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  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

large private firms in the services sector. Rates of return also have remained stable over time and show low dispersion across sectors and across ownership groups within sectors. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

for leaders. For example, globally dispersed businesses can't reserve key leadership roles for people from exclusive groups; leadership must become inclusive, or fail. Leaders must learn to collaborate in a world of networked... View Details
  • 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 CEOs of listed firms yields three sets... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

sales process, and some retailers did not understand why they should trust a small, young company with their payment security. By late 2017, Index had made some changes to reduce the average sales cycle, but... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53958 Effects of a Tournament Incentive Plan Incorporating Managerial Discretion in a Geographically Dispersed Organization By: Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Using retail... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

through a third previously unexamined effect: dynamic consumer segmentation. Our results, therefore, contradict prior static models: bundling can be profitable even when consumer valuations for components are highly correlated. In the absence of bundling, both hardware... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

highlighting the tension between congressional oversight of the Fed and the Fed's independence from political influence. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710051-PDF-ENG Elkay Plumbing Products Division Robert S. KaplanHarvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

and by adjusting both fund purchases and full sales of stocks if their risky portfolios have performed well. Finally, the tendency for households to fully sell winning stocks is weaker for wealthy investors with diversified portfolios of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Aug 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

risk because I was still a student," he says. Initially, EyeView's model was devoted to helping businesses create and post online video content. About a year later, the company shifted its focus to creating customized videos that target customers at different points in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

The Best-Laid Plans

businesses create and post online video content. About a year later, the company shifted its focus to creating customized videos that target customers at different points in the sales cycle. Things were going quite well, Riesenfeld... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

disappointedly low. Their ability, and motivation, to locate value-added activities in the most attractive locations means that they strengthen clustering rather than encourage dispersion of knowledge. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

estate firms' decisions to provide investment property fair values prior to the required disclosure of this information under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). We find evidence that investor demand for fair value information—reflected in more View Details
  • 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

and (ii) complete stability in the dispersion of attention across sites and in the intensity of attention within sites. We illustrate how this finding is difficult to reconcile with standard models of optimal attention allocation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

managed, while multinational, dispersed shareholder, and private-equity owned firms are typically well managed. Stronger product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

collections for sale on the Paddle8 website to carefully selected, globally dispersed members. The firm aims to help galleries overcome their geographic limitations and to make art more accessible to a wide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

foreign countries, the model predicts growth in the number of source-country firms engaging in foreign direct investment, growth in the size of affiliates that are active in reforming countries both before and after the tariff reduction, and an increase in the extent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

pirates means that Linux's installed base does not grow as much as it would have if piracy weren't there. The second type of pirates (those who in the absence of piracy would have bought Windows) reduces Windows' sales and profit. Thus,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

dynamic consumer segmentation, which operates independent of the homogenization effect, and can in fact be stronger when the homogenization effect is weaker. We also find that bundles are treated as separate products (distinct from component products) by consumers.... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

reduction in bias unless this is accompanied by an increase in verifiability or a smaller dispersion of prior beliefs. (Noisy) Communication Authors:Bharat Anand and Ron Shachar Periodical:Quantitative Marketing and Economics... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

Lerner, Morten Sorensen, and Per Strömberg Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures of dispersed shareholders, or whether LBO funds... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel