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- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
on billable hours, for your whole career, means that it will never become family-friendly. It is noteworthy, however, that I met my wife at the consulting firm. Small firm consulting. Upon leaving the large... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
users can access and improve the source code. At the same time, however, opening a module sets up an open source (free) competitor. This hampers the firm's ability to capture value. We analyze three competitive situations: monopoly, commercial firm View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
significantly reduce their downside risks and quickly begin to benefit from the ecosystem. Ping An’s ecosystems. Ping An started as a thirteen-person small property and casualty insurance office in China’s... View Details
- 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19
own brand name. But while American Well attracted some of the largest U.S. health insurers as clients, a surprisingly small number of individual members had actually used the online care service. American... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
School Case 217-018 Rose Electronics Distributing Company Itamar Frankenthal was evaluating bank loan proposals to finance his acquisition of Rose Electronics Distributing Company (“Rose”). He contacted 40 small and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
challenges in meeting the needs of the internal organization, large partners, and small up-and-coming firms. SAP executives, in this case, have to make a decision if a relatively View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
with the challenges of scaling up as well as huge opportunities in managing rapid growth. These countries also provide an innovation platform to justify tailoring and inventing products and services just for them. Khanna: Think about Chile. Chile is not by anyone's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
orphaned oil fields). These changes necessarily affect the way the industry thinks about diversifying its portfolio in the future and encourages one of the largest contributors to GHG to innovate in climate technology to survive (e.g., retro-fitting the oil fields,... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
healthcare spending in 2015 and 2020, especially for expenditures on prescription drugs in nominal terms and as a percentage of overall health spending. The article concludes with a discussion of the political economy of insurance and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
securities to retail investors. We focus on a large market of investment products targeted exclusively at households: retail-structured products in Europe. We hypothesize that banks strategically use product complexity to cater to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
characteristic-based portfolio strategy that requires relatively low annual turnover. This is a continuum, with small size (a very persistent characteristic) at one end of the spectrum and high frequency reversal at the other. Unlike... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
2000) and social comparison (Festinger, 1954) lead to well-known cooperative effects within subordinate-supervisor pairs of the same sex and race, but potentially competitive effects among demographically similar peers. Analyzing longitudinal human resource data on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11
fundamentals: the book-to-market ratio and expected ROE. We find that the model is easily applied to a large cross section of firms and that firm-level discount rates vary over time and are highly persistent. The model can forecast stock... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
for systemically risky firms that would take a holistic look at the five systems to identify weaknesses, make recommendations to managers and boards, and set regulatory policies, including assessing charges for insuring against losses.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
firm-level indices of vertical integration for a large set of countries and industries and exploit cross-section and time-series variation in import tariffs to examine the impact of prices on organizational choices. Our empirical results... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After? Authors:James E. Austin and Herman B. Leonard Abstract What happens when small iconic socially oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
years. We argue that the current world economic conjuncture is the product of a large and unusual divergence or "wedge" between the returns on capital and the cost of capital. Globalization—in particular the integration of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
complaint data for insurance agents, we find that agents working exclusively for large branded firms are more likely to be the subject of justified sales complaints, relative to smaller independent experts,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
is being abandoned by the two remaining large capital exporters—the U.K. and Japan—that had maintained similar regimes. The conundrum facing policymakers is how to reconcile mounting pressures for increased tax burdens on foreign activity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks—where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions—give larger loans to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne