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  • 17 Nov 2015
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November 17, 2015

and contested antitrust law, ultimately tailoring federal policy to accommodate state regulations. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50101 Harvard Business School Case 715-449 TAV Airports Holding (A) This case View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

A New Model for Business: The Museum

Groupon's success is borne of the careful way the company presents wares to its customers: providing a very limited amount of choices at a time, along with a brief, engaging description of each offering. To that end, Weaver is exploring... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

strategic planning. Also, the organization is committed to helping as many people out of poverty as quickly as possible, but donations and repayments are not enough to fuel rapid growth; other financial tools are needed. Explores the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement error and endogeneity. Exploiting a new comprehensive industry-level data set of 29... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

feelings of life satisfaction, we explore when, how, and why time and money impact peoples’ anticipated, momentary, and lasting happiness. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53781 November 2017 Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

Moreover, it is unclear whether standard theories about organizational strategy, such as planning, hold true in such environments. We explore these issues using a sample of 730 new ventures in Colombia from 1997 to 2001. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

proving elusive. Had Joly done enough to reinvent Best Buy? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716455-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-454 Salesforce.com vs. Siebel (Abridged) View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2019
  • News

A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy

time, some type of gun-purchase waiting-period law. To understand the causal effect of waiting periods, the team exploited the significant geographic and temporal variations in the implementation of waiting periods. The researchers tested... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

Wood, George Westerman, and Charles O'Reilly Abstract This paper empirically explores the relations between alternative organizational designs and a firm's ability to explore as well as exploit. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

the right balance between the private benefits of integrated markets and the public value of civic engagement, evidence on the size of the positive spillovers from local media is needed. To date, such evidence is scant. In this paper, we View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • Research & Ideas

For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

a Chinese migrant, it might be more important to go back home during the Chinese New Year, rather than during the December break.” Although the study was able to exploit the random assignment of workers to different locations, thus... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 10 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

specific hypothetical products like towels, participants shopped for gift cards. Again, overall, participants preferred the retailer with the low pay ratio. A follow-up study explored a related possibility: Consumers might assume that a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

with whom we can examine our beliefs and share our lives. For the past thirty-five years, Bill George and Doug Baker have found the answer in True North Groups—small groups that gather regularly to explore members' greatest challenges.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

"dodge" a question they would rather not answer by answering a different question? Two experiments demonstrated conversational blindness—listeners' surprising failure to notice such dodges—and explored the interpersonal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006

punch of earlier generations: video sales generally decrease over time across all quantiles of the sales distribution, but this effect is most pronounced among best-selling titles. Our findings have important implications for entertainment companies. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 9, 2007

Communications Equipment Industry Harvard Business School Case 107-025 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107025 Symantec vs. McAfee: Competing in the Consumer Anti-virus Industry Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

type of entrepreneurial population studied (e.g., Main Street vs. those backed by venture capital) to identify interesting and irreducible parts of this heterogeneity, while also identifying places where we anticipate future large-scale... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

Mead Treadwell

subsistence culture, or jeopardize international freedom of the seas. Global warming will eventually lead to significant increases in resource exploitation in the Arctic. When might that begin? Much of the economic development going on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Transportation
  • 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14

explores a method of value creation through exploiting synergies that exist in an environment where there is diversity. The context of the case is a farm where biodiversity is leveraged to create value. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Screen Grab

for your work—more like $50 per 1,000 views vs. the $2 per 1,000 more typical of an ad-only model like YouTube’s. For entertainers with views in the hundreds of thousands, or even millions, that difference can really add up. At Vimeo, an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment