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- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network effects, users prefer to consume the same applications to benefit from consumption complementarities. We show that the combination...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
have-to-do tasks day after day, week after week, many couples carve out special time and space for certain want-to-do moments they enjoy together: They work in the gardens on Saturdays; they share a kiss on weekdays before heading to the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
backgrounds and characters, but most shared a passion for the beauty industry, combined with an ability to understand the societal values and artistic trends of their eras, and to translate them into brands. François Coty stands out as a...
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- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
massive growth in world FDI in mining. As petroleum consumption grew with new uses, the search for oil became worldwide. Oil was the only fuel that could drive the new motor car, while the demand for rubber tyres for cars created an...
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by Geoffrey Jones
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
economic activity? This paper exploits the federal preemption of national banks in 2004 from local laws against predatory lending to gauge the effect of the supply of credit on the real economy. Specifically, we exploit the heterogeneity in the market View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
optimal commodity taxation. We then calibrate the model to evidence on the relationship between skills and preferences and extensively examine the quantitative case for taxes on future consumption (saving). In our baseline case of a unit...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
earned (vs.) that which is inherited Each member of society must contribute to society's wealth by building their own and sharing Once you die, the wealth gets transferred to society." Carlos Avendano made the point that wealth...
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by James Heskett
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
other policies to change relative prices can provide a countervailing force by subsidizing exports. But they increase the costs of imports, hurting both domestic consumption and export-oriented industries with high import content. More...
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by Christian Ketels
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
classical economic model and discussing extensions of the classical model and explanations grounded in behavioral economics that can account for the observed patterns. This part covers five topics: consumption and savings, borrowing,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
periods as the periods without any labels. The only warning that slowed soda sales were those with graphics and text. The share of sugary drinks purchased in the cafeteria experiment during those periods dropped from 21.4 percent without...
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- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
foreign direct investment. The other thing that surprised me was that some indicators of globalization aren't increasing as many experts have claimed. There is general agreement that the international share of total Internet traffic is...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
near 20 percent online market share. Apparel, greeting cards, party supplies, and office products have reached double-digit penetration as well while sporting goods and cosmetics will likely reach double-digit share in 2011. Pet products...
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- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
was a marketing executive at American Express. Shelly, thanks for joining me today. Santana: Thanks for having me. Kenny You're listening in on the 100th episode of Cold Call, so we're excited to be here today to share this with you....
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- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
and Copyright Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf Abstract The advent of file sharing has considerably weakened effective copyright protection. Today, more than 60% of Internet traffic consists of consumers View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
Q: What is the compensatory consumption thesis and why did you want to challenge it? A: The academic goal of the study was to confront what we call the compensatory consumption thesis, which is widely...
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by Manda Salls
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
consumption growth by a representative agent with a high elasticity of intertemporal substitution. This paper documents several empirical difficulties for the model as calibrated by Bansal and Yaron (BY, 2004) and Bansal, Kiku, and Yaron...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
respond to a revised proposal from two private equity firms to take the company private. In November of 2006, the Board had unanimously approved an offer of $37.60 per share after going through intense negotiations with numerous firms,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
Case 209-097 Perry Capital owns shares in King and, to facilitate approval of the merger, buys shares in Mylan, whilst hedging out its economic exposure to Mylan's share price...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54078 Stock Market Returns and Consumption By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Kaveh Majlesi Abstract—This paper employs Swedish data containing security level information on households'...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
organisms in its ice cream. There's also the booming "sharing economy," which is built around the concept of monetizing shared resources, thus cutting down on carbon consumption and other environmental...
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