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- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
expertise, defensible turf, and organizational support. We demonstrate that these elements must be combined in specific pathways for knowledge-based innovative structures to emerge and embed. These pathways emerge from practitioner... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
objectives. First, this format allowed us to combine the active student orientation typical of case-based approaches with the systematic construction of cumulative theoretical frameworks more characteristic of lecture-based methods.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
revolutionary functionality. We explore a second entry path that does not rely upon Schumpeterian innovation: platform envelopment. Through envelopment, a provider in one platform market can enter another platform market, combining its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
firm-level expected returns and expected profitability are time-varying but highly persistent; 2) forecasts of holding period returns strongly predict the cross section of future returns up to three years ahead. We document a highly... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
to accomplish the following: mine your sales data to identify "homerun" products you're missing; reinvent your forecasting and pricing strategies; build end-to-end agility into your supply chain; establish incentives that align... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
combined into one “industry” in which those teams compete, independent from the other industry groupings. With each round, teams can see how they’re faring and how their rivals are performing, altering their path as needed. The game... View Details
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
four primary trends driving the development of innovative solutions: The first is the world's population growth, forecast by the United Nations to reach roughly 9 billion by 2050, and the mass migration from the countryside and agrarian... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2011) to accommodate unobserved latent class heterogeneity using a computationally light two-step estimator. Second, we illustrate how discount factors can be estimated in a dynamic structural model using field... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
contribute to understanding the contingent effects of policy on organizations and the rise of large corporations in the twentieth century. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-025.pdf Over-reaction to Demand Changes Due to Subjective and Quantitative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
competitor to boost sales, become #1 in a niche market segment, and achieve economies of scale. He is struggling with whether the deal makes strategic sense given forecasts that this niche segment is declining, whether the price is too... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
marketing has undergone immense changes over the past decade, and those changes are driving an increasing need for data analysis. Marketing today combines both art and science: Managers must combine creative... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
models, and partnerships involved in eight early "ecocity" projects to begin to identify success factors in this emerging industry. Ecocities, for the most part, are viewed as a means of mitigating threats to the natural environment while creating urban... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
Publications August 2013 Social Science & Medicine Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors By: Asad, Asad L., Michel Anteby, and Filiz Garip... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
a model that illustrates the complementarity between infrastructure and institutions and provides conditions for whether fines, subsidies, or a combination of both are the optimal response. One point of the model is that the optimal fine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
potential payoffs of e-commerce investments. Measuring returns on e-commerce projects can be a daunting challenge. Predicting customer behavior is difficult, because using the Web to do business is still relatively new to many businesses and thus View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
half by hygiene scores (given by Yelp users), with the top half being clean and the bottom half dirty, then “they have a 50 percent chance of finding a dirty place.” In an effort to improve that percentage, Luca trained the computer to analyze Yelp reviews, comparing... View Details
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
persistent but can also be associated with firms' risk or growth characteristics, implying that ICC regressions are likely confounded by spurious correlations. Moreover, I document that biases in GLS' measurement errors are driven not only by analysts' systematic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
specializing in building and managing prisons. Students must assess the firm's strategy and risks, evaluate key financial reports, derive forecasts of future performance, and use these forecasts to value the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
Abstract—Under fairly general assumptions, expected stock returns are a linear combination of two firm fundamentals-book-to-market ratio and return on equity. This parsimonious relation is pervasive, producing expected return proxies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
Social Responsibility: Punishing Transgressions Under Conflicting Obligations By: Gino, Francesca, Celia Moore, and Lamar Pierce Abstract—This paper combines experimental and field data to examine how those with discretion over punishment... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino