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- 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016
Information Systems Research Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View By: Greenstein, Shane, and Feng Zhu Abstract—The diffusion of the Internet and digital technologies has enabled many organizations to use the open-content production View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25
traditional alternatives: vertically integrated firms, resellers, or input suppliers. These tradeoffs lead to a comprehensive discussion of the defining features of MSPs. The formal model we develop focuses on the MSP vs. vertical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
because it was about a very gritty part of the world, but we saw it as an amazing thriller. We do movies for a variety of different reasons. Sometimes it’s because it’s something that we just really love and feel like, yes, there’s a business View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Deterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears Authors:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed observation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 13
auditing, and private credit- and quality-rating agencies in financial markets. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1640638 Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
direct channel sales. I also have been rethinking what can be learned from some old models of individual choice behavior. This is a long-run project, but I think that my work will lead to new View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
possible, then a change in your business model may be necessary. Go local: pre-sent choices to customers only from local suppliers so that the delivery and logistics is managed by the seller, but monitored... View Details
- 13 Jun 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)
age. Combining this market opportunity with the huge waste of returned goods from e-commerce, we saw the business case—and from there it was all execution.” What short- and long-term goals do you have for the company? Momchil:“The short-term goal is to create a... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
divergent implications. We find evidence that the choice to pool is influenced by changes in the underlying newsvendor model parameters in our setting. In robustness tests, we show that choosing a pooling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
occasional voters, donors, and taxpayers but as their customers. It's important for the major parties to give voters choices. With no incumbent candidate or heir apparent running in the current presidential primaries, the diversity of View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007
and over 20 million individual transactions, I examine consumption patterns for obscure and hit products. Specifically, I study whether the interest in popular "hit" and unpopular "niche" titles is equally distributed among the customer base,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Matt Thurmond
While his high school peers may have been mowing lawns or packing grocery bags, Matt Thurmond became a serial entrepreneur. "It was a choice between making $5.15 an hour or starting my own business," he says. As a teenager, Matt... View Details
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Council. In 2008, patients seeking a hip or knee replacement in Stockholm County faced wait times of up to two years of sometimes debilitating pain, intermittent missed work and income, and the trials of disability. Seeking a new model to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
structurally, functionally, geographically, and strategically diverse firm. The full data set comprises more than 100 million electronic mail messages and over 60 million electronic calendar entries for a sample of more 30,000 employees over a three-month period in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
model we're looking to replicate." Professor Richard H.K. Vietor, faculty chair of the event, expressed the hope that the School's activities in sub-Saharan Africa, such as the conference, new Executive Education initiatives, and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26
Working PapersCompeting Ad Auctions: Multi-homing and Participation Costs Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We model competing auctions for online advertising, with attention to the participation costs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016
variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of conditional and unconditional compensation. We account for salesperson heterogeneity by using a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
field and the central research questions that it sought to answer. However, the commitment to engage with the complexities of business and the disinclination to rely on models with simplistic assumptions about business behavior also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18
business model and analyzes how his firm evolved into a diversified business group. The research supports prevailing explanations of business groups, which identify the role of institutional voids, government policies, and contact... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1
Authors:David Goldreich and Hanna Halaburda Abstract The economic literature on choice focuses on individuals' decisions when faced with a given menu. However, the menu itself is often the result of preselection by a menu setter. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne