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- 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19
case focuses on the lead-up to Disney's 2012 annual meeting where Disney would face a vote on the compensation package of its CEO, Robert Iger. Leading proxy advisory firms were recommending that shareholders reject the proposed compensation. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
apparel and challenge H&M's basic clothing segment. In 2012, CEO Karl-Johan Persson, grandson of the company's founder Erling Persson, promised increased expansion into underdeveloped markets, a stronger push to online retailing, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
forthcoming Harvard Journal on Legislation From the Digital to the Physical: Federal Limitations on Regulating Online Marketplaces By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Abbey Stemler Abstract—Online marketplaces have transformed how we shop, travel,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
difficult to glean from the available data. Our estimates can inform ongoing policy discussions on both sides of the Atlantic about the economic implications of biosimilar policies. Harvard Business School Case 817-100 Deutsche Bank: Pursuing Blockchain Opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016
popularity of carryout orders, which poses a threat to the service experiences of customers and the sustainability of the operation. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/617011-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday
revenue for Amazon, in addition to the additional value the online retailing giant gets from the loyalty customers feel once they are enrolled. "THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT PRIME MEMBERS ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR AMAZON, AND IT GIVES... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016
high-volume U.S. hospitals for delivering a primary total knee arthroplasty without major complicating conditions. Hospital and physician personnel costs were calculated using time-driven activity-based costing. Consumable supply costs, such as the prosthetic implant,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
Review, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase the book: http://hbr.org/product/guide-to-managing-up-and-across/an/11126-PDF-ENG Empirical Observations on Incentives for Weight Loss Authors:Leslie John, George Lowenstein,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 12
GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional time-based billing with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016
counter this ambiguity, this paper proposes that the strength of the greedy signal relates to an individual's volunteer reputation. Results from an online experiment support this possibility: the crowd out in response to public incentives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
forthcoming American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption Across Countries By: Cavallo, Alberto, Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, and Marcel P. Timmer Abstract—We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14
horizon-the rapid growth of the Netflix online streaming service, which had a very different business model. Hastings' efforts to separate the activity into two separate companies met with strong pushback from consumers and the press.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
something that already works [e.g. credit and debit cards], something that doesn't complain when it gets wet in the rain, something that doesn't complain when I launder my pants?" Especially, he adds, when those cards give users and additional 1 or 2 percent off... View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
consumer demand across the world. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/619008-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 619-029 Amazon Acquires Whole Foods (B) This short case, meant for pairing with HBS No. 615-013,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10
School Case 314-108 China Vanke: Supplement At China Vanke, the assistant to the Chairman asks whether a business model posted in an online discussion thread correctly explains Vanke's rapid growth over the previous two decades. He uses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 21
largely emphasizes the collective benefits of market creation and overlooks the costs borne by individual evangelists. Through an inductive multiple-case study of five startup competitors, we traced firms’ efforts to stake out a new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
Publisher's Link: http://hbr.org/product/seven-strategy-questions-a-simple-approach-for-bet/an/14832-HBK-ENG Competing against Online Sharing Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane Publication:Management Decision 48, no.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49708 Published first online September 16, 2015 Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Incorporating Longitudinal Pediatric Patient-centered Outcome... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research, February 28
internal factors that constrain or enable these responses, and examine how the firms’ responses affect their performance. Our empirical context is the U.S. newspaper industry, which has experienced increased competition following the entry of Craigslist, an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne