Entry In The US Market - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

manufacturing components and processes change, and IT security becomes the job of every function. Companies need different skills and expertise, which creates new imperatives for HR. In View Details

18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

quality. We develop a structural model of product entry that illustrates how the regulator's standard setting rule affects a firm's product quality decision. Counterfactual simulations illustrate that... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

June 2021 (Revised November 2024)
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MicroStrategy: Accounting for Cryptocurrency

By: Jonas Heese and Annelena Lobb

On February 15, 2021, Alina Moss, an analyst who covered the technology company MicroStrategy, pondered a rise in MicroStrategy’s share price. Moss had dialed into the company earnings call. When it ended, Moss had more questions than answers. MicroStrategy had... View Details

Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Share Price; Electronic Commerce; Intangible Assets; Assets; Accounting; Financial Statements; Financial Management; Financial Reporting; Analytics and Data Science; E-commerce

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23 Feb 2016
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February 23, 2016

transactions in the market for ideas. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45527 Equal Opportunity? Gender Gaps View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Public Disclosure of Private Meetings: Does Observing Peers’ Information Acquisition Affect Analysts’ Attention Allocation?

By: Yi Ru, Ronghuo Zheng and Yuan Zou

We investigate the impact of observing peers’ information acquisition on financial analysts’ allocation of attention. Using the timely disclosure mandate by the Shenzhen Stock Exchange as a setting, we find that, shortly after analysts observe that a firm has been... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Information; Financial Institutions; Accounting; Financial Markets; Financial Services Industry; China

23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

important technical problems to be solved. Once the problem is solved, the solution in combination with organizational boundaries and property rights can be View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Apr 2016
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April 26

April 2016 Review of Economic Studies Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring By: Stanton, Christopher, and Catherine Thomas Abstract—Online View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

instead for consumer attention. We model and characterize how households allocate their scarce attention in arguably the largest market for attention: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19

the mechanism for providing worker insurance developed stronger venture capital markets over 1990-2008, especially in high volatility sectors. In... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

October 2000
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Creating Value

By: Rohit Deshpande

Creating value involves understanding consumers/customers and bringing this knowledge into the organization. Market-driven and market-driving strategies are contrasted in the context of new product development. View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Use and Leverage; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Product Development; Value Creation

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26 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews

restaurant review websites not only provide a useful guide for consumers, but could help influence the restaurant business and its regulators. After all, Farronato says, monitoring hygiene isn’t merely View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Retail

20 Dec 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

and sound when we sit in meetings, and we don’t use our other senses. When you use the hand-mind connection, you’re View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

effect a change in asset allocation. The market for real estate derivatives is beginning to grow quite rapidly and the firm is trying to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 2018
Article

Religious Shoppers Spend Less Money

By: Didem Kurt, J. Jeffrey Inman and Francesca Gino

Although religion is a central aspect of life for many people across the globe, there is scant research on how religion affects people’s non-religious routines. In the present research, we identify a frequent consumption activity that is influenced by religiosity:... View Details

Keywords: Religion; Spending; Consumer Behavior; Values and Beliefs

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22 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning

Disagreements don’t have to end discussions. In fact, as researchers from the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School discussed at a recent event, engaging with those who hold opposing views can... View Details

Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette

02 Aug 2017
What Do You Think?

Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

functions and levels in the organization. Why isn’t the human resource function dealing with it? Is HR too buried in operating details,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Aug 2007
Op-Ed

Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right

Harvard Business School professor John Quelch is debuting a blog on marketing issues at Harvard Business Online. HBS Working Knowledge is reprinting his first entry, which looks at the Mattel toy... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products

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Navigating Talent Hot Spots

By: William R. Kerr

Innovation clusters like San Francisco and Boston have long had an outsize impact on the global economy, and their influence keeps growing. In 2017, for instance, America’s ten largest tech hubs accounted for 58% of U.S. patents. Globally, cities such as Tokyo, Paris,... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Innovation and Invention; Urban Scope; Industry Clusters; Innovation and Management

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