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  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

live online webinars-that allowed real estate professionals like brokers and agents to manage and market rental listings, communicate with clients, and complete transaction paperwork (e.g., tenant... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

impressions they make. In field and online experiments in which participants take, share, and evaluate “selfies” (self-photos), we show that paradoxically, these challenges can be exacerbated by temporary sharing media—technologies that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

matter and investments are multidimensional, high levels of asset specificity can foster non-integration: a low level of specificity provides the most misdirected incentives when transacting in a market (because the outside option of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jul 2019
  • Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

co-worker; with 150, it can do better than a family member; and with 300, better than a spouse. But then came the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, when that firm got 250,000 Facebook users to voluntarily give them access to their personal data by playing an View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

complicate the connection between market exchange and value creation. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu /b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=908068 MySpace Harvard Business School Case 708-499 The case, set... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3

substantial information about GMO products, they positively affect approval rates of GMOs by threatening the reputation of the regulatory agency. Our study further shows that firm and product uncertainty increases the impact of the social cues. The Underdog Effect: The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 May 2019
  • Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

Associates, Robert Waldron turned a company that was in decline in 2008 into a profitable $190-million business 10 years later by developing online learning tools as well as print workbooks for schools. In 2017, the company gifted the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology
  • 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The failure of most forecasting agencies to predict the stock market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015

is even more important as markets and buying processes change, and key levers for linking strategy and selling behaviors. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49188 June 2015 ThinkSales It Doesn't Matter If... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25

ratios. Conversely, peer firms identified by Google and Yahoo Finance, as well as product market competitors gleaned from 10-K disclosures, turned in consistently worse performances. We contextualize these results in a simple model that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

our sample). August 2013 Marketing Letters To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts By: Edelman, Benjamin, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We examine the profitability and implications of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

competition in a two-sided market that includes buyers and sellers. One of the platforms benefits from a partial belief advantage, in that each side believes that it is more likely that the other side will join the advantaged platform. We... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Mar 2012
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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 Oct 2013
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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
  • 09 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

airlines like Southwest, which were not trapped by a legacy structure, were able to thrive. Many traditional carriers are still struggling with this adaptation process. Q: What impacts have recent market conditions had on the airline... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation
  • 12 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

that are paying careful attention to the hiring, training, and rewarding of store employees. Our favorite example of a retailer that has used labor successfully is the online retailer Zappos.com. The company pays very careful attention to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

strategy-proof) student optimal mechanism, if the same student preferences would have been revealed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-076.pdf Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets Author:Alvin E. Roth Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Apr 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?

forward. Ganesh Ramakrishnan commented that though there are many signals showing the need to repair old school capitalism, we have a long way to go. "We need the discourse to be expanded beyond simplistic dichotomies such as free View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Service
  • 25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

doctrine, this essay proposes a synthesizing principle: if the deal process involves an adequate market canvass, meaningful price discovery, and an arms-length negotiation, then there should be a strong presumption that the deal price... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Be an Angel Investor

Evaluation success will come in doing deals, emulating winners, and not making the same mistakes more than two, three, or four times. Case Study AOL: The One That Got Away Frans Kok shares with us the story about his decision not to invest in America View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson

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