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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
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

like Boston Properties and Vornado. Trump is primarily a branding operation. There are many sectors in real estate. Hospitality is one of them. In hotels, there are usually three parts to every deal. Usually, there’s one entity that owns... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

the adoption of assurance or specific guidelines, firms seek the qualitative properties of comparability and credibility. Instrumental variables analysis suggests that increases in sustainability disclosure driven by the regulation are... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

faster-growing companies to raise more capital. These results highlight the importance of institutions in enabling the provision of entrepreneurial capital to young companies. In Search of Organizational Alignment Using a 360-Degree Assessment System: A Field... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

listed company and the largest telecom provider in New Zealand, was being divided into two publicly traded companies, Chorus, a telecom infrastructure company, and new Telecom, a telecom retail services provider. In connection with this... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

Chile's largest wine producer faces a price versus value positioning problem. Its highest quality wines are not priced competitively at retail because "Made in Chile" connotes great value and low price. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2178640 The Impact of Modularity on Intellectual Property and Value Appropriation Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and Joachim Henkel Abstract Modularity is a means of partitioning technical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

role of specific economic and political institutions in shaping the business environment and economic growth in emerging markets. It gives answers to the following questions: When will governments define and enforce property rights? When... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

professionals, and parents alike forge their own paths to fulfillment. Publisher's Link: http://www.harpercollins.com/books/How-Will-You-Measure-Your-Life-Karen-Dillon?isbn=9780062102416&HCHP=TB_How+Will+You+Measure+Your+Life Retail... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016

to Jewish organizational life. Inspired by 30 years of pioneering work by retail giant Leslie Wexner’s philanthropic focus on Jewish leadership, More Than Managing brings together diverse and remarkable thinkers to address challenges... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16

exogenous shocks to household income in rural India: the dramatic reduction in import tariffs in the early 1990s and rainfall variations. We find that trade shocks, previously shown to raise relative poverty, also increased the incidence of violent crimes and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

credibility and increased likelihood of voluntarily adopting reporting guidelines that enhance disclosure comparability. These results suggest that even in the absence of a regulation that mandates the adoption of assurance or specific guidelines, firms seek the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

growing component of many firms' retailing strategies, particularly in the fashion industry. Outlet stores offer attractive prices in locations far from central shopping districts. The main perspectives on why outlet stores exist can be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

idea fully or abandoning it. By contrast, writers who can attract buyers at any stage sell worse ideas earlier and better ideas later. The results have interesting implications not only for the timing of the sale of ideas, but also for the role of intellectual View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

Case 806-069 Randall Fojtasek, a partner at Brazos Private Equity Partners, must decide whether to invest more money in Cheddar's restaurant chain, which the firm invested in 10 months earlier. The incremental investment would fund a real estate subsidiary that would... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

the service and retail sectors. But target firms also create more new jobs at new establishments, and they acquire and divest establishments more rapidly. When we consider these additional adjustment margins, net relative job losses at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2024 (Revised January 2025)
  • Case

Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel

By: Elie Ofek, Ryann Noe and Sarah Mehta
The 2023 release of the live-action film Barbie, and its accompanying marketing blitz, incited a worldwide Barbie craze. Suddenly Barbie was everywhere, a celebrated icon reinstated at the forefront of cultural conversation. This goodwill stood in contrast to... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Media; Intellectual Property; Business Strategy; Entertainment; Gender; Public Opinion; Marketing Strategy; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

elusive search for properties that make organizations adaptable. This paper argues that the research program on dynamic capabilities needs to be reset around the fundamental strategic problem facing firms: how to identify and select... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

controls, employment at target establishments declines 3% over two years post buyout and 6% over five years. The job losses are concentrated among public-to-private buyouts and transactions involving firms in the service and retail... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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