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- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
Zhang compared the effectiveness of ads prepared by the candidate's own campaign with ads supporting the candidate prepared by outside political groups, including political action committees (PACs). “"I need to see a good ad about Obama... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
cover, hypothesizing that analysts gain comparatively good information if they attended the same college as a firm's top executives or board members. In short, the researchers found that the analysts outperformed on their stock... View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
management practices and the company's stockholders, who were more likely to hold stock for short periods of time compared to other stocks. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/06/short-termism-dont-blame-investors/ar/1 Leadership Is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 22
we find the share of vertical FDI (subsidiaries that provide inputs to their parent firms) to be larger than commonly thought, even within developed countries. Most subsidiaries are not readily explained by the comparative advantage... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007
A. Desai, and C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper examines how costly financial contracting and weak investor protection influence the cross-border operational, financing and investment decisions of firms. We develop a model in which product developers have a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits
the audience, comparing the recent focus on nonprofit strategy to the rise of interest in for-profit strategy in the 1970s. In Bradach's view, the sector is on the front end of a curve, with nonprofits less afraid to look critically at... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
management. On the other hand, workplace productivity savings could be the key. According to another alumnus, any outlay "is petty change" to employers compared to the savings of keeping healthy people. Though wide-ranging, the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
interact is also crucial. For example, in one opportunity at Capitalyst 3, a Web developer with $5 million in sales was raising its first round of capital on a $10 million valuation. Two comparable companies in the marketplace were worth... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), 1995-2003 Authors:Sergio G. Lazzarini and Aldo Musacchio Abstract There is a growing literature comparing the performance of private vs. state-owned companies. Yet, there is little work... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
find that compared to nontargeted discounting, the average profitability gain from customized discounting across the three category pairs is only 1.29% when complementarity is ignored, but this gain improves to 8.26% when full... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
sector may be traced back to fundamental properties of the underlying technologies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-144.pdf Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
structural relations with other groups in society and comparing across societies. Managing Proprietary and Shared Platforms Author:Thomas R. Eisenmann Publication:California Management Review 50, no. 4 (summer 2008) Abstract In a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11
capital were high compared to benchmark investments, at least in the early years of the nineteenth century. The whaling industry was one of the earliest to grapple with complex issues in relation to the provision of high-risk investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31
has a positive and significant effect on rainfall insurance adoption, increasing take-up from 8% to 16%. Only one marketing intervention, the money-back guarantee, has a consistent and large effect on farmers' purchase decisions. This guarantee, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
pillars to hire contract workers with non-traditional backgrounds. Typically, these candidates, who lack relevant experience or academic qualifications, wouldn’t be eligible to work for a large corporation with a comparable reputation.... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
324,761 survey responses from 1983 to 2011. In France, students who complete graduate engineering programs often pursue careers in lucrative fields including chemistry, oil, consulting, and, yes, finance. Thus, the researchers were able to View Details
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
who borrowed a little money to invest in a little land. The average size of a coffee plantation in the Soconusco averaged about 300 hectares, compared with an average of 1,000 hectares in other parts of Latin America. But some coffee... View Details
- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
of some 70 ingredients. A sea bass has an "edible share" of 47 percent, compared to 60 percent of a hake, for example. A fig: 90 percent. A strawberry: 99 percent. A lemon: 26 percent (juice) + 2 percent (grated lemon peel—only... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
highest overall management scores in retail, health care, and manufacturing. But US schools scored comparatively lower, coming in fourth behind the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Canada. "US schools in particular tend to be particularly... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 23
comparative historical analysis of consumer lending in the United States and France, I argue that national differences in the regulation of consumer credit had their roots in the historical conditions by which the small loan sector came... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne