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- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
relevant for social networking sites and large advertisers. Key concepts include: There is a significant and positive impact of friends' purchases on the purchase probability of a user. However, there are significant differences across... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
a lower price. In late 2012, Quincy's cofounders are debating how to approach a crucial board meeting. Their seed-stage startup is running low on cash; to survive, they will need more capital, probably in the form of a bridge loan from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
outcome probabilities arising from incomplete knowledge, i.e., ambiguity. We explore how the addition of partial information affects these types of choices using theoretical and empirical methods. Our experiments in both gain and loss... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
bankruptcy. While initial ownership concentration is important for coordination of a prearranged bankruptcy filing, it is consolidation of ownership during bankruptcy-and specifically consolidation of ownership of voting classes-that has an impact on the speed of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
the firm. The most intractable issue is probably social class. The composition of leaders who overcame poverty to achieve the pinnacle of success in business changed very little over the course of the twentieth century. While the GI Bill... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
answers, which may change with the passage of time. What was an opportunity in 1975 or 1980 is probably no longer an opportunity today. At the same time, the questions that lead one to identify an opportunity are the same as they have... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
they probably didn't do a good job." Learning By Doing For decades, Harvard's case-study method has been the gold standard in business-school education, emulated around the world for its methodology that teaches students... View Details
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
led to economic development and were therefore emulated in other nations at the time. The idea for it probably came from my love of old books, which allowed me to see quite starkly the discrepancy between past and present fame in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
bicycles, appreciated for their retro look and style. Its country of origin had probably helped them exporting their products as their bicycles were 100% made in Italy, and the Made in Italy label had a reputation for high quality,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
What motivates entrepreneurs? Money? Control? In truth, some entrepreneurs are expecting to get rich. Others want to grow and control a new venture. But most would probably answer: "both." The problem, as Harvard Business School... View Details
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
market share within their industry; and this, of course, wouldn't be a great environment for someone to go in and set up a new shop. If there are three or four firms sharing an industry, they're probably making money and if you were to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
verdicts, increasing the probability of a favorable outcome. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54560 Motivated Errors By: Exley, Christine L., and Judd B. Kessler Abstract—Behavioral biases that cause... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
Expenditure Panel Survey and joint probabilities of workplace exposures from the General Social Survey, and we conducted a meta-analysis of the epidemiological literature to estimate the relative risks of poor health outcomes associated... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
what corporate value added is. Most business units think that "corporate adds overhead and that's about it." But in fact, great corporate offices do a number of very important things in driving a company. I'm also writing a book right now on succession. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
non-performing loans and an increase in interest rate spreads, suggesting that foreign concerns bought domestic banks that had been making loans with low interest rates to parties that had a low probability of repayment. Working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
share the same ethnic, educational, or career background are more likely to syndicate with each other. This homophily reduces the probability of investment success, and the detrimental effect is most prominent for early-stage investments.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
kiosks. The interesting question is, where do you fall on that continuum? Acurio is probably more on the commercial end, because he is trying to create a brand to launch in other countries—it's not that he's trying to make money,... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
characteristics enhances investment performance, collaborating for affinity-based characteristics dramatically reduces the probability of investment success. A variety of tests show that the cost of affinity is not driven by selection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
success, market reaction, and merger waves. Offer prices are biased towards the 52-week high, a highly salient but largely irrelevant past price, and the modal offer price is exactly that reference price. An offer's probability of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
people understand their role in the larger system. You cannot get that quality from a 30-second bite on FOX News. I think it is extremely important to note that the New York Times is a family business. The Times has benefited politically, financially, strategically,... View Details