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  • 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

the challenges of staying competitive and profitable in the new and increasingly digital media landscape. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/713423-PDF-ENG Reconfiguring Stroke Care in North Central London Michael E. Porter, James... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

(Siko) Sikochi Abstract—We examine the influence of peer firms on trade credit policies of listed firms in the United States. We posit and find evidence that firms mimic their peers in formulating trade credit policies. The findings are more pronounced for firms in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

documented in other samples. The size of the low risk anomaly within banks suggests that the cost of capital effects of capital requirements may be considerable. Assuming competitive lending markets, banks'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

competitive situations there is a one-to-one mapping between strategy and business model, which makes it difficult to separate the two notions. We show that the concepts of strategy and business model differ when there are important... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

economist herself, delve into the phenomenon in their paper Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies, forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Perspectives. “Inside tech firms there’s a huge competition for talent right now,” Athey... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Four Professors to Retire

the Air Force's Exceptional Civilian Service Award. Christenson also participated in the development of the U.S. Army's first cost-based budgetary control system. His publications include Strategic Aspects of Competitive Bidding for... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
  • 18 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

Climate Symposium 2023: Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale

featured Stéphane Hallegatte, Senior Climate Change Advisor at the World Bank Climate Change Group, who started off the day by establishing that we need to focus on solutions, not doom and gloom. While it’s complicated to achieve change,... View Details
  • 20 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports Corp.

out Investment Banking internships that paved the way to his first full-time Investment Banking Analyst role at UBS Investment Bank. After UBS, Laitsas spent five more years in investment banking,... View Details
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

Self-Service Distribution Channels: Evidence from Customer Behavior in an Online Banking Channel Authors:Dennis Campbell and Frances X. Frei Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper uses the context of online View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

  PublicationsClusters and Competitiveness: Porter's Contribution Authors:Christian H.M. Ketels Publication:Chap. 10 in Competition and Competitive Advantage: The Ideas of Michael Porter, edited by Robert... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 16, 2007

companies, anti-trust legislation, expropriations, and rising competition from international and local rivals. Focuses on developing a new global strategy for a company that placed a premium on a consensual management style and local... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

policy with two key features: (i) the central bank has private information about its long-run target for the policy rate and (ii) the central bank is averse to bond-market volatility. In this setting,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

employees, rather than doing what's necessary to rehabilitate the business." According to Gilson, this provides compelling evidence that "US bankruptcy laws and restructuring practices have played a critical role in driving the economic recovery and restoring... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services
  • 19 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

spending. Real estate costs are high. The taxation and legislation system is complex and difficult to navigate. Vijay Jain said he left a "cushy" job in investment banking to take advantage of the huge potential promised by... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

data. First, we use field data on employees' productivity from a mid-size bank in Japan, which we then match with daily weather data to investigate the effect of bad weather conditions (in terms of precipitation, visibility, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown

choice to ignore controls and to knowingly lie. Soltes: Well, what’s the distinction between puffery and fraud? There’s obviously an important legal distinction, but imagine you’re a CEO of a bank that could be facing a liquidity crisis.... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 18 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

However, the documented differences, when they are significant, between the level of optimism for the affiliated and unaffiliated is hardly impressive, which is perhaps not surprising. If one thinks of the competition to get investment... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

quality of games is that, thanks to tweaks in the design of postseason matchups, teams at the highest championship level more often find themselves facing their true competitive counterparts. It was not always so. Until 1992, as HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

These changes did not—as often assumed—result in the decline of family businesses but instead gave rise to a different kind of competitive and internationally oriented "Mittelstand." The study integrates approaches from new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3

developers to either a competitive or a cooperative work regime to create software for NASA's Space Life Sciences Directorate. Half of the subjects-the "sorted" group-were assigned according to their institutional preferences;... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel