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- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
really like niche products much. Elberse outlines the implications of her research for producers and retailers, and offers strategic advice to both groups. Can Research Committees Add Value for Investors? An Analysis of Lehman Brothers'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006
Enables readers to analyze the business plan and make recommendations for funding. Rewritten version of earlier supplements. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807051 A Note on Applying Dimensional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29
Third Edition of Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization continues to provide a refreshingly accessible economic analysis perspective. The distinguished team of authors introduces and explains economic concepts in a way... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007
poor on a commercial basis. Publisher's site: Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value Inventory Record Inaccuracy: An Empirical Analysis Authors:Nicole DeHoratius and Ananth Raman Periodical:Management... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
likely to be rewarded for their ideas in male-typed domains when gender is known. This is partly due to discrimination and partly due to differences in self-promotion. External analysis of the chat data provides further insights. Though... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015
increased service quality competition lead to customer defection, and which customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
possibilities of multiple voucher purchases and firm price re-optimization. Despite the potential benefits of online discount vouchers to certain firms in certain circumstances, our analysis reveals the narrow conditions in which vouchers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
Aversion in Queues By: Buell, Ryan W. Abstract—This paper investigates whether people exhibit last place aversion in queues and its implications for their experiences and behaviors in service environments. An observational analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
should help you identify when to incorporate careful, reasoned analysis into your negotiation judgments. We realize that our recommendations run counter to the implicit trust and confidence that many of us have in our intuition. However,... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
travelers who sought a more authentic and local experience than a typical upscale hotel might provide. onefinestay's brand had been "hacked" together quickly during the company's early years. After five years of rapid growth, Marsh brought Cresswell on board... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
Harvard Business School faculty members, looking at the U.S. financial crisis from a variety of disciplines, urged caution and prudent analysis in a recent panel discussion. The discussion titled "Turmoil on the Street: Fathoming the... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
quiet, less colorful guy. In any case, both he and Hamilton showed that they had amazing analytical abilities and devoted themselves to understanding the hard numbers. A: Yes, they were both really, really good with numbers and financial View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15
identifying the effects of bank credit supply. First, we focus on firms' choice between two close forms of external financing: bank debt and public bonds. By conditioning the sample of firms raising new debt, we can rule out a demand explanation for the drop in bank... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
implicitly follow these two stages. We have categorized these approaches into a 3x3 matrix, which suggests three different approaches for stage-one demand estimation (decision calculus, experiments and econometric methods), and three different methods for stage-two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
disadvantaged platform to switch from subsidizing buyers to subsidizing sellers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-066.pdf The Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy in Two Sectors... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
multi-part tariffs, we note that while nonlinear pricing schemes are popular, any analysis of demand under such schemes is nontrivial. One important reason is the two-way relationship between price and consumption in multi-part... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
Rise of American Ingenuity By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—This paper builds on the analysis in Akcigit et al. (2017) by using U.S. patent and Census data to examine macro- and micro-level aspects of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jul 2016
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July 26, 2016
data from hospitals, we examine mispricing via "upcoding," which involves misclassifying ailment severity. Archival analysis indicates less stringent regulatory enforcement of upcoding for beneficent nonprofit hospitals, defined... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008
Earnings Announcements Authors: Malcolm Baker, Lubomir Litov, Jessica A. Wachter, and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (forthcoming) Abstract We consider measures of stock-picking skill of mutual... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
detailed historical analysis is no less so.9 Schumpeter's Rhetoric—and Keynes's Schumpeter could be a very persuasive writer, but in Business Cycles he appears at his stylistic worst. Read cover to cover (a chore I do not recommend), the... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw