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  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

increases price dispersion within narrow categories, is consistent with a standard vertical differentiation model in the presence of price controls. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54120 Using Online Prices for Measuring Real... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Dec 2015
  • Op-Ed

How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It

what has been learned. We need to make informed decisions about the true risk when the real reward is an energy source that can provide US-levels of power consumption to every person on the planet for thousands of years. There is much... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/09/contextual-intelligence/ar/1 September 2014 The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption Appetite, Consumption, and Choice in the Human Brain By: Knutson, Brian, and Uma R. Karmarkar... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

classical economic model and discussing extensions of the classical model and explanations grounded in behavioral economics that can account for the observed patterns. This part covers five topics: consumption and savings, borrowing,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27

U.S. business cycles lead over medium-term fluctuations in Mexico; and (3) why Mexican consumption is not less volatile than output. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-029.pdf Publications Marginality and Problem... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

example, because the data sources and credit histories that firms draw on in the West don't exist in emerging markets. Market research and advertising are in their infancy in developing countries, and it's difficult to find the deep databases on View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha
  • 09 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 9, 2016

earnings growth by 6%. Consistent with the hypothesis that this effect derives from the local demand channel, we find that consumption is less responsive to local labor demand shocks in counties with more generous benefits. Our analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

their funds on demand even if consumption takes place later. Capitalized institutions serving overoptimistic depositors emerge in equilibrium even if depositors and bank owners have identical preferences and investment opportunities.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2019
  • Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology
  • 15 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 15

http://hbr.org/product/tesco-group-food/an/514022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-023 Mission Produce As the leading distributor of fresh avocados in the U.S., Mission Produce was at a crossroads in late 2013. Avocado consumption... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network effects, users prefer to consume the same applications to benefit from consumption complementarities. We show that the combination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

around 10%, as both U.S. and worldwide CSD consumption consistently rose. This cozy situation was threatened in the late 1990s, however, when U.S. CSD consumption declined slightly before reaching what... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 16

covers the history of newspapers, industry economics, current news consumption trends, the response of the newspapers to the threat of the Internet, and vignettes highlighting newspaper business models throughout the world. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

example of IBM reducing electricity consumption significantly between 1990 and 2012 and saving $477 million in the process. The role of academics in this process, she said, is the traditional one: to think clearly, see what is true, not... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

Although much of the globe is awash in it, the allocation of water for human consumption is anything but easy. As the planet's population grows, urbanizes, and is subjected to climate change, many experts foresee a global water crisis... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 19 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

(Italy), demographic and entrepreneurial problems (Japan), or excessive consumption and debt problems (USA). Q: One of the surprises I had in reading the book was your bullishness on Russia. Why the optimism? A: I am bullish on Russia... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

concept to well-behaved consumption markets such as soft drinks. Consumer empowerment won't work there; empowering systems are most needed in situations where demands are fragmented and versatile. As these systems improve and succeed,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

consumption tax. The destination-based cash flow tax that was proposed in the summer was effectively that in disguise. I wasn't a terrible fan of that implementation of it, but I think there's something to be said for switching to that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

targeted a variety of demographic segments in different sales points, acquired new customers, and created a moment of luxurious consumption for all ages. Accordingly, within Godiva’s global enterprise, Godiva Japan had become number two... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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