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  • 15 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

serve significantly diverging customer bases. Such market-type dispersion is likely to compromise the headquarters' ability to control its local managers' behavior and satisfy the divergent needs of different types of customers. In this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 7

many users but also multiple types of users. For example, it's not enough that many customers want to book taxis by smartphone. Drivers must also be willing to accept smartphone bookings. Harvard Business School professor Ben Edelman has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures | MBA

policy is intended to provide more specific guidance, to avoid or eliminate potential conflicts before they arise, and to ensure that faculty-student interactions do not endanger the School’s mission, values, or reputation. Administration... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

leaving their survival uncertain. Minorities are falling prey to an Islamist ideology that conveys values and customs diametrically opposed to European ones. Terrorist acts have become the “new normal,” part of daily life. The North-South... View Details
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

greater marriage age gaps, increased marital abuse, lower reported autonomy, and poorer health. My results are robust to a TS2SLS specification employing distance to a major health center as my instrument. As the first cohort of females... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

extract maximum value from technologies such as point-of-sale scanners and customer loyalty cards. Highly readable and compelling, The New Science of Retailing is your playbook for turning all that data into a wellspring for new profits... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

relentless execution—efficient, timely, consistent production and delivery of goods or services—is the surefire path to customer satisfaction and positive financial results. But this is a myth in the knowledge economy, argues Edmondson, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork

to employers in clean energy, transportation, and the trades.” Overall, they learned that: Trade schools and community development programs had tight budgets and not enough career placement staff. The trainers needed help managing their students’ personal data... View Details
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

specific alternative mechanism that could reduce the amount of strategizing by bidders, raise search engines' revenue, and also increase the overall efficiency of the market. We conclude by showing that advertisers' strategic behavior has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

showing attack strategies in action. It then provides several specific counterstrategies for each basic category the authors have defined—including the following: Death-by-delay: Your enemies push discussion of your idea so far into the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

launch a new blockchain currency to facilitate financial services for unbanked and underbanked customers in emerging markets via their smartphone. Santos had to decide whether to go forward with the new plan despite regulatory risk,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 5, 2016

unprofitable Sakai manufacturing plant. This case explores the dynamics of the deal and specifically focuses on valuation of the investment in the Sakai plant as well as the structure of the deal. It presents a vehicle by which to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 31 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 31

case recounts Chegg's history from its origins as a distant competitor to Craigslist in college classified listings through a pivot into textbook rental followed by a period of explosive growth. Resulting challenges in scaling warehouse operations, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2022
  • News

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change

building efficiency products such as heat pumps and insulation. As the specifics of how that can be applied and utilized are formalized, it should create some tremendous opportunities for incumbent players to de-risk scaling up new... View Details
  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

is to suggest a (preliminary) taxonomy and research agenda for the topic of “firms, crowds, and innovation” and to provide an introduction to the associated special issue. We specifically discuss how various crowd-related phenomena and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

Michael Beer and his coauthors at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, the executives underscored the importance of higher-ambition goals, including engaging with and developing employee and customer commitment, contributing to the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

theoretical prediction using a novel methodology based on the classic gravity equation in economics and measures of knowledge distance. Using a custom dataset of patents filed by all global subsidiaries of the top 25 patenting U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

implications of these effects for inventory management. To do that, we analyze data from a leading U.S. retailer who introduced a “ship-to-store” (STS) functionality that allows customers to ship products to their local store free of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Nov 2020
  • Blog Post

WE RISE

specifically on the sustainable consumer and consumer health sectors, areas in which, Rupp estimates, women make 80 to 85 percent of the purchasing decisions. Considering all those factors, she says, “it just makes business sense to have... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Other Financial Services; Venture Capital / Private Equity
  • 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

behavioral self-control. Finally, Experiment 5 showed that the absence of a self-control conflict eliminated the effect of rituals on behavior, demonstrating that rituals affect behavioral self-control specifically because they alter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne