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  • 17 Nov 2015
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November 17, 2015

right strategy to grow the club. He wondered if the “moneyball” approach—when a smaller team competed with wealthier teams by using statistical analysis to buy undervalued assets and sell overvalued assets—could work in football and if... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

Researchers compared the pass/fail records of similar vehicles in both densely populated areas and sparsely populated areas, paying close attention to older vehicles with high mileage—that is, those more likely to need repairs in order to meet emissions standards. The... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
  • 28 Jun 2011
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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 (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26

opportunity. This is particularly interesting as prior research in the finance literature has shown that firms will overinvest in high quality projects when investors have imperfect information about the quality of the firm's opportunities. While we conduct our View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Apr 2010
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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
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Growth of the Social Enterprise

growth. Why? HBS's Jane Wei-Skillern and Duke-based colleague Beth Battle Anderson discuss their analysis of some 300 social enterprises. Tishler: How do you distinguish between branches and affiliates? Wei-Skillern and Anderson: Branches... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 31 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

product-market positions. In the late 1980s, the search for more dynamic, adaptive, and sustainable advantage led many to supplement their analysis of external competition with an internal-competency assessment. They recognized that... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World The Empire of Emulation: A Quantitative Analysis of Economic Translations in the European World, 1500-1849 By: Reinert, Sophus A. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled immigrant admissions are driven by firms themselves (e.g., the H-1B... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

perceived credit quality of the financial guarantors fell, and yields on insured bonds exceeded yields on equivalent uninsured issues. It does not appear that either property and casualty insurers or open-end municipal mutual funds were dumping insured bonds; View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2020
  • Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

uses the K-means clustering technique to identify groups of customers who have purchased any number of 32 specific “deals” Booth offered over the year, differentiated by the wine varietal as well as its country of origin and a minimum number of bottles to purchase.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Jul 2016
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July 5, 2016

and lowest quality. Our results underscore the importance of considering dynamic effects in the economic analysis of tort laws. Performance Feedback in Competitive Product Development By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Performance feedback is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos

at any time. Researchers collaborating with Teixeira then measured the participants' emotional responses with a combination of eye-tracking technology and facial expression analysis software. Click to watch. The data showed that evoking... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • 30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30

an 85% increase in click-through rates for paid advertising and a 65% decrease in click-through rates for non-paid algorithmic search links to competing online travel agencies. As search engines increase monetization of clicks by integrating specialized services into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912413-PDF-ENG Boston Physicians Devices Marc L. BertonecheHarvard Business School Case 212-070 The case is a very simple, short case based on the author's general experience, to introduce financial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1886489 Determinants of Successful Frontline Process Improvement: Action versus Analysis Authors:Anita L. Tucker and Sara J. Singer Abstract Senior manager participation is a key success... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

  PublicationsHas the Shift to Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Promoted Technology Transfer, FDI, and Industrial Development? Authors:Lee Branstetter, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi Publication:The WIPO Journal: Analysis and Debate... View Details
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

phasing. Two detailed master plans are considered, one with a radial design and an internal town square and one with a grid design and internal focus on parks and water features. The designs have different revenue potential, different cost implications, and different... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

customers, and the variables involved in designing an optimal credit card. Concludes with a consideration of the decisions the CRM team had to make in designing the project, including whether to use conjoint analysis or implement a mini... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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