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- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
forthcoming American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption Across Countries By: Cavallo, Alberto, Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, and Marcel P. Timmer Abstract—We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018
Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting By: Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim Abstract—A key aspect of the governance process inside organizations and markets is the measurement and disclosure of important metrics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
to all personal care products sold online by the five firms implies that customers spent an additional $300 million annually as a result of pricing algorithms, out of a total of about $6 billion in e-commerce revenue for the category.... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007
firm-size distribution and de jure and de facto measures of international capital integration. We then explore causal channels through which foreign capital may encourage entrepreneurship. We find evidence that entrepreneurial activity in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
October 2017 Management Science The Size of the LGBT Population and the Magnitude of Anti-Gay Sentiment Are Substantially Underestimated By: Coffman, Katherine Baldiga, Lucas C. Coffman, and Keith M. Marzilli Ericson Abstract—We demonstrate that widely used View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
measure both face-to-face and electronic interaction before and after the adoption of open office architecture. The results inform our understanding of the impact on human behavior of workspaces that trend toward fewer spatial boundaries... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15
where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices to its customer base. We analyze strategic interactions between an innovative entrant and an incumbent where the incumbent may imitate the entrant's business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
They instituted an incentive scheme that gave employees a financial stake in the performance of the business. They invested in IT systems and other tools to improve the ability of frontline call-center workers to deliver superior customer... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Developing the Global Leader
diversity of geographies and experiences is easier said than done, George concedes, although he does highlight a few standouts, including Coca-Cola (which has had five non-American CEOs), Nestlé, Unilever, Siemens, IBM, and Novartis, among others. "Ultimately, a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 8, 2006
the predictive value of a theory can be measured in terms of how many pairs of experimental subjects you would have to observe playing a previously unexamined game before the mean of the experimental observations would provide a better... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1590245 Cases & Course MaterialsBook Publishing in 2010 Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy BartlettHarvard Business School Note 711-419 Legacy book publishers wrangled with e-book retailers over royalty rates, release... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
self-evaluation. They appraise themselves not on P&L but on a set of 35 skills—a process that lets them measure strengths and weaknesses thoroughly, proving to CEO Jeff Immelt (HBS MBA '82) that they are responding to his mandate that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
processes. We describe a property-rights model of firm boundary choices along the value chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016
to exert over the different segments of their production processes. We describe a property-rights model of firm boundary choices along the value chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
companies, especially the ad-buying agencies, went through tough times because their large clients decided to leave the country. “The first question HBS faculty get when we do a custom Executive Education program in China and other areas... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
dimension with particular relevance in outsourcing-is the end customer for whom it is produced. The performance benefits of such customer experience remain largely unexamined. We explore this dimension of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
collaboration rather than command and control as their basis for interaction.. “Over the long term, organizations filled with empowered employees who collaborate to serve customers will consistently outperform hierarchical organizations”... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 10 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 10
bundles (albums) to cherry-picking their favorite components (songs) on those bundles. The number of items included in a bundle (a measure of its "objective" value) does not emerge as a significant moderator of this effect.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
Their findings were published in the May 17, 2016, issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A TEMPORARY STATE OF INEQUALITY Research on inequality usually measures a relatively fixed socioeconomic status based on... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
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New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
they will be as busy in the future as they are today increased the likelihood that customers would both open the email and click a link to purchase various services. In sum, making the future feel as busy as the present encourages... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne