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- 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006
investment reasons make the decision an important one. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507025 Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (A) Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2017
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New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
giver-receiver interactions—are resource-allocation decisions that also contribute to the social meaning of help. These findings illuminate the theoretical and practical overlap between helping and external leadership in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007
Working PapersStrategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
interactive database tracking 16 categories of policies announced in each country, from rate cuts and lending to quantitative easing, the large-scale asset purchases and balance sheet expansion by central banks. The database also includes... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
returned to debt within six weeks. One to two years after intervention, treatment individuals were borrowing at the same rate as control households. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54587 Show or Tell? Improving Agent View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009
A Study of Online Grocery Purchases and Order Lead Time Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max Bazerman Publication:Marketing Letters (in press) Abstract How do decisions made for tomorrow or two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
professor Deepak Malhotra. "These might all increase the likelihood of overbidding due to auction fever." This research comes from a recently published paper, coauthored with Gillian Ku, "Towards a Competitive Arousal Model of View Details
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Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
change ingrained habits and emerge as industry leaders. One such firm was the renowned Waltham Watch Company, which pioneered the production of watches from interchangeable parts. Like all manufacturers of non-essential products, Waltham leadership faced difficult... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success
explains the reflective, soft-spoken Plochman, "represents the importance of renewal and change while honoring the past." This perspective is integral to how he manages the nearly 150-year-old family business, purchased in 1883 by his... View Details
- 25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25
necessary. Yet IP address transfer rules also need to facilitate purchase by the networks that need the addresses most, from the networks that value them least. We propose a market rule that avoids excessive fragmentation while almost... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016
Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
existing wifi networks to allow users to make calls on their mobile phones without purchasing extra minutes. “These startups are like fleas on the backs of dinosaurs too big to do much about it” "Decoupling separates two or more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 31 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom
to friends. The case is about the marketers' decisions regarding what to do with these films: They could put them on DVDs, or run them in movie theaters before feature films, or do any number of other things. Q: What's the takeaway from... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
cities between 1910 and 1930. Instrumenting immigrants’ location decision by interacting national changes in migration flows across ethnic groups with pre-existing immigrants’ enclaves across U.S. cities, we find that immigration raised... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-005.pdf The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality (revised) Author:Zeynep Ton Abstract Determining staffing levels is an important decision in retail operations. While... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
as it is being employed to unite dispersed functional or geographic groups within a firm. While automatic process execution continues to be valuable for these networks, the greater goal of integration often appears to be better and faster View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31
decision point for the firm. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212021-PDF-ENG Hungary: Economic Crisis and a Shift to the Right Rafael M. Di Tella, Matthew C. Weinzierl, and Jacob... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
likelihood of downloading an insider-trading filing on the same firm by more than 41.3% this quarter. Moreover, the average tracked stock that an institution buys generates annualized alphas of between 9% to 18% relative to the purchase... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
in the positive mood benefits of financial generosity. Consistent with past research, participants who were randomly assigned to purchase items for others (vs. themselves) reported greater positive affect. Contrary to predictions, using... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
systems are designed to track profitability only at the market and segment levels. Consequently, many managers are often forced to make important customer decisions based on hunches and imprecise information. Systems that enable firms to... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs