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- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
higher for generalists. Free samples have little effect on any type of physician. We also introduce a key methodological innovation to the marketing and economics literature. We show that moment conditions—typically used in traditional dynamic panel data methods—are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
this way are also less vulnerable to subsequent legal challenges. This option has always existed, Gilson says, but it's been used more often in recent years so asset-rich companies that are cash poor can raise money. In 2001, American... View Details
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
virtually overnight. Poor marketing is largely to blame. Third, and perhaps most important, the fundamental nature of marketing has shifted so rapidly that many companies have not kept pace, making them vulnerable to more savvy... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
York Times Company, for example)-and also the most vulnerable (witness Canada's Steinberg's grocery store chain, which succumbed to family infighting). Howard H. Stevenson, HBS's Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration and an... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
by two forms of organizational visibility. Firms with greater domain-specific visibility are especially vulnerable to stakeholder criticism and therefore less prone to selective disclosure. In contrast, more generically visible firms are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
Authors:Chonnikarn Fern Jira and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Suppliers are increasingly being asked to share information about their vulnerability to climate change and their strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They vary widely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
downturn will mean for salespeople? A: Well, if the impression of salespeople was low before the financial crisis, it has only gotten worse. Realtors, mortgage brokers, investment advisors, and telephone solicitors offering credit cards were all part of the problem.... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
the root reasons why communities of color and poor and vulnerable communities are most affected is because of power structures and the way that our economy rewards the people at the top. It's fascinating to me that all of this is... View Details
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
in a multi-platform bundle. Dominant firms otherwise sheltered from entry by standalone rivals can be vulnerable to an adjacent platform provider's envelopment attack. We develop a taxonomy of envelopment attacks and analyze conditions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost value on that day. We also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
we have discussed, even if some services must be provided locally, the relevant market for most medical conditions should be regional or even national. Providers that fail to think in these terms will become more and more vulnerable to... View Details
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
conception of corporate purpose—one reflecting established moral and economic principles that challenge those underlying the shareholder value maximization doctrine. To this end, I start by discussing the vulnerability of contemporary... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
open dialogue with all employees to accurately assess which workers are vulnerable and what accommodations would best suit their specific needs. Learn from female leaders who have managed COVID-19 effectively Mark van Vugt, professor at... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
something we call "spontaneous private deregulation," and it is not new. Benign or otherwise, spontaneous deregulation is happening increasingly rapidly and in ever more industries. This article surveys incumbents' View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Four businesses had, by 2012, grown to dominate the infrastructure that all firms rely on to reach online customers. Will the balance of power among the four persist, will one take command at the expense of the other three, or are all four more View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
aspirations for what is to be gained in the current relationship, and these aspirations fuel opportunism. Finally, we show that other parties may fail to anticipate these effects, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation. State Activism... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
York. And then the third piece I really struggled with was my relationships. Because I didn't know who I was and I was wearing this eating disorder mask, I struggled to genuinely connect with other people and come from a place of View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
those arrangements vulnerable to mounting player discontent, Marlins CFO Mariner's comments on baseball's situation are sobering for the other leagues as well: "The economics of baseball are fundamentally tenuous because there is no cap... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
has been divided by both worldview and practice. Why, in the face of the common challenge of dependence on imported Russian gas, have national reactions to such vulnerability varied so dramatically across the continent? And why have a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
out: “Stand well with the trade & are in high credit.”[5] The personal nature of some of these details, and the fact that an individual had no access to his or her report, made Dun and other agencies vulnerable to criticism. The Irish... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna