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- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
microfoundations, we find that increasing the number of potential matches not only has a positive effect due to larger choice, but also a negative effect due to competition between agents on the same side. Agents with heterogeneous outside View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50046 The Probability of Rare Disasters: Estimation and Implications By: Siriwardane, Emil Abstract—I analyze a rare disasters economy that yields a measure of the risk neutral probability of a macroeconomic disaster, p*t.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
particular, other people's successes and failures. Obviously, for our most important negotiations, the outsider lens is preferable. Unfortunately, however, the outsider lens is rarely the default option when we are facing major... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
spread over 45 countries. Comcraft produces steel, plastics, and aluminum products. Chandaria had the option of taking well-paying jobs after his studies in the United States and India in 1951, but opted to take the risk of working in the... View Details
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
revisit another. But the goal remains the same: Find the option that can set your company on the path to disruptive growth. Customer Diagnostic This diagnostic assesses customers in order to identify "disruptable" market... View Details
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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA
These elective courses are designed for HBS students only. There may be personal, health, visa, or other unforeseen circumstances that limit a student’s ability to travel, and those students should consider their options carefully before... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
considered selling your company?’ He replied, ‘Well, no, not until just now.’ Within days, I had an option to buy it.” Upon hearing this oft-told story, many people evidently have marveled aloud at how “lucky” Rogers was to be at the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
to intransigence and denial. Once-incipient threats are now full-blown, and combined with newly emerging dangers, options and solutions have narrowed. For the contemporary reader, there is between the lines of Energy Future a haunting... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
online but could use 50 to 70 more. All this underscores that fact that options come with complications. A gas tax increase would reduce U.S. fuel consumption. While Italians are paying the equivalent of $6.50 per gallon, we Bostonians... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808144 Rubbish Boys Harvard Business School Case 808-101 It looked like founder-CEO Brian Scudamore might not be able to pursue franchising as a growth View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk William K.L. Fung (MBA 1972): E-Commerce and... View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
in potential danger. One of our interviewees noted, “As CEOs in this crisis, we have no option but to become the wartime CEO, however ill equipped or prepared we are.” You can equip yourself better immediately. Here’s what your brain and... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
the case about the trustworthiness of online reviews. It’s remarkable that 85 percent or so of people would make a purchase after reading online reviews. A: Yes. It turns out that if you think about it from a consumer standpoint: what are the available View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
us to believe that we are at an inflection point is demographics. You have this new generation of digital natives who are used to operating online. Their default option for shopping is through a digital interface. These consumers do not... View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
uncertainty under cap-and-trade will erode value. We further show that two operational drivers underlie this result: i) the firm's option not to operate, which effectively right-censors the uncertain emissions price and ii) dispatch... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
However, traditional options for improving the algorithm, such as hiring and training new employees, were time intensive and costly. Hastings decided to improve Netflix's software by crowdsourcing and began planning the Netflix Prize, an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
U.S.-based firm that rents storage facilities to consumers and small businesses, is considering financing options for rapid expansion of its European operations. Five years after entering Europe, Shurgard Europe has opened 17 facilities... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
insurance space stands the hedge fund Nephila. Nephila must decide how best to take advantage of the newly presented market opportunities post hurricanes Katrina, Wilma, and Rita. Nephila has a plethora of options as it brings capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
decision would require a 76% shareholder approval. When Augstein died in 2002, however, his co-owners exercised the option the same bylaws gave them to buy a 0.5% stake each from Augstein's heirs, who thus lost their veto rights. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
assuming that these options are mutually exclusive. A review of advertising industry history reveals why internal agencies have long operated in the shadows of their external counterparts and how the former organization form has evolved... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne