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- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
earnings from uncertain to more certain times. We document that firms report more negative discretionary accruals when financial markets are less certain about their future prospects. Stock-price responses to earnings surprises are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
with individuals from Kraft, Procter & Gamble, or almost any name-brand consumer goods company you’d care to name. Aside from our 99ers, these long-term relationships are probably our most valuable asset that is not on our balance sheet.... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
relies heavily on foreign debt. Access to such debt is suddenly curtailed when there is a downturn in market sentiment regarding the Icelandic economy as a whole. Students will reflect on the essential elements of a communications... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
the quintessential entrepreneur." When Schultz purchased the Starbucks name and assets in 1987 for $3.8 million, the company, founded in 1971, had six retail stores that sold whole bean coffee, tea, and spices. Three years later, there... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Authors:Eric J. Van den Steen Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a theory of the firm in which a firm's centralized asset ownership and low-powered incentives give the manager, as an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
will in fact homogenize consumption patterns, and a few superstar products will emerge as winners in the market place. In this study, using two large customer transactions data sets obtained from an online music service and an online DVD... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
television. We were a cable television company. So the first thing is we had to create a unique distribution model. Many of them still watched broadcast TV, so first we had to convince Viacom to allow us to acquire broadcast stations in local View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
businesses that were going to be a source for good, and that really aspired to both, to profit and to purpose. You know, the whole premise or conceit, if you will, that's sort of taught in business schools, is that the private sector and the free View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
have today's senior executives, trained in the days when the pyramidal organization and domestic markets held sway, made the transition to a global, technology-driven economy? For three 1971 classmates and corporate leaders, Donald J.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
U.S. corporations, which enjoy ready access to the deepest capital markets in the world. Venture capital, for example, and the public equity markets that support it, has channeled money to innovative ideas... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Walgreens has made a concerted effort to locate more stores in urban areas where residents do not have access to large drugstores, recognizing a considerable, underserved market that has been documented in ICIC research. City dwellers are... View Details
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
concrete skills such as marketing or sales experience, aim to gain insight into one’s influences, family history, and internalized messages: When you're overwhelmed, do you seek support or are you more likely to hide for fear of being... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
explanations for entrepreneurial success in nascent markets but leaves a key imperative unexplored: the business model. By studying five ventures in the same nascent market, we develop a novel theoretical framework for understanding how... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
explanations of our findings. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1572699 August 2013 Journal of Finance Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market By: Ivashina, Victoria, and Bo Becker Abstract—Reaching for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
American life. New technologies, such as the cell phone and BlackBerry, came to be viewed as necessities. Firms selling small luxuries, such as Starbucks, which created an enormous market for specialty coffee, grew to rival the size of... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
consumers and in the communities where we operated. Contrary to competitive motives that seek to improve companies' market share, the risk management motivation mainly attempted to preserve a favorable status quo. Very often these were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Entertainment Group and ahead of Cinemark Theatres), AMC has 345 theaters and nearly 5,000 screens across the United States, with about 20,000 employees hosting some 200 million moviegoers each year. (AMC has the largest market share in... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
this activity: Egypt's population is approaching 110 million, the highest in the MENA region, with about half of its citizens between the ages of 15 and 45 and the range of mobile-phone penetration well over 90 percent. The market to meet... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
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