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- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
allowed users to "check in" to a location using an application on a smartphone. Foursquare kept track of a user's check-ins, shared them with users' friends, and unlocked "Specials" that gave users discounts at nearby... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
significant political and macro-economic uncertainty facing the industry. As part of the investment analysis a complete discounted cash flow analysis must be performed. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/212045-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
“Investors in those funds benefit from that process, as they tend to buy the company at a discount from the market and sell it back later to the market for a premium once the company has been turned around.” But private equity is not a... View Details
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/114016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-037 Blackstone and the Sale of Citigroup's Loan Portfolio This case describes the sale of Citigroup's leveraged loan portfolio in 2008 to a group of large private equity funds.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
growth track but remains chiefly concerned about its vulnerability to supply disruptions and to increases in merchandise costs from higher input prices. The firm appears quite overvalued based on a multiples analysis but considerably undervalued based on a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
small groups, and out-of-network patients, who pay list prices. Artificially high list prices make more patients unable to pay, driving up uncompensated care expenses, which leads to ever higher list prices and bigger discounts for large... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
acquiring new resources. However, as the assets become larger and more strategic, management judgment becomes the determining factor. For assets that enhance operating efficiencies or increase revenue, we review techniques such as View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
discounting is robust to various controls for unobserved proposal quality and alternative explanations. Additional tests suggest information effects rather than strategic effects account for the novelty penalty. Only a minority of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
at times in the form of subsidies. For example, Amazon provides discounts on its e-reader prices for customers who agree to receive targeted ads from Amazon and third-party sellers on their devices. Higher intensity of competition between... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
on the team. Although she had been the key decision-maker in the early weeks of the project, Julia Narino now finds that her team increasingly discounts her deep client expertise while deferring to the senior partner's more generalized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
as its discount prices and large selection of merchandise. As Sprint and Walgreens have shown, Porter notes, companies that invest in the inner city and entrepreneurs who start businesses there are well positioned to take advantage of a... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
discount the risk. Such an approach can be catastrophic. Firms that do a good job of dealing with ambiguous threats do not improvise during a crisis; rather, they apply a rigorous set of detection and response capabilities that they have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51759 forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy When Discounts Raise Costs: The Effect of Copay Coupons on Generic Utilization By: Dafny, Leemore S., Christopher Ody, and Matt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
minority shareholders fare poorly after listing. Parent firms often repurchase subsidiaries at large discounts to valuations at the time of listing and experience positive abnormal returns when repurchases are announced. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
percent "thank you" discount offered on the total purchases at Tesco. The more a consumer spends in the store, the more information the store is collecting about consumer tastes and shopping habits, allowing it to direct more... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
the increasingly aggressive discount sector. Was Circuit City as strategically strong as its financial results suggested? Would it be able to maintain momentum and retain its leadership? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
promotions to control the flow of shoppers inside stores to meet social distancing requirements. Many started offering Black Friday deals in early November. Discounts appear to be larger than ever this year, likely reflecting soft... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
findings contribute to the corporate strategy literature by shedding light on the roots of the diversification discount and by showing how analysts' research enables investors to overcome asymmetric information. Paper: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
studies conducted by doctoral student Bhavya Mohan working with HBS faculty found that lower CEO-to-employee pay ratios—say, 60 to 1—improve consumer perceptions. A firm with a 1,000-to-1 ratio would have to offer a 50 percent discount on... View Details