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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
trajectory, The threat is to any company in the industry: If someone else is improving at a faster rate than me, even if I’m better than them today, I won’t be better than them tomorrow.” The company acquired gaming studio Activision... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
non-performing loans and an increase in interest rate spreads, suggesting that foreign concerns bought domestic banks that had been making loans with low interest rates to parties that had a low probability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
factor of about 2 to 1. Even after adjusting for differences in internal labor cost rates, the hospital at the 90th percentile of cost spent about twice as much as the one at the 10th percentile of cost. The large variation in costs among... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
magnified in the online channel. Customer analysis suggests that opening retail stores paves the way for higher rates of customer acquisition and higher rates of repeat purchasing among existing customers in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
on websites, keeping visitors engaged and providing a proven and significant increase in conversion rates for online businesses such as: Trading, Gaming, Software, Forex, eCommerce, Affiliates, Banking, Printing, Communication, Finance,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
adjustments should she make to lead remotely, and what tweaks (if any) should be made to her Miami-based management team? The case details the numerous challenges Swan initially faced in launching Nickelodeon Latin America, from winning... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
quality. Furthermore, the decay rate of athletics goodwill is smaller for students with lower SAT scores, suggesting that the goodwill created by intercollegiate athletics resides more extensively with low-ability students than with their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
exhibited very different rates of economic recovery. We provide evidence that those countries that caught up the most with the U.S. in the postwar period are those that saw an acceleration in the speed of adopting new technologies. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
But the leadership development industry is in a state of upheaval. The number of players offering courses to impart the hard and soft skills required of corporate managers has expanded well beyond traditional business schools, corporate... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
continues to evolve. We believe that achieving systemic impact is a dynamic process requiring continuous adjustments in strategy. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53822 Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
this lending increase is associated with a 3.3% rise in annual house price growth rate and a 2.2% expansion of employment in the non-tradable sectors. These effects are followed by a decline in loan origination, house prices, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
1978), the U.S. airline industry was heavily regulated. Under government regulation, airlines were not able to establish their own rates or route structures. Almost all aspects of the industry were under government oversight. Despite... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
6.4 million residents, 440,000 who were previously uninsured have become covered, with 191,000 of those securing private, nongovernment insurance. At 2.6 percent, Massachusetts now has the lowest rate of uninsured residents in the nation.... View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Abstract This paper examines the litigation of patents relating to financial products and services. I show that these grants are being litigated at a rate 27 to 39 times greater than that of patents as a whole. The patents being litigated... View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
become more fundamental as advertisers target their advertisements with greater precision. In the paper that follows, the author attempts to identify the circumstances that make advertisers most vulnerable, notes adjusted contract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
founders may feel that their cash-poor ventures will gain more from having a lower burn rate than they would gain personally from having higher compensation. On the other hand, the higher level of psychological attachment introduces an... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
data to recover parameters including the depreciation rate and adjustment costs of managerial capital (both found to be larger than for tangible non-managerial capital). Our model also predicts (i) a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
community? In the next fifty years, the current global economic and population balance will be turned on its head. Today’s rich countries will need to adjust to a significant drop in their share of the world’s income. As Africa’s share of... View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25
full-blown financial and currency crisis. Latvia then adopted an aggressive economic adjustment program centered on maintaining its currency peg, which meant competitiveness would have to be restored by reducing domestic prices, wages,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne