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- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
directors appointed in response to demands by activists. Using a sample of 1,969 activism events over the period 2004-2012, we identify 824 activist directors. We find that activists are more likely to gain board seats at smaller firms and those with weaker stock View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
world of advertising by transforming the way Americans watched television. BCM had developed a technology to make television "clickable," enabling viewers to interact with the content on their television screens. By April 2009,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
markets. By expanding program choice in this manner, cable operators were able to increase prices and attract more customers. Cable entrepreneurs also saw an opportunity to create "cable-only" channels by acquiring programming... View Details
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
that search engine advertisements tend to be less safe than the corresponding organic listings. Least-Cost Avoiders in Online Fraud and Abuse Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:IEEE Security and Privacy 8, no. 4 (July-August 2010)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Abstract We study sponsor-based business model innovations where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
here cover a wide range including outright sale, renting, charging by the transaction, advertising and subscription models, licensing, or even giving away the product and selling after-sale support and services. Having a sense of View Details
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
to be known as the Black-Scholes option pricing model. "Don't misunderstand me—getting some education about your financial affairs is a good idea, just as having some understanding of your medical needs is a good idea," Merton... View Details
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
is not really making a profit on hardware sales. It prices its hardware low as a way to encourage people to buy a lot of e-books." Apple, on the other hand, makes several hundred dollars on each iPad sale, able to charge a premium because... View Details
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
Using transcripts from the English-language conference calls of non-U.S. firms, we find that linguistic complexity is positively associated with the language barriers in the firms' home country. We then show that conference calls that are more linguistically complex... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
asymmetry in message strength in turn permits cutoff equilibria, where players take action after receiving a minimum number of confirmations. Good Morning Creativity: Task Reactivation During Sleep Enhances Beneficial Effect of Sleep on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12
static, envy-free equilibria. Furthermore, convergence is efficient, and the entry of low-quality advertisers does not slow convergence. Because our approach predominantly relies on assumptions common in the sponsored search literature,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
the recipient would accept a low price in exchange for a side payment and selected larger numbers as their best guess of the likely proportion of recipients acting "unfairly." The results favor the hypothesis that people avoid... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
licenses to small number of players, then they will still run the risk that they will continually get downward pressure on price by competitors like Dell, and greater availability of options by customers using Microsoft software. It's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
data?'" That's Paul Nicholas' reaction after reading most of the responses to this month's column. It's not a bad "sense of the meeting," in which many contributors offered suggestions to managers wishing to get the most out of so-called big data and avoid paying the... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 13 May 2008
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First Look: May 13, 2008
prices, the former implies convexity in the smaller of the two valuations, the latter linearity. In either case, the price is at least their average and hence spiteful. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19
uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the economies of scope achieved by sharing common resources, such as advertising or production capacity, across activities.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
as reflected in price to book valuation multiples, whereas the adoption of common sustainability practices is reliably correlated only with expectations of future performance. Overall, we provide evidence about the role of sustainability... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
scholars, and others. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308092 Clear Channel 2006 Harvard Business School Case 208-083 The Board of Directors of Clear Channel Communications, a radio broadcasting and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
third-party opinions about the credit-worthiness of a firm or a security. Over the past decades, the financial system has come to rely more and more on such ratings. For example, many institutional investors are legally obliged to hold only securities of some View Details