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  • 06 Jan 2003
  • What Do You Think?

China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?

Original Article It was recently announced in somewhat wondrous tones that new car sales in China this past year exceeded one million. Reports in BusinessWeek and Forbes trumpet the growth of China and the size and promise of Chinese... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

simplified access to the online world, transforming the Internet from a communications vehicle for academics into a mass consumer phenomenon. At the same time, the growing usefulness of the Internet drove sales of personal computers off... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology
  • 08 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More, Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine, argues that the sudden availability of niche offerings more closely tailored to their tastes will lure consumers away from homogenized hits. The "tail" of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

how personal taxes affect CEOs' decision to sell their vested equity and compare it against diversification, managerial overconfidence and other determinants of CEOs' sale of equity. While CEOs frequently sell large amounts of their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

Vineet Nayar became president of HCL Technologies, a global IT services business, in April 2005, he knew the company needed drastic change. Since its founding as a hardware company in the 1970s, HCL had grown into an enterprise with $3.7... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

may respond to this additional uncertainty by purchasing more products, thereby generating additional sales for the retailer. We refer to this phenomenon as the value of concealment (VoC). We develop a model of consumer choice that is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

competitors can help grow the market for your products and services, thereby boosting your sales at a time when, with the U.S. slowdown entering its third year, new revenue is exceedingly hard to find. Moreover, the presence of a... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

The company's new head of product management has designed a system to address a point of constant tension: whether to build custom features in response to new customers' request, even if these custom features entail expensive departures from OPOWER's product roadmap.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

"The study of e-commerce has unfolded in much the same way that e-commerce thrust itself on the business world—with a great deal of overstatement," says Marc J. Epstein, Visiting Professor and Wyss Visiting Scholar in Social View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
  • 28 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 28

indicator we document that 1) inflow-driven buying pressure by mutual funds has a pronounced and persistent stock price impact, 2) the probability of an SEO increases by 59%, 3) insider sales increase by 7%, and 4) the probability of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 15

Harvard Business School Case 614-052 SAP 2014: Reaching for the Cloud In May 2014, Bill McDermott will become the sole CEO of SAP AG, the world leader in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) field. The case occurs in January 2014 at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

enterprises (MNEs), the paper argues we have reason to reject assigning human rights obligations to business enterprises and their managers. The paper begins by distinguishing business and human rights from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-021.pdf What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises Authors: Robert Gibbons and Rebecca Henderson Abstract An abstract is unavailable at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

flash sales industry was created using this idea as a cornerstone of its business strategy. In this paper, we identify and investigate a new reason why frequent assortment rotations can be valuable to a retailer, particularly for products... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2378558 Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management By: Mikes, Anette, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Enterprise risk management (ERM) has become a crucial component of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

performance-survival, employment, and growth-and firm innovative performance-quantity, quality, and nature of patents and papers-by comparing funded and unfunded firms. To address endogeneity around selection bias, we use a qualitatively similar subsample of small and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

India (1914–1947) By: Lubinski, Christina, Valeria Giacomin, and Klara Schnitzer Abstract—Internment in so-called “enemy countries” was a frequent occurrence in the 20th century and created significant obstacles for multinational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

less worthy a profession. Marketing in the United States benefited mightily from the endorsement of management guru Peter Drucker, who famously stated: "Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two—and... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising
  • 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

Review] Global Business over Time By: Jones, G. Abstract—This article explores how business enterprises have been powerful actors in the spread of global capitalism between 1840 and the present day. It also shows how global firms,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

context. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1865878 August 2013 Business Ethics. 2d ed., edited by Michael Boylan. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2013 Multinational Enterprises and Incomplete... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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