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- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
situation where a smaller number of peers elect to share, and this would end up negatively affecting download speed. We show that this is not the case. It turns out that the behavior of peers is independent of the state of broadband technology. Therefore, only the... View Details
- 05 Jul 2022
- Op-Ed
Hear Me Out: Introverts Can Be Loud and You Might Like Microsoft Teams
this stuff for a long time, directing people toward cues and behaviours misses the point. If someone is indeed a strong extrovert, and tries to remember a list of behavioural cues like this cognitively, they’ll be trying so hard to ‘look... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
information about products rather than to make direct purchases. It is not surprising that apparel led the list: For every dollar spent on apparel online, consumers who visited online apparel sites spent $2.92 purchasing apparel from... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Minimizing Joint Gains: An Ethical Dilemma? Authors:Stephen M. Garcia, Max H. Bazerman, and Dale T. Miller Abstract People prefer maximizing joint gains (e.g., self gets $600 / counterpart gets $800) instead of receiving lower amounts... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
reseller-mode is preferred depends on whether independent suppliers or the intermediary are better suited to optimally tailor marketing activities for each specific product. We show that this tradeoff is... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- Profile
Linda Leung
things.” After further work in the field with CBS Interactive, where she was responsible for the ad inventories of renowned sites such as CNET.com, ZDnet.com, and CBSnews.com, Linda decided the best way to move forward would be to pursue an MBA. “My past work was very... View Details
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
Analysts and Research Reports," and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) issued Rule 472, "Communications with the Public." Both were effective in May of 2002, which is subsequent to the data used in our study, but seem to have noticeably affected the... View Details
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
Publications March 2015 Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic Foreign Direct Investment: Effects, Complementarities, and Promotion By: Alfaro, Laura... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
while others turned them in the direction of travel. The discovery of such unspoken preferences among consumers led the company to make important changes in the development of its navigational system. The... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
bankers’ preferred conditions exist there. Revenues are sketchy, exchange rate risk is real, political uncertainties abound, and expertise is thin. Yet projects get funded and built. Capital lessons What can be learned? First, View Details
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
awareness. In this paper, we review research on both bounded ethicality and bounded awareness and connect the two areas to highlight the challenges of encouraging managers and leaders to notice and act to stop unethical conduct. We close with View Details
- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
strategy, it's not necessary for the CEO to spend time learning how different clients would prefer customized solutions. The CEO should spearhead the identification of three or four customer health metrics. Even in companies that see... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- Profile
Maliha Khan
In college, Maliha Khan kept her family's textile business at arm's length, preferring to follow a path that would lead to a PhD in political science. But as she approached graduation, the business changed dramatically. "Pakistan... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Mason (MBA 1995)
different perspectives. But I’m also willing to take ownership. That’s not in contradiction to the first point. Leaders have to make decisions and provide vision and direction to motivate people to execute. Unlike the last crisis, which... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
doubled effort within the competitive regime and increased effort by roughly half in the cooperative regime, while accounting for incentives. Our experimental approach and results indicate the importance of accounting for worker View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
company. A simple portfolio strategy of going long the buy recommendations with school ties and going short buy recommendations without ties earns returns of 5.40% per year. We test whether Regulation FD, targeted at impeding selective disclosure, constrained the use... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
diverse methodology to understand the relationships between firm boundaries, firm activities, and geographic borders. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52688 2017 Geography, Location, and Strategy. Multinational Activity in Emerging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
views on distributive justice are shown to differ in two specific, related ways from what is conventionally assumed in modern optimal tax research. A large share of respondents, and in some cases a large majority, resist the full... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
Working PapersDeterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners. Fraud... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
direct relationship with the customer and customer data. —Ayelet Israeli is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor in the Marketing Unit. She co-developed a scorecard to help companies make this very decision. It’s available in the... View Details