Power - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

consumer PC in a very big way. (Yoffie is a board member of Intel, whose chips power most PCs and who has tried to woo Apple as a customer.—Ed.) Q: Consumer PC? So Apple would make consumer PCs on Windows, and not just morph into a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

any marketplace was having a large number of buyers and sellers. And while any one marketplace could do pretty well at it, we thought that by leveraging the power of all of our customers, both buyers and sellers, it would provide even... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

19 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

João Lourenço, implement the necessary reforms to unlock Angola’s economic potential, or will the existing power structure prevent the sort of change that is required if Angola’s people are to finally see the benefits of independence?... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

leveraging their market power to gain traction for lower quality products when they use a tying strategy. In this paper, we empirically explore this question by examining Google’s decision to tie its new reviews product to its search... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

slogan—Make America Great Again—Trump emphasized the power of tax cuts to drive economic growth. TCJA divided the U.S. Congress. The Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) celebrated it as "something I have been working on... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 20

preoccupied minds in the corridors of power in Western capitals: how to compel Russia to respect the Western geopolitical preferences without harming European allies? The answer, as in the past, pointed to the lack of viable short-term... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

Retirement, education, and medical care are focal in the minds of voters, so setting up tax-deferred savings programs around these issues is a political winner. Also, given the political power of universities, doctors, and asset... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

practical solutions to real-world problems. By redesigning both the rules that guide market transactions and the infrastructure that enables those transactions to take place, market designers can address a broad range of market failures. In this paper, we illustrate... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

tight monetary policy. The bank-to-bond substitution can only be measured for firms with access to bond markets. However, we show that this substitution behavior has strong predictive power for bank borrowing and investments by small,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

regulation Low consumer power High barriers to entry A dominant business model that is tightly integrated Leadership dominance—usually the impact of founders Conversely, the following characteristics can shorten an industry life-cycle... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

27 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

"hitch" changes (a hitch is the two-week stint each worker does offshore, followed by two weeks off-duty). Each facility contains space for outdoor work, production facilities, power generation, drilling operations, control... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

Patient flow to excellent providers in addressing a medical condition is a much more powerful incentive than a small bonus because it feeds the virtuous circle of value improvement from volume and experience. As patients seek out the... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1876547&show=html Unleashing the Power of Marketing Authors:Beth Comstock, Ranjay Gulati, and Stephen A. Liguori Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 10 (October 2010)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

systematically higher in markets with high contemporaneous utilization rates for the online banking channel. This finding holds even after controlling for contemporaneous market share suggesting it is not simply the result of increased market View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

Gazprom (B): Energy and Strategy in a New Era Harvard Business School Case Supplement 709-009 President Putin publicly stated that Gazprom, the largest natural gas producer in the world, was a powerful political lever of the Russian state... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

founder wants to take that model and replicate it in Brazil, for example, he needs logistics and financing infrastructure. Even if the demand for flat-panel TVs exists, he can't just go and do the same thing. The Vizio example highlights the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details