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- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
competitors know how to deal with regulators, says Quelch, "but with all those entrepreneurs coming out with flavors and advertising, they would no longer be able to get traction in their business." Tobacco Companies Take Control Quelch View Details
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
bloggers about whether Amazon's profits will ever live up to its promise are predictable every time its earnings announcements come around. Of course, Bezos's strategy hasn't hurt the company. Its current market value is $135 billion.... View Details
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
boundaries. We then examine the evidence, using a unique dataset to construct firm-level indexes of vertical integration for a large set of countries. In line with the predictions of our model, we obtain three main results. First, higher... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Student-Profile
Do Yoon Kim
of this was theoretical work on the convergence of beliefs, wisdom of the crowds, and predicting collective action, but it was exciting theoretical work! This is what initially got me interested in networks of people, especially how... View Details
- Web
Marketing AI Guidelines | About
Marketing AI Guidelines Context Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having a significant impact on the marketing discipline in several areas including content creation, image generation/modification, chatbots, marketing automation, personalization, View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
poverty by the country’s growing economy, Palaniappan Chidambaram (MBA ’68), India’s finance minister, predicted in a speech at HBS in October. However, India remains a land of vexing contrasts and contradictions, with enormous inequities... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Matthew R. Lyle, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Under fairly general assumptions, expected stock returns are a linear combination of two accounting-based characteristics—book to market and ROE. Empirical estimates based on this relation View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
profits later" pitch. Dayton said venture money would flow once the business opportunities become apparent, but deals will be for hundreds of thousands of dollars, not millions. Predictions For Broadband: 2008 In another panel... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
engagement? To answer these questions, we utilized self-determination theory to examine whether reward satisfaction predicted employee well-being, job satisfaction, intrinsic motivation, and affective commitment, as well as valuable... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
it as a chronic condition like cardiovascular disease, rather than as an acute, fatal disease," Maderis concludes. Hitting The Target When human lives are at stake, the urgency involved in turning such predictions into reality goes... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
computer to predict important properties of molecules. DM: Like how much energy it takes to bind the molecule to CO2. Or how much it costs to produce the molecule. AS: And the other part is using machine learning to connect the dots... View Details
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
anticipation of offering discounts and the possibility of consumers buying multiple discount vouchers. By demonstrating the importance of these factors, and exploring the relationship between these factors, we hope to help retailers View Details
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
them."6 This may be true enough, but here Schumpeter extends the theme of cycles into something like a determinate paradigm. He attempts the hopeless task of fitting historical patterns of business booms and busts into predictable... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
particularly bad. The marginal cost is almost 75 percent, so every time you give a dollar to someone in the form of a turkey, or a ham, it's costing you 75 cents. In contrast, if you look at offers from the airlines, the cost of miles rewards programs are virtually... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
books: Foundation, by Isaac Asimov; Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card; and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, by Mark Twain. In Foundation, actually a series of books, fast-forward into the future where a “psychohistorian,” who uses mathematical models to... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
market reallocation and survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We develop a model that incorporates both aspects and identify their relative importance in the gains from multinational production by exploring their distinct View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
has seen the information exchange work very well. Horowitz said the company's music division has been collecting personalized song ratings from users for years. Over time, users can create a personalized "radio station" based on the music Yahoo View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
dictates that success often derives from predictable patterns so that people know how to plan and where to follow. But twenty years after sitting through her class that morning, I can confidently say that I’ll never forget the lesson... View Details
- April 1991 (Revised December 1997)
- Case
Southland Corp. (A)
Examines the Thompson's $4.9 billion leveraged buyout of the Southland Corp. in 1987. As the original founders of Southland, the Thompsons were concerned about losing control over the company upon learning of the Belzberg family's acquiring interest. The teaching... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Governance Controls; Corporate Governance; Bids and Bidding; Valuation; Forecasting and Prediction; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Strategy; Cash Flow
Ruback, Richard S. "Southland Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 291-038, April 1991. (Revised December 1997.)
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
international equity markets, with a highly significant average slope coefficient of close to 1. In contrast, ERPs based on the implied cost of equity or standard factor models—even those with factors based on book-to-market and profitability—fail to exhibit systematic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne