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  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

powerhouse, went sour at VW, as a top manager secured key concessions by paying for union leaders' lavish foreign travel and visits to prostitutes. After vitamin prices sagged in the late 1980s, BASF and the Swiss chemical firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

findings imply that firm oversight is important during market booms, just when stock prices suggest all is well. Download working paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mrhodeskropf/GovMisFirms_v39.pdf Visualizing and Measuring Software... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt

to be a bit cautious, however. When the level of public debt is high, investors demand for short-term safe securities is most likely satiated, meaning that there is not much the government can do to affect the relative prices of long- and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services
  • 06 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

"phantom stock" (typically, bonuses based on the growth in the new units' performance). Instead, XTV insisted that the employees receive options to buy real shares in the venture-backed companies, in line with traditional... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

ecosystem. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911066-PDF-ENG Cipla 2011 Rohit Deshpandé, Sandra J. Sucher, and Laura WinigHarvard Business School Case 511-050 Dr. Yusuf Hamied, head of the Indian pharma and generics manufacturing company Cipla, is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

Geradin Abstract—Many of the largest and most successful businesses today rely on providing services at no charge to at least a portion of their users. For consumers, it is easy to celebrate free service. At least in the short term, free services are often high... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

Tanzania are more expensive than comparable hotels, and that this difference in price cannot be accounted for by differences in supply constraints. Further, using cross-country panel data, I show that upscale hotel View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

reserve prices and other parameters that substantially determine prices. Contrary to Google's claims, Google's auction does not fully determine prices; Google's actions and policies importantly influence prices. Google's purchase of... View Details
Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

the idea initiated by the price of anarchy literature (Koutsoupias & Papadimitriou, 1999; Papadimitriou, 2001) this suggests the study of two major measures for the value of correlation in a game with non-negative payoffs: the ratio... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

is the impact of foreign bank entry on the pricing and availability of credit in developing economies? The Mexican banking system provides a quasi-experiment to address this question because in 1997 the Mexican government radically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The High Price of Customer Satisfaction By: Keiningham, Timothy, Sunil Gupta, Lerzan Aksoy, and Alexander Buoye Abstract—Managers often assume that improving customer satisfaction and financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

the incentives of brokers, and brokers price discriminate based on a consumer's level of sophistication. The model estimates indicate that costly search is a key friction in retail financial markets, but the effects of search costs are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 31 Oct 2007
  • HBS Case

Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs

What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In "UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action?" Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest Reinhardt present the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

profit than a constant emissions price under an emissions tax, which contradicts popular arguments that the greater uncertainty under cap-and-trade will erode value. We further show that two operational drivers underlie this result: i)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

simulate counterfactuals, and develop tentative implications for pricing policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-034.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsBT Plc: The Broadband Revolution (A) Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

would have been thwarted and ABB would not exist. Manage Information Careful sequencing can help manage sensitive information. For a building developer worried about being squeezed on price if her intentions become public, the property... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

will have over a series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental customers over a... View Details
  • 10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10

prices of used ships to fall by as much as 80%. As ship prices (values?) fell, ship owners began to default on loans and new purchase contracts while banks holding loans secured by ships faced the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

projects. When research activities are noncontractible, we show that it is optimal for the financing company to obtain the option right to terminate the research agreement while maintaining broad property rights to the terminated project.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18

However, traditional options for improving the algorithm, such as hiring and training new employees, were time intensive and costly. Hastings decided to improve Netflix's software by crowdsourcing and began planning the Netflix Prize, an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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