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- 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008
should hire to fill?). The case also features lively exhibits that illustrate Abrahams's value proposition, analyze his business model and revenue sources, and so forth. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016
effect dominates the negative within-firm effect post IPO. We build a firm industry model with endogenous entry to quantify the importance of two competing selection mechanisms: an increasing share of R&D-intensive firms in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
ticketing, ride-sharing, and online retailing. This paper identifies two downsides of dynamic pricing: opportunistic returns and strategic choice of payment method. Where Should We Build a Mall? The Formation of Market Structure and Its... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008
suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model of disaster prevention, supported by case studies and preliminary empirics to explain why some governments prepare well for disasters and others do not. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2016
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September 27, 2016
reshape the structure of demand for executive development. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51662 The Skills Gap and the Near-Far Problem in Executive Education and Leadership Development By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
investor expectations are strongly negatively correlated with model-based expected returns. The evidence is not consistent with rational expectations representative investor models of returns. September 2013 Management Science The Stock... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
Breaks Let You Rest, but Not Lose Focus By: Pendem, Pradeep, Paul Green, Bradley R. Staats, and Francesca Gino Abstract—How best to structure the work day is an important operational question for organizations. A key View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006
patterns. We present a model where beliefs determine the types of contracts that firms offer and whether workers exert effort. Some workers become criminals, depending on their luck in the labor market, the expected punishment, and an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
Materials The Korean Model of Shared Growth, 1960-1990 Aldo Musacchio, Rafael Di Tella, and Jonathan SchleferHarvard Business School Case 712-052 This case narrates the development of the Republic of Korea from 1960 to 1990. The case... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
not force the disparate CSR programs into their business strategies. Instead, the goal should be to "bring discipline and structure to the many fragmented components. [The] components will in some cases support the core strategy and in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016
variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of conditional and unconditional compensation. We account for salesperson heterogeneity by using a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11
Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters that are much larger than the underlying agglomerative forces themselves. Empirically, we demonstrate that our model's assumptions are present in the structure of technology and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
are agencies' revenue models and their incentives to produce credible and accurate ratings? And what fault lines do you see in this process? A: Three different revenue models have been tried or proposed for... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
under severe economic conditions. We show that many structured finance instruments can be characterized as economic catastrophe bonds, but offer far less compensation than alternatives with comparable payoff profiles. We argue that this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016
and minimizes the expected time to detection under a pre-specified alternative hypothesis. We apply our method to a model in which the interdependency among the multiple adverse events is captured by a Cox proportional hazards View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
The Program for Global Leadership assembles senior executives from organizations worldwide who participate and interact in a unique, multi-phased educational process. The program's unusual structure helps them to gain fresh insight about... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
mental flexibility that enables a manager to negotiate, adapt, and modify the layers of competitive advantage and various strategic imperatives that are part of any multinational company. "We talk about building a matrix into the organization's View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
models foreclosed by Google's restrictions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52178 January 2017 Nature Biomedical Engineering Review Times and Adverse Events for Cardiovascular Devices By: Stern, Ariel... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25
field research methods, this paper connects these achievements to bureaucratic norms, unwritten rules within the state that guide the behavior of public officials and structure their relations with civic agencies outside the state.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016
to exert over the different segments of their production processes. We describe a property-rights model of firm boundary choices along the value chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel