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- 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19
report higher future sales growth and show a negative relation between profitability change and sales growth in high corruption geographic segments compared to firms with high anticorruption efforts. The net... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
executives, middle managers, and sales people from companies across a variety of industries. The survey focused on questions about how well their companies’ strategies informed six critical elements of their View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016
based on the color of a person's skin through its “Dark is Beautiful” campaign—endorsed by well-known actor-director Nandita Das. However, despite the recent guidelines on advertising of skin-lightening products, many Indians still aspire to have fair skin. The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016
ASOS was large by online standards, traditional fashion retailers were building their own online sales capabilities, and Amazon was expanding its apparel offering. Meanwhile,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23
constant marginal costs, there is never a pure-strategy solution where the lower-quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A obtains revenue from follow-on sales, as might arise when A expects to make upgrade View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
ticketing, ride-sharing, and online retailing. This paper identifies two downsides of dynamic pricing: opportunistic returns and strategic choice of payment method. Where Should We Build a Mall? The Formation of Market Structure and Its... View Details
- 27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27
The article concludes by suggesting that the stratdegies of business enterprises need to be more fully integrated into wider narratives of the history of globalization. August 2013 JMR, Journal of Marketing Research Positioning Brands Versus Large Competitors to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
10 percent, in these early weeks. Q: Do your findings have implications for the video market? A: The video window, particularly DVD sales in recent years, has developed into a significant additional source of revenue for movie studios.... View Details
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111026-PDF-ENG Cork'd: Building a Social Network for Wine Lovers Peter A. ColesHarvard Business School Case 911-026 Lindsay Ronga and Gary Vaynerchuk are launching Cork'd, an online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12
(on Technology & Innovation and Management Research Methodology), the 14-volume encyclopedia now offers users a fully searchable online resource linked to the wider literature and to an associated database of handbooks and journals in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
middle class, and the fact that India's film industry sold 3.2 billion tickets in 2009. “Movie piracy in India is rampant—you can get one online the day after a release” Harvard Business School Associate Professor Lakshmi Iyer, a native... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14
Harvard Business Review Putting Sales at the Center of Strategy By: Cespedes, Frank Abstract—Research indicates that relatively few firms execute their strategies effectively, and, on average, companies deliver just 50% to 60% of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
in-person bootcamps. Should Flatiron shift investment to aggressively expand online or grow online and in-person bootcamps in tandem? Should they pursue opportunities to sell View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007
Warner. However, it has also begun to explore new ways to expand its online advertising model, experimenting with more elaborate forms of advertising (involving graphics, animation, and video). Google has also begun exploring the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2024
- Book
Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech
great sense of their cash flow, the sales they might make, when customers will pay, or what cash needs they could have based on the season or a new contract. Small businesses have low cash buffers, and a miscalculation, late payment, or... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
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September 8, 2015
Business Review Case Study: Can You Win Back Online Shoppers? By: Teixeira, Thales S., and Sunil Gupta Abstract—This case study discusses the options that brick-and-mortar retailers can use to combat the negative consequences of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
earlier, Freed-Finnegan and Wall had founded Index after observing the technological advantages that Amazon and other online retailers had over brick-and-mortar retailers. Index’s first product was a customer database tool that allowed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
in designing and assessing policy. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54968 Large-Scale Demand Estimation with Search Data By: Amano, Tomomichi, Andrew Rhodes, and Stephan Seiler Abstract—Many online... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
established practice. Companies have hired writers and chief content officers to run departments as well as create blogs and other materials—in the process, some have assured sales people that content marketing can mean the end of cold... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 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... View Details