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- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
run as a public utility. The Panamanian government, in contrast, has run the Canal as a for-profit corporation, increasing safety and decreasing costs along the way. Maurer and Yu's nuanced analysis of the contribution of the United... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
is considered where firms internalize the regret costs that consumers experience when they see an unexpected price change. Regret costs are assumed to be increasing in the size of price changes and this can explain why the size of price increases is less View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
spreads have lower means, lower cross-country correlations, and lower sensitivity to global risk factors. We discuss several major sources of credit-spread differentials, including positively correlated credit and currency risk, selective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
we see so frequently in the real world." The Lab Experiments The research team conducted a series of experiments to study the effect of two important hormones: testosterone (associated with decreased fear and increased sensitivity to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
Jan-Emmanuel, George W. Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert Van Landeghem, Georgios Kavetsos, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in macroeconomic growth? Using subjective well-being measures... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration
means to be politically correct. They used the responses to help create the definition employed in their research: “using language (or behavior) to seem sensitive to others’ feelings, especially those others who seem socially... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
excessive delays, poor quality, overtime, or stressed employees. Whichever approach you prefer, it's important not to be overly sensitive to small errors. The objective is to be approximately right, say within 5 percent to 10 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
corruption geographic segments, but not in low corruption segments. The net effect on valuation from sales growth and changes in profitability is close to zero. The findings are robust to a number of sensitivity tests, including View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase
variables as you want, and the model runs fast and is very efficient,” Ascarza says. “The downside of doing this kind of modeling is that, at the end of the day, it’s very difficult to pin down exactly what makes people sensitive to... View Details
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
into action. That is why we have placed strategy analysis and formulation as Stage 1 of our management system, with planning and translating the strategy as Stage 2. We take the same position with the various operational improvement... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?
Summing Up Summing up the unusually large number of responses to the piece on street smarts, the consensus is that they represent skills taught by experience, role models, and experiential learning techniques such as case analysis and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
a context apart from the complexity and sensitivity of their own company; this allows executives to engage in important discussions about, for example, risk trade-offs and relationships with peers, subjects that might be too View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used today at the level of individual banks by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
constrained domestically and those that are more technology intensive, exhibit a higher sensitivity of affiliate cash holdings to repatriation tax burdens. Download working paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/Cash.pdf Skill vs. Luck... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
sociologists present a clear analysis of Cuba's economic and social circumstances and suggest steps for Cuba to reactivate economic growth and improve the welfare of its citizens. These authors focus first on trade, capital inflows,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
technologies in the U.S. While there are several startups in clean energy that are well-suited to the traditional venture capital investment model, our analysis highlights a number of structural challenges related to venture capital (VC)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
Experiment 2 demonstrates that effects of indirect agency cannot be explained by perceived lack of foreknowledge or control on the part of the primary agent. Experiment 3 indicates that reflective moral judgment is sensitive to indirect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
ROE wheel. We illustrate how to develop accurate estimates for sales, profit, cash flow, investment in new assets, return-on-equity, profitability, and asset turnover. We discuss how to gather and analyze data and assumptions and demonstrate the effects of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
fixed costs/scale sensitivity on the supply side, are all capable of reducing the equilibrium level of global standardization, as is the ability of local producers to pre-commit costs to particular markets. Convergence of the price of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace