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- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
a new working paper. “We find that routine customers have higher value to the organization, even after controlling for their level of consumption,” Ascarza says. These customers may also tolerate price increases better and even stay loyal... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
“connected wellness,” with the lamp as the starting point and shown as a sleep aid rather than smart lighting. Ario can assess co-branding the device with players that have established a value proposition around sleep or wellness (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
improvement will they be able to take full advantage of the cost management potential of their new systems." Presenting a blueprint for the design of systems that promote both learning and better decision-making, the authors highlight their View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
for compact discs, with section mates Bill Heye and Paresh Shah. “We were the CD tower guys. We produced thousands of them, selling the first ones for $199 at City Schemes and Brookstone. Then everyone got in the game, and retail pricing... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51460 Concentrated Capital Losses and the Pricing of Corporate Credit Risk By: Siriwardane, Emil N. Abstract—Using proprietary data on all credit default swap (CDS) transactions in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
accounting, improve price and volatility discovery, and expand international risk intermediation activities. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-026.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsC. R. Smith and the Birth of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
would you point to as a model Anglo project? Our technical experts audited our Barro Alto nickel project in Brazil last year, and they said they’ve never seen one so impressive on a range of issues. It has a state-of-the-art plant design.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
packaging and branding, right down to the person who brings it to you. Domino’s is a special, purpose-built machine for pizza delivery, and it’s a damn good machine for that price point and product. The... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
forwarded the business plan. “By the end of 2013, we reached the point where I confronted either writing it off and writing off my friend and benefactor’s money—or I was going to pull the nose up.” Lo stepped in as CEO in July 2014. She... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
coauthored by Professor Tom Eisenmann and researcher Lisa Mazzanti, is under discussion by first-year students in The Entrepreneurial Manager. Wallace has the opportunity to offer a firsthand perspective and listen as her decision points... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
best-selling business fable, Who Moved My Cheese? offered its answer to the question: accept that change is inevitable and beyond your control, don't waste your time wondering why things are the way they are, keep your head down, and start looking for the cheese. I... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
quickly expose the shortcomings of your business strategy. But can you identify its weak points in good times as well? And can you focus on those weak points that really matter? I identify seven questions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
you will indeed be the successor. You're going to be the CEO of GE. And you made it a point in the book to note that Jack didn't tell you why you got the job. And I wonder: Why do you think you were named the CEO? JI: Yeah, no, it's a,... View Details
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
is yes. The safety of the financial system depends on financial institutions' risk exposure, their ability to absorb losses, their reliance on short-term wholesale funding, transparency, and understanding the interconnectedness between large financial institutions. In... View Details
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
allocation plan. Where would the starting point be? A: It is well known that some marketing actions, such as supermarket promotions, deliver short-run results, whereas others, such as television advertising, deliver long-run results. Yet,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
to restructure home mortgages in a manner homeowners can afford is at the heart of our financial crisis. We have paid a terrible price for not addressing the foreclosure crisis at its inception, but it is never too late to start. How can... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
athenahealth "Patients' health information is either on paper and isolated or electronic and isolated," Bush tells the assembled crowd, his voice rising. That this little thing remains so difficult in the Internet age, often because many providers are loath to share... View Details
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
try to be as transparent as possible in their dealings with others. It’s important to note that these findings complement, not necessarily contradict, those of Gino’s. Organizations exhibiting so-called rebel qualities have been found to incur higher organizational and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
focused mainly on the challenges of starting a company in a specific country—such as Argentina or Thailand—instead of launching internationally from the get-go, as many entrepreneurs do today. Kerr says he wanted LGV to "go straight to global," helping... View Details