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- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
putt and the remaining distance to the pin conditioned on missing. The first is modeled through a logistic regression, the second through a gamma regression. Both models fit the data well and provide interesting insights into the game.... View Details
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
investors than they absorb in new investment funds. From 1982-2010, repatriated earnings from foreign affiliates exceeded net capital investments by $1.1 trillion in 2010 dollars; and from 1950-2010, repatriated earnings and net interest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
commission rate paid by magazine and newspaper publishers to agencies. These practices served to discourage price competition among agencies and facilitated the bundling of services by full-service advertising firms. After complaints from... View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
unique to sports, of course. Based on our surveys with executives from a wide range of fields, the rate at which managers lose relevance has increased dramatically, even over just the last decade. The world is changing faster than ever... View Details
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
trends in cost behavior. First, when revenues are growing, "indirect" costs related to sales, distribution, marketing, personnel, technology, and occupancy are far from fixed in this industry. In some cases they are "supervariable" or rising at a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
US outbound FPI and FDI, this paper analyzes whether the composition of US outbound capital flows reflect efforts to bypass home country tax regimes and weak host country investor protections. The cross-country analysis indicates that a 10% decrease in a foreign... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
summer) to review and evaluate the advice. As a whole, the young advice recipients gave higher ratings to the advice from the experienced interns who had "rediscovered" their own summer diary accounts. Zhang was not surprised. "The people... View Details
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
think the fundamental issue is not the rate of adoption of the e-reader, or whether publishers will survive in their current form, or what their role will be in the future," Olson comments. "The fundamental question at the very... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
take a look at America Online. My recollection is that they had about 10,000 subscribers at that time who were paying a little less than $20 per month. That gave them a running rate of $2.4 million in gross revenues per year. I thought... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
non-performing loans and an increase in interest rate spreads, suggesting that foreign concerns bought domestic banks that had been making loans with low interest View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
executive programs on jumpstarting innovation that I chair for executives in large firms and owners of small to midsize businesses are all oversubscribed. This interest in innovation is confirmed by an IBM study in 2006 that asked over... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
savings from imposing a delay and deterring fraud to pay a substantial bonus, more than the interest rate times the amount at issue. You can pay them a bigger bonus than that. So in principle they should... View Details
- 01 Aug 2019
- What Do You Think?
Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?
the impact of new technologies, new management techniques, and an increasing pace of planning and execution on teaching philosophies for management, such as the participant-centered case method. The rate of change in the past few years... View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
substantial business interest in seeing the public sector succeed. "Sitting in a business school, this is something we should look at very seriously." Henderson noted that there are opportunities for firms to address public... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
well known for decades: general management. The old way, centered around cases involving the leadership of large corporations, was not working. (I can speak from experience, because I led one of the unsuccessful efforts.) Student View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
Central Valley farmland fallow, which pushed local unemployment rates as high as 40 percent, drove protesters into the streets, and led Woolf to cut his crop back dramatically, at one point grinding up 90,000 water-hungry almond trees.... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
experiencing them. There is also an issue of skepticism. Clust has about 175 buying cycles (products actually on sale) at any point in time, compared with about 4,000 aggregated demands. YesMail's emails have a response rate of 15%, which... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
IBM Authors: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein, and Rebecca M. Henderson Publication: In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press, 2012... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
decision rights and (2) adjust for local information, including historical performance data, in their decisions. These decision-making patterns are associated with large and systematic differences in learning rates across business units.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne