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- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
there is financial data available in the years before and after their initial public offering (IPO), I differentiate between those that have private equity sponsorship (PE-backed firms) and those that do not (non-PE-backed firms). The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
have a differentially lower response to these perceived benefits. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1590245 Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster Authors:Nelson P. Repenning and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
managerial autonomy. Stronger competition also leads to less discretion in markets in which the possibilities for product differentiation are important. For a given number of firms, an increase in market size increases centralization, as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
Piskorski Abstract This paper proposes a straightforward way of differentiating between central network positions that confer power and those that confer status. I argue that actors achieve high status by receiving numerous exchanges from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
arises from a major economic, social, and institutional breakdown that jeopardizes the subsidiary's existence. Argentina defaulted on it sovereign debt and devalued the peso by over 200%, but it differentiated the treatment of the FX rate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
management of the pace of technological substitution by providing insights on complementarities between technologies and horizontally differentiated human capital Download working paper:... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
sustainability and identify organization design and leadership characteristics of differentiating and integrating that can more effectively support seemingly contradictory strategies. The Euro as a Reserve Currency for Global Investors... View Details
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and ‘science’ in brand management? Module 4: The Social Value of Brands Key questions will include: What roles do brands play as relational partners? How do different relational roles contribute to differential costs and benefits to... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018
real estate brokerage but helped home buyers and sellers save more money. Over time, in response to customer feedback, Redfin increased the level of customer service it provided while decreasing the amount customers saved, instead relying on its unique online tools to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
eliminate more than 70 percent of fraud without decreasing profit. As he explained in his blog: "By delaying payments, a merchant or network differentially harms bad affiliates (who rightly worry they may get caught) without unduly... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
sustainably differentiated the company from its competitors. For instance, the adoption of fleet management resulted in customer loyalty levels five times higher than under the dominant business model Hilti had formerly employed and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
people? Continue to differentiate itself in a fiercely competitive industry? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716408-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-070 Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
moving "downmarket" without diminishing their prestige or alienating existing customers. The authors suggest various ways to cater to new, non-core customers in a way that differentiates the newcomers from a brand's core... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
the resource-based view of the firm, we examine how teams can develop a knowledge-integration capability to dynamically integrate members' resources into higher performance. We distinguish among three sets of resources: relational, experiential, and structural and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
DaVita in 1999, breaking an important promise to his family in order to do so, he was determined to create a differentiated company with a community-like culture. Over six years, he had engineered an impressive financial turnaround and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
was struggling to compete with and differentiate itself from industry leader LensCrafters, also owned by Luxottica. Increasing competition from low-price competitors, such as Walmart's optical stores, was adding further competitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
increasing financial control and encouraged organizational changes such as multidisciplinary wards differentiated by patients' lengths of stay. To what extent should he (and can he) reinforce these measures, which have increased... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
policies emerge severely limits their consistency. What differentiates the USA is a microeconomic business environment that enables a high degree of regional specialization, benefits especially knowledge-driven industries, and raises the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Experimentation In August 2017, Commonwealth Bank of Australia was looking for ways to differentiate itself from competing banks and was also trying to improve the financial well-being of its customers. One domain where this was... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
hired. The data is consistent with horizontal differentiation of CEO behavioral types and firm-CEO matching frictions. We estimate that 17% of sample CEOs are mismatched and that mismatches are associated with significant productivity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne