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- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
where to focus their efforts was an easy one. "It seemed natural for us to look at how the investment behavior of public and private firms differs," Farre-Mensa says. The fact that there were no similar studies, coupled with the... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
today: 1. Insist on doing everything through channels. 2. Make speeches. 3. Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. 4. Refer all matters to committees. 5. Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible. 6. Haggle over... View Details
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
the study of international trade and foreign direct investment. Data on values of imports and exports of goods are of high quality and coverage, but price data suffer from insufficient detail. It would be desirable to have more data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
Roasters, which has dropped in value by more than 40% in recent months. Tremblant is a hedge fund that specializes in forecasting consumer behavioral change and capitalizes on the disconnect between stock prices and consumer behavior. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
A World of Information at Your Fingertips
The next time you need to do Career Planning or business research, Baker Library can help. With the click of a mouse, its eBaker online service delivers a trove of brand-name resources at little or no cost to HBS alumni. Career planning... View Details
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208108 Radiohead: Music at Your Own Price (A) Harvard Business School Case 508-110 In October 2007, the British band Radiohead caused a stir when it announced it would allow... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
Respondents to this month's column appeared to be about equally divided on these issues. John Inman commented, "I sometimes feel that we are racing to the bottom to provide products and services at ever lower pricing without... View Details
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
Imagine a retail chain that offers customers not only the lowest prices but also personalized customer service. Employees receive above-average wages and 20 times more training than the average American retailer. Sounds like a recipe for... View Details
- 30 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Compensation Game
defenders claim, is no more problematic than the fact that, say, Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez is paid much more than earlier stars like Ted Williams. But the process affecting the compensation of star athletes is quite different from the... View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
end is knowledge. As he puts it, "to gain more knowledge, we will have to think more." In his view, information is no substitute for thinking and knowledge. Nor, in the opinion of Suresh Annappindi, has new technology... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
PORTER WITH RWANDA’S PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME: Beyond best practices, understanding principles of global health-care delivery. It’s no surprise to find HBS professor Michael Porter meeting with powerful people who seek his ear and prize his... View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
Beware of competitors lying in the grass, says Harvard Business School professor Alvin E. Roth. His study of bidding practices on eBay suggest that those who wait until the last minute to bid—a practice called sniping—is an effective way to not only get what you want,... View Details
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
agent expertise are important competitive dimensions in this setting. Pricing transparency, on the other hand, has a main effect on demand but has no significant interaction with competitive intensity. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, February 28
517-049 Luvo No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517049-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-053 CLHS: Scaling a New Venture No abstract available. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
depreciation schedules for investment can be different for tax and accounting purposes, creating a tool for fiscal stimulus. I think this rationale has outlived its usefulness for several reasons. For starters, these different definitions of such expenses View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=6747 Working Papers Price Coherence and Excessive Intermediation By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Julian Wright Abstract—Suppose an intermediary provides a benefit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
delivery business in a number of countries, including the UK, France, Italy, Brazil, and Canada. It went public in 2014, became a FTSE-100 company in 2017, and is currently worth $5 billion. That’s the price of an incorrect answer to... View Details
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
Lehman failure. None of these reforms is perfect, but they are improvements over where we were five years ago. Unfortunately, there are other areas in which we've made little or no progress since 2008. Housing finance is still basically a... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
other's beliefs about demand. Thus, in this paper's setting, improved communication can induce alignment even if no economic incentives are changed. While consistent with the predominant view in organizational behavior (OB), this is a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
selling the client firm's stock. This overweighting is not explained by superior information. We quantify a potentially large benefit to the 401(k) sponsor firm of having its price propped up by its trustee fund's more severe... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace