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- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
quality of the search service offered to consumers is more likely to be degraded (i.e. the probability that consumers find their favorite store in the first round of search is less than 1) when the intermediary derives higher revenues... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
Miami-based startup offering online English language learning services, had more than 30,000 active students across Latin America in 2012. The company had just closed a $43 million financing round in order to rapidly scale its service to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
being values-based, led by principles and a sense of purpose at the heart of the enterprise. They are dealing with the crisis of capitalism by offering a new and different model. Q: Why do we need a new corporate model? A: There have been... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
identified several important customers, however, who actually preferred suppliers capable of establishing a long-term relationship based on value added, rather than offering the lowest price on individual projects. Rockwater decided to... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
negotiation scholars—can be taught to physicians in a one-hour lecture. We found evidence that even this minimal intervention can decrease overtreatment of patients with low-risk prostate cancer. Our novel approach offers a framework to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
supply chains, installing ERP (enterprise resource planning systems, as exemplified by SAP), and worrying about Y2K. The threat posed to our economy by Japan and Germany had eased, the stock market was going crazy, and everybody was... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
the United States and use this list to analyze the relationship between insider ownership and firm value. Our data have two useful features. First, since dual-class stock separates cash-flow rights from voting rights, we can separately... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
likelihood of downloading an insider-trading filing on the same firm by more than 41.3% this quarter. Moreover, the average tracked stock that an institution buys generates annualized alphas of between 9% to 18% relative to the purchase... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
questions related to personal plans. First, what are the effects of plans on behavior? Second, when are plans formed? Third, how do plans deviate from optimality? For each of these questions, we (a) offer a brief overview of research that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54553 May 2018 Harvard Business Manager Was kostet die Zeit? By: Thomke, Stefan H., Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Christina Kestel Abstract—A German luxury watch manufacturer wants to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
demand. Furthermore, downstream and upstream product was coming online from other parts of the world, including Russia. As a result, Alcoa had lost its historical market dominance and stock premium. Belda was convinced that for Alcoa to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
Applying the "keep it simple, stupid" principle offers the key guidance for solving this problem. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity growth was low, and the stock market was in the tank. It is not at all... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
functional administrators. Beginning in 1912, Harvard offered a required second-year course in "business policy," which was designed to integrate the knowledge gained in functional areas like accounting, operations, and finance,... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
information. Finally, we provide evidence that High Sustainability companies significantly outperform their counterparts over the long-term, both in terms of stock market and accounting performance. The outperformance is stronger in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average in the period 1960-2011, it was unusually high in the 1980s and negative in the 2000s, a period during which Treasury bonds enabled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Working PapersLocal Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott WeisbennerNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15175, July 2009 Abstract We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on firm payout policy. Retail investors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
to what they've done to reinvigorate their business. They looked strategically at all aspects of their offering across the various channels they have at their disposal to maximize customer satisfaction and the return they get on their... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
the second half of the twentieth century. Based on a regionally focused sample of 310 businesses, the article offers insights into their ownership and management in 1960 and asks how the firms developed until 2008. The majority of large... View Details
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
with the financial market system. Johannesburg has a stock market as it has had for over a century, and business executives I spoke with said that you can get a future contract of ten years on the rand/dollar exchange rate—which is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace