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- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
private equity partner, was planning its options after seven years of investment. There were four growth levers Mavi could pull, but each involved selecting one growth path while neglecting another. Should the company invest in growth domestically or internationally?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
available to its customer-facing employees. In the spring of 2003, Bankinter introduced an Excel-based program called the Mortgage Simulator that helped branch managers calculate the price of a mortgage and estimate the customer lifetime... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
Chile's largest wine producer faces a price versus value positioning problem. Its highest quality wines are not priced competitively at retail because "Made in Chile" connotes great value and low... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
phenomenon whereby the potential to be good at something can be preferred over actually being good at that very same thing. We document this preference for potential in laboratory and field experiments, using targets ranging from athletes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
the technology bubble to examine the hypothesis that inexperienced investors play a role in the formation of asset price bubbles. Using age as a proxy for managers' investment experience, we find that around the peak of the technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
53 African countries. Management also plans to open a 2,000-bed hospital in the Cayman Islands to provide underinsured Americans with tertiary care procedures at 40% below U.S. prices, thereby bringing Dr. Shetty's model of compassionate care at affordable View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
their innovation performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51467 Bubbles for Fama By: Greenwood, Robin, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You Abstract—We evaluate Eugene Fama's claim that stock prices do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
Mobley cart them away. The concept resonates with Mobley’s target customers, who for now are in the NYC area (where the company is based), although its service areas will change to keep pace with shifting demands, Ramírez says. “The... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
Television (both owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.), paid in excess of $22 million to acquire the film's global distribution rights. Students are asked to make some of the same cost-to-benefit analyses considered by Singh and his team: Should the mass-market View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
distributors, although important and useful for a certain portfolio of products, are no longer appropriate for a different subset. How can you overcome resistance from a powerful channel partner, such as a brand-name manufacturer or a strong intermediary, over issues... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
erroneous expressions. Calls that have greater use of non-plain English and more erroneous expressions show lower intraday price movement and trading volume. The capital market responses to non-plain English and erroneous expressions are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
languages in many countries. We've been building that infrastructure ever since. Since we started, we've added a lot of technology to the marketplace over time and utilized the World Wide Web. And we've changed the pricing model quite a... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
consumers large discounts when they prepay for participating firms' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a discount voucher service can benefit affiliated firms: price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices to its customer base. We analyze strategic interactions between an innovative entrant and an incumbent where the incumbent may imitate the entrant's business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
opportunities. And while oil prices continue to rise and fall, energy services firms are seeing rapid growth—especially those firms that provide services to both traditional and emerging clean technology energy sectors. When approaching... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
we find significant price differences between institutional investors' tranches and banks' tranches on the same loans, even though they share the same underlying fundamentals. Increasing demand pressure causes the interest rate on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
retailers’ annual sales, so it is a critical time to get retail execution right. Dynamic pricing strategies must be carefully executed to maximize margins while driving volume. Inventory turns must be carefully monitored so that physical... View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
issued a dissenting minority report. The partisan clash of views foreshadowed the political debate now echoing in the corridors on Capitol Hill. The Case For More Regulation Looking at the historical record, Moss makes a strong case that View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including the average skill intensity and reliance on external capital. Third, we use a new dataset on industry-level View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
Standards, Collusion, and Internal Trade in the 19th Century U.S. By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Technology standards are pervasive in the modern economy, and a target for public and private investments, yet evidence on their economic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel