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- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
a variety of metrics, Trader Joe's ranked as one of the most successful grocers in the United States in 2013. Experts estimated that the company had the highest sales per square foot of any major grocery... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
on behavior in simple two-person extensive form games (http://sites.google.com/site/extformpredcomp/): one focuses on predicting the choices of the first mover and the other on predicting the choices of the second mover. The competitions are based on an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
Varma staked their claim to financial services advice. India has a rapidly growing middle class that is “clueless about what to do with their money because their parents’ generation never really had family wealth,” explains Varma. Those who did typically bought gold.... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
Annual Survey. We define the A&MS industry in terms of nine sectors, each of which is represented by a separate 5-digit NAICS category. In so doing, we have sought to redress some of the measurement problems surrounding estimates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
verbal skills. Then they were quizzed in categories considered favorable for men, such as business, math, videogames, cars, and sports. Respondents were asked to estimate how many questions they answered correctly on tests, and to guess... View Details
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
Summing Up Should "Moneyball Analytics" Play a Greater Role in Preparation for Management? There was general agreement among respondents to this month's column that we will see a growing emphasis on analytics among managers as millennials enter the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
people’s lives. In OECD countries, for example, people spend around a third of their waking hours engaged in paid work. We not only spend considerable amounts of our time at work, employment and workplace quality also rank among the most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
With a value estimated by Forbes magazine of over $480 million, the team ranks in the top third financially among MLB franchises. Even before last season’s title, the Giants’ fall pennant run yielded 4,000... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
ranked 23rd in the world in 2014, besting the likes of Israel and Austria, according to the consulting group Hamilton Place Strategies. It’s not just independent hackers. It’s state-sponsored hackers who put on military uniforms and head... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
Efforts Pay Off? Dynamic Panel Data Methods Revisited By: Chung, Doug J., Byungyeon Kim, and Byoung Park Abstract—We estimate a sales response model to evaluate the short- and long-term value of pharmaceutical sales representatives'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
costs, transforming the country over the past decade into the world’s workshop. In 2003, China ranked as the world’s major recipient of foreign investment — nearly $53 billion. It is on pace this year to attract even more. Long-term... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
are probably a dozen different things that I work hard on that have a direct impact on young people and the quality of their lives. What are some of the other issues you're involved in? I fight for consumer and business issues. I'm always View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
U.S. Census Bureau's quinquennial Economic Census and the Service Annual Survey. These data, heretofore largely ignored, allow us to redress some of the measurement problems surrounding estimates found in the existing literature. Firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
commissions, albeit lower, still exist, but they represent a relatively minor source of revenue for the big brokerages compared to investment banking fees. Either way, the cost of sell-side research, estimated at over $8 billion in total,... View Details
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
troubles, HBS's Paul M. Healy, the James R. Williston Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Research, saw a unique opportunity to examine an elephant in the room in the business world. The United Nations estimates that roughly a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
one order and return them in the reverse order when should DVDs (e.g., documentaries) are rented before want DVDs (e.g., action films). This effect is sizeable in magnitude, with a one standard deviation change in the difference between sequentially rented films'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
activities. Last year, Deckers was named one of the Top 100 ESG companies by Investor’s Business Daily, a ranking based on both ESG performance and stock performance for investors. Bonita explained: “For Deckers, being transparent and... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
units for Zappos' employees, and a promise that Zappos could operate as an independent subsidiary-was on the table. Zappos' financial advisor, Morgan Stanley, estimated the future equity value of an IPO to be between $650 million and $905... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
comparative product testing in Germany. Product tests, conducted by the Warentest Institute and published in their monthly magazine Test, influence both consumers and producers. With an estimated 5 million readers, Warentest is the... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
person one rank above them instead of the person one rank below. Last-place aversion suggests that low-income individuals might oppose redistribution because it could differentially help the group just... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne