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- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
quality of research. Moreover, once a sell-side analyst has prompted an institutional client to take a large position in a stock recommended by the analyst, the analyst faces a disincentive to ever downgrade that stock, as doing so would...
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- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
market leadership position? "We believe that there is still a great deal of confusion and puzzlement on how this competitive battle will develop," say the authors of the academic paper Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by...
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- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Sourav Bhattacharya Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract While many theories of the firm seek to explain when firms make rather than buy, in practice, firms often make and buy the same input-they engage in plural sourcing. We argue that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
firms; growth and expansion through organic growth, merger/acquisition, or through lateral hires; and finally, sector mix and client mix/client focus. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/413031-PDF-ENG...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
their appeal and bundles offered by producers with a strong reputation suffer less from the negative impact of the shift to mixed bundling in online channels. What Would Peter Say? The Continuing Relevance of the Drucker Perspective...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
goals, past research on these programs' impact has yielded mixed outcomes. Our goal is to understand why this might be the case. Design/Methodology/Approach: We rely on interview, archival, and longitudinal survey data to examine young...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
Founded in December 2010, NOW, based in Atlanta, Georgia, was serving clients in nine states. With 2013 year-to-date revenue of roughly $100,000, NOW was financed with $2.5 million of founder as well as friends and family equity. NOW's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
can increase use. We test this hypothesis in a field experiment in Zambia using door-to-door marketing of a home water purification solution. Our methodology separates the screening effect of prices (charging more changes the mix of...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
ideal shape of a solution to help these customers remains unclear, and competitors with a different product mix could be better positioned than McKesson to provide it. Finally, it could be too late altogether to reverse the trends eroding...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
systems that place these leaders in positions of power, Indispensable sheds new light on how we may be able to identify the best leaders and what lessons we can learn, from both the process and the result. Profiling a mix of historic and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
benefits are at most partially realized. The same institutions and practices that facilitate efficient ad placement can also facilitate fraud. The networks that should be serving advertisers have decidedly mixed incentives, such as cost...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
mix of incentives to their CEOs than other firms. Pay for performance sensitivity for non-founder CEOs in founder-director firms is higher and the level of pay is lower than that of other CEOs. CEO turnover sensitivity to firm performance...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
Working PapersAnomalies in Estimates of Cross-Price Elasticities for Marketing Mix Models: Theory and Empirical Test Authors:Andre Bonfrer, Ernest R. Berndt, and Alvin Silk Abstract We investigate the theoretical possibility and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
the taxi, I vowed this was never going to happen again. We're never going to lose money. We're never going to have a bad client meeting. And I set out to figure out how to do that. It wasn't that hard. We changed our whole paradigm. We...
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- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
studies from my ongoing research program on the evolution of the role of the CRO. I outline and illustrate four major roles that senior risk officers may fulfill: compliance champion, modeling expert, strategic controller, and strategic advisor and discuss the...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
letter from the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) asking him to shut down eDonkey, MetaMachine's popular file-sharing system. In September 2005, more than 30 million users relied on eDonkey to share digital files, making MetaMachine's software the...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
analyses indicate that "All-Star" recognition proxies for buy-side client votes on analyst research quality used to allocate commissions across banks and analysts. Taken as a whole, our evidence is consistent with analyst...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
Sustainable cost reduction is best achieved by optimizing the quantity and mix of all the resources needed to produce excellent outcomes for a patient's medical condition, not by across-the-board reductions in line-item expenses....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
can have a 40-year-old and an 80-year-old doing absolutely the same things in life, working, being vibrant. And I began to look at companies that were doing this in a very interesting way. And one that I profiled was Merrill Lynch. And they realized that, yes, their...
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- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
sales began to slide. While Steinhafel believed that Target's long-term strategy and positioning were right, he pondered a set of strategic and operational challenges. Did Target have the right mix of offensive and defensive tactics to...
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Martha Lagace