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  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

Europe Harvard Business School Case 704-027 Presents challenges facing Wal-Mart during its move into Germany. Explores the dynamics of the German retail market. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016

for the retailer. We refer to this phenomenon as the value of concealment. A negative value of concealment is possible and represents the event that rationally acting consumers respond to the additional uncertainty by purchasing fewer products. We develop a consumer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2003
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Inside the Revolution

academic institution for shaping ideas about management and enterprise in the field of life sciences. “What was needed,” he says, “was an initiative to pull things together and examine the business and industrial dynamics of it.” When... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

Authors:Ranjay Gulati, Maxim Sytch, and Adam Tatarynowicz Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper explores the interplay between social structure and economic action by examining some of the evolutionary View Details
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

highlight a two-stage process for marketing resource allocation. In stage one, a model of demand is estimated. This model empirically assesses the impact of marketing actions on consumer demand of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

paper specifies and estimates a model in which the nominal term structure of interest rates is driven by four state variables: the real interest rate, temporary and permanent components of expected... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Control Theory as Applied to Stochastic and Non-Stochastic Economics." Ph.D. diss., MIT, 1970. Merton, Robert C. "A Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of the Asset Market and its Application to the Pricing of... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2006
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Redefining Health Care

PORTER: Health care's zero-sum competition model adds costs and results in severe quality problems. University professor Michael Porter never planned to write a book on health-care reform. In fact, he expected brickbats in response to a... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

to see a complex technical system in an abstract way and change the system's structure by rearranging its components. In this paper, I argue that the essence of dynamic architectural capabilities lies in the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

self-report of the licensee. The self-reporting aspect of the environment gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010

Management Series. Oxford University Press, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase the Book: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199552863.do Shadow of the Contract: How Contract Structure Shapes Inter-Firm Dispute... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

standard preferences and show that the endogenous structure of the network is conducive to sharing by a significant number of peers, even if sharing is costlier than freeriding. We build on this model of p2p... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

through social learning) and costs (lower maximum solution quality due to a reduction in individual exploration for novel answers) relative to independent problem solving. In contrast to prior work, which has focused on how the presence and network View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

market reallocation and survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We develop a model that incorporates both aspects and identify their relative importance in the gains from multinational production by exploring their distinct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-109.pdf When Smaller Menus Are Better: Variability in Menu-Setting Ability Authors:David Goldreich and Hanna Hałaburda Abstract The economics literature on choice focuses on individuals' decisions when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

within your organization Who Will Benefit Innovative Leaders and Intrapreneurs High-Potential, Mid-Level Managers Experienced Team Leaders Drive innovation within companies of all stages and sizes—whether an established market leader, a fast-growing midsize... View Details
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

are robust to alternative model specifications and sample selection procedures. We demonstrate that an optimal pricing policy should take into consideration the potential costs of two types of strategic customer behavior: opportunistic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

core of the traditional bookmakers' business model. The case examines two aspects of the industry: (1) What specific choices did Betfair make to become the dominant betting exchange, winning the competitive battle over Flutter.com? (2) At... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

2017 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job By: Bussgang, Jeffrey J. Abstract—Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2011
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Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

Networks Published: September 14, 2009 Many business leaders are mystified about how to reach potential customers on social networks such as Facebook. Professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski provides a fresh look into the interpersonal dynamics... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne