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- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
consumers large discounts when they prepay for participating firms' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a discount voucher service can benefit affiliated firms: price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
services. Health plans will eliminate their restrictive networks, allowing members to choose in a competitive (and regional or even national) marketplace the providers that offer the best value for their condition. Plans will help patients make the best View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
for Phase II, a massive mixed-use scheme of more than 7.2 million square feet of market rate residential and commercial development. Kruti Jain, the 28-year-old daughter of Lalitkumar and CEO of KUL, and her team must weigh many decisions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
but an insufficient grasp of the details, and CMOs (chief marketing officers) often view go-to-market decisions as being tactical. What passes for channel strategy often rests with sales divisions, but their primary motivation is to sell... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
incomplete contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the pecuniary benefits of coordinating production... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008
factors investigated were found to be significant for at least one segment, only consumer price index, personal savings rate, and real gross domestic product were strongly significant. To explore further the dynamics of the segments and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
responded at all. A companion study shows that companies that respond to queries from potential customers within an hour are 7 times more likely to connect with a key decision maker than those that wait more than an hour, and 60 times... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
to be known as the Black-Scholes option pricing model. "Don't misunderstand me—getting some education about your financial affairs is a good idea, just as having some understanding of your medical needs is a good idea," Merton... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s decision to enter the retirement market with their new "Dimensional Managed DC" product, a complete retirement solution that aimed to provide investors with what they really wanted: the same... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
multinational firms requires a similar fortitude. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-107.pdf Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank Authors:Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker Abstract We test for evidence of corporate misgovernance at the World Bank.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 26
in the ten-year forward real rate. This finding is at odds with standard macro models based on sticky nominal prices, which imply that monetary policy cannot move real rates over a horizon longer than that over which all prices in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009
Working PapersCPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We develop a model of online advertising in which each advertiser chooses from multiple advertising measurement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
each other. If a Bank One customer, for instance, were interested in online banking, she might visit BankOne.com and learn what services the bank provides. She could also, however, surf over to Wingspanbank.com to find its more elaborate and competitively View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
PE-backed firms generally have higher earnings quality than those that do not have PE sponsorship, engage less in earnings management, and report more conservatively both before and after the IPO. Further, PE-backed firms that are majority-owned by PE sponsors exhibit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
hesitation to treat companies in an unequal fashion. In the cell phone market, the Turkish government sets both minimum and maximum prices. And the prices set for Turkcell are different than those for Turkcell’s competitors. That’s the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508114 Sirtris Pharmaceuticals: Living Healthier, Longer Harvard Business School Case 808-112 Describes a set of key strategic decisions facing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
"failure" rates to near zero. NewCo, a firm that designs enterprise servers, obtained a different type of benefit. In one recent project, the firm was having difficulty meeting the target cost due to the high price of one component. So... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
in large chunks or in smaller increments. Additional topics that can be covered include consideration of what happens to commercial activities formerly run from slum dwellings, whether the market-rate units will indeed sell for high View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
changing environment with the growing acceptance of online retailing that empowered customers by providing greater price transparency and more options. Marketing channels and communication touch points continued to shift. Home Depot's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
context of competitive interactions: whether the definition makes sense in that context and what it implies for decisions to be strategic in such context. As part of this analysis, it also uses the definition to explore a new issue: why... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman