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- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1865878 The Flexible Substitution Logit: Uncovering Category Expansion and Share Impacts of Marketing Instruments Authors:Qiang Liu, Thomas J. Steenburgh, and Sachin Gupta Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
How to Create a Presence Without Being Present
business – knowledge we can share with our students and alumni.” Apply virtual tools – but be smart about them In a digital age, job candidates expect digital conveniences as a natural part of the recruiting process. Online webinars offer a View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
hard to quantify in the time-series. While loan issuance falls in recessions, it is not clear if this is due to demand or supply. We address this question by studying firms' substitution between bank debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
conditions and often with extraordinary and unheralded courage -- to fulfill the mission they have been given by the President and the American people as the nation's first line of defense. When the safety of the United States or its allies View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
description, prediction, and prescription. According to Baldwin and Clark's theory, modular architectures add value to system designs by creating options to improve the system by substituting or experimenting on individual modules. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Lessons from the 2025 Race, Gender & Equity at Work Symposium - Blog: RGE Report
many institutions and structures, often the very same ones we use our own hope to challenge. Our panelists showed us how hope alone is insufficient for radical change. When hope is expected or demanded of someone struggling against... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Working PapersLocal Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott WeisbennerNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15175, July 2009 Abstract We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
additional demand for its products and services. How, then, should The Home Depot organize itself in advance of disaster events? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309055 Neck & Neck:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
management and less hierarchy and bureaucracy. Their "attitudes approach" has had time to get communicated far and wide. Additionally, the rigors of competing in an economy with constrained demand have given further impetus to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
beneficent nonprofits exploit such regulatory leniency and exhibit higher mispricing. Drawing on organizational legitimacy theory, we argue that both regulators and beneficent nonprofits seek to protect their legitimacy with stakeholders, including those who View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
The Effect of Service Quality and Competition on Demand By: Balasubramanian, Karthik, and David F. Drake Abstract—The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks ("mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
Obrador filed complaints with the Federal Election Tribunal, per the constitution, Maurer notes. And many prominent members of the opposition conservative party, if not conservative candidate Felipe Calderón, have defended López Obrador's right to challenge the results... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
include positioning strategies, choosing the proper channel, potential partnerships, manufacturing issues, market analysis, and PR management. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507016 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
evidence. In our model, firms over-extrapolate exogenous demand shocks and partially neglect the endogenous investment responses of their competitors. Formal estimation of the model confirms that both types of expectational errors are... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
least three plans, one based on "best case," one based on "worst case," and one representing "best guess." One could argue that the process itself has a degree of humility built into it. Fashion retailers speed up the replenishment process... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
Working PapersStrategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic complements or View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
demand for auditing by the licensor. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit strategy choice by the licensor. We show when the owner prefers to license the property in exchange for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
years, but there continues to be a wasted opportunity to think about workplace design more strategically. I see executives fall into two patterns: The first is the older generation of executives who are demanding to go back in-person—Wall... View Details
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the people's. This has been accomplished by creating an enormous public service sector operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of their big... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint