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  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

story-one located far from the factory floor. Can Wages Buy Honesty? The Relationship Between Relative Wages and Employee Theft Authors:Tatiana Sandino and C. X. Chen Publication:Journal of Accounting Research 50, no. 4 (2012) Abstract In this study we examine whether,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

Business Review 88, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the Article: http://hbr.org/2010/07/vision-statement-mapping-the-social-internet/ar/1   Working PapersForeign Entry and the Mexican Banking... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

(July-August 2009) Abstract What if the current recession turns out to be like the Great Depression of 1929-1933? Four years from now, the United States might find itself with a still-shrinking economy, half as many banks as in 2009, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

Connection is an example of one step in the right direction. Initiated last spring, IBM has brought together an initial consortium of seven major companies, including Caterpillar, Pfizer, Bank of America, Citibank, and AT&T, to... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

Johnson, David Simchi-Levi, and He Wang Abstract—We consider a price-based network revenue management problem where a retailer aims to maximize revenue from multiple products with limited inventory over a finite selling season. As common... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • April 2025 (Revised June 2025)
  • Case

Governing Sustainability in a Shifting Context (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
In early 2025, boards of directors had to rethink corporate responsibility and sustainability efforts amid rapidly-shifting social, legal, regulatory, and economic forces. While just a few years earlier, calls to address racial justice and climate change reached into... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Corporate Governance; Diversity; Leadership; Business or Company Management; Mission and Purpose; Social Media; Race; Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Lawfulness; Lawsuits and Litigation; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Social Issues; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 25 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

financing, new lenders are given priority in the capital structure. This is a critical incentive because it spurs banks and other creditors to lend to companies in Chapter 11 by giving them senior status, effectively letting them stand in... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

Merchants Bank Harvard Business School Case 307-081 Founded in 1987, China Merchants Bank (CMB) is a pioneer in the use of technical innovation and IT as a competitive tool in the rapidly evolving Chinese... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 21, 2015

acquisitions of companies that were important providers of transaction software in the retail and hospitality industries. Now, in late November 2013, Nuti and his team were considering a third potential major acquisition: Digital Insight,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016

to Jewish organizational life. Inspired by 30 years of pioneering work by retail giant Leslie Wexner’s philanthropic focus on Jewish leadership, More Than Managing brings together diverse and remarkable thinkers to address challenges... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

failure in U.S. history. Faced with Wachovia’s impending bankruptcy, the FDIC intervened again, voting on Monday, September 29, to sell Wachovia’s retail bank to Citigroup for $1 a share. Three days later,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works

makes huge investments to acquire, develop, and market concepts with strong hit potential, and then banks on the sales of those titles to make up for the middling performance of their other content. Today's leading film studios,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 04 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

Bezos was still working on Wall Street. After decades of tax-free sales, ecommerce was just 11.4 percent of US retail sales in 2019, according to the Department of Commerce. Meanwhile, social media usage on the major platforms had been... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
  • 16 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

transcripts, Yu says the team encountered plenty of bad calls, and it was "mind-boggling" how poorly some CEOs and CFOs communicated. Take the CFO of one of the largest retail banking groups in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007

  Working PapersIncorporating Price and Inventory Endogeneity in Firm-Level Sales Forecasting Authors:Saravanan Kesavan, Vishal Gaur, and Ananth Raman Abstract As numerous papers have argued, sales, inventory, and gross margin for a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

Ozik, and Ronnie Sadka Abstract—We develop real-time proxies of retail corporate sales from multiple sources, including approximately 50 million mobile devices. These measures contain information from both the earnings quarter (within... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate from the incumbent following increased service... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

many high-growth businesses in China, Gome has only moderate financing needs. Its charismatic and ambitious chairman Wong Kwongyu has built an expansive retail network in China and successfully used trade credits by suppliers and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 14

LauHarvard Business School Case 212-026 ATR KimEng is a Philippino asset management business. It is making an important decision on its own strategy going forward: should it stay independent or be taken over by a large bank in the region.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10

through the intermediary. We show that this leads to inflated retail prices, excessive adoption of the intermediaries' services, over-investment in benefits to buyers, and a reduction in consumer surplus and sometimes welfare. Competition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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