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- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
Industry: A Historical Perspective By: Jones, G. Abstract—This chapter explores the impact of the global beauty industry on beauty ideals. It shows that as the industry internationalized from the late nineteenth century, there was a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
in tastes. Our framework allows us to characterize matching equilibrium in a flexible way that includes as special cases the classic fully- and non-transferable utility models, collective models, and settings with taxes on transfers,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
paragraphs to Google, which, by 2001, already was the 15th largest website in the United States. Despite this traffic, Google’s ecosystem impact was still modest at the time. The company was still a year away from adopting the paid search... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
Human Decision Processes Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice By: Blunden, Hayley, Jennifer M. Logg, Alison Wood Brooks, Leslie John, and Francesca Gino Abstract—Prior advice research has focused on understanding when and why people rely on (or... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
problems randomly selected from the same distribution. After collecting the experimental data to be used for estimation, the organizers posted them on the Web, together with their fit with several baseline models, and challenged other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
Universal that produce and distribute movies. More and more, fears of piracy impact decisions that industry executives make regarding release strategies. However, a different picture emerges for theatrical exhibitors such as AMC or Regal.... View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
by many credit ratings customers? A Century Of Competition The seeds of the bond ratings industry, Becker explains in the case, are found in the credit record collection firms (such as Dun & Bradstreet) of the late 19th century. The... View Details
- 24 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 24, 2007
transactions to discover and collect funds owed to their clients. PRG had historically been profitable, and clients were satisfied with their service. In recent years, however, the industry overall and PRG's sales, had been in decline.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-048.pdf The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship Banking Authors:Victoria Ivashina and Anna Kovner Abstract This paper examines the impact of leveraged buyout firms' bank... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
large set of countries and industries and exploit cross-section and time-series variation in import tariffs to examine the impact of prices on organizational choices. Our empirical results provide strong support for the predictions of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
Management (forthcoming) Abstract Broad waves of investor sentiment should have larger impacts on securities that are more difficult to value and to arbitrage. Consistent with this intuition, we find that when an index of investor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
impact on the link between diversity and bottom-line performance. As expected, minorities' negative assessments of their team's learning environment precipitate a negative relationship between diversity and performance, irrespective of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7
These structures determine a firm's motivation to seek protection, as well as its capacity to overcome collective action problems within its industry. In the petrochemical industry, the shift toward greater horizontal consolidation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business
Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit. One lesson is clear: Businesses that provide higher-quality service and maintain a solid reputation can become more insulated from market shocks, such as increases in fixed costs. The... View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
U.S.-listed foreign firm. Siegel collects evidence from a core sample of Mexican firms to show that some insiders from foreign-listed firms exploit this lax enforcement and run off with the firm's assets with impunity, while others learn... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11
PublicationsIndispensable: When Leaders Really Matter Author:Gautam Mukunda Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Abstract Will your next leader be insignificant-or indispensable? The importance of leadership and the impact of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 19
for this trend is that citizens may be unaware of both the services provided by government and the impact of those services on their lives. In an experiment, Boston-area residents interacted with a website that visualizes both service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
deontological option) were more likely to suppress their emotional expressions. In Studies 2a, 2b, and 3, we instruct participants to either regulate their emotions, using one of two different strategies (reappraisal vs. suppression), or not to regulate, and we View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 5
those that return instantaneous results—even when those results are identical. In five experiments that simulate service experiences in the domains of online travel and online dating, we demonstrate the impact of the labor illusion on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
ways the "big data" he is collecting is being used—and whether some uses promised more meaningful (or less potentially misleading) impact than others. After briefly introducing IGS, Fukuhara, and GROW, the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne