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  • 24 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

transactions to discover and collect funds owed to their clients. PRG had historically been profitable, and clients were satisfied with their service. In recent years, however, the industry overall and PRG's sales, had been in decline.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

A Matter of Opinion

After sixteen years at the editorial helm, Navasky became the magazine’s owner in 1994 thanks to a $1 million transaction largely funded by supporters including Paul Newman and E.L. Doctorow. As The Nation’s publisher, he then turned to a... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 27 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 27

transactions and vice versa. This paper estimates the effect of competition and service quality on mobile money demand. In this setting, service quality consists of service reliability (lower stockout and system downtime rates), pricing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business

big-picture question for me is in how we interact with other people," she says. "It's hard to come up with any business transaction you can do alone." The Tipping Point Of Animacy Specifically, Looser is interested in what happens to our... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

Acquisition of Abbey: Banking Across Borders Harvard Business School Case 707-485 Banco Santander, Spain's largest commercial bank, announced in July 2004 the acquisition of Abbey National Bank, the fifth largest U.K. commercial bank. This View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

operations are not well integrated across media. As a consequence, a frequent shopper may be given first-class treatment in the physical store but receive marginal service on the telephone or via the Internet. Retailers need to tap into the same product, customer, and... View Details
Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail
  • 31 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

physicians whether an available alternative drug was more or less costly than the advertised drug, primarily because physicians are not always aware of drug prices. Economic research is needed on the comparative transaction prices of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

gridlock trapping a Formula 1 race car. Blockchain promises to solve this problem. The technology behind bitcoin, blockchain is an open, distributed ledger that records transactions safely, permanently and very efficiently. For instance,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

would reduce Shift’s labor per transaction and thereby improve the venture’s unit economics and its scalability, Shift might risk undermining users’ trust by handing off responsibility for critical tasks. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

characteristic-based portfolio strategy that requires relatively low annual turnover. This is a continuum, with small size (a very persistent characteristic) at one end of the spectrum and high frequency reversal at the other. Unlike low-turnover tilts, a full history... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29

to everyday transactions like selling a house, buying a car, or landing a new contract. Wheeler also draws lessons on agility and creativity from fields like jazz, sports, theater, and even military science. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

decade have been (1) the rise of business ecosystems caused by falling transaction costs; and (2) the empowerment of users caused by the global spread of communication technologies. A business ecosystem is a group of firms that together... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

"unraveled" and experienced transactions at dispersed and apparently inefficiently early times. Often these markets develop institutions to coordinate and delay the timing of transactions. However it has proved difficult to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Bad Times for Business

the world for their ability to minimize transaction costs, maximize liquidity and access, and fund a lot of very innovative and complex businesses. Unfortunately, the same forces that made markets so liquid may have made market... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

client relationships to the rest of the company, growing their business from just local transactions to the full array of services JLL provided. Second, local brokers became aware of a great number of mid-sized clients whose real estate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

Wage a 'Negotiation Campaign' Author:James K. Sebenius Publication:Negotiation 13, no. 11 (November 2010) Abstract While negotiation scholars primarily take the individual transaction as the "unit of analysis," this article... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

http://www.weforum.org/pdf/cgi/pe/Full_Report2.pdf Five Ways to Bungle a Job Change Authors:Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 1 (January-February 2010):137-140 Abstract The article focuses on career development and job... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

horizontal expansion into new alternative asset products and services, both organically and through acquisition. These included businesses in private equity, real estate, funds of hedge funds, alternative credit, opportunistic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

transactions and vice versa. This paper examines how service quality, competition, and poverty are related to demand and inventory (of electronic credit and physical cash) where, in this setting, service quality consists of pricing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

developing countries considering both creditor and debtor side of the international debt transactions. Using these measures, we demonstrate that sovereign-to-sovereign transactions account for upstream capital flows and global imbalances.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne