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  • 05 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

different forms of organization. Specifically, step processes reward technical integration, unified governance, risk aversion, and the use of direct authority, while platform systems reward modularity, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • August 2020 (Revised January 2021)
  • Supplement

Facelift at Olay (B)

By: Sunil Gupta, Rajiv Lal and Olivia Hull
This supplement to Facelift at Olay (A) explains the major steps Procter & Gamble’s skincare brand Olay took to reverse several years of declining sales. View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Demographics; Age; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Digital Marketing; Transformation; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; United States; Ohio
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  • 09 Jun 2020
  • News

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

In a recent post for HBS Working Knowledge, Howard Stevenson, Sarofim-Rock Professor Emeritus, and Shirley Spence, writer, educator and former partner at Oliver Wyman, detail how organizations led by HBS alumni are responding to the pandemic. Part View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
  • 31 Oct 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers

Source: FangXiaNuo The Harvey Weinstein horror show has brought attention to previously unspoken abuses of male power to sexually harass and suppress women. Prominent women are joining the #MeToo moment, feeling safety in numbers as they... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 26 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

behavior of U.S. politicians. We exploit a unique database linking politicians to other politicians, and linking politicians to firms, and find both channels to be influential. Networks based on alumni... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

poor execution. For example, the Checkout Channel repeated its broadcasts every ten minutes. That was just about the right length of time for consumers, who spend an average of... View Details
Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail
  • 28 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 28

  PublicationsManager-Specific Effects on Earnings Guidance: An Analysis of Top Executive Turnovers Authors:Francois Brochet, Lucile Faurel, and Sarah McVay Publication:Journal of Accounting Research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

performance. Learning to Live with Governments: Unilever in India and Turkey, 1950-1980 Authors:Geoffrey G. Jones Publication:Entreprises et Histoire 49 (December 2007) Abstract A noteworthy characteristic of the contemporary global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 5

appropriate data. The U.S. film industry deploys two distinct allocations of property rights, which differentially affect marginal returns on a particular class of investments. In many cases, films are both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

Charles C.Y., and Jesse M. Fried Abstract—It’s no secret that the American economy is suffering from the twin ills of slow growth and rising income inequality. Many lay the blame at the doors of America’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2025 (Revised April 2025)
  • Case

Institutional Neutrality, Restraint or Convenience?

By: Clayton S. Rose, Nicole Zelazko and Alexis Lefort
In the fall of 2023 and winter of 2024, college campuses across the U.S. experienced protests and encampments in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israel by the Islamist militant group Hamas, and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza. These... View Details
Keywords: Distribution; Cost vs Benefits; Ethics; Governance; Leadership; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Adaptation; Disruption; Communication Strategy; Higher Education; United States
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  • 09 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

influence the companies being rated. We focus on corporate environmental ratings, the primary purpose of which is to help investors select "socially responsible" and avoid "socially irresponsible" companies. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

international provision of tertiary and quaternary care), new opportunities in a broader range of services and treatment channels (e.g., telemedicine, mobile health, enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2007
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing

Cannibalizing Direct Sales? Working Paper: Adding Bricks to Clicks—The Effects of Store Openings on Sales through Direct ChannelsConsider a retailer who operates both brick-and-mortar stores and direct View Details
  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

distinctly different strategy. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706518 Kinder Morgan, Inc.-Management Buyout Harvard Business School Case 207-123 Kinder Morgan, Inc., was a leader in the transportation and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

We exploit households’ portfolio weights in previous years as an instrument for actual capital gains and dividends payments. We find that unrealized capital gains lead to a marginal propensity to consume (MPC) of 13% for the bottom 50%... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Person Page

Media

Media

This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

From Compton to the C-Suite

Keywords: Natural Gas Distribution; Natural Gas Distribution
  • 10 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 10

business. It is argued that the country of origin of a technological innovation is less economically important than the ability of a society to capitalize on that innovation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jul 2006
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

users to time-shift their TV viewing. According to Yoffie, entertainment and communications are coming together to produce a mobile music revolution—the distribution of digital music over wireless networks.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education