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  • 28 Nov 2018
  • HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

Minneapolis. “It was a big decision to stay in Silicon Valley,” Datar says. “The demand for data-science professionals is through the roof, so you have to go where the experts are. Desai credits the success of data science at Target to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

giver-receiver interactions—are resource-allocation decisions that also contribute to the social meaning of help. These findings illuminate the theoretical and practical overlap between helping and external leadership in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

business decisions Implement analytical techniques in Excel Develop effective pricing strategies Identify sources of competitive advantage through differentiation Evaluate the financial health of a business... View Details
  • November 2008
  • Journal Article

Can Research Committees Add Value for Investors? An Analysis of Lehman Brothers' Ten Uncommon Values® Recommendations

By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Yang Gui
Since 1949 Lehman Brothers has used an investment committee to select the top ten recommendations made by its analysts each year. We examine the performance of this committee's recommendations and find that on average its selections generated abnormal returns of 2.7%... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Stocks; Financial Markets; Investment; Investment Return; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Expectations; Groups and Teams; Research; Value Creation
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  • Research Summary

Overview

The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

Xbox, make their profits from game developers through royalties and incur losses on the sale of consoles to users by pricing them below cost. The key reason is that two-sided platforms must solve a chicken-and-egg problem. For example,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 2006
  • Other Unpublished Work

Does Banks' Corporate Control Benefit Firms? Evidence from US Banks' Control over Firms' Voting Rights

By: Joao A.C. Santos and Kristin Wilson
In this paper we examine the importance of banks' corporate control over their borrowers by investigating the loan pricing effect of banks' voting stakes in borrowers. We exploit the fact that banks may hold shares of firms in a fiduciary capacity to identify a clean... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Corporate Governance; Commercial Banking; Banking Industry; United States
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  • 01 Dec 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto

  • 03 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

scope of his operations to ensure a steady and reliable revenue stream. Securing new clients proved the least difficult, since McLean's SeaLand service could transport goods at a 25 percent discount off the price of conventional travel,... View Details
Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace
  • July 1996 (Revised August 2024)
  • Case

Innovative Opportunities to Manage Health Care Delivery

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and D. Scott Lurding
The purpose of this case is: To familiarize the students with the changing landscape of health care delivery, through chains of retail medical centers and those offering value-based care (VBC).

To discuss fundamental managerial decisions about their... View Details
Keywords: Managed Care; Capitation; Strategy
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  • 2012
  • Book

Strategic IQ: Creating Smarter Corporations

By: John R. Wells
In today's world, only the smartest survive. The competitive landscape is littered with graves of well-known firms whose revenues, profits and stock prices rose for decades until they suddenly imploded.
In fast-changing business environments, firms must adapt... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Competition; Business Growth and Maturation; Adaptation; Corporate Strategy; Decision Making; Innovation and Invention
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  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

in the retail industry, some shareholders claimed that the price was "grossly inadequate," making the decision whether to approve the transaction a difficult one for shareholders generally.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses

addressing fundamentals. But the time is coming when such upgrades will be unavoidable. Usually when a resource becomes scarce, its price increases. But that hasn't happened here because IP addresses are provided at de minimis cost—a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Telecommunications
  • Web

Impact - Health Care

areas. Impact Stories Making better decisions when it comes to your health Leslie John Going Beyond the Clinical Sphere Azalea Kim Passionate about Technology to Empower Patients as Consumers Laura Mackay Areas of Impact Advancing Global,... View Details
  • 22 Nov 2023
  • News

So You Want to Join a Startup

information gap was probably the most important reason I wrote the book. In my last company, I was the CFO and as CFO, I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to explain options and the option pricing and exercising to my colleagues... View Details
  • Web

Curriculum - Business & Environment

decisions involving sustainability issues. Cases are set in a variety of industry contexts, including energy, agriculture, transportation, chemicals, and investment. Some of the environment-related cases recently taught (Spring and Fall... View Details
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a multinational as the typical decision maker. Illustrated with examples from companies of all sizes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

data.” The researchers also found that telling GPT that it had purchased a product before, such as yogurt, and how much of the product the “customer” already had at home, affected purchasing decisions in predictable ways: the more yogurt... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • Web

Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

First Prize, from PanAgora Asset Management’s Quantitative Research Institute for his paper with Aaron Yoon, “Stock Price Reactions to ESG News: The Role of ESG Ratings and Disagreement." Suraj Srinivasan : “The Changing Landscape of... View Details
  • 09 Nov 2023
  • Blog Post

The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business

decisions that had them poised over an abyss of uncertainty. Without exception, they all had to confront their fears and use courage to take a leap of faith toward what they believed was the right decision... View Details