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- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
"The beauty about the mathematical model is that it allows us to show mathematically that our intuition works; it also allows us to investigate how various factors such as different platform production costs and exclusive content affect... View Details
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
the importance of building in opportunities to measure the costs and benefits. "A skeptic of regulation would say that SOX wasn't needed at all, that the system would have fixed itself," he continues. "But what was the cost of fraud to the overall... View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
customer is such an apparent risk that the quoted Progressive rate is higher than the competition's, Progressive is happy if that customer goes elsewhere to buy cheaper insurance. "They are happy to have the competition get those customers," said Frei.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
pass their knowledge on to followers. "It's not something we do naturally," Zhang says. "Once we get good at something, our intuition is not to say, 'OK, let me go see how it feels to be bad at it again.' But the findings suggest that if... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
(reading the plan, talking to people they know ) and others granting a meeting without looking at the plan at all. Some angels rely on their intuition while others crunch a lot of numbers. Almost all angels source carefully, make good use... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
foreign income from taxation. The intuition for this is that tax rules should leave "who owns what" undistorted. If countries impose worldwide taxation, then the highest-productivity buyers may be handicapped by their tax... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
idea because the monopoly surplus is higher than that from a duopoly,” Luo explains. This intuition was originally developed by her colleagues Dennis Yao at Harvard Business School and Jim Anton from Duke University. “This threat is more... View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
people intuitively discount the future to a greater degree than can be rationally defended. Second, positive illusions lead us to conclude that energy problems do not exist or are not severe enough to merit action. Third, we interpret... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
pricing for first-exposure products on the site. Many in the industry have relied on years of experience and intuition to determine pricing—can Wilson provide new insights? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
tackle tough business challenges like reworking an outdated strategy or business model. The culture evolves as you do that important work.” They then suggest that “it makes intuitive sense to look at culture as an outcome—not a cause or a... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 15 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary
behavior, they do a search on Google when they are ready to make a decision," says Gupta. "So search ads get all the credit for the sale. But search ads are at the bottom of the [purchase] funnel; display ads are at a higher level. Everybody in the industry View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
While IT provides "very good, detailed, fact-based data," according to Berg, nothing substitutes for walking the stores to get an intuitive sense of how things are working out. Added conference participant Paul Kastner of... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
production could affect consumer purchase behavior. The researchers found: When a firm voluntarily discloses its costs, the consumer is more attracted to the brand, which increases willingness to buy. "There's this lay intuition that when... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
discuss intuition regarding which product categories likely lead to positive vs. negative values of concealment. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49531 Precautionary Savings in Stocks and Bonds By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
much the same thing: "What will we do with all that bandwidth?" I suspect the answers will be similarly surprising. A third intuition arises out of the one I've just mentioned. Another parallel we think might appear is that just... View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
average, consistent with the Bayesian intuition that the market inferred their work was mediocre all along. We then investigate whether the eminence of the retracted author and the cause of the retraction (fraud vs. mistake) shape the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
have documented the modest (though reliable) link between household income and well-being, we examined the accuracy of laypeople's intuitions about this relationship by asking people from across the income spectrum to report their own... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
should manage their corporate brands. The idea is that a significant part of the value of MNC brands comes from the inferences that consumers draw from their global reach. This idea makes intuitive sense to managers but has never been... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
supplier aggressively explore synergies across its various component agencies as well as eliminate research redundancies. Value experience and judgment. CMOs should tap the knowledge and intuitions of managers and researchers who've lived... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
stay a leader," as Donna Dubinsky (CEO of Handspring, Inc.) says. Once a smaller or weaker firm starts to play defense, the game is usually over. So "play offense and play to win," is the advice of Intuit founder Scott... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak