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- 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1625503 iPosture: The Size of Electronic Consumer Devices Affects Our Behavior By: Bos, Maarten W., and Amy J.C. Cuddy Abstract—We examined whether incidental body posture, prompted by working on electronic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3
over a specified time period. The bundled payment should be contingent on achieving good outcomes for the patient, with the provider bearing financial responsibility for poor outcomes, such as avoidable complications. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
account is one that frames the purpose of the for-profit corporation in terms of its function in allowing members of society to meet their wants and needs by coordinating labor and capital in the production of goods and services. August... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
chain, linking consumers with producers affordably and flexibly. Accio Alex Zannos (MBA 2025) Sara Ballantyne (MS/MBA 2025) Business Track Crowd Favorite Streamline and automates the hardware manufacturing process. Social Enterprise... View Details
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
help leaders more successfully innovate and change in their industries as they parse mixed messages about the global economy, with rampant inflation wearing on consumers and investors preparing for recession. Productive Tensions covers... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
anything but a good example for the average citizen. Left-wing politicians are equally guilty of framing the American Dream in material terms. They claim the Dream is increasingly out of reach of middle class Americans, pointing to a... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- Web
Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
$89.75, the leather-bound Polaroid Land Camera, Model 95, represented a high-end consumer purchase. All 56 cameras brought to the Jordan Marsh demonstration sold out. After its Boston debut, the Land Camera appeared at department stores... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19
Are Daily Deals Good for Merchants? Gupta, Sunil, Ray Weaver, Timothy Keiningham, and Luke WilliamsHarvard Business School Case 513-059 In the relatively short time since Groupon was founded, the response to "daily... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
budgets. Concurrently, changes to other government policies were causing expatriates—who made up about a third of Saudi Arabia’s population and were a key consumer of Almarai’s dairy products—to leave the country in droves. This case... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
the last major consumer packaged goods advertiser to stay with a 15 percent fee, is moving in this new direction. It is sometimes a pragmatic pathway to managing risk, uncertainty, and performance for the... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
made available on draft. “That’s not really been done,” he says, but it would be an ideal way to get it in front of new customers. “We’ve seen some people start with a Liberté, never having had a Stella before. It’s a good example of what... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies
Already, some auto parts plants in the United States have had to suspend production because of shortages, and it's likely many more problems will follow, especially in the high-tech sector. Lithium battery production, for one, is likely to slow, resulting in the delay... View Details
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023
I consume for the pleasure of good stories and engaging writing, which help improve my writing. These include legal thrillers with ensemble characters by John Lescroart, such as The Rule of Law; classic... View Details
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
a good idea but actually results in v6 being enabled when it shouldn't be.) These problems don't affect that many users—measurements suggest a fraction of a percent. But that's enough. If you're Dell, would you want to turn on IPv6, with... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
how they relate to the aforementioned hypothesis. Finally, we offer some concluding remarks regarding this article. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54385 forthcoming Journal of Consumer Research Why Am I... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network effects, users prefer to consume the same applications to benefit from consumption complementarities. We show that the combination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
Even now, mere mention of Quaker Oats' acquisition of Snapple causes veteran dealmakers to shudder. For good reason. In 1993, Quaker paid $1.7 billion for the Snapple brand, outbidding Coca-Cola, among other interested parties. In 1997,... View Details
Roy D. Shapiro
Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
relatively good forecasts of actual box office returns. In fact, the forecasting accuracy is what makes it such a valuable research setting. I used HSX to measure how the involvement of a movie star affects likely theatrical movie... View Details