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  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

time. Optimal Deterrence When Judgment-Proof Agents Are Paid in Arrears—With an Application to Online Advertising Fraud Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage by HBS professors Jim Heskett and W. Earl Sasser and coauthor Joe Wheeler. Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan Published: October 6, 2008 Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

Major Websites and Services By: Bates, Samantha, John Bowers, Shane Greenstein, Jordi Weinstock, and Jonathan Zittrain Abstract—This paper analyzes the extent to which the internet’s global domain name resolution (DNS) system has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

common resources, such as advertising or production capacity, across activities. Within the literature on corporate strategy, this tension between focus and breadth is reconciled by the concept of related diversification (i.e., a firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2011
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Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

participants were given a situation involving a global context (strategizing about the future of a foreign wire service and advertising at an international sports competition). When asked to brainstorm in a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

average, use unverifiable discretion to convey private information on future cash flows; in contrast, agency theory predicts managers, on average, use unverifiable discretion opportunistically. We test these alternative hypotheses using a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

in Somerville, Massachusetts, Formlabs manufactures 3D printers used to print everything from prototypes and models to jewelry, dental, and sculpture molds. As Formlabs prepares to ship its latest model, the Form 2, Head of Customer Development and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2009
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A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

agencies and automotive manufacturers that try to improve automotive safety benefit from research using cadavers. It does not help that many users seek the same "good" type of cadavers. A good specimen, in this context, means a... View Details
Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health
  • 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

cross-sectional empirical evidence is most persuasive in favor of agency considerations. Studies centered on the May 2003 dividend tax cut confirm that differences in the taxation of dividends and capital gains have only a second-order... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016

based on the color of a person's skin through its “Dark is Beautiful” campaign—endorsed by well-known actor-director Nandita Das. However, despite the recent guidelines on advertising of skin-lightening products, many Indians still aspire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 May 2003
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What Your Competition is Telling You

of a choice helps trigger consumer purchases, and any company whose unique mix of product or service features is competitive can win sales often enough to succeed in the market. Simply put, competitors can do a lot for you. But you'll... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 03 Mar 2011
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HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

declining. Banking and other financial services are now more important to the national economy. Security forces initially fired upon demonstrators, but withdrew after President Obama intervened with a phone call to the king. Some... View Details
Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities
  • 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

Google's prominent placement of its Flight Search service increased the clicks on paid advertising listings by more than half while decreasing the clicks on organic search listings by about the same... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jun 2006
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The Promise of Channel Stewardship

the chain best positioned to create a process that benefits all. In this excerpt, Rangan discusses the promise of channel stewardship. (Look for an HBS Working Knowledge interview with Rangan next month.)Senior managers of most of the companies involved in moving goods... View Details
Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products
  • 10 Jul 2000
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Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

marketing and field service expenses. With low penetration and high capital and operating expenses, cable operators experienced significant losses in most urban systems. Hence, in 1975, the industry was not very profitable. Based on... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

Advertising (DTCA), detailing, and Meetings and Events (M&E). We then propose an alternative choice model specification that relaxes the IPS property-the so-called "flexible substitution" logit (FSL) model. The (random... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

perverse effect of perpetuating the problem. Drawing on a case study of a professional service firm, we develop a multilevel theory to explain why organizations are caught in this conundrum. We present data suggesting that the work-family... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

Mandates, and the Use of In Vitro Fertilization Services in the United States By: Kiatpongsan, Sorapop, Robert S. Huckman, and Mark D. Hornstein Abstract—Objective: To investigate the relationship between economic activities, insurance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

large heterogeneity in employers’ values for offshoring labor services in this market, with implications for market policies to attract new employers. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54291 Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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