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  • 02 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 2, 2016

he retained them in the form of repeat purchases. This was an entirely new conundrum in the company. Up to that point, customer repeat purchase rates had been incredibly consistent. Cavens and his executive team had just discovered this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

delivering the goods and services to our customers more effectively than our competitors. Once we decided it was strategic, we had to fix it or suffer the consequences; and no one was willing to suffer the consequences of gradual loss of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader
  • 09 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

Aversion in Queues By: Buell, Ryan W. Abstract—This paper investigates whether people exhibit last place aversion in queues and its implications for their experiences and behaviors in service environments. An observational analysis of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

Transparency with Costly Information Processing By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marco Pagano Abstract—We study a model where some investors (“hedgers”) are bad at information processing, while others (“speculators”) have superior... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

hypothesize and find that the investment decisions of foreign subsidiaries in country-industries with more transparent information environments are more responsive to local growth opportunities than are those of foreign subsidiaries in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

responsibility for their choices. But co-pays would be the same inside and outside of the network. Antitrust authorities would scrutinize system participants so that one hospital system or health plan did not unfairly dominate an important market. View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

innovations in transparent packaging, specifically cellophane in the mid-twentieth century United States, helped retailers create full self-service merchandising systems, including selling perishable food. While self-service stores began... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

challenge, which is aligning the interests of different stakeholders. When you think about a business, ideally the customers are paying for a product that generates revenue for the firm, which ultimately generates value in the form of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

The Business of Love

re-create the transparency and social accountability that would come if a couple met offline through a mutual friend. The app populates a user’s dating profile with information and current photos from Facebook; recently Hinge added... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 29 Mar 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

and similar. These stores had few customers and did little business, but were open long hours, often seven days and six nights. These stores were obviously short of help, shelves were poorly stocked. What carriages were on hand were... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology
  • 17 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

regional law firm, Duane Morris entered a period of spectacular growth led by CEO Sheldon Bonovitz. Originally founded by Quakers, the firm had a distinct organizational culture featuring a number of unique or unusual business practices: a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

employer (1,100 workers) and biggest taxpayer ($500 million and counting). “If we treated the Afghans with respect, it would create a brand loyalty and empathy they’d never had a chance to experience before,” Khoja says of the company’s initial, basic strategy. “In... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

rental customers over a period of four months. We predict and find that people are more likely to rent DVDs in one order and return them in the reverse order when should DVDs (e.g., documentaries) are rented before want DVDs (e.g., action... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46779   Working Papers An Analysis of Firms' Self-Reported Anticorruption Efforts By: Healy, Paul M., and George Serafeim Abstract—We use Transparency International's ratings of self-reported... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

marketing strategy by the marketing department, one focused on the role of customer relations in product development, is considered. The creation of a set of basic principles and operating procedures for GE's marketing unit is discussed.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

online grocer to address this question. In general, we find that as the delay between order completion and delivery increases, grocery customers spend less, order a higher percentage of "should" items (e.g., vegetables), and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

creating an impression of transparency while masking their true performance. What deters selective disclosure and leads firms to instead make disclosures more representative of their environmental performance? We hypothesize that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

emerging market firms raise external capital, they face a tradeoff where greater transparency may lead to a lower cost of capital but at the cost of revealing proprietary information in their relational business practices. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 15

changing environment with the growing acceptance of online retailing that empowered customers by providing greater price transparency and more options. Marketing channels and communication touch points... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

products, including SVAR, a spoken-English evaluation; Automata, a programming skills evaluator; a customer service test; and TESLA, a suite of products that assessed and provided certification for vocational skills. The company had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne