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  • 21 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 21, 2015

professionals can make and investments that only the firm can make, while at the same time minimizing distortions in decisions that either party could make (e.g., promotion and marketing of professionals' services, price setting, choice... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult

"When you talk to people on the front lines, they know this is complicated and hard," she says. Communication Breakdown Investing in technology change without organizational change won't work either. For the Harvard Business Review article The Short Life of View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

Extensions to our model accommodate the possibilities of multiple voucher purchases and firm price re-optimization. Despite the potential benefits of online discount vouchers to certain firms in certain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2008
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First Look: May 6, 2008

  Working PapersHighbrow Films Gather Dust: A Study of Dynamic Inconsistency and Online DVD Rentals Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

These contractual devices provide insurance to the shareholders of the target and may protect the buyer as well. The purpose of this note is to define the main categories of price protection and explain their impact on the payoffs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?

Watch out. Apple hopes to claim a new frontier on your wrist. The company announced its new Apple Watch on Tuesday, sending journalists and a bevy of other observers, online and off, into a flurry of analysis and speculation over a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ryan L. Raffaelli; Electronics; Retail; Health
  • 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

cannot price discriminate among stores because the intermediaries' incentives are aligned with the marginal stores. Second, competition among intermediaries may lead to more or less search diversion relative to monopoly, depending on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

upgrades, forming hypotheses and conducting experiments with each new version along the way. Intuit adopted such a strategy when developing Fasal, a mobile platform that delivers agricultural market price information to farmers in India.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

defeated by a less reformist coalition. Stock prices of government-controlled companies that had been slated for definite privatization by the BJP dropped by 3.5 percent relative to private firms. Surprisingly, government-controlled... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

  Working PapersCPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We develop a model of online advertising in which each advertiser chooses from multiple... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18

trend is the use of online tools to improve physical asset utilization in many traditional off-line businesses. This article discusses the water industry as an example, and the organizational changes and levers relevant to extracting... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

After more than a decade of nearly can’t-miss growth, China’s stock market began a precipitous summer slide that has spooked investors worldwide. In July, the Shanghai composite index dropped 15 percent from June, prompting the People’s... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

construct a spatially continuous index of pairwise-industry agglomeration and investigate the patterns and determinants underlying the global economic geography of multinational firms. In particular, we run a horserace between two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

understood. We model how consumers choose video content provision among over-the-air (OTA), paid subscription to cable or satellite, and online streaming (also known as over-the-top or OTT). We apply our model to a U.S. dataset... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45468 August 2013 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Where Not to Eat? Improving Public Policy by Predicting Hygiene Inspections Using Online Reviews By: Kang, Jun Seok, Polina... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 30

involved marketing tactic (Experiment 4). Further experiments explore boundary conditions and suggest that the benefit of cost transparency weakens as firms increase price relative to costs and when markups are made salient (Experiments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids

CEO reported that friends had come down with it. One CEO and father of three reported “[getting] lost in looking after the kids” as his wife “is a frontline worker and was at the hospital every day.” “Kids switching to online school” was... View Details
Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg
  • 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Apr 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?

and using 'money' facilitates the exchange of goods and services. So we are still capitalists " Barry Shere commented that "I do not see how profits are neutered as a result of the pressure on prices and margins per transaction.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Service
  • 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

label Prada, and jeweler Bulgari. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/07/how-brand-tourists-can-grow-sales/ar/1 Forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) Risk, Information, and Incentives in Online Affiliate Marketing By: Edelman,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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