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  • 05 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2006

  Working PapersNone this week   Cases & Course MaterialsCreating Meaning for the Customer: The Case of GMACI Harvard Business School Case 106-073 Excellence in exploiting customer information and leveraging its affiliation to the GM group are among the strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 29, 2022
  • Other Article

Strategic Complexity? Using Experiments to Understand and Overcome Obfuscation

By: Michael Luca, Ginger Zhe Jin and Daniel Martin
Credit card companies must decide what product features to disclose to consumers, such as payment schedules, penalties, and fees--and also whether to present them clearly or bury them in the fine print. Firms face similar choices in settings ranging from privacy... View Details
Keywords: Obfuscation; Credit Cards; Strategic Incentives; Complexity; Agreements and Arrangements; Customers; Consumer Behavior; Financial Services Industry
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  • 22 Jul 2021
  • News

China’s Push to Purge Organized Crime Casts Shadow Over Private Businesses

  • 27 Jan 2016
  • News

Kodak’s Old-School Response to Disruption

    Economic Value of the Advertising-Supported Internet Ecosystem

    This 105 page report analyzes the structure and dynamics of the commercial internet by classifying individually the internet-dependent revenues and employment of the 412 largest firms that participate in the ecosystem, and rolling up smaller firms and individuals. The... View Details
    • September 2001 (Revised October 2018)
    • Case

    DIENA

    By: Robert Simons and Indra Reinbergs
    Requires students to draw a new organization structure diagram for a rapidly evolving business. A/S DIENA is a newspaper publisher founded during Latvia's 1990/91 struggle for independence from the USSR with a clear social mission to support democracy. With the help of... View Details
    Keywords: Employee Ownership; Organizational Design; Marketing Strategy; Managerial Roles; Growth and Development; Economic Systems; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry; Latvia
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    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Srikant M. Datar
    Professor Datar has several research and course development interests. His initial areas of research interest were in cost management and management control, strategy implementation and governance. Over the last few years his areas of interest are management education,... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Gun Violence in the United States

    By: Deepak Malhotra
    My colleagues and I are studying gun violence from two perspectives.  First, how do events like mass shootings impact gun policy?  Do they have any effect?  We find that they do, but not in the way most people would expect. Second, we are studying which types of gun... View Details
    • March 2019
    • Article

    Is There a Future for the Gas Network in a Low Carbon Energy System?

    By: Conor Hickey, Paul Deane, Celine McInerney and Brian O' Gallachoir
    This paper evaluates the potential low carbon opportunities for and challenges to the utilisation and financial performance of Ireland's gas distribution network within a series of low carbon scenarios. There has been a limited amount of academic literature published... View Details
    Keywords: Decarbonization; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Environmental Sustainability; Demand and Consumers; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Republic of Ireland
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    How Much Should We Trust Staggered Difference-In-Differences Estimates?

    By: Andrew C. Baker, David F. Larcker and Charles C.Y. Wang
    Difference-in-differences analysis with staggered treatment timing is frequently used to assess the impact of policy changes on corporate outcomes in academic research. However, recent advances in econometric theory show that such designs are likely to be biased in the... View Details
    Keywords: Difference In Differences; Staggered Difference-in-differences Designs; Generalized Difference-in-differences; Dynamic Treatment Effects; Mathematical Methods
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    • July 2018
    • Article

    Does Copyright Affect Reuse? Evidence from Google Books and Wikipedia

    By: Abhishek Nagaraj
    While digitization has greatly increased the reuse of knowledge, this study shows how these benefits might be mitigated by copyright restrictions. I use the digitization of in-copyright and out-of-copyright issues of Baseball Digest magazine by Google Books to... View Details
    Keywords: Digitization; Economics Of Innovation; Wikipedia; Intellectual Property; Copyright
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    • 2005
    • Book

    Gifts of Time and Money: The Role of Charity in America's Communities

    By: Arthur C. Brooks
    Policymakers, civic leaders, and scholars have increasingly focused their attention over the last decade-and-a-half on the importance of voluntary participation in civil society. From George H. W. Bush's Thousand Points of Light to Bill Clinton's AmeriCorps to George... View Details
    Keywords: Volunteering; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Society; United States
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    • April 2011 (Revised June 2011)
    • Case

    Internet Securities, Inc.: Path to Sustainability

    By: Lynda M. Applegate, William R. Kerr and Ryan Johnson
    Founded in 1994 when the Internet was still a "toy for techies," the case is set in 1998 when Internet IPOs were red-hot. Internet Securities provides hard-to-find financial, business, economic, and political information on emerging markets. Information from over 600... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Business Model; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Cash Flow; Initial Public Offering; Analytics and Data Science; Growth and Development Strategy; Valuation
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    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

    Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a... View Details
    Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)
    • 14 Feb 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing

    publish a book on the subject of jobs-to-be-done marketing, explains that there's an important difference between determining a product's function and its job. "Looking at the market from the function of a product really originates from... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Service; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage
    • 26 Aug 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: August 26

    Publications August 2014 Management Science Smart People Ask for (My) Advice: Seeking Advice Boosts Perceptions of Competence By: Brooks, A.W., F. Gino, and M.E. Schweitzer Abstract—Although individuals can derive substantial benefits from exchanging information and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Giving to Others Makes Us Happy

    feel good for the actor.” Their review, published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, examines 15 published, pre-registered experiments on prosocial spending and reveals insights about when giving is likely to increase... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 08 Aug 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: August 8, 2006

    M. Ketels Publication:In Productive Partnerships: The Role of Employment Relations in Growing the UK Economy, edited by Tony Pilch, pp. 12-23. London: The Smith Institute, 2006. Publishers link:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Teaching Interest

    Digital Marketing Strategy

    By: John A. Deighton

    When the tools of marketing change, strategies change too. The focus of this course is on firms trying to navigate the transition from offline to online market-making and strategy development. Our concern is primarily with corporations that have products and... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Founder Frustrations

    Noam's research focuses on top management team (TMT) dynamics within entrepreneurial firms, with particular emphasis on the roles played by founders, top executives, outside investors, and board members. His paper entitled 'Founder-CEO Succession and the Paradox of... View Details