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  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

strategic choices for retailers. With respect to pricing, an important decision is whether to offer a “self-matching policy,” which allows a multichannel retailer to offer the lowest of its online and store View Details
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

Laura, Nick Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—Little is known theoretically, and even less empirically, about the relationship between firm boundaries and the allocation of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 29

contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly-competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the pecuniary benefits of coordinating production View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Nov 2022
  • Op-Ed

Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains

don’t know. Maybe we should talk to a couple more prospects and compare reactions?” Full Stack Engineer: “Just so y’all know, I am probably going to revamp the pricing page layout in the next few days so if you’re thinking about changing... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 08 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

literature on willpower. Understanding how willpower develops can shed important light on time-inconsistent economic decision making, a topic that has received substantial attention over recent decades. In particular, we argue that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 18

Roasters, which has dropped in value by more than 40% in recent months. Tremblant is a hedge fund that specializes in forecasting consumer behavioral change and capitalizes on the disconnect between stock prices and consumer behavior. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 25

in the process of making high profits. Even with few truly altruistic firms, an equilibrium may emerge where all firms pretend to be kind and refrain from charging "abusive" prices to their customers. Our main result is that, as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

Designed around the course at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a multinational as the typical decision maker. Illustrated with examples... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • February 2007 (Revised January 2008)
  • Supplement

Multifactor Models (CW)

By: Malcolm P. Baker
Keywords: Asset Pricing; Cost of Capital; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Funds; Investment Return; Mathematical Methods; Performance Evaluation
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  • 09 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 9

compliance costs of traditional GAAP are the price of high-quality accounting standards. Balancing these powerful interests, Brennan must make a decision on the PCC; at stake is U.S. GAAP's ability to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids

the past and they all needed to be decided on at the same time,” one said, recalling the feeling of “paying the price of having postponed them and living the nightmare of all of it at once.” It was like “[waking] up to all of the View Details
Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg
  • 20 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present an extrapolative model of bubbles. In the model, many investors form their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average of the asset’s past price changes and the asset’s degree of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

the investor's and the investee's countries, affects the asset allocation decisions of global mutual funds. We find that investors tend to underweight investees with greater accounting distance. Using the mandatory adoption of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?

people: 1) those who "will never agree with the CEO and are always in the minority," 2) those who help "clean up the decision-making process," and 3) "true 'yes men' ... [who] get the job done." Cheryl Price... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 16 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee

threat of increased service competition," says Campbell. Differences Across Markets Customers and companies trade off between price and service. "Every customer has his or her own level of service sensitivity," says Buell.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth

Mehta saw them everywhere, piled along the roadsides to dry—or rot—as prices for fresh tomatoes plummeted. She came to HBS with an idea for addressing the problem she had witnessed: Nigeria needed a functional tomato processing plant. A... View Details
Keywords: April White; Crop Production; Agriculture
  • 02 Aug 2024
  • HBS Case

How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture

items from being thrown into landfills, and 130 million pounds of greenhouse gas emissions from that food out of the atmosphere. “Josh made the decision to commit to an idea that is not proprietary at all in a competitive space with... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Information Technology
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

backdated stock options, insufficiently independent corporate board members, poor responsiveness to shareholders concerns, and a lack of transparency in the activities and decisions of boards. The AFL-CIO believes that such problems were... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 27

a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: Should they go it alone or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne