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  • 12 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 12

sellers face a fundamental strategy decision: Should they be resellers (like supermarkets), acquiring and then reselling products or services? Should they operate as multisided platforms (like eBay), connecting buyers and sellers without... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

acquirer's CEO owns more equity. While it is not common for acquirers to retain target CEOs, we argue that they are more likely to do so when their governance environment maintains managerial discretion. Based on a joint analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 7

Quality Competition? By: Buell, Ryan W., Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Abstract—When does increased service quality competition lead to customer defection, and which customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

through a largely unguided process like biological evolution with a gradual impact upon the distribution of power among economic and political actors, the emergence of factor markets typically required fundamental reordering of power... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings by U.S. multinationals. The analysis controls for endogeneity and omitted variable bias by using instruments that identify the firms likely to receive the largest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

belief is sound, but the authors' analysis of the performance of 45 companies led by CEOs with military experience revealed differences in how the branches (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps) prepare leaders for business. Those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

Phenomenological Assumptions and Knowledge Dissemination within Organizational Studies Authors:Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn Abstract Phenomenological assumptions-assumptions about the fundamental qualities of the phenomenon... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

Experimentation By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—The fundamental uncertainty of new technologies at their earliest stages implies that it is virtually impossible to know the true potential of a venture without learning... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing

examine early sales data to estimate future demand for various products. They conduct this analysis for every product at predetermined periods in its sales cycle. And the merchants follow through, immediately reordering items that look as... View Details
Keywords: by Marshall L. Fisher, Ananth Raman & Anna Sheen McClelland; Retail
  • 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

Successful Change: Ten Insights from the Private Sector By: Henderson, Rebecca Abstract—The aim of this book is to catalyze global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management. It is shown that transformational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

even when we control for factors prominent in the last decade's cross-country studies of financial development. The findings indicate that inequality-perpetuating conditions that result in political instability are fundamental roadblocks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

the company's bottom line, as well as the environmental or social impacts of one or more of its value chain partners. Theatre 3 encompasses programs targeted at fundamentally changing the business's ecosystem. This transformation is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting

data science (2) get comfortable using Python and SQL for data analysis and (3) meet other HBSers interested in data science. Yuki Yaguchi (MBA 2021) : My goal over the summer was to learn practical data science skills to a level that I... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Building a Better MBA

analysis of eleven business school programs. To complete the picture, they also interviewed leading academic critics and 28 executives and recruiters. The findings presented a mixed diagnosis of the health of MBA programs but on balance... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 23 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 23, 2016

of longer-term shareholders. Myth Number 4: ESG data for fundamental analysis is scarce and unreliable. Reality: Thanks to the efforts of reporting and investor organizations such as SASB and Ceres, as well... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

spurred concerns about its potential impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where private equity funds have... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 20

examination of the business history of commodity chains: it is a first step in this direction through an analysis of the relationship between two nodes of the rubber chain. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-089.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

and Memphis over 200. The implementation of the strategy in these districts must be purposefully differentiated to be effective across so many schools. All of our districts have projects underway to improve their data collection and View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

those actions. Further refinement and tests of these hypotheses are likely to help us better understand some of the fundamental questions in corporate accountability reporting. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract This paper provides the first formal model of business model innovation. Our View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne