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- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
category during a selling season. Namely, by distributing its seasonal catalog of products over multiple assortments rotated throughout the season—as opposed to selling all products in a single assortment—the retailer effectively conceals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
even rational in making funding decisions. Drawing on a panel of national experts and comprehensive data from the largest crowdfunding site, we examine funding decisions for proposed theater projects, a category where expert and crowd... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
this category has lower performance along traditional metrics but offers new benefits around convenience, customization, and simplicity that fit squarely with a customer's behavior patterns and priorities. The business model supports... View Details
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
key points in the motor coach industry such as market size, categories of buses, reasons for purchasing, and the basis for competition amongst motor coach manufacturers. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
identified and classified in terms of specifying, allocating, and utilizing capacity. The first two categories reflect challenges faced by infrastructure providers; the last category, challenges faced by airlines. Building Effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
referred to this category as "treasure hunt" SKUs. Offers an opportunity to examine a company's business model, particularly since DG has been so successful competing with Wal-Mart where so many other retailers have not. While... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
learning capabilities intertwine with managerial cognitive capabilities to support the processes of sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring. We draw from the literature on team learning to develop four categories based on the orientation... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
estimates of real consumption across countries without the need for consumer price index extrapolations. We discuss advantages and limitations associated with the use of online prices for PPPs, including issues of representativeness and limited coverage of product... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
to present a 3-principle framework we call REVISE. This framework classifies forces that affect dishonesty into three main categories and then redirects those forces to encourage moral behavior. The first principle, Reminding, emphasizes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
we find that gentrification, as measured by changes in the educational, age, and racial composition within a zip code, is strongly associated with increases in the numbers of grocery stores, cafes, restaurants, and bars, with little evidence of crowd-out of other View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
of 9,360 U.S. cities found that air pollution predicted six different categories of crime; these analyses accounted for a comprehensive set of control variables (e.g., city and year fixed effects, population, law enforcement) and survived... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
rhetoric and symbolic activities in the process of creating new markets. This study analyzes how entrepreneurial firms use these cultural strategies to position themselves in a nascent market category they are creating. Using an inductive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
favor, says David J. Reibstein, a professor of marketing at the Wharton School, Philadelphia. By building primary demand—demand for a category of offerings, in addition to demand for a particular brand—Starbucks has given the entire... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
erroneously identified as the common thread of a firm's business. In reality, a given type of customer will frequently have a range of unrelated product missions or needs."16 Thus, for a firm to maintain its strategic focus, Ansoff suggested certain View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
describes four broad categories of process architectures and then examines the nature of task assignment that typically would be found in a factory organized along the lines of each process type. It then delves more deeply into work flow... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
differences. That reality, however, hasn't slowed the rising tide of annual college rankings from every corner of the world, rating schools in every category imaginable. Today we'll hear from Professor Bill Kirby about his case entitled... View Details
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
“receivers,” Kominers and Shapiro observed that moderators need to be aware of information that enables a receiver to create false beliefs or harm others. “The existence of two different categories of information is one of the core... View Details
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
rely on technology to the extent there is labor mobility across sectors. A hairdresser in the United States, for example, makes more money than a hairdresser in China, and that is due in large part to the wage equilibrium that occurs across occupations and skill View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1865878 The Flexible Substitution Logit: Uncovering Category Expansion and Share Impacts of Marketing Instruments Authors:Qiang Liu, Thomas J. Steenburgh, and Sachin Gupta Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
relationships in India well beyond its endpoint and that the WWI internment shaped the subsequent perception of and strategic response to the WWII experience. We show that internment aggravated existing staffing challenges, impacted the perception of racial lines of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne