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  • 04 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

goods far more than on good services, he said. He illustrated this point with a list of billionaires in various industries. Health-care billionaires, like the heirs to the Stryker fortune, generally make their money from unique products.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 20 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks

Professors Ananth Raman and Roy Shapiro are two members of the HBS faculty team that developed the new Executive Education program, Managing the Supply Chain: The General Manager's Perspective. In this conversation with the Executive... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 27 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge

It’s the new way of comparison shopping in the age of large language models (LLM): Tapping into AI-driven search engines for research and advice on which products to buy. But can consumers trust the recommendations to be impartial? New... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology
  • March 2002 (Revised July 2004)
  • Case

RWE and the Proposal for a German Electricity Regulator

In April 2001, Dietmar Kuhnt, CEO of the German energy giant RWE, had to make a decision that would affect his company's future. Profits in the electricity sector depended heavily on regulatory rules that influenced industry structure and pricing. RWE had emerged... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Governance Compliance; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Germany
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    Achieving Reliable Causal Inference with Data-Mined Variables: A Random Forest Approach to the Measurement Error Problem

    Combining machine learning with econometric analysis is becoming increasingly prevalent in both research and practice. A common empirical strategy involves the application of predictive modeling techniques to "mine" variables of interest from available data,... View Details
    • December 7, 2022
    • Article

    Why Decentralized Crypto Platforms Are Weathering the Crash

    By: Shai Bernstein and Scott Duke Kominers
    In the past year, crypto markets dropped from $2.9 trillion in value to around $800 billion. In the wake of the collapse, crypto lenders and exchanges have been accused of fraud and other wrongdoing. What went wrong? One factor is competition. In theory, competition... View Details
    Keywords: Crypto Economy; Cryptocurrency; Financial Complexity; Financial Crisis; Decentralization; Decentralized Markets; Decentralized Autonomous Organizations; Finance; Market Design; Financial Services Industry
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    • August 2017
    • Article

    Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment

    By: Doug J. Chung and Das Narayandas
    We conduct a field experiment in which we vary the sales force compensation scheme at an Asian enterprise that sells consumer durable goods. With variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of... View Details
    Keywords: Sales Force Compensation; Field Experiment; Heterogeneity; Loss Aversion; Reciprocity; Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits
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    • December 2009 (Revised February 2010)
    • Case

    The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF) in 2009

    By: Luis M. Viceira and Brendon Christopher Parry
    In late June 2009, management at The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF) was considering expanding the footprint of the TIFF Diversified Fund (TDF), the first truly comprehensive endowment management vehicle offered under the TIFF banner. The recent large capital... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Asset Management; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Risk Management; Product Marketing; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 23 Dec 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: December 23

      Publications December 2014 Journal of Political Economy Transition to Clean Technology By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth where clean and... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • April 2002
    • Case

    Pallotta TeamWorks

    By: Allen S. Grossman and Elizabeth Kind
    Pallotta Team Works is a for-profit, privately owned company that produces multiday fundraising events for nonprofit organizations. Dan Pallotta, the 40-year-old CEO, founded the enterprise in 1992. The company has grown rapidly, having raised over $200 million for... View Details
    Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Business Model; Nonprofit Organizations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Service Industry; Consulting Industry; United States
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    • 22 Apr 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Competing with Privacy

    Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Andres Hervas-Drane; Publishing
    • 26 Aug 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

    When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology
    • 08 Dec 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management

    • April 2010
    • Article

    Low-energy Limit for Tunnelling Subject to an Eckart Potential Barrier

    By: Samuel H Lipoff and Dudley R Herschbach
    For two-body s-wave collisions subject to tunnelling though an Eckart potential barrier, cross-sections and rate coefficients in the low-energy regime can be evaluated in analytic form. These provide criteria for approach to the Wigner limit and a generic plot... View Details
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    • June 2008
    • Journal Article

    Strategic Alliances: Bridges Between 'Islands of Conscious Power'

    By: George P. Baker, Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy
    Strategic alliances range from unstructured collaborations, through consortia and joint ventures that superimpose new governance structures on existing firms, to transactions that restructure firm boundaries and asset ownership. In this paper, we draw on detailed... View Details
    Keywords: Governance; Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Alliances; Strategy; Theory
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    • 11 Feb 2017
    • News

    Mass entertainment in the digital age is still about blockbusters, not endless choice

      Fiscal Risk and the Portfolio of Government Programs

      This paper proposes a new approach to social cost-benefit analysis using a model in which a benevolent government chooses risky projects in the presence of market failures and tax distortions.  The government internalizes market failures and therefore perceives project... View Details
      • 29 Jan 2009
      • Working Paper Summaries

      An Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s

      Keywords: by Diego A. Comin
      • 03 Oct 2018
      • HBS Seminar

      Chad Syverson, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

      • 06 Sep 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track

      fundamental reassessment of leadership and leadership development. The command-and-control model so prevalent in the twentieth century has ceased to be effective because it fails to motivate people, particularly younger View Details
      Keywords: by Bill George