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- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
strategies in response to Google’s entry threat and actual entry into their markets. We find that, after Google’s entry threat increases, affected developers reduce innovation and raise the prices for the affected apps. Once Google... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
intuitions from industrial organization can be reversed: Collusion may become easier as market concentration falls, and market entry may in fact facilitate collusion. In particular, price collusion can be sustained by a strategy in which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
decomposed welfare effects of multinational production. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-111.pdf Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? Evidence from Trade Policy Authors:Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
between book and tax income, and yet this disparity has been growing. Other factors such as the peculiar accounting treatment of stock option compensation and differential treatment of overseas income, subsidiary income, and pension... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
additional career risk from the disclosure. Disclosures inform the labor market about ability, but management may be able to do relatively little to change the outcome of those disclosures. For example, a disclosure about stock option... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
Porteus Abstract—We extend the Clark–Scarf serial multi-echelon inventory model to include procuring production inputs under short-term take-or-pay contracts at one or more stages. In each period, each such stage has the option to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
were realized. What we label the CEO-specific Q and past return explains equity issuance, but it does not explain debt issuance, investment, or profitability. Two discontinuity analyses show that the specific share price that the current... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
it's news to no one that moviegoers have many more entertainment options that don't involve getting in a car and driving to a theater. A weekly or monthly outing to the movies is no longer as prevalent. Stream a movie from Netflix on your... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
management ideas that incorporate these principles. Book link: http://www.tobinproject.org/twobooks/pdf/New_Perspectives_Full_Text.pdf Priced and Unpriced Online Markets Author:Benjamin Edelman Publication:Journal of Economic Perspectives... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
is more about narrowing the option set by providing direction, seekers believe soliciting advice is more about widening the option set by gathering information. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Program Policies - HBS Online
Exceptions Policy Appeals Disability Accommodations Payment and Refund Policy Changes to a Participant's Enrollment Status Join the HBS Online Community Program Discount Codes Past Participant Pricing HBS Online Program Policies The... View Details
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
and news following insider trades, I also find a negative association between returns around filings of insider sales and SOX. Overall, the evidence suggests that the prompt public disclosures about insider transactions mandated by the new rule are relevant to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
their returns. They believe that companies must select among binary options of serving shareholders or serving society. This is a wrong-headed idea because companies with clarity about their purpose actually perform better in the long... View Details
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
types of earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a price to pay, with the cost in the following... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Incentives and Operational Excellence
hospital association buying groups. For their part, the buying groups try to get as many products and services as they can for whatever fee they've agreed to pay in the contract. Owens & Minor decided to offer its customers the option... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
management of Vale, a Brazilian diversified mining company and the largest iron ore producer in the world, was under pressure from at least two fronts. First, the emergence of China as the most important consumer of iron ore in the last few years had changed the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
Beware of competitors lying in the grass, says Harvard Business School professor Alvin E. Roth. His study of bidding practices on eBay suggest that those who wait until the last minute to bid—a practice called sniping—is an effective way to not only get what you want,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- News
Spreading the Love
masks also weren’t an option as Vietnam, where Lovepop sources materials, imposed export restrictions on the masks. They eventually settled on full face shields, which could be made using the industrial laser die-cutters at Lovepop’s... View Details
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
case. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307009 LinkedIn (A) Harvard Business School Case 707-406 In the summer of 2005, LinkedIn, a two-year-old start-up, was choosing between two options... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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