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      • 2007
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      Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services

      By: Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton
      Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume of, or the number of projects completed by, a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership... View Details
      Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Performance Improvement; Projects; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Information Technology Industry; India
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      Huckman, Robert S., Bradley R. Staats, and David M. Upton. "Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-019, September 2007. (Revised February 2008, July 2008.)
      • July 2007
      • Case

      Kristen's Cookie Company (A) (Abridged)

      By: Roger E. Bohn and Janice H. Hammond
      The student is starting his or her own business, baking make-to-order cookies. Basic times of each operation are laid out and the student is asked to determine the consequences for the operating system. Serves as an exercise and review of concepts such as capacity,... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; SWOT Analysis; Operations; Outcome or Result; Performance Capacity
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      Bohn, Roger E., and Janice H. Hammond. "Kristen's Cookie Company (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 608-037, July 2007.
      • 2007
      • Working Paper

      Taxes and Portfolio Choice: Evidence from JGTRRA's Treatment of International Dividends

      By: Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
      This paper investigates how taxes influence portfolio choices by exploring the response to the distinctive treatment of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA). JGTRRA lowered the dividend tax rate to 15% for American equities... View Details
      Keywords: Equity; Financial Markets; International Finance; Investment Portfolio; Government Legislation; Taxation; United States
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      Desai, Mihir A., and Dhammika Dharmapala. "Taxes and Portfolio Choice: Evidence from JGTRRA's Treatment of International Dividends." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 13281, July 2007.
      • June 2007 (Revised March 2011)
      • Case

      The CW: Launching a Television Network

      By: Anita Elberse and S. Mark Young
      In May 2006, Dawn Ostroff, president of entertainment of the newly formed CW Television Network, was faced with the task of choosing the final set of programs for the 2006 fall schedule, which she would present to advertisers at the annual "upfront" market in New York... View Details
      Keywords: Advertising; Customer Relationship Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Television Entertainment; Brands and Branding; Product Launch; Strategic Planning; Networks; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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      Elberse, Anita, and S. Mark Young. "The CW: Launching a Television Network." Harvard Business School Case 507-050, June 2007. (Revised March 2011.)
      • 2007
      • Working Paper

      I'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: A Study of Online Grocery Purchases and Order Lead Time

      By: Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman
      How do decisions made for tomorrow or two days in the future differ from decisions made for several days in the future? We use data from an online grocer to address this question. In general, we find that as the delay between order completion and delivery increases,... View Details
      Keywords: Internet and the Web; Food; Decision Choices and Conditions; Conflict and Resolution; Emotions; Cognition and Thinking; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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      Milkman, Katherine L., Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman. "I'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: A Study of Online Grocery Purchases and Order Lead Time." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-078, April 2007. (Revised December 2007, May 2008, September 2008.)
      • January 2007 (Revised May 2008)
      • Case

      Henry Luce and the American Century

      By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Logan Wilcox
      Henry Luce, founder of the publishing company which produced Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, created the largest media company in the world by the mid-20th century. Luce's flagship magazine, Time, was able to gross over $20 million in sales during its... View Details
      Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Business History; Leadership Style; Emerging Markets; Publishing Industry; United States
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      Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, and Logan Wilcox. "Henry Luce and the American Century." Harvard Business School Case 407-076, January 2007. (Revised May 2008.)
      • 2006
      • Working Paper

      The Value of a 'Free' Customer

      By: Sunil Gupta, Carl F. Mela and Jose M. Vidal-Sanz

      Central to a firm's growth and marketing policy is the revenus and profit potential of its customer assets. As a result, there has been a recent proliferation of work regarding customer lifetime value. However, extant research in this area is silent regarding how to... View Details

      Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Auctions; Network Effects; Business Strategy
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      Gupta, Sunil, Carl F. Mela, and Jose M. Vidal-Sanz. "The Value of a 'Free' Customer." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-035, December 2006.
      • April 2006 (Revised June 2008)
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      New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc.

      By: H. Kent Bowen, Robert S. Huckman and Carin-Isabel Knoop
      Considers whether New Balance, one of the world's five largest manufacturers of athletic footwear, should respond to Adidas' planned acquisition of Reebok--a transaction that would join the second- and third-largest companies in the industry. Highlights the unique... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Production; Supply Chain Management; Performance Improvement; Competition; Consolidation; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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      Bowen, H. Kent, Robert S. Huckman, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 606-094, April 2006. (Revised June 2008.)
      • August 2005 (Revised April 2006)
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      Kemps LLC: Introducing Time-Driven ABC

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      Kemps is making a strategy shift: from being focused on fulfilling customer requests to becoming the best cost dairy producer in the industry. Its existing manufacturing cost system, however, fails to capture the costs associated with handling special flavors, small... View Details
      Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Customer Relationship Management; Cost Accounting; Managerial Roles; Cost Management; Earnings Management; Business Strategy; Time Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Decisions; Food and Beverage Industry
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "Kemps LLC: Introducing Time-Driven ABC." Harvard Business School Case 106-001, August 2005. (Revised April 2006.)
      • July 2005
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      The Consequences of Labor Market Flexibility: Panel Evidence Based on Survey Data

      By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
      We introduce a new data set on hiring and firing restrictions for 21 OECD countries for the period 1984 –1990. The data are based on surveys of business people in the countries covered, so the indices we use are subjective in nature. Controlling for country and time... View Details
      Keywords: Job Security Provisions; Subjective Data; Unemployment; Employment; Labor; Markets; Data and Data Sets
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      Di Tella, Rafael, and Robert MacCulloch. "The Consequences of Labor Market Flexibility: Panel Evidence Based on Survey Data." European Economic Review 49, no. 5 (July 2005): 1225–59.
      • June 2005 (Revised May 2006)
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      Covisint (A): The Evolution of a B2B Marketplace

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
      Ford Motor Co., General Motors, and DaimlerChrysler--the three original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that dominated the automotive industry throughout the 20th century--launched Covisint in February 2000 as an industry supply chain exchange that would drive out cost... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Supply Chain Management; Business Startups; Management Teams; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; United States
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      Applegate, Lynda M., and Elizabeth Collins. "Covisint (A): The Evolution of a B2B Marketplace." Harvard Business School Case 805-110, June 2005. (Revised May 2006.)
      • June 2005
      • Case

      CarMax

      By: Rajiv Lal and David Kiron
      Carmax is the largest multi-market used car dealer in the U.S., and has no format-to-format competitor in the $375 billion used car market. CarMax is trying to do what some analysts believed to be impossible: sell used cars profitably on a national scale, and at the... View Details
      Keywords: Profit; Brands and Branding; Digital Platforms; Segmentation; Auto Industry
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      Lal, Rajiv, and David Kiron. "CarMax." Harvard Business School Case 505-080, June 2005.
      • April 2005
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      Partisan Social Happiness

      By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
      We use a new approach to study questions in political economy that relies on data on the subjective well-being of a large sample of people living in the OECD over the period 1975-1992. Controlling for the personal characteristics of the respondents, year and country... View Details
      Keywords: Political Partisanship; Political Economy; Society; Happiness
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      Di Tella, Rafael, and Robert MacCulloch. "Partisan Social Happiness." Review of Economic Studies 72, no. 2 (April 2005): 367–93.
      • January 2005
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      Buying Time

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      Managers must frequently make decisions involving trade-offs between cash flows to be paid or received at different points in time. Accountants, in turn, must describe transactions that involve the payment and/or receipt of cash far in the future. This interactive... View Details
      Keywords: Cash Flow; Value; Interest Rates; Financial Statements
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      "Buying Time." Harvard Business School Tutorial 104-708, January 2005.
      • 2005
      • Working Paper

      Pseudo Market Timing and Predictive Regressions

      By: Malcolm Baker, Ryan Taliaferro and Jeffrey Wurgler
      A number of studies claim that aggregate managerial decision variables, such as aggregate equity issuance, have power to predict stock or bond market returns. Recent research argues that these results may be driven by an aggregate time-series version of Schultz's... View Details
      Keywords: Managerial Roles; Equity; Market Timing; Financial Instruments; Investment Return; Mathematical Methods
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      Baker, Malcolm, Ryan Taliaferro, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Pseudo Market Timing and Predictive Regressions." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 10823, January 2005. (First Draft in 2004.)
      • November 2004 (Revised March 2007)
      • Case

      10 Uncommon Values®: Optimizing the Stock-Selection Process

      By: Paul M. Healy and Boris Groysberg
      In 2003, Steve Hash, research director at Lehman Brothers, prepared to initiate the firm's "Ten Uncommon Values" stock-picking process for the year. An investment committee had to pick the 10 best stocks from about 100 stock ideas presented by the firm's analysts. The... View Details
      Keywords: Stocks; Investment; Financial Strategy; Decision Making; Groups and Teams; Financial Services Industry; United States
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      Healy, Paul M., and Boris Groysberg. "10 Uncommon Values®: Optimizing the Stock-Selection Process." Harvard Business School Case 405-022, November 2004. (Revised March 2007.)
      • November 2004
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      Unemployment Benefits As a Substitute for a Conservative Central Banker

      By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
      In the many years since their introduction, positive theories of inflation have rarely been tested. This paper documents a negative relationship between inflation and the welfare state (proxied by the parameters of the unemployment benefit program) that is to be... View Details
      Keywords: Unemployment; Welfare State; Compensation and Benefits; Inflation and Deflation
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      Di Tella, Rafael, and Robert MacCulloch. "Unemployment Benefits As a Substitute for a Conservative Central Banker." Review of Economics and Statistics 86, no. 4 (November 2004): 911–23.
      • October 2004 (Revised February 2006)
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      Staffing in Professional Service Firms

      By: Ashish Nanda
      This case discusses the problem of balancing demand and supply of professionals over time using a fictional scenario. View Details
      Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Service Industry
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      Nanda, Ashish, Kelley Elizabeth Morrell, and Lauren Prusiner. "Staffing in Professional Service Firms." Harvard Business School Case 905-026, October 2004. (Revised February 2006.)
      • September 2004 (Revised February 2010)
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      The Passion of the Christ (A)

      By: John A. Quelch, Anita Elberse and Anna Harrington
      Bob Berney, president of Newmarket Films, must decide on a distribution and marketing strategy for Mel Gibson's controversial new movie, The Passion of the Christ. Fueled by Gibson's star power as well as an extensive prescreening campaign among Christian leaders and... View Details
      Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Film Entertainment; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Distribution Channels; Religion; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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      Quelch, John A., Anita Elberse, and Anna Harrington. "The Passion of the Christ (A)." Harvard Business School Case 505-025, September 2004. (Revised February 2010.)
      • August 2004 (Revised February 2006)
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      Marketing James Patterson

      By: John A. Deighton
      Can a successful novelist use direct-to-consumer marketing to grow his brand? The author, who in a previous career ran a major advertising agency, uses advertising with great success to build his stature as a crime fiction writer. Further, he applies his experience at... View Details
      Keywords: Advertising; Debates; Surveys; SWOT Analysis; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Outcome or Result; Sales
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      Deighton, John A. "Marketing James Patterson." Harvard Business School Case 505-029, August 2004. (Revised February 2006.) (request a courtesy copy.)
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