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  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

has quality variations, reducing consumption. Five independent growers formed a cooperative to provide quality control and a brand name—Ripe 'N Ready—that enabled retailers to differentiate their stores and producers to differentiate the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

provides a brief scientific background on obesity and its causes, comorbidities, and the economic cost of this epidemic. It then discusses the two main hypotheses of diet and the formation of NuSI. Finally, it describes the unique... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Using retail chain data, we study the effects of a tournament incentive plan incorporating objective and subjective criteria. In principle, such plans could motivate employees to perform both at a high level,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

improved diversity. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52703 Homophily in Entrepreneurial Team Formation By: Gompers, Paul A., Kevin Huang, and Sophie Q. Wang Abstract—We study the role of homophily in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Nov 2009
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Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

Few industries have had the competitive challenges—the literal ups and downs—experienced by the U.S. airline industry since its formation in the 1920s. Consider that its early pioneers had the unenviable task of selling tickets to people... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

paper explores the effects of monetary policy parameters and macroeconomic shocks on nominal bond risks, using a New Keynesian model with habit formation and discrete regime shifts in 1979 and 1997. The increase in bond risks after 1979... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2003
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Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

market share. Its Mach3 shaving system was a blockbuster product, but the company was suffering the effects of its own reliance on trade loading—the practice of offering discounts to retail customers at the end of a quarter in order to... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19

receiving JCP Cash coupons and circulars advertising the week's specials, were slow to embrace the new pricing format and began leaving the retailer in droves. Under enormous pressure to turn things around... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51383 Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage, and Fertility By: Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

2000s, a period during which Treasury bonds enabled investors to hedge macroeconomic risks. This paper develops a New Keynesian macroeconomic model with habit formation preferences that prices both bonds and stocks. The model attributes... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

(July-August 2009) Abstract What if the current recession turns out to be like the Great Depression of 1929-1933? Four years from now, the United States might find itself with a still-shrinking economy, half as many banks as in 2009, a third as many hedge funds, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American business education over the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

Harvard Business School Case 217-016 Financial Services at Falabella (A) In 2010, the board and senior management team of Falabella, a leading retailer with operations throughout Latin America, faced choices about what to do with its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

formation in which investors learn about the fundamental value of an asset and trade it. We study the interaction of diagnostic expectations with two well-known mechanisms: learning from prices and speculation (buying for resale). With... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

Israel, Knesset members, Israel’s Chief Scientist, prominent business leaders, academics, and journalists weigh in on the formation of the Israeli entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem, the challenges it faces going forward, and what... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

marketers to communicate with consumers in a format that enhances their lives and offers long-term value. Paper: http://hbr.org/2013/03/for-mobile-devices-think-apps-not-ads/ar/1 The Mobile Banking Payment Revolution Authors:Gupta, Sunil... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

audience. The case features a multimedia format of audio and video clips in order to engage students directly with JALC protagonists and with jazz music—the real protagonist of the case. The case is ideal for a first year marketing course... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

suggests that social media may promote knowledge sharing because they allow social lubrication and the formation of trust. Our longitudinal and comparative analysis of social media usage at two large firms indicates that users who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

multi-brand retail format in the beauty and wellness space, and the fact that she was doing it with her daughter Adwaita (HBS MBA 2013) made it both exciting and meaningful. Still, she was the founder and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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