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- 20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007
Working PapersIncorporating Price and Inventory Endogeneity in Firm-Level Sales Forecasting Authors:Saravanan Kesavan, Vishal Gaur, and Ananth Raman Abstract As numerous papers have argued, sales, inventory, and gross margin for a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51099 May 2016 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Copyright Infringement in the Market for Digital Images By: Luo, Hong, and Julie Holland Mortimer Abstract—Digital technologies for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
were realized. What we label the CEO-specific Q and past return explains equity issuance, but it does not explain debt issuance, investment, or profitability. Two discontinuity analyses show that the specific share View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
decomposed welfare effects of multinational production. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-111.pdf Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? Evidence from Trade Policy Authors:Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
to the unrealistically purist view that it was in the business of producing only high-performance footwear for competitive athletes. Nike has since changed its ways, but several years of less-than-stellar sales was the price the company... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
compared to a market price of $23. Elizabeth Kemp, the portfolio manager of a long-only technology fund at Sand Hill Road Capital, had bought 500,000 shares at the IPO price... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
planned for 2023, when he will celebrate his 100th birthday. He’s quick to characterize the 64-year marriage he shared with his wife, Joan, until she died of cancer in 2012. “Where else could I find a woman who would hike across the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
year as a research-based platform to address topics of worldwide import to business, BiGS integrates and amplifies work currently underway at HBS and sparks new avenues of inquiry. In the case of climate change, that means exploring ways to View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
potential approaches to establishing evidence of social influence in partially endogenous networks, and they may be especially persuasive in combination. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-136.pdf Technology Innovation and Diffusion as Sources of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
Respondents to this month's column appeared to be about equally divided on these issues. John Inman commented, "I sometimes feel that we are racing to the bottom to provide products and services at ever lower pricing without... View Details
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
when making pricing decisions in the US syndicated loans market and mutual fund managers when making asset allocations near the time of an election. 3. Entrepreneurs and inventors influenced by politics Yet another study found that... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
http://hbr.org/product/Belk--Towards-Exceptional/an/415023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 915-002 Reinventing Retail: ShopRunner's Network Bet ShopRunner considers adjustments to improve its online shopping service, which offers no-charge two-day shipping as well... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
2011) Abstract Organizational culture-the shared assumptions, values, and behaviors that determine "how we do things around here"-can be measured and shaped. In organizations with large numbers of customer-facing employees, it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
race to win new customers and e-reader converts. It will make the company a truly global entity, bringing it closer to its customers in Asia. And the acquisition will simplify the supply chain, driving down costs (the Kindle DX, introduced in June, comes with a $489... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008
of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation is negative, suggesting that more reliance on luck is correlated with less individualism. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
the study of international trade and foreign direct investment. Data on values of imports and exports of goods are of high quality and coverage, but price data suffer from insufficient detail. It would be desirable to have more data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2010
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First Look: May 18
payout policy, profitability, and industry. We consider interpretations of these results based on both time-varying risk premia and mispricing. Our results are primarily consistent with the view that firms issue and repurchase shares to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
labor, or physical materials; is shared among people, with an expansion of the total as it is shared; and doesn't drain our resources. Although we are witnessing an explosion in the amount of and access to both data and information, real... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett