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Privacy - HBS Working Knowledge
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- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
Working PapersAdding Bricks to Clicks: The Effects of Store Openings on Sales through Direct Channels Authors:Jill Avery, Mary Caravella, John Deighton, and Thomas Steenburgh Abstract We assess the effect of opening physical retail stores on direct channel sales. Our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
It would also create valuable information flow for a lender. Today, lenders such as Amazon, American Express, and Square rely on transaction data from their platforms. But for small businesses that do not... View Details
- 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007
available for download Banking Deregulation, Financial Constraints, and Entrepreneurship Authors:William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We study how U.S. branch banking deregulations affected the entry of new firms in the non-financial sector using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog
of class session): We cover the under revolutionary promise of blockchain technologies to lower the cost of transactions and create new markets and new communities. Companies are issuing their own currencies, enabling distributed... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy in Two Sectors Authors:Luo, Jianxi, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Daniel E. Whitney, and Christopher L. Magee Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change Abstract Many... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
another—is one mechanism that helps teams leverage the potential benefits of variation in team member experience by alleviating coordination problems that such variation may create. We use several years of detailed project- and individual-level View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
SolStock As of this July, what do Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Associate Professor Ethan Bernstein have in common? They’ve all published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Bernstein’s new paper, The Impact of the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16
buyout transactions. Co-investments underperform the corresponding funds with which they co-invest, due to an apparent adverse selection of transactions available to these investors, while solo transactions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
data science makes this model obsolete. Behavioral scientists tell us that where there is human interaction, people will have biases that influence their decisions, typically in the wrong way. “Now decisions are increasingly based on hard... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007
potential participants in the market; they have to overcome the congestion that thickness can bring, by making it possible to consider enough alternative transactions to arrive at good ones; and they need to make it safe and sufficiently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
whether there are similar benefits to relatedness at an operating unit level and whether such benefits stem from spillovers between operating activities. Using data from the hospital industry, we first examine the relationship between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
purpose, along with Chester Barnard’s compatible theory of business organizations as cooperative systems. Aristotle stresses the ethicality of cooperation in transactional settings; Barnard stresses the efficiencies and adaptive benefits... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
beliefs. This group was told the actual data on reciprocation rates from the previous rounds, then asked the same sequence of questions, including what percentage would prove trustworthy. The only real bump provided by the disclosure was... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
compare prices over the web irons out cross-border price differences and expands trade. A poor farmer in India can check commodity prices on the Internet before he sells his crop to the local buyer. Thanks to a progressive decline in data... View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14
knowledge and value creation are distributed across many actors. We propose a theory of IP modularity based on value maximization net of transaction and agency costs. We then use case examples to extend the theory into practical settings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
and donate part of the proceeds to a charity to feed the hungry. Not all PWYW strategies are created equal, however. Santana investigated data from a pet adoption agency in New York, finding that on average patrons paid close to the $150... View Details
- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
$800) instead of receiving lower amounts (e.g., self and other each get $500) in their transactions (Bazerman, Loewenstein & White, 1992). The present analysis, however, shows that the perceived value of such tradeoffs—the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
handle transactions are decreasing, "the need to have confidence in the people on the other side of the structure is as strong as ever." HBS senior lecturer Sandra J. Sucher worked at Fidelity Investments for a dozen years before joining... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
time it takes to handle transactions are decreasing, "the need to have confidence in the people on the other side of the structure is as strong as ever." Wingspanbank.com HBS senior lecturer Sandra J. Sucher worked at Fidelity Investments... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young