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- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
engineer scarcity by limiting supply when secondary markets thicken to separate primary and secondary markets. We find support for these hypotheses in the U.S. concert ticket industry. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
critical (but often neglected) part of the economy, all at a low cost to taxpayers. Gallup and other surveys show high support for small businesses. However, programs that View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
enhance the due diligence process for mergers and acquisitions, and to support continuous improvement activities such as lean management View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
significantly enriched. We then discuss several applications related to online and brick-and-mortar intermediaries. American Exceptionalism?: A Comparative Analysis of the Origins View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
in press Journal of Systems and Software Technical Debt and System Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Defect-related Activity By: MacCormack, Alan, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
cross-sectional and pooled data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau for quinquenial censuses conducted between 1982 and 2002 support the key predictions of the model. We find... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
allocating resources is distributed across all levels of the company. Those activities go on simultaneously. As a consequence, the way in which the structure divides up responsibility and the way the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
counter this ambiguity, this paper proposes that the strength of the greedy signal relates to an individual's volunteer reputation. Results from an online experiment support this possibility: the crowd out... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
and rewarding more participatory, more sincere, and less directive marketing styles. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-017.pdf The Impact of Shareholder View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
trading and investing being particularly controversial. We focus on the role of banks in the private equity market. We show that bank-affiliated private equity groups accounted for a significant share of the private equity View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
Advanced Media—MLB's digital arm—is facing a number of decisions related to its "app" for Apple's new iPad. What are the best name, price, and set of features for MLBAM's iPad app? The case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
not force the disparate CSR programs into their business strategies. Instead, the goal should be to "bring discipline and structure to the many fragmented components. [The] components will in some cases View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
of health-care reform is a management problem. It can't be solved by policymakers acting at a distance. That is why we should devote time to training and supporting managers in practice. I also believe we... View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
global climate change, Aspen's activities often garner media attention, which can promote its causes. But these initiatives, which attempt to compel other firms to improve their environmental performance, risk a public View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
worse in future-oriented activities such as corporate social responsibility (CSR) compared to those in weak-FTR language environments. Examining thousands of global companies across 59 countries from 1999 to 2011, we find View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
described, along with efforts to professionalize sourcing/pricing and product management functions. The case closes with questions about how Chegg should respond to the pending transition from printed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
Silicon Valley is the poster child for capitalism, the synergistic geography where smart private money supports cool ideas, creates jobs, boosts national productivity, and provides a handsome return for... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
profitable, loyal customers into high maintenance customers whose value stemming from their frequent purchasing is eroded by their increasing cost-to-serve. The case advocates a deeper appreciation of the two-way, reciprocating nature of customer View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 12 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Accounting Information as Political Currency
downward earnings management, corporate donors to candidates in closely watched races exhibit significant evidence of downward earnings management in the second and third calendar quarters of 2004." Ramanna agreed to an e-mail... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
adherence to the global labor standards embodied in codes of conduct imposed by multinational buyers. We find that suppliers are more likely to adhere when they are embedded in states that participate actively in the International Labour... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne