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- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
percent increase in firm productivity annually and a .1 percent increase in sales growth over a five-year window. And while the study considered the possibility that some CEOs might work more efficiently than others, "we didn't find any... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
available at positive prices. We characterize the size of the p2p network as a function of the firm's pricing strategy and show that the firm may be better off setting high prices, allowing the network to survive, and acknowledging that the p2p network may work more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
other place where you are seeing malls thrive is at the high end. The luxury malls, what the industry calls A-class malls, are doing very, very well. It's the B- and C-class malls that are in trouble. These malls are targeting the... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
efficiency benefits, rebates, and treatment in case of loss or fraud. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=909006 Distribution at American Airlines (A) Harvard Business School Case 909-035... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
[portfolio] firms more efficient.” “The growing success of digital transformation over the past decade has allowed PE firms to develop newer approaches to value creation. Digital technologies allow PE portfolio companies to gain both from top-line growth as well as... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
evidence. NPEs on average behave as "patent trolls." Indeed, NPEs hold and frequently litigate patents that are likely to be at least partially invalidated; moreover, NPEs target cash irrespective of its relation to alleged... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
bridge economic, sociological, and psychological concerns. Nonetheless, a key indicator of this trend is the dominance of the view of organizational economists that hierarchy outperforms non-hierarchical alternatives (including democracy) on grounds of economic View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
studying the broader consequences of reform. We have some preliminary evidence that reforms provide multinationals with assurances that encourage the use of more efficient global production arrangements. In developing countries that... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
says. They studied prices and occupancy rates in 50 major US cities between 2011 and 2014, targeting markets with the largest number of hotels. During the study period, Airbnb made a relatively small dent in the overall short-term... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
aims to maximize revenue from multiple products with limited inventory constraints. As common in practice, the retailer does not know the consumer's purchase probability at each price and must learn the mean demand from sales data. We propose an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
implications for the efficient targeting of social programs more generally. A key issue in this debate is whether higher purchase prices lead to more intensive product use and, therefore, greater health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
efficient use of social resources)? We address these questions through the lens of economics, including insights from legal analysis and business scholarship. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13989... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
it as a chronic condition like cardiovascular disease, rather than as an acute, fatal disease," Maderis concludes. Hitting The Target When human lives are at stake, the urgency involved in turning such predictions into reality goes... View Details
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
not just the politically connected or the business elite. Necessary steps to ensure this include the promotion of transparency in government affairs through the adoption of high-quality standards for government accounting that will improve the management View Details
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
indicates that while production efficiencies have enabled an average S&P 500 company to reduce the cost of goods sold by about 250 basis points over the past decade, SG&A (selling, general and administrative costs) as a percentage... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
efficiencies could perhaps also attract “green finance.” The commercial terms were seldom better than non-green finance, and for the most part, the projects would have been executed anyway. Our alumni were more interested in... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
would not be tractable and it would not be possible to obtain results. After having analyzed the base model, we relax some of these assumptions. Harnessing demand-side learning more efficiently is not sufficient for Linux to win the... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
equity critics claim that leveraged buyouts bring huge job losses. To investigate this claim, we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Boeing's e-Enabled Advantage Harvard Business School Case 807-011 Examines Boeing's new strategy of offering services to regain market dominance and help its struggling airline customers improve efficiency and profitability. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Author:Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus Abstract For the classical marriage model (introduced in Gale and Shapley, 1962) efficiency and envy-freeness are not always compatible; i.e., fair matchings do not always exist. However, for many,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace