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- 10 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Prices So High Right Now—and Will They Ever Return to Normal?
Online Micro Data. Early in the pandemic, Cavallo says, he thought stockouts would ease within a few months. “The composition of the stockouts changed over time. The temporary ones, which are visible in empty shelves or out-of-stock signs online, have fallen, but the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 21 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
When a Competitor Abandons the Market, Should You Advance or Retreat?
the most similar to ours’—that means the same disease and same mechanism of action—‘and we’re ready to react when they have a result.’” (Acting on your competitor’s actions isn’t always so cut-and-dried, Krieger notes. Some projects are never officially View Details
- 06 Jan 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Mechanisms of Technology Re-Emergence and Identity Change in a Mature Field: Swiss Watchmaking, 1970-2008
- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
displayed to consumers. By applying a regression discontinuity analysis, Luca could study how revenues jumped when star thresholds were crossed and compare these with the more steady changes over time. The result: Luca could directly... View Details
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
explicitly and frequently," to Clayton Christensen's insights about how poorly companies handle the technological discontinuities inherent in a faster moving world. Kotter also credits recent work by Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman, who... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
had the courage to invest in its performance, and they used it to gain a significant competitive edge. It is naive to assume that other sharply discontinuous technologies will not offer similar transformation opportunities in the future.... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
satisfied, high-paying customers. In essence, incumbents can disassociate themselves from a business in exchange for a better one. How can we identify when flight is in progress? Changes in customer or product mix can be a clear sign of flight, as are plans to View Details
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
and innovate in their business models. HBS professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan Enric Ricart present an integrative framework to distinguish and relate the concepts of business model, strategy, and tactics. The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: A... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Parable of the Bungled Baggage And the Unhappy Customer
job, so it was like, "What am I going to tell these folks?" It told me a lot about the pressures of an organization, and the discontinuity between making budget and not making it.— W. Earl Sasser We got into the golf cart. We... View Details
Keywords: by W. Earl Sasser
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
discontinuity design that facilitates sharper identification of treatment effects, we find a significant and discontinuous increase in tax avoidance following Russell 2000 inclusion. The tax avoidance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
Abstract This paper documents that ventures that are funded by two successful angel groups experience superior outcomes to rejected ventures: they have improved survival, exits, employment, patenting, web traffic, and financing. We use strong View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
like private equity fund managers, especially in terms of forming exit strategies at the time of business development; base decisions on an assumption of increasing competitive discontinuity and impermanence; avoid "cultural... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
were realized. What we label the CEO-specific Q and past return explains equity issuance, but it does not explain debt issuance, investment, or profitability. Two discontinuity analyses show that the specific share price that the current... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
candidate and gives both sides the freedom to discontinue discussions without damaging their egos and reputations." Another risk directors face, he notes, is a potential decline in their firm's stock price based on their final... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
that were discontinued at Hewlett-Packard, these programs may indeed have an upside—but there is a potential downside lurking, too. The HP experience was eye-opening as well as sobering. Thirteen separate units of the company—at different... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
of them can account for a quantitatively relevant fraction of our results. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54796 Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
are to ‘define’ a new economy—what are the discontinuities and what are the radical advances that would build consensus about a new economy?” What are the earmarks of a “new economy?” What do you think? Original Column Whither the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
immediately rose substantially. Executives felt that they had enough evidence to discontinue the fees, and the rest of the industry followed suit. Across town in Seattle lies Zillow, a company that distributes information about... View Details
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
businesses. Two years after launch, M-Pesa had only 1.2 million registered users. Vodacom eventually decided to discontinue the service in 2013 and relaunch with a new banking partner and new model in 2014, with a focus on serving... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
and, at the time, Jawbone UP, and the emergence of smartwatches, especially the Apple Watch, which offered broader functionalities. Acknowledging that hardware innovation was not its strength, Nike discontinued the FuelBand in 2014 to... View Details