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- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
fixed capacity viable. Another constraint is the poor state of its basic financial systems. Morale is low and thus staff turnover is high, with many clinicians taking patients with them into their private practice when they go. TBC is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
small business productivity. For instance, the acceptance rate of students from underrepresented schools to top universities in the UK rose 34 percent after a letter from a top-tier student with a similar background was sent to pupils.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
(revenue maximizing) auction for sponsored search advertising. We show that a search engine's optimal reserve price is independent of the number of bidders and independent of the rate at which click-through View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
tweaked the website, the overall sales conversion rate for buyers actually went up by as much as 23 percent, meaning that customers weren’t just buying higher-priced items, rather, they were buying more items overall. When Teixeira and... View Details
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8
toward an unknown," Kanter explains in her blog post. "There will be questions about Windows 8," Kanter says. "Will it work? Will it help me? Will this require further upgrades as Microsoft fixes the bugs? People might... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
rate. Thus, at a certain level of mutual dependence, the more powerful actor obtains a greater share of a much smaller exchange surplus leading him or her to be worse off than he would be in an equal-power dyad. We support this prediction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
the liquidity of institutions. That in fact is where we are today," Light said. Just as a hospital treats patients by focusing on three tasks, so too should we remedy financial turmoil, he said. First, stabilize the patient, in this case the markets. Second, View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
"Success has always been an American preoccupation, but the definition of success takes on a new urgency today, when every conventional measure of success seems to have a faster burn rate than ever before," say Laura Nash and... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
rates for 2,159 infant patients, but only after two years. In the shorter term, using these activities is associated with worse performance. By the third year, the positive impact of using deliberate learning activities is similar to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
flexible random coefficients aggregate discrete choice model that accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success, and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control for unobserved quality in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
to express their feelings, exchange information, and act in ways that previously were unheard of. Several recent writings suggest that the next phase in the activation of customers will be putting them to work in the service of an... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
emerging markets sample. Also, the more-levered large firms are more vulnerable to exchange rate shocks than smaller firms with comparable levels of leverage. While this result holds for the average country... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
clients' campaigns. This practice was institutionalized by an arrangement known as the "recognition system" between agencies and publishers, and administered by a set of trade associations. Among other things, the system supported standards for granting of credit to... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
forecasted GDP growth rates for Japan by 0.5% for the first quarter of this year, and by more than 1.5% for the second quarter. The financial consequences are equally alarming. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average plunged 6.2% at the market's... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
206-046 Using a comprehensive and simple example of a firm exposed to foreign exchange risk, interest rate risk, and commodity price risk, shows how to use corporate-value-at-risk to measure and manage a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
degree of coordination required in the relationship, and that the effect of dispute approach on resolution costs is moderated by the degree of power asymmetry between the parties. Thus, even after controlling for various attributes of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
PlaNet Finance was a French NGO providing technical support and training services to microfinance institutions (i.e., institutions providing financial services to the poor) and other microfinance actors, rating of microfinance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
the decline in the number of state-owned companies, however, is the way they are structured. "Some of the largest state-owned enterprises are becoming almost like private corporations," says Musacchio. "They are traded in stock exchanges... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
how a common strategic decision aimed at increasing one's own power, i.e., investing in outside options, can lead to opportunistic behavior in exchange relationships. Across three laboratory studies, we show that the extent to which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Radio-Frequency Identification Harvard Business School Case 610-027 The Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) group was a start-up that was part of Intel's New Business Initiatives. It sought initially to develop and sell a high performance Rf fast read View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace