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  • 19 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

Competition drives the supply of services with a low level of disclosure, since some customers will choose to pay more for a service in exchange for keeping their personal information under wraps. Competition ensures that services that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5

concerns. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-047.pdf   PublicationsOptimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz Publication:American... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

as well as recent articles that help give the reader a sense of where the field is headed and where likely opportunities for future research lie. This article seeks to strike an equilibrium among the variety of perspectives that exist in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief supplies. Its efforts were crucial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

designed to focus on those challenges "horizontally"—across all the functions managers need to address from the original business plan through the first eighteen months of an organization's life. For companies that are "up... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

fact that many large organizations have become much more interdependent and complex; one-size-fits-all no longer works so well. This development is also a function of social, economic, and political change. Leaders now have to deal with a... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

H. Carpenter Abstract Front-line staff possess an immense amount of functional and experiential knowledge from which their organizations can learn. This paper examines two distinct processes for leveraging front-line staff knowledge in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

sorting effect, whereby firms trade-off service quality and price, and in turn, the incumbent attracts service (price) sensitive customers in markets where it has supplied relatively high (low) levels of service quality in the past.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

urge business leaders everywhere to seize this opportunity to rebuild public confidence in capitalism and its ability to function in a way that generates inclusive and sustainable prosperity,” write coauthors and HBS professors Joseph L.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

theoretical and practical implications and suggest future directions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50313 Forward Guidance in the Yield Curve: Short Rates versus Bond Supply By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

analyze and critique, and, therefore, the designers of society’s big data infrastructure, whether human or machines, play an unacknowledged legislative function of great consequence. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

major supply contracts, and improve operational efficiency and quality, but might not have attended any "courses" on starting a new business in his or her prior career assignments. An outside entrepreneur might have learned a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers, and lower mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither). We argue that supplying joint... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

treating both its suppliers and its blue collar workforce as homogeneous, interchangeable entities as well as its view that expertise could be partitioned so that there was minimal overlap of knowledge amongst functions or levels in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

Tanzania are more expensive than comparable hotels, and that this difference in price cannot be accounted for by differences in supply constraints. Further, using cross-country panel data, I show that upscale hotel prices account for a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

maximizes joint utility); (2) an equilibrium selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria, which result in different utility levels for the users); and (3) a coordination problem (lacking perfect... View Details
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

public infrastructure. As the nation and company grow, the firm also grows and embarks on a strategy of rapid expansion, offering a wide new range of financial products and participating in many aspects of the supply chain. Teaching... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

While the risk functions of some organizations have a culture of quantitative enthusiasm and are dedicated to risk measurement, others, with a culture of quantitative scepticism, take a different path, focusing instead on risk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007

neither too quickly nor too slowly. The Structure, Size, and Performance of Corporate Headquarters Authors:David J. Collis, David Young, and Michael Goold Periodical:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines the unique View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

through which supply and demand are brought into equilibrium. In the investment-research industry, broker votes perform these functions. Using detailed clinical data from a midsized investment bank for the years 2004 to 2007, we present... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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