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  • 10 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

it, sell it only online? If not, what is the requisite assortment we should carry? What's the appropriate pricing in the store? They decided on a limited assortment in-store, that is mostly private label and where View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

will have over a series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental customers over a... View Details
  • 26 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

would have been thwarted and ABB would not exist. Manage Information Careful sequencing can help manage sensitive information. For a building developer worried about being squeezed on price if her intentions become public, the property... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
  • 03 Apr 2019
  • Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

will dramatically change the options for small businesses.” Her new book, Fintech, Small Business, & the American Dream: How Technology is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity, will be published... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services
  • 07 Aug 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?

that it will require Government subsidy while providing price leadership under a nonprofit cover, will over time drive most if not all health care to the public option (as happened with home mortgage giants... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • 15 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 15

business relations, and then reputation and regulatory relations. The impact on stock price has been much less significant, and this could be attributed to stock prices not reflecting the impact on employee... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9

Peter Tufano, and Michael Hofmann Publication:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 10 (October 2009): 68-75 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Preview the article: http://hbr.org/2009/10/managing-risk-in-the-new-world/ar/1 Behavioral Aspects of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

option leads to a fourteen-fold increase in the ex-post licensing rate. Two additional experimental interventions are designed to reduce search costs for (i) price and (ii) product information. Both... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006

competing bid for the shares of Nippon Broadcasting Systems (NBS). Livedoor, the other bidder, is a highly valued Internet company that has been accused of financial wizardry to keep its stock price high. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

price of diesel fuel. Purchase the case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508074 Adelphia Communications Corp.'s Bankruptcy Harvard Business School Case 208-071 In 2002, a massive accounting fraud and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

http://hbr.org/product/Grupo-Beta-San-Miguel/an/514005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 313-069 Reinventing Brainlab (A) The management of Germany's Brainlab AG, a leading provider of software-driven oncology and surgery solutions, needs to evaluate strategic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

projects. When research activities are noncontractible, we show that it is optimal for the financing company to obtain the option right to terminate the research agreement while maintaining broad property rights to the terminated project.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

should do so, while still protecting one of the world's most valuable brands. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511110-PDF-ENG Gold in 2011: Bubble or Safe Haven Asset? Robin Greenwood and Benjamin SteinerHarvard Business School Case 211-095 Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

associated with excellence in certain product categories. Venezuelan chocolate maker Chocolates El Rey does little international business because consumers associate premium chocolate more with Belgium or Switzerland than with Venezuela. Companies in this position have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

resulting wine. This decision is further complicated by the fact that ripe Riesling grapes can be vinified in two ways, resulting in two different styles of wine. Their relative prices would depend on the uncertain preference of consumers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53507 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Bubbles for Fama By: Greenwood, Robin, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You Abstract—We evaluate Eugene Fama's claim that stock View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18

However, traditional options for improving the algorithm, such as hiring and training new employees, were time intensive and costly. Hastings decided to improve Netflix's software by crowdsourcing and began planning the Netflix Prize, an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing

For decades, major retailers offered customers only two methods of purchasing: directly at the store or from catalogs sent through the mail. With the advent of the Internet, retail companies that offered only one or two channels suddenly had available a third View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 02 Feb 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?

people: 1) those who "will never agree with the CEO and are always in the minority," 2) those who help "clean up the decision-making process," and 3) "true 'yes men' ... [who] get the job done." Cheryl Price... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions

important extreme features figure into the decisions other people make. “You see someone choose an option with an extreme feature and you think that must have been the most important feature underlying the choice,” says Barasz, who... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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