Publications

December 1988
Article

Strategic Responses to Automobile Emissions Control: A Game-Theoretic Analysis

By: Dennis Yao

This paper examines the dynamics of standard-setting regulation under technological uncertainty and asymmetric information about technological capability. A two-period model which allows fully strategic action is developed and applied to the regulation of automobile... View Details

Keywords: Transportation; Pollutants; Standards; Governance Controls; Technological Innovation; Research and Development; Mathematical Methods

February 2009
Background Note

Basic Techniques for the Analysis of Customer Information Using Excel 2007: A Step-by-Step Approach

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez

The objective of this note is to provide a set of easy, step-by-step guides for some analytical techniques that are useful in the analysis of cases discussed in the course "Competing and Winning through Customer Information" (CWCI). The instructions that follow use... View Details

Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Information Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

Educators

06 Mar 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Consumer Protection in an Online World: An Analysis of Occupational Licensing

Keywords: by Chiara Farronato, Andrey Fradkin, Bradley Larsen, and Erik Brynjolfsson; Service

Article

Corporate Lobbying as Marketing Communication: Utilizing Multivariate Analysis for Segmentation Strategies

By: Rohit Deshpandé and Rajendra K. Srivastava

1985
Other Unpublished Work

The Shorham Nuclear Power Plant (A)- HBS Analysis and Decision Case

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Energy; Management; Energy Industry; New York (state, US)

March 2010
Article

Extreme Governance: An Analysis of Dual-Class Firms in the United States

By: Paul A. Gompers, Joy Ishii and Andrew Metrick

We construct a comprehensive list of dual-class firms in the United States and use this list to analyze the relationship between insider ownership and firm value. Our data have two useful features. First, since dual-class stock separates cash-flow rights from voting... View Details

Keywords: Voting; Cash Flow; Stocks; Rights; Ownership Stake; Value; United States

February 2007
Article

The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf

Keywords: Information Technology; Sales; Theory

April 1996 (Revised September 2011)
Teaching Note

ExtendSim® Simulation Exercises in Process Analysis (TN) (A), (B), and (C)

By: Ann E. Gray

Teaching Note for (9-694-039), (9-694-040), and (9-695-021). View Details

January 1983
Article

Uncertainty, Social Location and Influence in Decision Making: A Sociometric Analysis

By: Michael Tushman and E. Romanelli

Keywords: Decision Making

September 1997
Article

The Cost of Price Incentives: An Empirical Analysis of Motivation Crowding-Out

By: Bruno S. Frey and Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Keywords: Cost; Motivation and Incentives; Theory

26 Apr 2011
Working Paper Summaries

The Contingent Effect of Absorptive Capacity: An Open Innovation Analysis

Keywords: by Andrew A. King & Karim R. Lakhani

Article

Factors Affecting the Consumption of Market Research: A Path Analysis

By: Rohit Deshpandé and Gerald Zaltman

March 1987 (Revised May 1995)
Teaching Note

Comdisco, Inc.: Financial Statement Analysis (A) and (B), Teaching Note

By: Krishna G. Palepu

Keywords: Financial Statements

January 1991 (Revised March 1993)
Supplement

Becton Dickinson & Co.: VACUTAINER Systems Division, Decision Analysis Supplement

By: Robert D. Buzzell

February 2005
Article

An Econometric Analysis of Inventory Turnover Performance in Retail Services

By: Vishal Gaur, Marshall L. Fisher and Ananth Raman

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Assets; Performance; Sales; Retail Industry

May 2007 (Revised March 2008)
Background Note

Basic Techniques for the Analysis of Customer Information Using Excel 2003: A Step-by-Step Approach

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez

Provides a set of easy, step-by-step guides for some analytical techniques that are useful in the analysis of cases discussed in the course "Competing and Winning Through Customer Information (CWCI)". The instructions that follow use datasets from three of the cases in... View Details

Keywords: Data and Data Sets; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Mathematical Methods

Educators

December 2011
Article

Manager-Specific Effects on Earnings Guidance: An Analysis of Top Executive Turnovers

By: Francois Brochet, Lucile Faurel and Sarah McVay

We investigate how managers contribute to the provision of earnings guidance by examining the association between top executive turnovers and guidance. Although firm and industry characteristics are important determinants of guidance, we conclude that CEOs participate... View Details

Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Teams; Policy; Decisions; Change; Risk and Uncertainty; Leadership

SSRN

March 2011
Module Note

Quantitative Analysis of Competitive Position: Customer Demand and Willingness to Pay

By: David J. Collis

This note is designed to provide strategists with tools to perform two critical customer-related analyses: determining willingness to pay — the estimation of how much a given customer would be willing to pay for a particular product or service; and demand estimation —... View Details

Keywords: Price; Demand and Consumers; Competitive Advantage; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Market Participation; Segmentation

June 2008
Supplement

Walt Disney Company's Sleeping Beauty Bonds - Duration Analysis - courseware

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Keywords: Bonds; Theory; Education; Information; Entertainment and Recreation Industry