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  • 19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006

Business School Case 805-060 World Wide Licenses (WWL) was a low-technology firm that licensed famous brands, which it then applied to timepieces, stationery, and back-to-school products. It transformed into a digital imaging company and landed worldwide View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2017 (Revised November 2017)
  • Case

1436: The First Pure Chinese Luxury Fashion Brand?

By: Anat Keinan, Sandrine Crener and Hannah H. Chang
The case traces the birth of 1436, a new luxury brand specializing in cashmere garments. It describes how this venture emerged organically out of a combination of manufacturing and retail expertise with the ambition of creating the first pure Chinese luxury brand. The... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Luxury; Global Strategy; Fashion Industry; China
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  • 13 Jul 2016
  • HBS Case

How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers

New businesses often struggle finding their first customers. The challenge is even more difficult with startups in the sharing economy that launch as platforms connecting independent service providers with consumers. Take Uber. Its... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Transportation
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

human capital are also important for the effect of FDI on economic growth. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-013.pdf Architectural Innovation and Dynamic Competition: The Smaller "Footprint" Strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2003 (Revised September 2004)
  • Case

Worker Rights and Global Trade: The U.S.-Cambodia Bilateral Textile Trade Agreement

Examines the political and economic dimensions of the campaign to improve workers' rights around the world through the inclusion of labor standards in international trade agreements. The U.S.-Cambodia Textile Trade Agreement was the first agreement of its kind to link... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Agreements and Arrangements; Rights; Working Conditions; Globalization; Consumer Products Industry; Cambodia; United States
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  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

this result and assessing how future work in this field should proceed, based upon these first steps in measuring "design." Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-039.pdf Modeling Expert Opinions on Food... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

slightly increased to 2.61 [5, 10], while the best upper bound remained unchanged. In this paper we show the optimal lower bound on truthful anonymous mechanisms: no such mechanism can guarantee an approximation ratio better than m. This is the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

sponsorship. With respect to end users and complementors, decisions to open or close a mature platform involve 1) backward compatibility with prior platform generations; 2) securing exclusive rights to certain complements; or 3) absorbing... View Details
  • 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

rates in Asia, and high wage rates in Italy. Two plans have been presented to the CEO, Antonio Colombo. The first is to push development of all of the company's technologies, perhaps even seeking new markets for them. The second is to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

the right balance between the private benefits of integrated markets and the public value of civic engagement, evidence on the size of the positive spillovers from local media is needed. To date, such evidence is scant. In this paper, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2007
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First Look: May 15, 2007

more likely to attract revenue-generating alliances with downstream partners; however, (ii) the positive relationship between in-licenses and downstream alliances attenuates as firms mature, and (iii) the diversity and the quality of the academic connections of firms'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006

performance. In this paper, I conduct one of the first evaluations to determine whether a voluntary management program that features an independent verification mechanism is achieving its ultimate objectives. Using a sample of thousands... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 18, 2008

company statutes and shareholder lists, reveals that the addition of voting rights to their bylaws, particularly maximum vote provisions and graduated voting scales (which stipulated that less-than-proportional votes increase in parallel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • Blog Post

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) is sharing Working Knowledge articles to further educate our recruiting partners about best practices in human resources. Employee orientation programs ought to be less about the company and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

Francesca Gino, Lisa L. Shu, and Chia-Jung Tsay Publication:Emotion Review (forthcoming) Abstract Moral problems often prompt emotional responses that invoke intuitive judgments of right and wrong. While emotions inform judgment across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2022
  • News

How Teams Are Retaining Employees Right Now

  • 02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010

Ceilings, Floors, and Imperfect Calibration Authors:F. Gino, Z. S. Sharek, and D. A. Moore Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract Prior research has claimed that people exaggerate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 14, 2015

  Publications May-June 2015 Human Resource Management Back to the Future: Implications for the Field of HRM of the Multi-stakeholder Perspective Proposed 30 Years Ago By: Beer, Michael, Paul Boselie, and Chris Brewster Abstract—Thirty... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

strategic choices that affect both the expected profits of the firm and their riskiness. Even if competition at first pushes the manager towards profit maximization as commonly argued, I show that further increases in competitive forces... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 21, 2015

  Publications In press Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes When Doing Good Is Bad in Gift-giving: Mis-predicting Appreciation of Socially-responsible Gifts By: Cavanaugh, A., F. Gino, and G.J. Fitzsimons Abstract—Gifts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne