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  • 07 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 7

Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710430-PDF-ENG Baltic Beverages Holding: Competing in a Globalizing World (B) Juan Alcácer, Rasmus Molander, and Rakeen MabudHarvard Business School Supplement 710-471 In 1991,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers

Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “When people weren’t presented with a privacy notice, their purchase interest was about twice that of those who had been shown the privacy notice.”... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
  • 20 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

group of same-sex marriage supporters, purchasing intent was nearly twice as high among respondents who had been told of Cook’s public views about the RFRA. For those who opposed gay marriage, Cook’s... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing
  • 06 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market

children and eight grandchildren, Marina Picasso ended up with some 10,000 of her grandfather's productions, and sent waves across the art world in February by announcing her intention to make many of them available for sale to the public... View Details
  • 07 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 7, 2015

Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815113-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-424 Amgen Inc.: Pursuing Innovation and Imitation? (A) Set in 2009, the (A) case explores whether Amgen, a leading innovator of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

experiment, we find that CEO activism can sway public opinion and increase consumers’ intentions to purchase products from the CEO’s company. However, we find that these two effects of CEO activism depend on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

self-interest in the intentions of others, as contrasted with rational behavior. We also discuss the antecedents and consequences of these naïve and cynical errors, as well as some potential strategies to buffer against their effects and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008

the Statement of Financial Accounting Standards, No. 141R. Purchase the note: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=108067 ADR Choices Harvard Business School Note 908-040 Six different business disputes, all in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 23

people to mentally simulate events more extensively. People who considered situations with their eyes closed rather than open judged immoral behaviors as more unethical and moral behaviors as more ethical. In addition, considering potential decisions with closed eyes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 7

Business School Case 315-055 Al Islami Foods: Beyond Dubai In 2014, Al Islami Foods CEO Marwan Al Garem considers his company's history of growth in Dubai and its growth opportunities within and outside the city. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

more generally. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211075-PDF-ENG If We Ran The World Hałaburda, Hanna, Radka Dohnalova, and Aldo SesiaHarvard Business School Case 711-490 Cindy Gallop launched IfWeRanTheWorld... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

topics and concerns that are similar across different disciplines. This paper reports on the consortium outcomes and insights from mentors who took part in it. We develop a set of observations to guide the evolution of the sciences of design. It is our View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 28

SEOs. We use price pressure resulting from purchases by mutual funds with large capital inflows to identify overvalued equity. This is a relatively exogenous overvaluation indicator as it is associated with who is buying—buyers with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

games. Our dictators can purchase signals about why the recipients are poor. We find that a third of the dictators are willing to pay a dollar to learn more about their recipient. Dictators who devote resources to acquiring information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

the former and disapprove of action in the latter, despite identical consequences. The difference is often explained in terms of the intention principle—whether the consequences are intended or incidental. Our results suggest that when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 20, 2007

Burton had to assess the plans from a global perspective. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508009 The Hertz Corporation (A) Harvard Business School Case 208-030 Examines the leveraged... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

eligible for a discount on the purchase price conditional on their achieving the sales targets set by the franchisor. We show that car dealers (franchisees) who exclusively deal in cars of the brand offered by the franchisor receive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 7

capture. We review the research on when people expect too little and or too much self-interest in the intentions of others, as contrasted with rational behavior. We also discuss the antecedents and consequences of these naïve and cynical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 2

being a pioneer of impact investing: the application of investment practices in the delivery of high impact social interventions, with the intent of providing positive financial returns to investors. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year

the weapon, if the only intention for making the purchase was to do harm within a certain period of time. “The most plausible explanation as to why waiting periods work is this: People have visceral states,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman