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05 Mar 2015
News

Wearable Tech Enables New Era of Employee Monitoring

December 2015
Article

Introduction: New Perspectives on Corporate Capital Structure

By: Viral Acharya, Heitor Almeida and Malcolm Baker

The National Bureau of Economic Research held a symposium titled "New Perspectives on Corporate Capital Structures" on April 5–6, 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In its call for the submission of theoretical and empirical papers for the symposium, the NBER noted that... View Details

Keywords: Capital Structure; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Corporate Finance

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June 29, 2022
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Strategic Complexity? Using Experiments to Understand and Overcome Obfuscation

By: Michael Luca, Ginger Zhe Jin and Daniel Martin

Credit card companies must decide what product features to disclose to consumers, such as payment schedules, penalties, and fees--and also whether to present them clearly or bury them in the fine print. Firms face similar choices in settings ranging from privacy... View Details

Keywords: Obfuscation; Credit Cards; Strategic Incentives; Complexity; Agreements and Arrangements; Customers; Consumer Behavior; Financial Services Industry

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06 Sep 2005
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What are the Lessons of New Orleans?

security company, of which I was a director, to that of the New York City Police Department. A direct result has been a number of arrests by the NYPD of criminals fleeing buildings guarded by the private... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

What was the objective of the new product launch, would it succeed, and how would this new business affect the Group’s core business of selling natural (mined) diamonds? This case is intended to be View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

November 2002 (Revised June 2003)
Case

Monsanto: Leadership in a New Environment

By: Ray A. Goldberg, James Weber and James M Beagle

Monsanto is the biotechnology leader in agriculture. How does it use its leadership in Round Up to fund long-term research and development in biotechnology that is acceptable to the priority system of consumers in different parts of the world? Includes color exhibits. View Details

Keywords: Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Food; Business or Company Management; Agribusiness; Industry Growth; Customer Focus and Relationships; Globalization; Leadership; Biotechnology Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States

18 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Use Baker Library to Build a Target List

keeping track of these lists can be cumbersome. Using The American City Business Journals, you can find hundreds of published and carefully analyzed lists for over 40 major metropolitan areas in the United States. Identify companies View Details

15 May 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Women Find New Path to Work

What's happened in the world of marketing in the past five years? What new tools are out there? What avenues are people using to reach customers in new and different ways? How... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

2017
Working Paper

Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity

By: Edward L. Glaeser, Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca

Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau provide the standard measures of economic activity at the local level. However, these statistics typically appear only... View Details

Keywords: Economy; Analytics and Data Science; Local Range; Social and Collaborative Networks

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21 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52435 CEO Behavior and Firm Performance By: Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Pratt, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in Brazil, France, Germany, India, UK, and U.S. View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2020
Video

New Founder Series: Lessons from Entrepreneurial Failure

01 Dec 1998
News

New HBS Alumni Board Members

Mortgage & Realty and Michigan Heritage Bancorp. He has led several community organizations, such as the Lansing Symphony, Capital Area United Fund, and the Voluntary Action Center in Lansing. Born in New View Details

18 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in designing regulation. This study examines a unique energy efficiency standard for... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

in others and show that all these definitions are equivalent. We then introduce a new class of substitutable preferences that allows us to model intermediaries with production capacity. We also prove that... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2022
News

Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us

amount of e-nun-ci-a-tion helps. Before long, you’re hollering into a void of inhumanity, asking to speak with a human. All this can leave us feeling that we’re being held captive in a robot-hostage situation, says Alex Sambvani (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

03 Apr 2018
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New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

Despite all these efforts to gain new global historical visions, however, the debates surrounding this movement have remained rather provincial in scope. Global History, Globally addresses this lacuna by surveying the state of global... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2014 (Revised March 2015)
Case

Managing Multi-Media Audiences at WHDH (Boston)

By: Thales Teixeira and V. Kasturi Rangan

WHDH's Channel 7 News rose to the #1 position in Boston-area news broadcasting through its embrace of an innovative format and for affiliating with NBC. Since the early 2000s, however, other news programs had copied their format, and young audiences had begun to use... View Details

Keywords: Online News; Television Advertising; Attention Economics; Cross-media Efforts; Competition; Internet and the Web; Consumer Behavior; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Marketing Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Marketing; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Boston

June 2024 (Revised August 2024)
Case

Revlon India's Turnaround: Navigating Online-Offline Decisions Using a Balanced Scorecard

By: Tatiana Sandino and Samuel Grad

Revlon India was founded as a joint venture in 1995, pairing the industrial conglomerate UMG with the global beauty brand Revlon, Inc. to bring international color cosmetics to India. After growing rapidly and pioneering the Beauty Advisor (BA) model in India, the... View Details