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  • 05 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 5

ability of a firm to transfer its capabilities across markets: no learning, local learning, and global learning. Three equilibrium strategies arise: accommodate, marginalize, and collocate. We identify how these strategies emerge depending on the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

services in-house? Are there cost benefits, and do they depend on size? A: Previous research has shown that advertising agency operations are subject to economies of scale, and hence the advertiser faces a major tradeoff in choosing... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29

sides of land use proposals. This case demonstrates the dilemmas and tradeoffs related to private land owner rights and the role of government in seeking positive outcomes for broader society. Case students will rigorously look at issues... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

products survive in equilibrium, even with competition. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-055.pdf Got Local Food? Authors:Baris Ata, Deishin Lee, and Mustafa H. Tongarlak Abstract We study the operational tradeoffs of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

conventional optimal tax theory because it eases the classic tradeoff between efficiency and equality. But tagging is used in only limited ways in tax policy. I propose one explanation: conventional optimal tax theory has yet to capture... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 31, 2006

board levels. It explores whether this tension exists both at the level of the individual entrepreneur's financial gains and at the level of the overall venture's value, and also whether entrepreneurs can avoid the tradeoff by building... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19

have become quite influential and controversial in the technology industries they touch. The goal of this paper is to shed light on the role and efficiency tradeoffs of these new patent intermediaries. Finally, we offer a provisional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

fixing easy-to-solve problems had greater improvement in safety climate than those focused on identifying a bunch of hard-to-solve ones. "To our knowledge, this tradeoff between analysis and action in process improvement programs has not... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
  • 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

change in the information set for employees when the incentives and decision rights remain unchanged. Also examines the tradeoffs front-line employees face as they divide their efforts between reaching new customers and increasing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015

Abstract—Operational decisions under information asymmetry can signal a firm's prospects to less-informed parties, such as investors, customers, competitors, and regulators. Consequently, managers in these settings often face a tradeoff... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 7

difference across innovation systems is whether disclosure is of intermediate progress and solutions or of completed innovations. We present experimental evidence that links intermediate versus final disclosure not just with quantitative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007

agribusiness companies. Headquartered in White Plains, NY, the company has traditionally possessed a strong presence in Brazil. Describes Bunge's tradeoff between efficiency of global operations and local responsiveness in an uncertain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

The decision point of the case is whether Blue should participate in the third, much larger and more complex, stage of CCDev. The tradeoff facing Blue’s leadership was between the legitimacy, expertise, and funding provided by working... View Details
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

dilemmas-challenging decisions that feature tradeoffs between competing and seemingly incompatible values. Moral insight consists of discovering solutions that move beyond selecting one conflicting ethical option over another. Moral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

provide. The provision and disclosure of information presents tradeoffs for all market participants. Consumers benefit from providing information to the firm, as this increases the utility they derive from the service, but they incur... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

levels for consumer information, and consumers observe both before deciding which firm to patronize and how much information to provide it with. The provision and disclosure of information presents tradeoffs for all market participants.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

significant challenges. The case pays particular attention to the four men's evolving identities as musical artists and to the tradeoffs that have accompanied their fame and larger social commitments. The case takes up the evolution of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

variety that forces consumers to make difficult tradeoffs (do I want the leather interior or do I want the 4-wheel drive?) will tend to drive people away from a brand. In the end, a consumer may opt to choose a brand with fewer, easier to... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
  • 15 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

In the early 1990s, both Teradyne and Hewlett-Packard identified new technologies that had enormous potential to cause new-market disruptions. As with most disruptive innovations, these technologies offered to provide smaller and less expensive solutions for customers... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology
  • 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016

primitives encourages substitutability of agents’ preferences over contracts and makes stable outcomes more likely to exist; however, bundling also makes the contractual language less expressive. Consequently, in choosing contract language, market designers face a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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