Filter Results:
(86)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (86)
- Faculty Publications (22)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (86)
- Faculty Publications (22)
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
how new products or services would perform at various prices or with different characteristics. The machine learning algorithms that might power such a device are, at least for now, incapable of producing such promising results. But what... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
coffee, revitalizing the quality of its standard beverages. But none of these moves addressed the fundamental problem: Starbucks is a mass brand attempting to command a premium price for an experience that is no longer special. Either you... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
Accounting Review Admitting Mistakes: Home Country Effect on the Reliability of Restatement Reporting By: Srinivasan, Suraj, Aida Sijamic Wahid, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We study the frequency of restatements by foreign firms listed on U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Propose an Independent Project | MBA
faculty advisor will create a “learning contract” ahead of time that outlines fieldwork requirements, frequency of team meetings, and parameters for evaluation. Sponsoring organizations will want to discuss the timing and scope of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
that monitors radio broadcasts and frequencies and identifies songs as they air. Songs are scanned into a computer to create a digital "fingerprint," which is then matched against music played by radio stations monitored by ConneXus... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency and change the mix of marketing promotions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
network-based technologies, and for the median technology, the frequency of interactions decays by 73% every 1000 kms. Overall, we document the significant role that geography plays in determining technology diffusion across countries.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
average, NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic “patent trolls.” NPEs sue cash-rich firms and target cash in business segments unrelated to alleged infringement at essentially the same frequency as they target cash in segments related to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
can trigger large price bubbles. We analyze the patterns of cash-flow news that generate the largest bubbles, the reasons why bubbles collapse, and the frequency with which they occur. The model also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
success, market reaction, and merger waves. Offer prices are biased towards the 52-week high, a highly salient but largely irrelevant past price, and the modal offer price is exactly that reference price. An... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
“waver” over time in the relative weight they put on them. The model predicts that good news about fundamentals can trigger large price bubbles. We analyze the patterns of cash-flow news that generate the largest bubbles, the reasons why... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
trillion to date in worldwide government revenues through increased efficiencies in the sale of essential but difficult-to-auction entities ranging from radio wave frequencies to mineral and timber rights. Before the introduction of... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
frequency and concentrate on a narrow selection of genres, regularly opt for obscure products likely not available in bricks-and-mortar stores. Casting doubt on the "democratizing" nature of online channels, however, I also show... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
countries. I find that price levels are identical about 72% of the time. Price changes are not synchronized but have similar frequencies and average sizes. These results have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
office dictate that to stay in business, you need to bring in $400 an hour—that’s four office visits of 15 minutes each. The length of the visit is determined “not by the benefit to the patient,” Kaplan says, “but what they must do to stay in business, given the View Details
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
of crimes that do not directly steal from the company, and at smaller companies. While economic reasons could explain these associations, we show that gender and frequency of crimes moderate the relation between punishment severity and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
literature that suggests firms reduce marketing expenditures in order to boost reported earnings, we find that soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency of all marketing promotions (price discounts, feature advertisements, and aisle... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life By: Glaeser, Edward L., Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Luca, and Nikhil Naik Abstract—New, "big" data sources allow measurement of city characteristics and outcome variables at higher View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
individual feel dirty. We theorize that such feelings of dirtiness decrease the frequency of instrumental networking and, as a result, work performance. We also examine sources of variability in networking-induced feelings of dirtiness by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
the technology bubble to examine the hypothesis that inexperienced investors play a role in the formation of asset price bubbles. Using age as a proxy for managers' investment experience, we find that around the peak of the technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace