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- 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25
she plans for the next year and tries to manage a difficult board of directors in the challenging entertainment industry. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813043-PDF-ENG Lyric Dinner Theater (B) Richard G. Hamermesh and James M.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009
Case 709-017 Despite a tradition of high household savings, Japan has supported a dynamic and technically sophisticated consumer-lending sector. The high profitability of the sector has periodically attracted interest from domestic banks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
PublicationsSelling to Many Countries—Within the U.S. Authors:Frank V. Cespedes and Michael Wong Publication:MIT Sloan Management Review 52, no. 1 (fall 2010) Abstract In pursuing growth, many companies have plans to sell to emerging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
quantitative insight on the link between a firm's business model choices and their ultimate profit consequences. We apply the method to Walmart. Using evidence from annual reports, research papers, case studies, and books for the period... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
Public Authorities Control Board rejects a $1.4 billion plan to build the New York Sports and Convention Center (NYSCC) on the West Side of Manhattan. If built, the NYSCC would have served as the home for the Jets and possibly the opening... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
customers routinely selected cards that although profitable for the bank could be a poor fit for customers’ needs—leading to low satisfaction scores, cancellations, and occasionally, financial distress. To that end, the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
middlemen and defaulted on their loans. The risk of such events may explain, at least partly, why many seemingly more profitable export crops are not adopted. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-065.pdf Catering through... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
the heterogeneous payment requirements across the multiple payers and health plans contracting with the academic health center. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54127 March–April 2018 Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
York City-based insurance program shortly after the World Trade Center bombing and arrived in China. Initially he planned to teach English, but soon the entrepreneurial spirit of the country caused him to begin exploring opportunities. He... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7
different and many SOEs have learned the lessons of the past. Organizational Design: Balancing Search and Stability in Strategic Decision Making Authors:Jan Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow Publication:In The Network Challenge: Strategy, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
lines but not across them. Study 3 further showed that even outside observers, who were not members of the focal social categories, also had greater difficulty maximizing profit across social category lines. Finally, Study 4 showed that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
impact on the dynamics of corporate investment and growth. Investment is "locked in" in profitable firms when payout is heavily taxed. Thus, apart from any level effects, payout taxes change the allocation of capital. Download... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19
merchandising decisions in their stores. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111069-PDF-ENG Emergia: Driving Profitability on Help Desk Contracts F. Asís Martínez-Jerez and Lisa BremHarvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
to offline media, which made attribution modeling more difficult. Decisions pertaining to product extensions, channel expansion beyond DTC e-commerce, and geographic expansion were also on the table to prove that Hubble's customer value proposition and operations could... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21
growth was one of the biggest stories in e-commerce, especially when the retailer attracted $50 million in investment from Index Ventures, a top VC firm that funded other successful retailers such as Net-a-Porter and Etsy, in 2013. Yet, with a cash infusion, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
consider which, if any, aspects of BYD's operations constitute sources of sustainable competitive advantage for the company. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=606139 Calloway Laboratory: Pee for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
stock indexes can be a mechanism for transforming long-standing corporate behavior. After decades of low corporate profitability in Japan, the JPX-Nikkei400 Index was introduced in 2014. Each year the index selected 400 large and liquid... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
profitability in Japan, the JPX-Nikkei400 Index was introduced in 2014. Each year the Index selected 400 large and liquid firms deemed best performing in terms of profitability; membership is considered highly prestigious. We document... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5
Abstract—Why do so many firms publicly espouse a "purpose" beyond simple profit maximization? And why do so many managers and employees appear to care deeply about this purpose and to believe that it is critically important? In... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
including a monopolist, two competing multichannel retailers, as well as a mixed duopoly. Though self-matching can negatively impact a retailer when consumers pay the lower price, we uncover two novel mechanisms that can make self-matching View Details