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- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
treatments in greater depth, we investigate factors affecting deposit frequency and size and discuss possible ways of increasing deposits. Next, we compare the effectiveness of both deposit contract and lottery interventions as a function... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
And it is changing fast. Its size and importance to human, environmental, and economic health means that no system is viewed with as much suspicion by so many people around the globe. Changing societal expectations and scientific and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 2
profits of competing platforms in a market of fixed size are decreasing in the fraction of sophisticated users. When market expansion is introduced, the fraction of sophisticated users that maximizes competing platforms' profits may be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
attention. Exclusivity is still the norm, but the consensus around it is slowly shrinking." The Consolidation Myth Choices made in conflict policies can influence the size and distribution of agencies that the industry can support. This... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
really fascinating because it shows that companies are out there spending a lot on direct-to-consumer advertising. The numbers are huge. What she shows, by and large, is that direct-to-consumer can grow the size of the market, but does... View Details
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
"CRM tools enable you to collect a lot of rich data about a customer's frequency and time of purchase, the size of her orders, and what she thinks of your company," says Harvard's Zaltman. That's necessary but not sufficient... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
of Weak Interests By Gunnar Trumbull Empirical studies have consistently shown a capacity to coordinate when the collective interest is both material and evident. One of the early studies to assess the impact of group size on coordination... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
process is not as daunting as it seems. Of course, the numbers indicate the richness of these data; they truly offer an unprecedented window into coordination and interaction patterns inside firms. For many organizations, these data are readily available on server... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 28 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Can We Expect in the Other War?
most sensitive and talented prospects away? Will work groups be broken into increasingly smaller sizes, typical of the philosophy on which Nucor Steel was built—when a plant reaches a size of roughly two hundred employees, it's time to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
U.S. By the 1960s, American brands had benefited from so much cumulative investment in marketing that they were unquestionably the strongest brands in the world. There were three reasons why marketing developed in the United States ahead of Europe. First, the sheer... View Details
- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
Original Article It was recently announced in somewhat wondrous tones that new car sales in China this past year exceeded one million. Reports in BusinessWeek and Forbes trumpet the growth of China and the size and promise of Chinese... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17
failed to institute a ban on serving sizes of large sugary beverages. Obesity posed a large public health risk to the city. Mayor Bloomberg's proposed ban was one of many attempts to combat the rising threat of obesity. The case discusses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
practically zero here. One thing to watch for will be how China ensures the stability of its financial system since total debt has reached 250 percent of GDP, credit has been abundant, and the size of the shadow banking system has... View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23
oDesk, with ethnic Indians in other countries 32% (9 percentage points) more likely to choose a worker in India. Yet, the size of the Indian diaspora on oDesk and the timing of its effects make clear that the Indian diaspora was not a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2010
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First Look: May 18
forecast characteristic-related stock returns. For example, we show that large firms underperform following years when issuing firms are large relative to repurchasing firms. Our approach is useful for forecasting returns to portfolios based on book-to-market (HML),... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
cognizant of the potential benefits and costs of setting up a secret channel. They understand that details as small as the timing of a meeting or the size and shape of the negotiating table can make a difference. Above all, they are... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
like, given the size of the bets they’re making. The second and academic interest is that we learn much more from a developing country than a developed one. Roads, railroads, and harbors in the United States, for example, were all built... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
first time on the HBS campus is struck by its size. When walking to my office, visitors looking for the "main HBS campus" often stop me. They assume the School must be located in only one or two buildings. I explain that most buildings around them belong to... View Details
- 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16
and shows that effects of a similar size can be achieved by holding people accountable through feedback text messages, without any meetings or peer pressure. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42103 Cases &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008
brokerage firm size and status, and recommendation boldness. The changes have a large and significant impact on the classification of trading signals and back-tests of three stylized facts: The profitability of trading signals, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace