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  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

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government was given up to $250 billion to buy preferred shares in more than 500 banks to bolster their financial health,” the Times reported. “Mr. Miller and his colleagues pulled many all-nighters in working out the details of the... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

  Working PapersThe Framing Effect of Price Format Marco Bertini and Luc Wathieu Existing evidence suggests that preferences are affected by whether a price is presented as one all-inclusive expense or partitioned into a series View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

organizational field, we will limit our attention to theories, models, and studies of cognition that have their root in the psychology of how people make decisions. The areas View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2023
  • Teaching Note

VideaHealth: Building the AI Factory

By: Karim R. Lakhani
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 621-021. The case “VideaHealth: Building the AI Factory” examines the creation of dental startup VideaHealth (Videa) and the development of its artificial intelligence (AI)-led business strategy through the eyes of founder and CEO Florian... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Applications and Software; Business Model; Marketing Strategy; Product Development; Health Industry; Technology Industry
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  • January 1995 (Revised October 1995)
  • Case

Schweizerische Maschinenfabrik Zug, A.G.

Schweizerische Maschinenfabrik Zug (SMZ), a 110-year old Swiss machinery firm, faces several issues at the end of 1992. It's not clear whether the company will be able to maintain its traditional price premium in the face of foreign competition. The firm must chart a... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Machinery and Machining; Globalized Markets and Industries; Manufacturing Industry; Switzerland
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  • 1992
  • Working Paper

Employment versus Sub-Contracting: The Real Trade-Offs

By: Amar Bhide and Howard Stevenson
By many accounts, sub-contracting is in the vogue while traditional employment relationships are on the outs. Ten years ago free-lancers, independent subcontractors and the like accounted for about 10 percent of the labor force; today they constitute 25 percent. Of the... View Details
Keywords: Sub-contracting; Freelancers; Employment; Organizations; Theory
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  • 10 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

A few years ago, when Leslie K. John was a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University, a classmate introduced her to a then-nascent website called Facebook. John took a look, scrolling through page after page of photographs, personal... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Aug 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption

In 1995, Harvard Business School professors Clayton M. Christensen and Joseph L. Bower wrote a seminal article for Harvard Business Review, Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave. Those words launched the theory View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

when network effects lead to unfavorable expectations about supplier participation, whereas it is shifted towards the marketplace for long-tail products. We thus provide a theory of which products an... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • June 2012
  • Article

Short Termism: Don't Blame the Investors

By: Francois Brochet, George Serafeim and Maria Loumioti
The article presents research on executives and corporation investor relations. A study is conducted of the language used by executives in conference calls discussing earnings with investors and financial analysts. A correlation was found between the use of language... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Business Earnings; Managerial Roles; Investment; Agency Theory; Communication Strategy; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • October 2023 (Revised January 2025)
  • Case

Sydney Loves Kevin

By: Ryan W. Buell and Himabindu Lakkaraju
Kevin Roose was a columnist and podcast host for the New York Times, who focused on technology and its effects on society. When Microsoft launched the latest version of its search engine Bing in February 2023, the company invited Roose to its Redmond campus to... View Details
Keywords: Newspapers; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Technology Industry
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  • July 2008
  • Article

Fairness in Extended Dictator-Game Experiments

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Reiner Eichenberger
We test the robustness of behavior in dictator games by offering allocators the choice to play an unattractive lottery. With this lottery option, mean transfers from allocators to recipients substantially decline, partly because many allocators now keep the entire... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Fairness; Game Theory; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior
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  • October 2020
  • Article

Collusion in Markets with Syndication

By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Richard Lowery and Jordan M. Barry
Markets for IPOs and debt issuances are syndicated, in the sense that a bidder who wins a contract may invite losing bidders to join a syndicate that together fulfills the contract. We show that in markets with syndication, standard intuitions from industrial... View Details
Keywords: Collusion; Antitrust; IPO Underwriting; Syndication; ＂Repeated Games＂; Markets; Game Theory
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  • 03 Apr 2019
  • Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

abruptly in the Great Recession and has not come back. There are a number of theories about too much regulation, for example, or too much student debt, but it is a problem because small businesses provide a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services
  • June 2013 (Revised March 2014)
  • Technical Note

Strategic Complements and Substitutes

By: Eric Van den Steen
The framework of strategic complements and substitutes can help companies anticipate competitors' responses. It is particularly helpful in deciding on price- or capacity-commitments (or pre-emption), but it can provide more general guidance for analyzing the potential... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Strategic Substitutes; Strategic Complements; Puppy Dog Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Game Theory; Strategy; Economics
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  • 27 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)

Leslie K. John is keenly aware of the pressure researchers feel to get results. When her graduate studies in behavioral decision research didn't produce significant findings that led to publication in a prestigious journal, John felt... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston; Education
  • 31 May 2016
  • First Look

May 31, 2016

benefit of increasing equity risk declines. We show that there is an interior optimum and that it is reached at lower leverage for firms with high asset risk. Empirically, the risk anomaly tradeoff theory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2020
  • Article

Real-time Data from Mobile Platforms to Evaluate Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure

By: Omar Isaac Asensio, Kevin Alvarez, Arielle Dror, Emerson Wenzel, Catharina Hollauer and Sooji Ha
By displacing gasoline and diesel fuels, electric cars and fleets reduce emissions from the transportation sector, thus offering important public health benefits. However, public confidence in the reliability of charging infrastructure remains a fundamental barrier to... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Transportation; Infrastructure; Behavior; AI and Machine Learning; Demand and Consumers
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  • July 2024
  • Article

AI, ROI, and Sales Productivity

By: Frank V. Cespedes
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now a loose term for many different things and at the peak of its hype curve. So managers hitch-their-pitch to the term in arguing for resources. But like any technology, its business value depends upon actionable use cases embraced by... View Details
Keywords: ROI; AI and Machine Learning; Sales; Investment Return
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  • 16 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 16

a firm's headquarters—for the presence of large, non-managerial individual shareholders in firms. These shareholders have a large impact on firms, controlling for selection effects. Course Research: Using the Case Method to Build and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace