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  • 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

analyses by its accountant seem to indicate that small projects are more profitable than large projects. However, analysis of activities using activity-based costing reveals otherwise. With this new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

consider which, if any, aspects of BYD's operations constitute sources of sustainable competitive advantage for the company. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=606139 Calloway Laboratory: Pee for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210026-PDF-ENG Using Regression Analysis to Estimate Time Equations F. Asis Martinez-Jerez and Ariel Andres BlumenkrancHarvard Business School Note 111-001 This note presents a simple way to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

Verlag, 2010 Abstract From small start-ups to global corporations, family-owned businesses were the main pillar of West Germany's economic growth after World War II. They continue to shape the corporate landscape to this day. This book offers a path-breaking historical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015

the beneficial effect of cost transparency holds when firms spend more on "less desirable" costs relative to "more desirable" costs. Studies 5-6 show that the effect of cost transparency weakens when high profit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

workforce is not a quick fix to control costs or improve the quality of care. A poorly planned redesign can even result in increased costs and decreased quality. Changes in skill mix and role definitions should be preceded by a detailed View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25

simulation tools and data as the U.S. policymakers use. Other case studies perform a sensitivity analysis (for instance, demonstrating that the increase in extra life year gains by relaxing certain fairness constraints can be as high as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008

with pro-organizational suggestions, is pervasive and is driven by a set of common implicit theories about speaking up in organizations. Our second study used scenarios about speaking up to validate and extend these findings through View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

customers, and the variables involved in designing an optimal credit card. Concludes with a consideration of the decisions the CRM team had to make in designing the project, including whether to use conjoint analysis or implement a mini... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

Frei. Their customers are better off and the organizations earn a disproportionate share of the profits over their competitors. Frei, who spoke with HBS alumni on June 4 in a session titled "Capitalizing on the Power of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

Increased Service Quality Competition? By: Buell, Ryan W., Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Abstract—When does increased service quality competition lead to customer defection, and which customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

misconduct, or recidivism. We extend our analysis to explore the differential treatment of ethnic minorities and find similar patterns of "in-group" tolerance. Our evidence is inconsistent with a simple Bayesian model and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 24

achieved higher profits when employees were passive (proactive). Study 2 constructively replicates these findings in the laboratory: passive (proactive) groups achieved higher performance when leaders acted high (low) in extraversion. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 24, 2007

  Working PapersPoverty, Social Divisions, and Conflict in Nepal Authors:Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer Abstract We conduct an econometric analysis of the economic and social factors which contributed to the spread of violent conflict in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

profits when one side is subsidized in equilibrium. By contrast, if platforms make positive margins on both sides, the same investment has the regular, expected effects. Our analysis implies that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2005
  • Article

Increasing Exploration: Evidence from International Expansion

By: Juan Alcacer, Heather Berry and Wilbur Chung
While firms balance exploitation and exploration to maximize profits, specifics of how firms pursue this balance are scarce. We focus on how firms increase their exploration after obtaining greater capabilities and experience via sequential international expansion.... View Details
Keywords: Price Bubble; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Industry Growth; Research and Development; Profit; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Disruptive Innovation; Five Forces Framework; SWOT Analysis; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; United States
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  • 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007

own profits when one side is subsidized in equilibrium. By contrast, if platforms make positive margins on both sides, the same investment has the regular, expected effects. Our analysis implies that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14

information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index of pairwise-industry agglomeration and investigate the patterns and determinants underlying the global economic geography of multinational firms. Our View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

"Economists are puzzle solvers..."

they really need to be able to analyze what the chances are that the mortgage will be prepaid - in other words, what the risk is to them. What our analysis did, in addition to improving the means to price options, was to provide a way to... View Details
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

ambiguity of profits and power, as well as the often-jealous interactions between different solutions to the problem of empire. The book presents a powerful mosaic of imperial theories and practices contributing to the creation of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne