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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: Price Check
Many products are sold for just one selling season. It’s extremely difficult to predict demand—sometimes demand actually increases as the price goes up due to perceived quality and popularity. These factors make selling fashion products... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
variability in the importance of their posts. There are alternative routes to career success: officers of higher initial ability are more likely to invest in developing expertise, but officers who belong to the same caste as the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
substitution. For small firms, the rate of substitution improves with the country's available domestic credit, while large firms are insensitive to this friction. The findings suggest that both country and firm-level factors have a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
initial studies that have adopted a "behavioral operations perspective" and explore the theoretical and practical implications of incorporating behavioral and cognitive factors into models of operations. Specifically, we address... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
United States, rather than investing massive sums to regain technological preeminence, is much better off becoming the best country at incorporating such advances in new products and services, no matter where the ingredients are produced.... View Details
- Profile
Mina Kazanlieva
reunited with her family, who won the lottery for U.S. green cards and also moved to Princeton, NJ. Mina's interest in investing led her to Goldman Sachs, where she worked in the health-care sector, and Centerbridge Partners, where she... View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
about the causes of regional variations in health care expenditures. Using vignettes from patient and physician surveys linked to fee-for-service Medicare expenditures, this study asks whether patient demand-side factors or physician... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7
brands and manufacturing network, he intends to reposition the company as a branded retailer of furniture and home fashions. Just as management is poised to implement a new strategy that involves a heavy investment in brand advertising, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
2003, the group fans out to test the idea with some 2,500 farmers in the area; after this outreach, MME has 729 members willing to make the minimum investment of $20,000 and 10,000 bushels of corn annually. For the farmers, MME offers a... View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
wins, but because the average bid is probably the best estimate of actual value, the winner will likely have overpaid. The escalation of commitment is a self-justification story. Even if bidders have perfect information regarding the value of an item to them, if they... View Details
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Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting
a resulting lack of diversity can also impact a company’s bottom line. A study of venture capital firms found that “the more similar the investment partners, the lower their investments’ performance.” A study by The National Bureau of... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
World Company has achieved a gross-margin return on inventory investments of more than 300%—a substantially higher return than any other retailer we are aware of. Dallas-based CompUSA, which sells computers and associated merchandise, has... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
an empirical analysis of the geographic, economic, and social factors that contributed to the spread of civil war in Nepal over the period 1996-2006. This within-country analysis complements existing cross-country studies on the same... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
which it has opened up to the outside world—shapes those markets, and companies must consider those factors, too. The five contexts framework places a superstructure of key markets on a base of sociopolitical choices. Many multinational corporations look at either the... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
payoffs of e-commerce operational and capital investments are necessary to demonstrate the value creation of e-commerce initiatives and to obtain additional resources for critical e-commerce projects. The measures are essential to monitor... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
quite limited. The best path forward involves extensive experimentation and careful evaluation. Publisher's link: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo18508109.html August 2013 Advances in Strategic Management The Effect of Institutional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
diversification. By studying the research that analysts produce about companies that have announced corporate spinoffs, we gain unique insights into how analysts portray diversified firms to the investment community. We find that while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 13
census. We document a shift to smaller shops following a 1996 regulatory change that increased the costs of opening large stores. Our analysis suggests that total factor productivity (TFP) of multi-store retail chains fell after the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Surveying the VC Landscape
venture capitalists might be more comfortable in investing in truly early-stage technologies. Q: What is the role of the buyout firm in the VC investing cycle, given the activity they and restructuring firms... View Details