Consumer Behavior; Decision Making; Prejudice and Bias; Profit
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    • 01 Mar 2018
    • News

    Case Study: On the Record

    well as a strategic one. The tactical question is around the math of making added investments and the short-term impact it would have on more volume and perhaps more margin. Assuming the answer is a good one, the strategic question would... View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • 01 Mar 2019
    • News

    The One That Got Away

    percent or more. But VCs and entrepreneurs are human—and with the US startup failure rate hovering at around 60 percent (according to a 2015 Cambridge Associates study) those home runs are far from the norm. That makes it even more gut-wrenching to have passed View Details
    • 04 Apr 2019
    • Blog Post

    Finding Your Creative Outlet on Campus

    pursuing their hobbies. Isabel Yap knew how important it was for her to have a creative outlet on campus, so she ultimately decided to join a group of fellow podcasters, journalists, and creatives to run the second season of the We Are... View Details
    • May 2014
    • Article

    Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and Adjustment Behavior

    By: Nils Rudi and David Drake
    In an experimental newsvendor setting we investigate three phenomena: level behavior—the decision-maker's average ordering tendency; adjustment behavior—the tendency to adjust period-to-period order quantities; and observation bias—the tendency to... View Details
    Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Behavior; Logistics; Decision Making
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    • March 13, 2023
    • Article

    Sales Teams Need to Stop Focusing on the Customer Funnel

    By: Frank V. Cespedes
    Understanding where customers are, how they navigate streams in your market, and how to interact with them in a given stream is now central to crafting a good customer experience, and that has implications. Among other things, companies need to shift from thinking... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Experience; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Relationship Management; Consumer Behavior
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    • 6 Jul 2021
    • Interview

    Best Buy's Hubert Joly on Walking the Talk of Stakeholder Capitalism

    By: Hubert Joly and Alison Beard
    Hubert Joly, former chairman and CEO of Best Buy, says that now is the time for companies to get serious about operating to benefit not just shareholders but also employees, customers and broader society. In the face of environmental crisis, racial turmoil, and rising... View Details
    Keywords: Stakeholder Capitalism; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Mission and Purpose; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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    • February 2009 (Revised June 2010)
    • Background Note

    Note on Valuing Control and Liquidity in Family and Closely Held Firms

    Most companies around the world are family controlled and/or closely held. The need to value these companies routinely arises in practice for a variety of reasons, e.g., to buy out minority shareholders; for gift and estate tax purposes; to tie executive compensation... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Financial Liquidity; Governance Controls; Valuation
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    • 01 Aug 2016
    • Blog Post

    Reflecting on the Value of an MBA

    investments in future payoffs.  This is where the call option comes in. In the second-semester Finance course, you’re introduced to the Black-Scholes method of option pricing. I'll leave the specifics to your professor, but the intuition is this: you spend money to... View Details
    • 17 Oct 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

    curing societal ills. In reality, though, the line between the two is growing blurrier. "In the not-for-profit sector, a number of organizations are trying to be less dependent on donations and grants," says Julie Battilana, an associate... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

      Will a Five-Minute Discussion Change Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Voter Choice in France

      This paper provides the first estimate of the effect of door-to-door canvassing on actual electoral outcomes, via a countrywide experiment embedded in Francois Hollande’s campaign in the 2012 French presidential election. While existing experiments randomized... View Details
      • 12 Apr 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

      a moment in time of its financial position. In buying a share on any stock exchange, the purchaser makes an assessment of the economic value of a company. The assessment considers the value of matters not... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 06 Nov 2013
      • What Do You Think?

      Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

      Summing Up Is Business Agility a Product of Top-Down or Bottom-Up Resource Allocation? Respondents to this month's column provided possible explanations for greater reliance on top-down resource allocation processes (RAPs) while reminding... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • November 2013
      • Article

      Adding Bricks to Clicks: On the Role of Physical Stores in a World of Online Shopping

      By: Jill Avery, Thomas Steenburgh, John A. Deighton and Mary Caravella
      Buying a product has never been easier. Consumers can shop online, over the phone or via mail order, from home or on the go, and if they want to experience touch and feel, they can also visit a "real" store. Often, one and the same retailer offers several of these... View Details
      Keywords: Channel Management; Retailing; Marketing; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; E-commerce; Retail Industry; United States
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      • 01 Nov 2013
      • News

      Adding Bricks to Clicks: On the Role of Physical Stores in a World of Online Shopping

      • 16 Dec 2020
      • Blog Post

      Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

      populations navigate the criminal justice system. For Bukie Adebo (MBA 2021), a summer position at Rebel One Ventures “solidified my belief that technology has the power to dramatically change the lives of View Details
      • 01 Sep 2016
      • News

      Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck

      Why They Buy The first big puzzle Professor Clay Christensen tackled when he joined the HBS faculty in 1992 was an elemental one: Why was success so hard for businesses to sustain? The search led to his theory of disruptive innovation,... View Details