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  • 12 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

reinforced? In the new normal, managers will have to learn to cope not only with mix uncertaintybut also with aggregate demand uncertainty. In addition, managers will have to redouble their effort to improve product availability and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 22

not important at the aggregate level. Hence, our results support the use of PAYT as an effective tool to increase waste sorting. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-093.pdf The Consequences of Financial Innovation: A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 15

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/13-039%20Nov%202012_612ce7e2-7f81-4eea-9126-3c0964f2be2f.pdf August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics Search-Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 May 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai

across the city. They operate within urban centers and landfills to collect waste, sort out the plastic, and help\ aggregate them for larger materials processing facilities like HUL and Dalmia’s plant. This... View Details
  • 03 Dec 2015
  • Op-Ed

How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It

energy needs that they view as essential to development of their nations and the lives of their citizens. The aggregate sum of those national plans presents a stark reality to the world’s leaders. The accumulating greenhouse gases,... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy
  • 26 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

Shi, Thales S. Teixeira, and Michel Wedel Abstract—Consumers have an increasingly wide variety of options available to entertain themselves. This poses a challenge for content aggregators who want to effectively promote their video... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 1

returns of 0.86, whereas the popular factor-based expected return models have either an insignificant or a significantly negative association with future returns. In supplemental analyses, we show that these forecasts are also informative of the time-series variation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

catch-up-with-the-buddies lunch, meetings now span a day and a half and they happen up to six times a year. While reviewing relevant materials used to mean flipping through the annual report on the plane ride to the annual meeting, it now... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 11

performance of a comprehensive set of alternative peer identification schemes. Our results show the peer firms identified from aggregation of informed agents' revealed choices in Lee, Ma, and Wang (2014) perform best, followed by peers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 27

insignificant or a significantly negative association with future returns. In supplemental analyses, we show that these forecasts are also informative of the time-series variation in aggregate conditions: 1) for a representative firm, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 18

subsequent growth into a diversified group. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2520237 Optimal Aggregation of Consumer Ratings: An Application to Yelp.com By: Dai, Weijia, Ginger Jin, Jungmin Lee,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

disconnect between strategic goals and field implementation in sales. This article focuses on four areas where companies can improve links between strategy and sales. The article also outlines how selling activities materially affect core... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 6

authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the people's. This has been accomplished by creating an enormous public service sector operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of their big... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Demo Day | New Venture Competition

chemicals and petroleum-based materials using green, scalable technology. Kyra Health Lucas Hearn (MBA 2025), Ned Jackson Lovely Kyra Health is an AI-native Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement (ICHRA) platform designed... View Details
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-070.pdf Search Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches By: Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Applying a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 12

management decisions, with consequences for aggregate economic activity. This article discusses the role of investment banking and investment management industry veterans on the Financial Accounting Standards Board in the growth of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

aggregate demand, the national accounts, and the balance of payments. We find that much aid is consumed, primarily in the form of imported non-capital goods. Some aid is invested and aid has a positive, though statistically imprecise,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

the last decade, a variety of novel patent intermediaries have emerged. We discuss how several online platforms have started services for buying and selling patents but have failed to gain meaningful traction. And new intermediaries that we call defensive patent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

times the $132 billion that the 1995 Kobe earthquake did, making it one of the Japan's most costly natural disasters. Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 05 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: January 5

significant differences between industries with limited and high private equity activity. It is hard to find support for claims that economic activity in industries with private equity backing is more exposed to aggregate shocks. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace