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  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

consumers. One view argues intermediaries provide valuable product education and guide consumers towards suitable products. Consumers understand how commissions affect agents' incentives and make optimal product choices. The second view... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

determine an optimal investment strategy 6-8 hrs Module 5 Mergers and Acquisitions Identify potential synergies created by mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and multi-unit businesses, analyze the strategic value of potential M&A... View Details
  • 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008

errors and past demand realizations to predict future demand (extrapolating). So-called optimal inventory policies are categorized here by perceptions of demand that align with reality. Naturally then, deviations from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

shouldn't wait for policy; they should act now to become early movers in leading these changes. Context Professor Porter, having conducted in-depth research and analysis on the U.S. health care market, discussed his conclusions on the industry's problems and View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

recommendation levels, additions and deletions of records, and removal of analyst names. The changes appear non-random across brokerage firms, analysts, and tickers, and have a significant impact on the overall distribution of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

research that points to remedies for these biases, illustrating that organizational practices can be sites for intervention and change. The chapter concludes with methodological and substantive recommendations for future research on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

  Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. However,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

brands. He describes four different ad types and explains how each can influence multitasking consumers. To create an effective media mix, he recommends that companies take advantage of lean advertising principles and adopt a sequential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

perceptions that their own advice will not be followed. Advice seekers fail to anticipate this negative relational impact, exposing them to unanticipated adverse consequences of their advice-seeking decisions. These findings challenge previous View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

theory recommends substantial "tagging" or tailoring of taxes to personal characteristics (such as height) that are, on average, linked to wages. In the real world, this is seen as a terrible idea, except for some select traits, such as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services
  • 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

is mediated by perceptions that their own advice will not be followed. Advice seekers fail to anticipate this negative relational impact, exposing them to unanticipated adverse consequences of their advice-seeking decisions. These findings challenge previous View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

procurement and internal sourcing for the same input requires a consideration of complementarities across and constraints within modes of procurement. We create analytical foundations for making empirical predictions about when plural sourcing is likely to be View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

increase performance while social comparison reduces it, especially for low-ability trainees. These effects appear when treatments are announced and persist through training. The findings are consistent with a model of optimal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online

Concepts Coopetition: The Complementor-Competitor Dynamic Risks Defensive Strategies Navigating Regulations Featured Exercise Explain the benefits and risks of partnering with platform companies Evaluate the optimal means of gathering... View Details
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

optimize brand exposure they need information on how to best retain consumers' attention from moment-to-moment during television advertising. This large-scale eye tracking study shows that the decision to zap or not to zap depends on how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads

some of those consumer eyeballs. In "Moment-to-Moment Optimal Branding in TV Commercials: Preventing Avoidance by Pulsing," forthcoming in Marketing Science, Teixeira and coauthors Michel Wedel of the University of Maryland and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Blissful Thinking

on how people can reorient the second half of their lives for optimal happiness. Does this idea play less with students because they first have to chase that success to understand its limits? Or are they ready at an earlier age to define... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
  • 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

empirical investigation of the risk of globally diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds and of optimal intertemporal global portfolio choice for long horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and transitory... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the optimal price for internal transfers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

the code, which increases quality and value creation. Opened modules, however, are available for others to use free of charge. We derive the set of possibly optimal business models when the modules of the firm and the open source... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne