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- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
middle class—outweigh the challenges of operating there. And indeed, as embodied by Nigeria's status as a net food importer despite having 80 million hectares of potential agricultural land, the challenges are considerable. Animal feed is excessively expensive, driving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and accounting irregularities can go unnoticed. However, when revenue and cash flow decline, internal View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
percent. Consistent with theory, we show that entry led to a redistribution of surgeries from lower- to higher-quality surgeons. The value of the improved outcomes due to this redistribution was roughly equal to the additional fixed costs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
employer. It helps screen talent and certifies that it is of high quality. In the United States there is a rich ecosystem of similar business schools that compete and, through the process of competition, need to remain honest. Executive View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
long-term relationships, not transactional relationships where immediate price (for employees, salary) and cost are the only factors in decisions. Q: You and your coauthors spoke with 36 CEOs based on three continents. Why did you choose... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
simplicity of accepting an equal split with the costs of negotiating a differentiated allocation of founder equity. We test the predictions of the theory on a proprietary dataset comprised of 1,476 founders in 511 entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
lecturer of business administration and the C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator. Ramon Casadesus-Masanell: Watch costs and find channel advantages Given COVID-19 transmission rates as of mid-November, the upcoming... View Details
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
PublicationsAdverse Selection in Online 'Trust' Certifications and Search Results Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (June 2010) Abstract Widely used online "trust" authorities... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
infringement and support small inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out firms that, absent NPEs, would produce... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
Management Science The Relationship Between Workplace Stressors and Mortality and Health Costs in the United States By: Goh, Joel, Jeffrey Pfeffer, and Stefanos A. Zenios Abstract—Even though epidemiological evidence links specific... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
(and thus becoming the only student ever to owe Harvard twice as much as it cost to attend the school!). But, ever buoyant, Dal LaMagna soldiered on year after year, relentlessly trying this or that new business idea, and steadily... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
Human Decision Processes Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice By: Blunden, Hayley, Jennifer M. Logg, Alison Wood Brooks, Leslie John, and Francesca Gino Abstract—Prior advice research has focused on understanding when... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
in diffusion of care delivery innovation; and cost transparency and quality measurement. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708424 TH!NK: The Norwegian Electric Car Company Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
United Kingdom support these predictions and advance a relational view of organizational change in which social networks operate as tools of political influence through affective mechanisms. In Search of the Hybrid Ideal Authors:Julie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
but online dating websites force them to screen by searchable attributes (such as income, or religion). We demonstrate that people spend too much time searching for options online for too little payoff in offline dates (Study 1), in part... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
and the development of incremental tradeoffs towards radical moves to create new business models, new forms of satisfying needs that drastically reduce costs and/or raise value perceived by customers. One important enabler of new business... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
feedback influence order quantities. We find that the portion of mismatch cost due to adjustment behavior exceeds the portion of mismatch cost due to level behavior in three out of four conditions.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
interviews at the January Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) meetings. Second, the AEA now invites candidates who are still on the market, and employers whose positions are still vacant, to participate in a web-based "scramble" to reduce View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
these models, the demand curve alone can be used to make welfare statements, a fact relied on by much empirical work. There is ample evidence, though, that people misuse care for a different reason: mistakes or "behavioral hazard." Much high-value care is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
these marketplaces is that they mitigate one of the biggest problems borrowers and lenders face: search costs. Typically, these marketplaces earn revenue by charging a small fee on top of the loan if the borrower gets funded and accepts... View Details