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  • 12 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

It ended up being the best revenue-generating idea Bing ever had, worth $100 million. That experience illustrates why it’s critical to adopt an “experiment with everything” approach, say Kohavi, the head of the Analysis &... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

changed with the times, what improvements, if any, have they experienced in customer satisfaction and financial performance? Shapiro: Unfortunately, we did not formally maintain relationships with the many companies that we used as field... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
  • 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

process. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54030 forthcoming Academy of Management Journal The Role of Investor Gut Feel in Managing Complexity and Extreme Risk By: Huang, Laura Abstract—Securing financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

Media.) Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-039.pdf From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America Authors:Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

Most Successful CEOs Come from Within By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—The financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession caused a crisis of public confidence in business and American-style capitalism, with its focus on maximizing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

evidence that such “CEO activism” can influence public opinion and consumer attitudes. Our field experiment examines the impact of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s public statements opposing a pending religious freedom law that critics warned would... View Details
  • 29 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Get Off the Dime!

accept new software as long as they suffered little inconvenience and little change except reduced costs. They wanted their financial reporting to have their traditional look and feel. They wanted to do maintenance scheduling their way... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
  • October 2016 (Revised January 2017)
  • Supplement

Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
By many measures the largest health-club chain in the United States in the early 2000s, Bally Total Fitness sold most of its remaining fitness clubs to 24 Hour Fitness in 2014 and disappeared from the industry top 100 rankings. After Bally was bedeviled by accounting... View Details
Keywords: Bally Total Fitness; Accounting; Accounting Audits; Accrual Accounting; Business Earnings; Revenue Recognition; Financial Statements; Acquisition; Business Exit or Shutdown; For-Profit Firms; Crime and Corruption; Borrowing and Debt; Capital; Capital Structure; Cash; Cash Flow; Public Equity; Financial Condition; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financing and Loans; Investment Activism; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Business History; Executive Compensation; Resignation and Termination; Annual Reports; Contracts; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Marketing; Market Entry and Exit; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Health Industry; Accounting Industry; United States; Illinois; Chicago
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  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

actions. Combining supermarket scanner data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

limited managers' incentives to take actions favoring equity over debt for firms in the vicinity of financial distress. We show that this ruling increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced firm risk,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

increasing in financial characteristics predicted to be associated with greater unverifiable fair-value-based discretion. To investigate whether non-impairment is associated with managers producing on average better estimates of goodwill... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Nov 2024
  • HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

criticisms of the camp and their suggestions for improving it. Appointed to work under the Army’s top officer, Douglas MacArthur, Eisenhower immersed himself in a detailed analysis of World War II as it began in Europe and Asia. His... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy in Two Sectors Authors:Luo, Jianxi, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Daniel E. Whitney, and Christopher L. Magee Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change Abstract Many... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

within the FBI and archival analysis of Congressional testimonies from 2001 to 2013, we trace how top management shifted the design and identity of the FBI from those of a law enforcement agency to those of a national security... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

the largest financial services providers in the U.S., indicate that customer sensitivity to service time varies widely and predictably with observable market characteristics. In turn, we find evidence that local operating managers account... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608123 Dogus Group: Weighing Partners for Garanti Bank Harvard Business School Case 709-401 In August 2005, the leadership of Turkey's Dogus Group considered opportunities for its flagship enterprise,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

study of a sponsorship collaboration between a global financial institution (UBS) and a multi-site museum (Guggenheim) evaluates critical aspects of resource integration between the partners with implications for the theory and practice... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

In their contracts with Walmart, suppliers must agree to accept any financial or criminal liability resulting from the sale of their products. Elmburg felt that Walmart, given its size and as the point of purchase, had an ability to... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail
  • 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

executives during the initial stages of implementing the new strategy. Our analysis demonstrates that this firm's balanced scorecard contained useful and timely information for distinguishing between these alternatives. These results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

high-beta stocks. An Empirical Analysis of Innovation Contests: Strategic Incentives, Problem Uncertainty and Independent Experimentation along Parallel Paths Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau, Nicola Lacetera, and Karim R. Lakhani... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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