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- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
down from the semicircular banks of seats in Aldrich 9. Price tags (retailers wouldn't have to re-mark them for discounted sales). Billboards. Sheet music (self-turning scores). Eyeglasses with news headlines View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
innovation rather than responding to it. She recalled HUD’s 2014 National Disaster Resilience Competition, which awarded a total of $1 billion in funds to tackle climate change. Rather than simply soliciting... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
Business Review 88, no. 6 (June 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the preview: http://hbr.org/2010/06/are-you-a-high-potential/ar/1 Altruistic Dynamic Pricing with Customer Regret Authors:Julio J. Rotemberg... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
http://hbr.org/product/Belk--Towards-Exceptional/an/415023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 915-002 Reinventing Retail: ShopRunner's Network Bet ShopRunner considers adjustments to improve its online shopping service, which offers no-charge two-day shipping as well... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
Publications August 2013 Princeton University Press A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media By: Piskorski, Mikołaj Jan Abstract—Almost no one had heard of social media a decade ago, but today websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have more than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
own drivers). Uber routinely frustrates regulators as much as it pleases consumers. It has fielded cease and desist orders from governments all over the world, often continuing operation even when ordered to stop. Yet venture capitalists have injected more than $7... View Details
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
"the top 200 chief executives at public companies with at least $1 billion in revenue got a big pay raise over last year," with a median 2012 compensation package of $15.1 million, up 16 percent from 2011. What's going on here?... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
forthcoming American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption Across Countries By: Cavallo, Alberto, Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, and Marcel P. Timmer Abstract—We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
management of financial communication? Greg Miller: The French group Total and the British BP are both major players in the oil and gas industry, which is increasingly moving into the center of public interest due to its booming oil and gas View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
Pflueger, Carolin E., Emil Siriwardane, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We propose a new measure of the economy’s risk appetite based on the valuation of volatile stocks. Unlike proxies for risk appetite derived from aggregates, our measure is strongly correlated with safe... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
types of earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a price to pay, with the cost in the following... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
of the benefits associated with a diverse workforce. While it is critical for managers and researchers to understand the processes and outcomes associated with diversity, much work remains to be done in this important area of scholarship. This paper proposes a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
different from large, traditional Madison Avenue agencies. Instead of having stable teams based around individual clients, this upstart agency used ad hoc teams that formed and disbanded with every project. Clients commissioned specific View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
traditional outsourcing strategy, organization and processes. In a recent research project, we interviewed managers from 45 projects in over 20 firms to understand the practices that differentiated those firms that reported greater... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
Working PapersGray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing (revised) Authors:Romana Autrey and Francesco Bova Abstract Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels, for instance when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
capital sources. Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-Clearing Across Difficult Terrain By: Fisher, Colin M., Julianna Pillemer, and Teresa M. Amabile Abstract—How do teams working on complex View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
Schwartz Abstract—Brands spend billions of dollars a year on lavish efforts to establish and maintain a social media presence. But do those campaigns actually increase revenue? New research provides an answer to this question, which has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
Measuring Social Impact Historically, economists and firms alike have banked on the theory that workers are motivated by earning financial incentives and boosting revenues. And in designing development projects for developing countries,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
investing in projects that earn more than their cost of capital; increasing profits from existing capital investments; reducing assets in activities that earn less than the cost of capital; and reducing the firm’s cost of capital itself.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding