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  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

so the happiness gains that they experience, whilst not permanent, can still be relatively long-lasting. Finally we study a cross section of nations in 2005 from the World Gallup Poll and find that the past 45 years of economic growth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Mar 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

An Exploration of Luxury Hotels in Tanzania

Keywords: by Diego A. Comin; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Operations in the On-Demand Economy: Staffing Services with Self-Scheduling Capacity

By: Itai Gurvich, Martin Lariviere and Antonio Moreno
Motivated by recent innovations in service delivery such as ride-sharing services and work-from-home call centers, we study capacity management when workers self-schedule. Our service provider chooses capacity to maximize its profit (revenue from served customers minus... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Servers; On-demand Economy; Independent Capacity; Distributed Systems; Uber; Service Operations; Performance Capacity
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The Role of Financial and Information Intermediaries in the Capital Markets

Hutton's research investigates the role of financial analysts and short sellers in the pricing of equity securities. Recently, Hutton examines (with Patricia Dechow and Richard Sloan) the role of sell-side analysts' earnings forecasts in the pricing of common equity... View Details
  • Summer 2008
  • Editorial

Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations

By: James Feyrer, Bruce Sacerdote and Ariel Dora Stern

Only a few rich nations are currently at replacement levels of fertility and many are considerably below. We believe that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in household production and... View Details

Keywords: Income; Household; Gender; Japan; Italy; United States; Sweden; Spain
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  • 29 Mar 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

Henry Ford think he could keep selling black-only Model Ts? "Denial has always been a problem," writes Harvard Business School historian Richard S. Tedlow in a new book, Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face-and What to Do About It. "What is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology
  • 24 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 24, 2009

the opportunity and switching cost of domestic standards are relatively low. We do not find evidence that levels of and expected changes in foreign trade and investment flows in a country affect its adoption... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

distribution of sales and profits across products. By enabling an analysis of the book acquisition, development, and marketing process from the perspective of the publisher, author, and agent, serves as a vehicle for contrasting different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

Experiment There are concerns that managers repurchase shares myopically to benefit themselves at the costs of shareholders and society. Due to these concerns, the SEC adopted its 2023 Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization Rules (the... View Details
  • December 2022
  • Article

I Don't 'Recall': The Decision to Delay Innovation Launch to Avoid Costly Product Failure

By: Byungyeon Kim, Oded Koenigsberg and Elie Ofek
Innovations embody novel features or cutting-edge components aimed at delivering desired customer benefits. Oftentimes, however, we observe the need to recall new products shortly after their introduction. Indeed, a firm may rush an innovation to market in an attempt... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Management; Innovation And Strategy; Product Development Strategy; Product Introduction; Quality Control; Product Recalls; Game Theory; Market Timing; Innovation Strategy; Product Launch; Product Development
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  • 10 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

sales tax can be complicated: if a customer pays $20 to eat food that costs $35 at a restaurant's menu prices, should the customer pay sales tax on $20 or $35? (In Massachusetts, the Department of Revenue has confirmed the former—though... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology
  • 14 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

disadvantages of establishing an in-house advertising resource? A: The make or buy decision relating to advertising services is a complex one. The primary considerations involve issues of cost and control. The make or buy decision calls... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • Web

Lifelong Learning - Alumni

biosecurity threats Re: Matthew McKnight (MBA 2012); By: Janine White 713 01 Mar 2024 HBS Alumni Bulletin Vital Signs How AI can help fix what ails the health care industry Re: Lorin Gresser (MBA 1998); By: Jen McFarland Flint 01 Mar 2024 HBS Alumni Bulletin Research... View Details
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

Amazon.com: The Brink of Bankruptcy Harvard Business School Case 809-014 Enables a thorough analysis of the Amazon.com business model and its evolution from 1994 to 2001. The case ends with the company poised on the brink of bankruptcy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

of the intriguing findings from our analysis is that electronic and face-to-face interactions are near perfect complements. In other words, people talk to the very same people they e-mail. As electronic collaboration technologies further... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • Web

Marketing - Faculty & Research

Marketing Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students Featured Publication Frontiers: Can an AI Algorithm Mitigate Racial Economic Inequality? An Analysis in the Context of Airbnb By: Shunyuan... View Details
  • 26 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

that day hold lessons, some of them for business managers. Roberto's new working paper describes how. Here follows an excerpt from "Lessons From Everest: The Interaction of Cognitive Bias, Psychological Safety, and System Complexity." Implications For Leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
  • 2012
  • Chapter

Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM

By: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein and Rebecca M. Henderson
We address a longstanding question about the causes of creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Competition; Information Technology; Innovation and Management; Organizations; Relationships; Information Technology Industry
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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
  • Web

Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Policy & Money Markets More Info The Private Costs of Highly Levered Banks By: Juliane Begenau & Erik Stafford JUN 2016 The choice of relatively high leverage as a means to reduce the overall View Details