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- 16 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?
says. “But then also ask how much does it matter to differentiate? When it matters, think about whether you can really distinguish between these possibilities." In general, Schwartzstein says, look at your own biases, and keep asking questions. “Try to identify what... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
Retail Inventory: Managing the Canary in the Coal Mine! By: Gaur, Vishal, Saravanan Kesavan, and Ananth Raman Abstract—Retail inventory is a statistic that is closely watched by retailers as well as their investors, lenders, and suppliers. Retailers not only benefit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
positive earnings surprises and positive analyst revisions in the months following passage of the bill, as well as significantly higher future sales and profitability. We show that the more complex the legislation, the more difficulty the View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
problem yet, but at some point I imagine it could be," Ton surmises. "Opening stores in new markets is typically not a way to sustain internal promotions." Growing Pains? The case turns on the question of future growth for... View Details
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
viewership numbers. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808121 MP3 Portable Audio Player Market Harvard Business School Case 608-119 The emergence of the MP3 file-based music format not only... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
opposed to others. But how did this allow the firm to respond effectively to technological change? First, it had an established base of knowledge that could be brought to bear on newly emerging opportunities. Second, it had a well-defined... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
entrust their money to one of the big investment banks or brokerages—Citibank, Chase, Merrill Lynch, or Bear Sterns—which then invests it for them in hedge funds. Funds of funds, the word is on Wall Street, are the next bubble—the next... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
seeking to double her budget for social media and other digital marketing initiatives for 2011. A number of digital efforts implemented in the past two years seem to be bearing fruit, and there is a desire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
of backlash fostered by a long period of neglect of globalization’s effect on labor markets worldwide. Globalization takes many forms: common markets; free flows of workers including refugees and migrants; and multinational organizations... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
backer, is protected in the event of a down round. Who will bear the dilution? SoftBank? Neumann, or the new public shareholders? This leads to the question of how WeWork should be valued. For reasons discussed in the article, WeWork is... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
and placing these centers in its newly held buildings. Despite 3Q’s initial success and with the “build-to-hold” strategy beginning to bear fruit, SOHO’s stock price was still near record lows. How could Zhang Xin educate the stock View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
A. El-Erian Periodical:IMF. Finance and Development 44, no. 1 (March 2007) Download the paper: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2007/03/elerian.htm Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets Authors:P.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
in Washington politicians. Fairly or not, people have become willing to believe that executives, as a class, are greedy and dishonest. However natural it might be to ask how so many executives—not to mention accountants, investment bankers, stock View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
asset returns. We present empirical evidence that bears on some of the model’s distinctive predictions. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50677 Net Neutrality: A Fast Lane to Understanding the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
Marketing Input and Innovation Strategy Harvard Business School Note 508-090 This note develops a framework for considering the challenges of incorporating marketing input when setting innovation strategy.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
has evolved dramatically over the last 30 years with a greater reliance on markets rather than banks, and our regulatory regime has not kept up with those changes. That is one of the reasons we had a subprime crisis. The second is that... View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
Fútbol By: Elberse, Anita Abstract—Markets for soccer players are winner-take-all markets in which a select few top players earn extremely high rewards. The search for effective talent strategies in these conditions has led clubs to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
the risks of failure. Adding to this concern is that even as the number of mega audit firms has contracted from eight in the 1980s to four today, their combined market share remains formidable, especially in the United States. The... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
and George Serafeim Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract In tests of the equity market timing theory of external finance, the prior literature has used overvaluation identifiers such as high market-to-book and high prior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne