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  • 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

associated with a 0.5% increase in housing prices. Moreover, Yelp measures of local business activity provide leading indicators for housing price changes and help to forecast which neighborhoods are gentrifying. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

decentralizing operations from headquarters to their stores, and, to a weaker extent, by providing higher variable pay to their store managers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-091.pdf An Exploration of Technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Apr 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

trust in traditional media is at its highest point in the past decade at 66 percent. But trust in social media platforms languishes at around 43 percent, and in this era of fake news, fixed elections and... View Details
  • 03 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

percent—the lowest in over 30 years. Home prices are perking up, and the number of home mortgages with negative equity is down. Balance sheets have recovered to their 2007 highs. While the United States represents only 19 percent of the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate
  • 26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008

purchasing and brought process discipline to store operations through using Six Sigma quality methodology. Although the changes led to higher profitability, the retailer's stock price remained unchanged.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 10, 2009

role of economic, geographic, and demographic factors, I find that poorer areas have significantly higher levels of conflict intensity. The paper reviews the various approaches taken by governments to deal with conflict, contrasting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

media and marketing. The case challenges the students to ponder what it takes for a company to repeatedly increase customer satisfaction rates and profitability with the same product over the years. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

revenues. Those are generally backward-looking measures. Then there are share prices and market capitalization, which are forward-looking measures that anticipate the value of a firm. There may be some debate over what is important at a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

unfavorable expectations face an additional constraint: their prices and first-party content investment need to be such that low (zero) participation equilibria are eliminated. This additional constraint typically leads them to invest... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

and self-improvement. Additionally, we show that future lock-in can arise without changing the structure of a should-choice, but just changing people's temporal focus. Finally, we provide evidence that the should self operates at a higher... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5

that adherence to the Undefeated refinement is especially pronounced among subjects who report a high level of understanding of the game and that subjects whose choices conformed with the predictions of the Undefeated refinement were rewarded by investors with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

established processes for stakeholder engagement, to be more long-term oriented, and to exhibit higher measurement and disclosure of nonfinancial information. Finally, High Sustainability companies significantly outperform their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

see more sustainable ventures when motivations are placed higher and closer to either end of the spectrum (utilitarian or altruistic drives), becoming most sustainable when they become strong and blended, as represented in the northeast... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

responsibility of business leaders increases. We also document that both sustainable development and employee training become a higher priority for companies and that corporate governance improves. Furthermore, we find that companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

the most daunting challenges of leadership. Publisher Link: http://hbr.org/product/being-the-boss-the-3-imperatives-for-becoming-a-gr/an/12285-HBK-ENG Building World Class Universities in Asia Author:D. Quinn Mills Publication:CreateSpace, 2010 Abstract After... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

conformity comes at a steep price for our careers and personal lives. When we mindlessly accept rules and norms rather than questioning and constructively rebelling against them, we ultimately end up stuck and unfulfilled. As leaders, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

countries. However, despite the fact that the U.S. has more competition than virtually any other health care system in the world, the costs are high and rising without delivering higher quality. The problems with the U.S. health care... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

guidance on the design of optimal call patterns in route sales. Our analyses reveal that the long-term persistence effect of detailing is more pronounced for specialist physicians, whereas the contemporaneous marginal effect is higher for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate from the incumbent following increased service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

mainstream research would accept the data source. I’m sure tons of others will now begin to mine them. The other striking thing is the importance these iconic entrepreneurs give to a sense of purpose, some sort of higher motivation that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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