Financial Capital Needed - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

Tolga Sinmazdemir Abstract—Attitudes toward the acceptability of settling with one's enemies versus the need to continue fighting for an all out victory are central to the course of any conflict and its legacy. On the one hand, in cases... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Nov 2006
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Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

when its market capitalization increased 4,500 percent from about $4 billion to about $197 billion. The sense of, as they say at Intel, of bleeding blue. Q: An Intel way. A: Yes. Oh, very much so, there was an Intel way. They had their... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

desirable, if their message needs reinforcement, and if they are opting for the technology they want others to use. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49666 October 2015 Harvard Business Review How Smart,... View Details

20 Nov 2012
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H-E-B was first and foremost a retailer that had to compete against the likes of Walmart. He needed to make sure that H-E-B was serving its customers what they wanted while also trying to influence their buying behavior toward healthier... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

started out as a dating site here at Harvard when he was a freshman and then he saw an opportunity to move to the West Coast to really expand Phenomenal success. There literally are millions of people who want to be the next Mark Zuckerberg. The View Details

15 Feb 2011
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healthcare, and microfinance. In the process, a case is made that these disruptive commercial models are a key component in the response to poverty, and that there is a social role for financial returns. Accordingly, the basic goods and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

criterion is a very reasonable, perhaps the most reasonable, goal. But it is not the only one that matters to people. To prove this point, all we need do is examine one aspect of the tax policy we would use if we were fully convinced... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services

03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006

less control over their strategy than they think while middle managers and operating managers can have a much greater role in strategy than is generally recognized by either those managers or by top management: But the complexity of the resource allocation process only... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Oct 2012
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Sonnenberg, Susan J. Barraclough, and Anne N. Thorndike Publication:American Journal of Preventive Medicine 43, no. 1 (September 2012) Abstract Background: Effective strategies are needed to address obesity, particularly among minority... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52102 forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Credit-Induced Boom and Bust By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Amir Kermani Abstract—Can a credit expansion induce a boom and bust in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Nov 2009
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Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

opportunities and parameters of success. The U.S. airline industry went through a seismic shift after the terrorist attacks of September 11. This external jolt to the industry further reinforced the need to reevaluate the manner in which... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/615046-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-426 Allstate Corporation, 2007-2013 After five years of global financial crises and natural catastrophes, Allstate, the U.S.'s number two... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

24 Feb 2014
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Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

reward than spending $x/n in different stores. One approach to achieve this convexity in rewards is to create loyalty systems that are tiered. It is often argued that tiered rewards, such as those offered by airlines, hotels, casinos, and View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

05 Dec 2017
Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

progressed along their path to power. Discovering common attributes that made these influential business leaders possible to build successful and sustainable companies in a very adverse and unfriendly context is an extremely necessary exercise. The Latin America... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

November 2004 (Revised September 2019)
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The U.S. Health Club Industry in 2004

By: John R. Wells, Gabriel Ellsworth and Benjamin Weinstock

In 2004, the $16.8 billion U.S. health club industry continued its strong record of growth. There were almost 27,000 health clubs in the United States, up from 6,700 two decades earlier, and these clubs claimed 41 million members, over 14% of the U.S. population.... View Details