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  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

energy sector. As Khosla thought about the hundreds of millions of dollars required by his portfolio companies, he wondered how he should position his firm at this stage of development. Should Khosla develop a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2021 (Revised February 2025)
  • Teaching Note

Afterpay U.S.: The Omnichannel Dilemma

By: Antonio Moreno and Anibha Singh
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 519-086. In 2018, Nick Molnar, the founder of the Australia-based online payment service Afterpay began its expansion to the U.S. market. The service had gained a loyal following in Australia by enabling customers to pay for online... View Details
Keywords: Omnichannel Retail; Digital Marketing; Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Change Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Satisfaction; Financing and Loans; Microfinance; Global Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Product Development; Supply Chain Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Network Effects; Internet and the Web; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Australia
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  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

such patents. Our theoretical model builds on two distinct strategy literatures: firms appropriating rents from new technologies and firms managing stakeholders. We predict... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?

broad-based guarantees of mortgage-backed securities [MBS]. This approach would be most similar to the current system except that the new firms would not be government sponsored and would have to pay for the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

management will inhibit innovation and entrepreneurial activities. We disagree and argue that risk management should function as a Revealing Hand to identify, assess, and mitigate risks in a cost-efficient manner. Done well, the Revealing Hand of risk management adds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10

in Conference Calls of Non-U.S. Firms By: Brochet, Francois, Patricia L. Naranjo, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We examine how linguistic complexity affects the capital market reaction to information disclosures. We define linguistic complexity as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

change in the information set for employees when the incentives and decision rights remain unchanged. Also examines the tradeoffs front-line employees face as they divide their efforts between reaching new customers and increasing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

Capitalism: Volume 2. The Spread of Capitalism: From 1848 to the Present Firms and Global Capitalism By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—This chapter forms part of the two-volume Cambridge History of Capitalism, a definitive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11

reached their limits; third, some products affecting the health and rights of the people as well as the related entities' behavior are challenging the legal and moral bottom line. These three aspects are required to establish a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 9

experiment? Conducting the experiment is just the beginning. Use the data to assess which components of a new initiative might have the highest ROI or the markets where it is most likely to be successful. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

Daniel Kahneman, 217-247. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Abstract We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10

working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2397317   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 515-042 Simplot Plant Sciences: Designing a Better Potato Privately held Simplot has developed a new... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • July 2011 (Revised August 2011)
  • Supplement

Renewing GE: The Africa Project (B)

By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. Creary
This case continues the story of the evolution of GE's business initiatives Africa. Between November 2010 and March 2011 several significant structural changes and leadership appointments were announced at GE, which reflected the company's commitment to global growth... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Restructuring; Multinational Firms and Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Consumer Products Industry; Hong Kong; Africa; Republic of Ireland
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  • 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

Abstract We document geographic concentration by both venture capital firms and venture capital-financed companies in three metropolitan areas: San Francisco, Boston, and New York. We find that venture... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4

India on firm size dynamics and reallocation of resources within industries. Following deregulation, resource misallocation declines, and the left-hand tail of the firm size distribution thickens... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

followed a series of events that seriously damaged ChuoAoyama's reputation. We use these events to provide evidence on the importance of auditors' reputation for quality in a setting where litigation plays essentially no role. Around one quarter of ChuoAoyama's clients... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

"by the numbers." We discuss relational incentive contracts that use informal weights on formal performance measures. More importantly, we suggest how formal measures can be used in new models of informal management. We also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

  Working PapersLocal Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott WeisbennerNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15175, July 2009 Abstract We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models through the analysis of individual firm choices. We situate negotiation outcomes within the strategy... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

the scholarship emanating from this research stream has grown substantially in quantity, quality, and breadth. Likewise, firms across the world have increasingly implemented broad and sophisticated non-market strategies. Within strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne