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  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

century. It focuses especially on Beiersdorf, a pharmaceutical and skin care company in Germany. During World War I, the expropriation of its brands and trademarks revealed its vulnerability to political risk. Following the advent of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

P/E industries, which have a negative valuation change in the year after the investment. 2006 New England Journal of Medicine Leading Clinicians and Clinicians Leading By: Bohmer, Richard M.J. Abstract—More effective models of care... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

"dashboard," and the Performance Manager. Provides students with an opportunity to identify key design principles for health care information systems, and to discuss the unique implementation challenges that the health View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing

prior to coming to Gap. She said that when the company launched walmart.com, the first thought was to literally replicate the store online. The company quickly learned that customers weren't willing to pay shipping costs on, say, toilet paper. However, she said the... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

gain is nearly as large. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-114.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsU.S. Healthcare Reform: Reaction to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 Arthur A. DaemmrichHarvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

strategy as demonstrated in Funds I ($70 million) and II ($250 million) emphasized careful targeting of sectors and in-depth work to develop the portfolio companies post-acquisition. With the industry's greater velocity and deal size, can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands

competitive hunt for media coverage, brands have made deliberate "mistakes" or released misleading statements just to induce a spike in online chatter, revealing later that the actions were stunts damaging their credibility. Deighton and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

requirements or social norms, but because we are altruistic; we care intrinsically about the welfare of others. In this paper, we illustrate for these types of decisions how confusion may arise because the distinction between our personal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

seeing my brilliant ideas—which I just knew were right—not work." To that end, Cook said leaders should take care not to squelch a team member's new idea too soon, even if it sounds unreasonable. He recalled scoffing at a proposal,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

Crisis in Health Care Authors:Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E. Porter Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 (September 2011) Abstract Existing health care costing systems have serious flaws that make... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

year, reaching half that production capacity in January and the rest by the end of April. Yet if governments had invested enough upfront to bring the second half online just three months earlier, the economic savings would have topped... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 15 Oct 2024
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We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?

that perhaps people see those who use it as superior to those who rely on external aids. In testing this hypothesis, the researchers found: People trust others who use willpower more than commitment strategies. The researchers asked 400 View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

the scientists themselves. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52220 January 2017 American Economic Review Are Online and Offline Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-Channel Retailers By: Cavallo,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?

long-tail view suggests that consumers will purchase an increasing number and a wider variety of videos, everything from Hollywood classics to obscure foreign films. Long-tail proponents believe that consumers have very different tastes, and View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55802 forthcoming Journal of Medical Economics Time-Driven Activity-Based Cost Analysis for Outpatient Anticoagulation Therapy: Direct Costs in a Primary Care... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

expert-produced knowledge, we compare bias in these two models in the context of contested knowledge, which involves subjective, unverifiable, or controversial information. Using data from Encyclopædia Britannica, authored by experts, and Wikipedia, an encyclopedia... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

Ranjay, and Alicia DeSantola Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50787 forthcoming JAMA Oncology Effects of Narrow Networks on Access to High-Quality Cancer Care By: Schleicher,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

Marketing is important in campaigning. It is equally important in governing. In 2008, Barack Obama won the presidency with an uplifting call for hope and change. He leveraged online media to attract volunteers and donors, building a swell... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

and/or number of display-only items have no significant impact on these decisions. These findings reveal a novel choice behavior in commonly encountered settings such as online marketplaces. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

camaraderie, time with animals or nature, self-expression. If your normal fitness routine is no longer possible, switching to an online version of the exercise may be satisfying. If it is not, try something entirely different: Moving the... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

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