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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Slaughter, managing director and head of North American real estate investment banking for Morgan Stanley. Some refer to the post-crash era as a paradigm shift for commercial real estate. Others call it a sea change. Whatever the choice... View Details
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
and induces safer behavior that becomes the status quo for future choices (the initial history effect). While both effects operate indirectly through choice inertia, the primacy effect also operates directly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice Authors:Robin Greenwood, Jeremy C. Stein, and Samuel Hanson Abstract We argue that time-series variation in the maturity of aggregate corporate debt issues arises because firms behave as macro... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
low-cost strategy, eliminating management choice going forward? And do such strategies have much longer lives than those associated with other forms of differentiation among offerings to customers? When does friction trump scale in the... View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
volunteering if this history is public rather than private. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50190 Observability Increases the Demand for Commitment Devices By: Exley, Christine L., and Jeffrey K. Naecker Abstract—Previous research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
City–based startup, offering investors equity in individual CRE properties that its investment team had sourced and vetted. Traditional private equity (PE) funds required investors in CRE equity to accept an entire portfolio of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
differences in strategic orientation choices and their performance outcomes for American and Japanese entrepreneurial firms, focusing on founders' achievement motivation as a key personal disposition. Design/methodology/approach: A survey... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
reviews, discusses, and expands the “core guidance” definition of strategy as “the smallest set of choices to optimally guide (or force) other choices.” It first discusses what this definition contributes to the existing proposed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice By: Chen, Huaizhi, Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract— Using a novel database that tracks web traffic on the SEC’s EDGAR... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
based upon firm and agglomeration economy traits. We test our framework on the U.S. location choices of new manufacturing entrants between 1985 and 1994 and find that firms are far more attracted to skilled labor and specialized suppliers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
Five-Minute Discussion Change Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Voter Choice in France By: Pons, Vincent Abstract—This paper provides the first estimate of the effect of door-to-door canvassing on actual electoral outcomes, via a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Devices By: Exley, Christine L., and Jeffrey K. Naecker Abstract—Previous research often interprets the choice to restrict one's future opportunity set as evidence for sophisticated time inconsistency. We propose an additional mechanism... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
that sales representatives, who were responsible for a large portfolio of imaging products, were not giving enough attention to Ultrasound. He was wondering if change in the size and compensation structure of the sales force would solve... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
2016 New York: HarperBusiness Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice By: Christensen, Clayton M., Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan Abstract—The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
institutional theory, we hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms whose legitimacy is threatened—and thus are shamed—by these ratings. We extend existing theory by drawing on the strategic choice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
attention to the returns of firms that do not issue at all, suggesting that issuance is partly an attempt to cater to broad time-varying patterns in characteristics mispricing. Our approach helps forecast returns to portfolios based on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808040 Dove: Evolution of a Brand Harvard Business School Case 508-047 Examines the evolution of Dove from functional brand to a brand with a point of view after Unilever designated it as a masterbrand and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
distributors, although important and useful for a certain portfolio of products, are no longer appropriate for a different subset. How can you overcome resistance from a powerful channel partner, such as a brand-name manufacturer or a... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
or through partnerships with healthcare professionals or insurance companies. Their choices are important because they will affect DayTwo's costs, pricing, positioning, distribution channels, marketing efforts, and product development.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Optimal Tilts: Combining Persistent Characteristic Portfolios By: Baker, Malcolm, Ryan Taliaferro, and Terry Burnham Abstract—We examine the optimal weighting of four tilts in U.S. equity markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne