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- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Glaeser, William R. Kerr, and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto Publication:Journal of Urban Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
http://hbr.org/product/keeping-up-with-the-quants-your-guide-to-understan/an/11177-HBK-ENG 2006 Strategic Management Journal Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies By: Alcácer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung Abstract—Geographically concentrated View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
of FairMarket, which provides online auction services for a variety of merchant and community sites. Meakem is the founder and CEO of FreeMarkets, which creates business-to-business online auctions for industrial parts and suppliers.... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
solely a product problem. NB: I imagine that doing a good job of picking that mainstream market is a function of the entrepreneur's own experience in an industry and his or her intuition about the future. Lassiter: Certainly in the cases... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
Buell, Ryan W., Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Abstract—This paper investigates the impact of customer compatibility—the degree of fit between the needs of customers and the capabilities of the operations serving them—on customer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
donations to organizations such as World Wildlife Fund and Save the Children fit in. Those contributing money are driven first and foremost by an affinity with the idea, rather than by any individual reward they might receive. Some... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
other place where you are seeing malls thrive is at the high end. The luxury malls, what the industry calls A-class malls, are doing very, very well. It's the B- and C-class malls that are in trouble. These malls are targeting the... View Details
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
from Dice-K in the 2007 season? And finally, how does the signing fit into the greater strategic context of competing with the much-better funded Yankees? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50588 forthcoming Marketing Science Minimum Advertised Pricing: Patterns of Violation in Competitive Retail Markets By: Israeli, Ayelet, Eric Anderson, and Anne Coughlan Abstract—Manufacturers in many View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
Imagine a retail chain that offers customers not only the lowest prices but also personalized customer service. Employees receive above-average wages and 20 times more training than the average American retailer. Sounds like a recipe for retail suicide, especially in... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
Corporate-sponsored venture funds first appeared in the 1960s, about two decades after the first flowering of the venture capital industry. Ever since, they have mirrored the cyclic nature of the industry as a whole. But there are... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
people and lots of money. The opportunity seemed right for Bronner, who had founded Digitas, a marketing-services firm that created customer-loyalty programs for clients such as American Express and AT&T. It also seemed a good fit for... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
Working PapersThe Seer of Wellesley Hills: Roger Babson and the Babson Statistical Organization Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract Roger Babson was a pioneer of the business-forecasting industry in the United States in the early... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
to study must have had a compounded annual growth rate in revenues, profits, and market capitalization that exceeded the 50th percentile of industry peers between 1997 and 2006 or for the CEO's tenure. Corresponding figures were used for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
look at the creation of the Carnegie Tech Graduate School of Industrial Administration after World War II. This episode illustrates the increasingly successful claims of social scientists, backed by philanthropic foundations, on business... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
does the course fit into a global context? Hamel: In the last few years, the business world has changed dramatically. No longer moving linearly or at a steady, predictable pace, the world has become fundamentally discontinuous. Most... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
design ("what we do") and its identity ("who we are") is often seen as a key to strong performance. But maintaining a tight fit between design and identity is difficult when a profound external shock forces an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
accounts—a tactic that consumers have already used at many online retailers. And industry norms let consumers find ways around almost any rule intended to block multiple purchases. For example, even when consumers are limited to a single... View Details
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
them."6 This may be true enough, but here Schumpeter extends the theme of cycles into something like a determinate paradigm. He attempts the hopeless task of fitting historical patterns of business booms and busts into predictable... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 09 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Career Advancement Without Experience
established organization. What they need, say researchers Siobhan O'Mahony and Beth Bechky, is "stretchwork" that fits with an individual's previous experience and yet extends their skills in a new direction. Stretchwork can... View Details