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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
monetary loosening since August 2007 — the steep cuts in the federal funds and discount rates, the various auction and lending “facilities,” the underwriting of JPMorgan’s acquisition of Bear Stearns, and, most recently, the shift to... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
non-profit organizations, and for-profit firms including financial institutions. They embody a number of different assumptions about incentives, drawing from economics, psychology, and sociology. We describe examples of each program and provide some View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Harvest Time
Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008) Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008) grew up on an asparagus farm in Scotts Ferry, New Zealand, a village of 65 people. The only girl in her high-school class, she went on to attend Macalester College in Minnesota, becoming the first college graduate... View Details
- Article
Businessmen and Land Ownership in the Late Nineteenth Century
By: Tom Nicholas
This article analyses the proportions of personal to real estate wealth for a group of 295 businessmen profiled in the Dictionary of business biography. It shows that businessmen who owned land on a large scale in the late nineteenth century were a comparatively small... View Details
Keywords: Ownership; Personal Finance; Property; Biography; History; Acquisition; Wealth; Power and Influence; Status and Position; Integration; Transformation; Market Transactions
Nicholas, Tom. "Businessmen and Land Ownership in the Late Nineteenth Century." Economic History Review 52, no. 1 (February 1999): 27–44.
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
Amit Seru Abstract—We examine whether firms have an informational advantage in selecting arbitrators in consumer arbitration as well as the impact of the arbitrator selection process on outcomes. We collect data containing roughly 9,000... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- February 2021 (Revised March 2021)
- Case
AptDeco: Circular Economy Furniture Marketplace
By: Ayelet Israeli and Jamie Merkrebs
AptDeco, a used furniture marketplace, was growing rapidly in the tri-state area. The co-founders were confident that the business model, financial position, and unit economics positioned AptDeco for scaling in the massive $120 billion furniture market, despite its... View Details
Keywords: E-Commerce Strategy; Mobile; Word-of-Mouth; Word-of-mouth Marketing; Word Of Mouth; Internet Marketing; Growth Strategy; Platform; Platforms; Two Sided Markets; Two-sided Market; Two-sided Marketplace; Two-Sided Markets; Two-sided Network; Black Entrepreneurs; Black Leadership; African Americans; Circular; Peer-to-peer Markets; Furniture Industry; Furniture; Growth Hacking; Monetization Strategy; African-American Protagonist; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Digital Platforms; Marketing Channels; Digital Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Technology Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; North America; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
Israeli, Ayelet, and Jamie Merkrebs. "AptDeco: Circular Economy Furniture Marketplace." Harvard Business School Case 521-069, February 2021. (Revised March 2021.)
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
acquisitions. An informal cultural institution largely determined a century or more ago, egalitarianism influences international investment via an associated set of consistent policy choices made in recent years. But even after... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
the effects of changes in comparability, we examine changes to information asymmetry for firms domiciled in the U.K. Domestic standards in the U.K. that preceded IFRS adoption are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et al., 2008);... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
our statistical results with qualitative information from interviews, which highlighted the importance of reinforcing the organizational goals’ message and providing support for their attainment. We also show more favorable effects for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
David Collis Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor of Business Administration The joke used to be that you could only make a million dollars in the airline industry if you started with a hundred million dollars. With the View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
regulators. Moreover, our findings highlight the trade-off between slow execution and potential information leakage in the decision of optimal trading speed. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55258 Summer... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare. Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health assembles 17 case studies at the intersection of business and public health to illustrate how each side can inform and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
incidences by firms. The data cover two field experiments run by a large stock-photography agency. We find that substantially reducing the requested amount generates a small increase in the settlement rate. However, for the same reduced request, a message View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
"The best-laid schemes of mice and men go often awry." - Robert Burns, 1785 An entrepreneur starts a company with plans to go public, but ultimately accepts a low-ball acquisition offer from a competitor. A newlywed husband... View Details
- March 2003
- Background Note
A Short Note on the AccuFlow Excel Model
By: Jay O. Light
Describes an Excel spreadsheet workbook that facilitates the analysis of AccuFlow, Inc. View Details
Keywords: History; Analytics and Data Science; Cost of Capital; Negotiation; Capital; Business Model; Economic Systems; Machinery and Machining; Leveraged Buyouts; Business Startups; Equity
Light, Jay O. "A Short Note on the AccuFlow Excel Model." Harvard Business School Background Note 203-089, March 2003.
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
On the Inside
Top billing, of course, goes to her boss, George W. Bush (MBA ’75), but Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao (MBA ’79) is also making a name for herself in the new administration. Chao, who has previously served in several government posts and as president of United Way of... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
gun restrictions. Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of Cost Transparency By: Mohan, Bhavya, Ryan W. Buell, and Leslie K. John Abstract—Firms do not typically disclose information on their costs to produce a good to consumers. However, we... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
automobiles; it was up to Huber to figure out what that meant. Primarily the GM leadership was looking to justify GM's earlier multibillion-dollar acquisitions of Hughes Aircraft (which included commercial satellites) and Electronic Data... View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
Publications Market Reaction to and Valuation of IFRS Reconciliation Adjustments: First Evidence from the UK Authors: Joanne Horton and George Serafeim Publication: Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the market reaction to, and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
but online dating websites force them to screen by searchable attributes (such as income, or religion). We demonstrate that people spend too much time searching for options online for too little payoff in offline dates (Study 1), in part because users desire View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace