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  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

itself from selling to a portion of the market. In addition, we show that contrary to standard results on double marginalization and pricing of complementary goods, a platform who already has exclusive access to content may prefer to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8

income taxation. I show analytically how age dependence improves policy on both the intratemporal and intertemporal margins. I use detailed numerical simulations, calibrated with data from the U.S. PSID, to generate robust policy implications: age dependence (1) lowers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

Lehman bankruptcy. Baena must decide if there is an opportunity, how to structure a trade to exploit it, and how much of her fund's capital to allocate. Case exposition includes descriptions of basic financing arrangements that support arbitrage strategies, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

brokerage—direct ties to collaborators who themselves do not have direct ties to each other—leads to greater collaborative creativity. We then test interaction hypotheses on the marginal benefits of cohesion, when collaborators have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

printed on the back of your receipt? A: In those instances, the coupons that you're given are a function of what you've just bought, and in that sense they have no memory of what kind of customer you really are. So they can be [only] View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Case Study: Power Nappy

Second, some customers simply won’t buy certain products without physical inspection, which requires physical presence. Third, the cost of acquiring customers online is increasingly high. There’s also a cost to retail, of course, such as View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 26 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

shocks—measured as CDS portfolio margin payments—account for 12% of the time-series variation in weekly spread changes, a significant amount given that standard credit factors account for 18% during my sample. In addition, seller shocks... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

amortization (EBITDA) margin of over 8%. At the executive education program, Jaime had learned that entrepreneurs could build on their unique attributes and capabilities to expand and grow their businesses. Should he continue to expand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2015
  • News

Walter Salmon Remembered

grocers, drug stores, and discount stores like Costco. Peter asked me (a banker) what I thought of supermarkets accepting credit cards for groceries. I said that the grocery margins (~1%) wouldn’t support the discounts on card purchases,... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

profits when one side is subsidized in equilibrium. By contrast, if platforms make positive margins on both sides, the same investment has the regular, expected effects. Our analysis implies that the strategy space and the logic of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

We exploit households’ portfolio weights in previous years as an instrument for actual capital gains and dividends payments. We find that unrealized capital gains lead to a marginal propensity to consume (MPC) of 13% for the bottom 50% of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 21

credit constraints do affect entrepreneurship but that the overall magnitudes are small. Moreover, the marginal individuals selecting into entrepreneurship when constraints are relaxed may well be starting businesses that are of lower... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

additional 60,000 rural villages. By relying exclusively on low-income women as their frontline sales force, it also provided a significant source of income to a traditionally marginalized group. Q: What are some of challenges that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

businesspeople out of the religious picture. We call these "tripping points." They just really got in the way of any kind of joint communication in this area. First of all, [the lack of communication] marginalizes the churches... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

Levien at Xerox headquarters. Rather than being culled from research efforts that were viewed as marginal by Xerox, LiveWorks commercialized research in an area deemed central to Xerox's strategy: ubiquitous computing. Ubiquitous... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

differently than many companies' product development processes, but allows this company to produce very high profit margin products that retain their margins for a very long time in an industry in which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

margin by 1 to 2 percent of sales within months. These improvements are significant for both small and large companies. Q: What are the key benefits to an organization for implementing this model? Can it be benchmarked and evaluated? A:... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

for a deep discussion of the bases for variable compensation in sales, including observability of effort and outcome, risk aversion, team vs. individual pay and the marginal impact of effort. The context is also an interesting and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Sep 2017
  • News

The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice

Farzad: You have to imagine—we talk about gross margins and profit margins. And in a business, you're happy to clear double digit margins. If you had a connection in Colombia or Peru or Bolivia and you could get your mitts on a hook up of... View Details
  • 10 Nov 2014
  • HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

reputation” Keinan: In this case, the goal of the different brands is to complement each other, so they don't compete or cannibalize each other. HBSWK: And what about Noma? You mentioned that margins aren't very high, and in the case you... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
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