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- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
pay out capital also initiate debt or equity issues in the same year, resulting in 32% of aggregate payouts being externally financed. Most firms with simultaneous payouts and security issues do not generate enough operating cash flow to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
how a common strategic decision aimed at increasing one's own power, i.e., investing in outside options, can lead to opportunistic behavior in exchange relationships. Across three laboratory studies, we show that the extent to which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- August 2002 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
Great Dakota Bank: Online Banking
By: Frances X. Frei, Youngme E. Moon and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar
In 2002, Great Dakota Bank's retail division is considering how heavily it should be promoting the company's online banking service. A recent promotional campaign appears to have significantly increased enrollments in online banking, but it is unclear whether the bank... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Internet and the Web; Customer Relationship Management; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Technological Innovation; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Satisfaction; Management; Service Operations; Banking Industry
Frei, Frances X., Youngme E. Moon, and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar. "Great Dakota Bank: Online Banking." Harvard Business School Case 603-011, August 2002. (Revised June 2006.)
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
Publications March 2015 AFP Exchange Well Said: Why Articulating Your Strategy Can Set You Apart. By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract—Senior finance managers now operate in an altered c-suite landscape. The executives reporting to the CEO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
investigated the influence of outcome information on ethical judgment. Participants read a series of vignettes describing ethically-questionable behaviors. We manipulated whether those behaviors were followed by a negative or positive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
growing body of research yields ample evidence that individuals’ behavior often reflects an apparent concern for moral considerations. Using a broad definition of morality—to include varied non-egoistic motivations such as fairness,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
the exceptions—scale to national size. Schumpeter's cycle apparently does not operate in the social sector. This paper proposes that the disparity arises from the nonprofit sector's historically immature infrastructure and poor mechanisms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
utilization of ground forces—the personal selling and get-out-the-vote strategy.” "I think this research connects beautifully with a normal business operation within a corporation," says Doug J. Chung, an assistant professor in the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- March 1998 (Revised March 1999)
- Case
Dell Online
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
Dell started online commerce for its PCs in 1996, and by 1997 had achieved a sales rate of $3 million a day. The case describes the internal process that led to these dramatic results and poses the question of how the firm should leverage this activity to meet Michael... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Market Transactions; Goals and Objectives; Business Processes; Distribution Channels; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Competitive Advantage; Computer Industry; Retail Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Marie Bell. "Dell Online." Harvard Business School Case 598-116, March 1998. (Revised March 1999.)
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
economy. I know that a lot of things have been done to address these problems already, but my own sense is that what we've seen is incomplete. Too much of our public discussion has operated on the surface of the problems. We need to go a... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53441 forthcoming Operations Research Letters Orienteering for Electioneering By: Kallenbach, Jonah, Robert Kleinberg, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—In this paper, we introduce a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
disruption, the authors offer three scenarios for the future of consulting. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2013/10/consulting-on-the-cusp-of-disruption/ar/1 August 2013 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Sustainable View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
introduction of a very general class of unobserved heterogeneity on agents' preferences. Under minimal assumptions, we show existence and uniqueness of equilibrium. We provide two algorithms to compute the equilibria in our model. The first algorithm View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
Science. The paper was authored by Stefan Dimitriadis, a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School; Matthew Lee, an assistant professor of strategy at INSEAD; Lakshmi Ramarajan, the Anna Spangler... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-113.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-010 Experience! The Finger Lakes: The Groupon Partnership Decision In 2010, Experience! The Finger Lakes (ExperienceFLX), a tour View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
Specifically, focusing attention on "interested" legislators' behavior captures important information seemingly ignored by the market. A long-short portfolio based on these legislators' views earns abnormal returns of over 90... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
PublicationsPerspectives on the Social Psychology of Creativity Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Julianna Pillemer Publication:Journal of Creative Behavior 46, no. 1 (2012) Abstract Scholars began serious study into the social psychology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
displays) at the fiscal year-end. Firms also engage in similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. Furthermore, our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
anticorruption ratings are domiciled in countries with low corruption risk ratings and strong anticorruption enforcement, operate in high corruption risk industries, have recently faced a corruption enforcement action, employ a Big Four... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
virtually all of them shared a deep concern for the sustainability of the market system, but their beliefs about how to respond varied widely. Some said that changing their behavior would be unnecessary or even inappropriate. Others were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne