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  • 23 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 23

findings of behavioral scientists and experimental economists. Further, this approach does not generally assume that all the elements of the "game" are common knowledge. It tends to de-emphasize the application of game-theoretic solution concepts or efforts... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

to popular expectations, corporate headquarters in the U.S. are about twice the size of European counterparts. Headquarters there exert a higher level of functional influence and have larger staffs in certain key areas, such as IT and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Setting Interns Up for Success at a Startup

packaging waste throughout the supply chain. With a wide range of opportunities available to the business as they expand, a Business Intelligence function was formed at Mori in 2021 with a critical mandate –... View Details
  • 29 Aug 2016
  • Blog Post

First Year at HBS: A Foundation for Business

Whether this means creating a go-to-market strategy or performing capital budgeting, I am confident that I can make valuable contributions and deliver results. But even if you intend to go into a specific functional area such as marketing... View Details
  • 17 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 17

its own functionality with the target's in a multi-platform bundle that leverages shared user relationships. We build upon the traditional view of bundling for economies of scope and price discrimination and extend this view to include... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

existence of rural areas not supplied by grid electricity was an important motivation for early movers in both the U.S. and Denmark. Public policy was the problem rather than the opportunity for wind entrepreneurs before 1980, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 22, 2006

authors describe how organizational biases arise from the different incentives, agendas, and blind spots of the various functional areas of a business, and how they compromise forecast accuracy and disrupt the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

between 1998 and 2002. Chile did better in this era of globalization, and boomed supplying copper to China. Chile produced one-tenth of the world’s copper, but once more was badly affected when Chinese and world demand declined in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match

—GRAHAM GARDNER (MBA 2007) “We don’t define what is right for the patients. Our job is to get the data to help you find the best match for you.” —GRAHAM GARDNER (MBA 2007) “I saw that major health systems were struggling to match supply... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

poultry chicken he bred to address the nutritional and income needs of some of the poorest people on earth: India's rural villagers. As of November 2006, Keggfarms was supplying chicks to about 4 million poor villagers, generating incomes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

They may still be working from home, but they’re working from home in those cities. Gazette: Why does inventory remain so low across the country, and can anything be done to help ease the crunch? Gerardo Lietz: At the end of the day, it’s a View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

Monetary Economics Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm-Level Evidence By: Ivashina, Victoria, and Bo Becker Abstract—Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

extreme volatility as Bitcoin, and does volatility impede transactional utility? In other words, can Bitcoin really function as a “currency”? — Jay Precourt (MBA 1962) Bitcoin has been volatile, though it has had periods of stability (in... View Details
Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information
  • 12 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 12, 2016

Landvoigt Abstract—How does the shadow banking system respond to changes in the capital regulation of commercial banks? This paper builds a quantitative general equilibrium model with commercial banks and shadow banks to study the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

functional managers rather than general managers, a phenomenon we term "functional centralization." Using panel data on senior management positions, we show that changes in the structure of the executive team are tightly linked... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3

512-004 Domino's Pizza is the world's second largest pizza company with 9,436 stores globally, 95% of which are franchised. Domino's franchisees in the U.S. market were able to purchase fresh dough, cheese, pizza toppings, and other menu ingredients and store View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Feb 2016
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February 23, 2016

an order of precedence. We demonstrate that in these matching markets with slot-specific priorities, branches’ choice functions may not satisfy the substitutability conditions typically crucial for matching with contracts. Despite this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

to crucial functional systems is not just a one-time task, but an ongoing process. This approach fosters a culture of continuous improvement and preparedness, ensuring that the company is always ready to respond to potential disruptions.... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

through an auction, it does not set prices. See, e.g., Larry Page's May 2008 remarks to C|NET: "AdWords is an auction. We're not setting prices. Auctions are determined by supply and demand." 1 I disagree. Google controls a... View Details
Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

platform-based products (applications) and users of such products. We show that the unique equilibrium under platform compatibility leads to higher profits than the symmetric equilibrium under... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace