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- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Periodical:Harvard Business Review (October 2006) Abstract "Two-sided markets" are platform-mediated markets that exhibit network effects between two distinct groups of users, for example, card holders and merchants in credit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability
Environmental Performance: The Effect of Incentive Provision on Carbon EmissionsResearch has shown that reducing carbon emissions and exhibiting good environmental performance are important for corporations. But how exactly are these... View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
of equity (or factor models) fail to exhibit systematic predictive power internationally, which is due in large part to functional form, rather than earnings-forecast, errors. LPV models derived using common valuation anchors such as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
levels of related expertise; (ii) subsidiaries exhibit significant heterogeneity in this expertise; and (iii) the subsidiaries are more diversified and less concentrated. We examine the efforts to diffuse pollution prevent practices View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
entity (PE) intellectual property (IP) litigation, nor of non-IP litigation against publicly traded firms. The empirical evidence suggests, however, that not all NPEs exhibit trolling behavior—the cash-targeting observed in the data is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
profits at the extensive rather than the intensive margin, outperforming competitors by attracting a larger customer base. And fourth, higher competition intensity need not improve consumer privacy when consumers exhibit low willingness... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
performance persistence in entrepreneurship. We show that entrepreneurs with a track record of success are much more likely to succeed than first-time entrepreneurs and those who have previously failed. In particular, they exhibit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
with high variance. (See the exhibit "A Better Way to Manage Inventory.") The first test shows a scenario in which a manufacturer is most concerned about keeping its big retail customers happy by maintaining very high order... View Details
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
estimated at over $2,200/year by Edmunds.com, with gross margins on such repairs typically at 50 percent." Hence, testing facilities have ample incentive to exhibit leniency, meaning, they manipulate the testing equipment or find... View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
service level to be associated with a 12% increase in demand from retailers, where historical service level is the type 1 service level performance of the apparel manufacturer over the prior year. Further, we find that retailers that order frequently View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30
people believe the risk decreases (negative recency) but at the same time exhibit more cautious behavior (positive recency). The rest of the difference is consistent with two well established mechanisms: judgment error and the use of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
exhibiting good corporate governance, especially in light of the markedly different business strategies they typically undertake. Moreover, unlike many past conceptions of business groups from financial economics, sociology, and strategy,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
small can outsmart the large. Exhibit A is the story of Intuit, the financial software provider. Intuit has continued to dominate Microsoft in its niche through intensifying focus, defining the competitive space, listening to customers... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration including the independence on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
of firm-level expected-return proxies (ERPs), based on the premise that superior proxies should closely track true expected returns both cross-sectionally and over time (that is, the proxies should exhibit lower measurement-error... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18
firms' social responsibility and sustainability practices. Linguists suggest that obligatory future-time-reference (FTR) in a language reduces the psychological importance of the future. Prior research has shown that speakers of strong FTR languages (such as English,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
urban landscapes to anchor growth, generate land-lease revenues, and display a capacious administration, Chinese urban governments exhibit varying levels of control over land. This article uses a paired comparison of Dalian and Harbin in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?
exhibit greater innovativeness and market orientation, more entrepreneurial organizational cultures and participative climates. However, there were some differences between the studies of companies based in industrialized and Asian... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
department stores such practices are often tolerated. This leniency when moderately exhibited is widely seen as "good" practice, a small favor done to reward deserving employees, and as such qualifies as a moral gray zone.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace