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- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an international... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Curriculum - Business & Environment
markets across Europe. The Covid-19 pandemic caused huge increases in the cost of shipping, so Sian launched experiments to ship roses by ocean... View Details
- February 2017 (Revised September 2017)
- Case
Bringing Digital to Wimbledon
By: John T. Gourville and David Arnold
It was mid-December 2016 as Alexandra (Alex) Willis read with satisfaction that The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club (AELTC) had won yet another award for its use of social media to reach its fan base. As the organizer and host of “The Championships, Wimbledon,”... View Details
Gourville, John T., and David Arnold. "Bringing Digital to Wimbledon." Harvard Business School Case 517-093, February 2017. (Revised September 2017.)
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
intelligent choices of where they think their markets are, and how much money to spend at an early stage in order to insure that the brand is available View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
Jan-Emmanuel, George W. Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert Van Landeghem, Georgios Kavetsos, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in macroeconomic growth? Using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2012 (Revised May 2015)
- Case
Philips-Visicu
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Natalie Kindred and Sara M. McKinley
Would the advent of global payment models and ACOs create sufficient demand for a telemedicine offering covering the care continuum, from hospitals to the home? This was the decision facing Royal Philips Electronics (Philips), the Netherlands-based producer of... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Philips; Visicu; Telemedicine; eICU; Accountable Care Organization; ACO; Bundled Payment; Hospital To Home; Patient Monitoring Devices; Home Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Communication Technology; Quality; Safety; Performance Productivity; Performance Capacity; Performance Efficiency; Consumer Behavior; Emerging Markets; Health Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Netherlands
Herzlinger, Regina E., Natalie Kindred, and Sara M. McKinley. "Philips-Visicu." Harvard Business School Case 313-015, September 2012. (Revised May 2015.) (As companion reading for this case, see Regina E. Herzlinger and Charles Huang, "Note on Bundled Payment in Health Care," HBS No. 312-032 (Boston: Harvard Business Publishing, 2012).)
- January 2025
- Case
Apax Partners: Deciding Whether to Bid for Trader Corp.
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
Apax Partners’ investment committee was schedule to meet on March 21, 2011, to decide whether to invest in Trader Corporation, a Canadian classified advertising business for used automobiles with both print (magazines) and digital (website) distribution. What made this... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Network Effects; Private Equity; Growth Management; Digital Marketing; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; E-commerce; Valuation; Competition; Digital Platforms; Digital Strategy; Digital Transformation; Transition; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Advertising Industry; Auto Industry; Information Industry; Canada; United Kingdom; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
SmartCourt technology is more commonly used by NBA teams and NCAA programs, and represents one part of the club’s $1 million tech investment, says McCarthy, who was an avid racquetball player and developed... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
investment decisions. Our research, however, documents other critical criteria that investors use to make these decisions: the gender and physical attractiveness of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
versus Posted Prices in Online Markets By: Einav, Liran, Chiara Farronato, Jonathan Levin, and Neel Sundaresan Abstract—Auctions were very popular in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2025
- Blog Post
How to Work with Search Firms
Interested in talking to an HBS Career Coach about working with executive search firms? Use the Coach Directory to filter coaches by executive search firm expertise, or by... View Details
- Profile
Pam Chan
Pam Chan began her career in consumer products, starting with one of the biggest CPG companies in the world, Procter and Gamble. "In school,... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
famous names in the private market investment community. Kathu Gatobu Harvard MBA Student, Class of 2022 I choose to challenge the idea that... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
behavioral dynamics that may exist in supply chain management. What led you to study this in particular? Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson: Supply chains are incredibly complex with numerous moving parts. To... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 2007
- Working Paper
Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer
By: Katherine L. Milkman, John Beshears, Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman
We study the effect of small windfalls on consumer spending decisions by examining the purchasing behavior of a sample of online grocery shoppers over the course of a year. We compare the purchases customers make when redeeming a $10-off coupon they received from their... View Details
Keywords: Spending; Consumer Behavior; Mathematical Methods; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry
Milkman, Katherine L., John Beshears, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman. "Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-024, September 2007. (Revised March 2008.)
- 21 May 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
values taught in this class within the firm. In these HBS courses and in the work you have pursued, you have... View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
tool to alleviate capital constraints in scarce credit markets and unlock productive investments, others see those banks as conduits of cheap loans to politically connected firms that could obtain capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Info Segmented Arbitrage By: Adi Sunderam , Emil Siriwardane & Jonathan Wallen NOV 2021 Financial intermediaries play a key role in determining asset prices. The authors use... View Details
- August 2019
- Case
Twiggle: E-Commerce with Semantic Search
By: Shane Greenstein and Danielle Golan
Four years after being founded, in 2014, by former Google executives Amir Konigsberg (CEO) and Adi Avidor (CTO), Twiggle had developed a search enhancement that plugged into an online merchant’s existing framework. The company utilized advanced structuring and... View Details
Keywords: Search Technology; Customer Acquisition; Internet and the Web; Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Growth and Development Strategy; E-commerce; Technology Industry; Israel
Greenstein, Shane, and Danielle Golan. "Twiggle: E-commerce with Semantic Search." Harvard Business School Case 620-025, August 2019.
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
Competing arguments become difficult to judge, since advocates will suggest using those measures (net income, return on capital, market presence, share of mind, and so on) that favor their preferred... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto