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- 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
- 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
- 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009
authorities will soon deplete their supply. I evaluate a series of possible responses to this shortage: sharing addresses impedes new Internet applications and does not seem to be scalable. A new numbering system ("IPv6") offers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
one was surprised. On the retail side, the large discount chains — WalMart and Target in particular — had steadily taken market share from specialty toy stores, in some cases using toys as a loss leader to pull in traffic. The ripple... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
whether the testimonial's efficacy increases when information is added about an affiliation the quoted individual shares with the recipient. Research Design and Methods: A total of 5,498 union members were randomly assigned to receive 1... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2009
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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
- 13 May 2008
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First Look: May 13, 2008
Working PapersSome Neglected Axioms in Fair Division Author:John W. Pratt Abstract Conditions one might impose on fair allocation procedures are introduced. Nondiscrimination requires that agents share an item in proportion to their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
within Share Our Strength, an anti-poverty nonprofit. He said that nonprofit senior management needs to buy in to the business idea for it to succeed. If the idea is shunted off to junior staff members it will never gain traction, he... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
U.S. Census of Services for 1982-2007, we find agencies are more likely to unbundle with increasing size, diversification, and higher media prices and less likely with increasing age, larger media volume, and an interaction between media... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
behave like money. We first present a simple model where households demand money services, which are supplied by three types of claims: deposits, Treasury bills, and asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP). The model provides predictions for the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 28 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback
"Clicks and Mortar." [Image: iStock] Related Reading How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores? Research Paper Where Should We Build a Mall? The Formation of... View Details
- 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
- 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3
model, the company would sell sequencers at a higher price to those entities that already purchased sequencers, primarily major research labs and pharmaceutical firms, but position its machine as a faster alternative to existing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11
consumers large discounts when they prepay for participating firms' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a discount voucher service can benefit affiliated firms: price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
world. What does the book add to the literature that you felt was lacking? Mihir Desai: Recent waves of globalization have had several distinct effects on firms that have not been addressed by many academics. First, rapidly integrating markets have extended firms... View Details
- 27 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction
interventions, pursuing a strategy to “inform the public of preventive measures that save lives and reduce damage to property and infrastructure.”[2] However, in the absence of substantial international action on climate change, how can the Nigerian public pay the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
interests, and then reserve their spot. Hosts set the price of their meals, and Bookalokal earns a commission on each meal. Soon after launching the site, however, Bookalokal's market expanded. It turns out that local diners—especially... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7
non-performing loans and loan allowances, low bank share prices and tight monetary policy. The bank-to-bond substitution can only be measured for firms with access to bond markets. However, we show that this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
competitive marketplace with many different price points, including zero, the brand becomes absolutely critical.” Besides, he observes, those seeking to make money from yoga need to weigh the pluses and minuses of that authenticity.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber