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- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
Several factors are generating a tailwind for the recovery, although it varies from market to market. In large measure it has to do with improvement in the economy as a whole, household formation (that is, children moving out of their... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
find that the interaction of task change with intrapersonal diversity is related to improved project performance, while the interaction of task change with interpersonal diversity is related to diminished performance. Additionally, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
examine how the quantity of information generated about firm prospects can be improved by splitting a firm's cash flow into a "safe" claim (debt) and a "risky" claim (equity). The former, being relatively insensitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
customer value, and the transformation of the stores of offline-first retailers from fulfillment-dominant centers into experience-dominant centers, which simultaneously reduce store size and inventory while improving the customer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Detroit and concerned that there is not an unlimited bailout on the horizon, they have to make choices about what land uses to protect and amplify and what to let languish. Perhaps this is heartless in the short run, but this approach View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
notably higher entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major highway system, the North-South East-West corridor (NS-EW). Improvements for portions of the NS-EW system... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
managerial skill, and significant alignment of interests. All these abound in the private sector. Thus major opportunities exist for businesses that can create and claim value by improving resource efficiency. The products and services... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
the observer’s perspective, leaving the perspective of the observed to the realm of scholarly methodology courses and philosophical debates on privacy. I suggest how the literature on transparency and related literatures might be improved... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
using data from the recent redesign of the NYC High School match, which places approximately 90,000 students per year, we document that the extent of potential efficiency loss is substantial. Over 6,800 student applicants in the main round of assignment could have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
responses by firms that receive poor ratings, especially those that face lower cost opportunities to improve and that operate in highly regulated industries. Our empirical analysis examines how nearly 600 firms in the United States... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
equilibrium resulting in all arbitrators slanting towards being industry friendly. Evidence suggests that limiting the respondents’ and claimants’ inputs over the arbitrator selection process could significantly improve outcomes for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
care for congenital heart disease conditions beginning in 1995 and had initiated universal outcome measurement. In 2014, the challenge was to continue to improve care in a complicated patient population and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Improving Infant Mortality Rates: The Impact of Front-line Staff Collaboration on Neonatal Care (revised) Authors:Ingrid M. Nembhard, Anita L. Tucker, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Jeffrey D. Horbar, and Joseph H. Carpenter Abstract Front-line... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
continue to support Tolcher's first album, increase the stakes by financing a second album, or cut their losses and instead focus on other artists. At the same time, Octone had to evaluate a proposal from Universal Music Group to buy out... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
Platforms Thrive and Others Don’t By: Zhu, Feng, and Marco Iansiti Abstract— In the digital economy, scale is no guarantee of continued success. After all, the same factors that help an online platform expand quickly—such as the low cost... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
information, and even price. Consumers can shape the marketing interaction, making it more relevant for themselves, and this should lead to greater involvement and responsiveness. The hope is an improvement in marketing efficiency; while... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
things like “strategy,” “focused activity level,” and “crisis response,” performance was dramatically improved when study subjects worked in the optimal conditions (with high rates of ventilation and low concentrations of carbon dioxide... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
such systems be most useful? Could system designers successfully compete with well-established networks of trains, buses, cars, and roads? Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910010-PDF-ENG Philips versus Matsushita: The Competitive Battle View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
organizations’ impact on society are effective at improving disclosure quantity and quality as well as corporate value. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54148 The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
the prior year's stock selections, suggesting that investors believe that a successful process in one year is likely to be repeated the following year. We believe that these findings are particularly interesting given recent efforts to require firms to use research... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace