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  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

The Exchange: Venture Forth

introduction of Amazon Web Services in early 2006. This was the defining moment when the cost of starting consumer internet businesses really plummeted. That fact was very useful in rationalizing other things we saw happening: VC... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

Alumni Books Coffee Can Investing: A Better Idea Than Mutual Funds in an IRA or 401(k) by Terry Allen (MBA 1963) Fuller Mountain Press This book describes exactly what to do to maximize returns for those who want to bet on the stock market. It also suggests alternative... View Details
Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

volatility, whereas shadow banks tend to hold relatively liquid assets. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/banks_20150305_FINAL.pdf March 2015 Production and Operations Management Managing the Performance Tradeoffs from Partner Integration:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?

verify their gut with a more quantitative analysis. What type of investor are you? Neither approach is necessarily better, says Huang. Rather, both are investors’ ways of managing and rationalizing risk. Checklist investors deal with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

(Ostrom, 1990). Here we extend this claim to the production of man-made artifacts. The design commons induced teachers to volunteer time and effort to communicate their practical knowledge but created corresponding tensions over interdependent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

stabilize prices, develop a plan to rationalize capacity, and so on. The mentality was that all companies should share equally in the pain; then no one will get hurt too badly. Of course, this approach leads to a perpetually uncompetitive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 15 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

Farjoun argues that we have neglected the full array of modes of cognition between rational choice and feedback-based adaptive learning and have therefore overstated the role of our focal mode, reasoning by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

all) available seats. Boston’s school choice system, for example, reserved half of each school’s seats for local neighborhood applicants while leaving the other half for open competition. This paper shows that in the presence of reserves,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

innovations from industry outsiders who saw economic opportunities where others didn’t—and how these mainstream firms had no choice but to innovate themselves. New models were tried: some succeeded, some failed. Commercial markets turned... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

financial losses suggest that gray zones strive in contemporary organizations. The more interesting question is why do supposedly rationally designed and professionally managed organizations sustain such gray zones? This research suggests... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

Case of Search Platforms Authors:Hanna Hałaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We show that a two-sided platform can successfully compete by limiting the choice of potential matches it offers to its customers while charging higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

sometimes the victims of the unethical behavior are identifiable, and sometimes they are not. In addition, in our uncertain world, sometimes an unethical action causes harm, and sometimes it does not. We argue that a rational assessment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

Wandering By: Giblin, Colleen, Carey K. Morewedge, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—The mind wanders, even when people are attempting to make complex decisions. We suggest that such mind wandering-allowing one's thoughts to wander until the "correct" View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

http://hbr.org/product/go-mobile-aligning-district-managers-and-store-teams/an/114034-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-076 Leader Bank, N.A. No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/leader-bank-n-a/an/214076-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

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
  • 18 Jun 2007
  • Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

one way and on your credit application to your mortgage lender in another way. In a moment of weakness, you might account for your income favorably to your prospective lender and not so favorably to the IRS. You might find yourself coming up with all kinds of curious... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
  • 25 Nov 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

happened to be less effective than the tribal tricks of the trade—tricks that the employees hid from the higher-ups, thus thwarting the goal of learning by observing. Bernstein says that there was no ill-intent or cheating behind such hiding behavior, but merely a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 02 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 2

stick with practicing medicine. This essay argues that physicians currently in practice could be equipped over time with the management skill necessary to develop and implement new models of primary care. A Choice Prediction Competition... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

behavioral finance: How rational are individual investors? It touches on the quality of advice that investors get, and the relationships between investors and their financial advisers. As we potentially shift our Social Security system... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

Care? By: Handel, Benjamin, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—Consumers suffer significant losses from not acting on available information. These losses stem from frictions such as search costs, switching costs, and rational inattention,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne