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- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
with standard team-theory predictions; however, certain findings, such as a negative correlation between delegation and firm size, call for a consideration of agency costs, as well. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1802635 ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008
Lerner, and Jean Tirole Abstract The sub-prime crisis has shown a harsh spotlight on the practices of securities underwriters, which provided too many complex securities that proved to ultimately have little value. This uproar calls... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
modularity and software evolution, which can be used for description, prediction, and prescription. According to Baldwin and Clark's theory, modular architectures add value to system designs by creating options to improve the system by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
different types of physicians. By understanding the dynamic effect of sales calls across heterogeneous physicians, we provide guidance on the design of optimal call patterns for route sales. The findings... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
liabilities for the firm. We explore a large novel dataset of over 50,000 workers across 11 different firms to document a variety of workers’ characteristics and circumstances that lead them to engage in what we call "toxic"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30
Group Luca de Meo, chief marketing officer of Volkswagen Group, reflects on his time leading the marketing department at Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand. In particular, he thinks about the environmental sustainability initiative launched by marketing View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
issues presented in the (B) case. The students are given context to discuss how this situation could have been prevented. Purchase this supplement: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110034-PDF-ENG Scooter Lindley: The Formation Call... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
the high $60 million range. The sell-side team, comprised of bankers from the Blackstone Group and Greenhill, and lawyers from Wachtell Lipton and Kirkland & Ellis, is forced to regroup and reconsider their options for galvanizing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
While analyzing one deal requires a familiar conceptual framework, doing the same for a broader "negotiation campaign" calls for a different focus and set of concepts: how to orchestrate a large number of subsidiary deals, often... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
they're pretty convinced that some form of advertising is going to build up because of the traffic that's inherently there. Since we don't know how to capture the value yet, people are prepositioning to capture it. Q: With all these advertising View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
businesses reportedly use behavioral economics strategies to guide their decision-making. In his Immersive Field Course at HBS, called "Behavioral Insights," Luca brings students to London to partner on projects with BIT and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
4). Further, although givers believe that recipients do not appreciate receiving money as much as receiving a solicited gift, recipients feel the opposite about these two gift options (Study 5). Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2008
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First Look: May 6, 2008
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 period of four... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
any, difference will the “New Silk Road” make in the global educational landscape? Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55549 Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 13 Platform Systems vs. Step Processes—The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
responses interact with those of other actors, and how these individual and collective responses unfold over time to generate outcomes. Second, we call for stronger unification of theory within the entrepreneurial resource mobilization... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
a popular ride, they had the option of purchasing a photo of themselves enjoying the ride. For the experiment, some visitors were told upon purchase that half of the photo proceeds would go to a charity. The results showed that visitors... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007
after 1989. Also describes the various options open to coffee producers, including recartelization, diversification, fair trade, and selling to boutique markets, the strategy of the Thousand Hills Coffee Co. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
declining. Banking and other financial services are now more important to the national economy. Security forces initially fired upon demonstrators, but withdrew after President Obama intervened with a phone call to the king. Some... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9
just as global capital markets are imploding in the fall of 2008. NovoCure, Ltd., has developed an electrical-field-based therapy, called Tumor Treating fields, for the treatment of cancerous tumors. The therapy has shown significant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
cast votes in public referenda. 13 By the early 1970s, with organizations like the RAND Corporation, The Brookings Institution, and the Sloan Commission all calling for more supportive regulation of cable, pressure for change was... View Details