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  • 02 Sep 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?

restrictions on the reporter’s movements and contacts within the company. But let’s assume for the moment that the article was even-handed and accurate.  It portrayed an organization with a “churn and burn” personnel View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Consumer Products; Fashion
  • 28 Jan 2022
  • News

How Companies Are Using Tech to Give Employees More Autonomy

  • 30 Nov 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industry

Keywords: by Regina Abrami & Yu Zheng; Manufacturing; Chemical
  • 21 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 21

by 5%-7% per year in risk-adjusted stock returns. In sum, our results document a surprisingly large impact of immigrants' economic role as conduits of information for firms in their new countries. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Eaton Corp.: Portfolio Transformation and the Cost of Capital

    In 2000, Eaton Corporation was broadly diversified industrial conglomerate.  But its strategy was evolving and its focus was narrowing around “power management” and more recently on “intelligent power,” the use of digitally enabled products and services designed... View Details
    • 30 May 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Non-Standard Matches and Charitable Giving

    Keywords: by Michael Sanders, Sarah Smith & Michael I. Norton
    • 29 May 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: May 29

    in companies and the implications. Finally, the chapter concludes with a sample of what B2B companies have done in their attempts to improve marketing-sales coordination, including suggestions for future research. Publisher's Link:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 09 Sep 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: September 9, 2008

    strategic issue. For countries, regions and cities, competition raised the stakes of understanding how to improve productivity and attract firms in specific fields beyond providing low factor costs and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • November 2021
    • Article

    Ratings, Reviews, and the Marketing of New Products

    By: Itay P. Fainmesser, Dominique Olié Lauga and Elie Ofek
    We study how user-generated content (UGC) about new products impacts a firm's advertising and pricing decisions and the effect on profits and market dynamics. We construct a two-period model where consumers value quality and are heterogeneous in their taste for the new... View Details
    Keywords: Online Reviews; Product Ratings; Social Networks; Word Of Mouth; Pricing; User-generated Content; Advertising; Product Marketing; Price; Consumer Behavior; Product Positioning; Social Media
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    • 19 Sep 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Strategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies

    Keywords: by Emmanuel Farhi & Andrei Hagiu
    • Article

    Network Effects in the Governance of Strategic Alliances

    We argue that the stock of prior alliances between participants in the biotechnology sector forms a network that serves as a governance mechanism in interfirm transactions. To test how this network substitutes for other governance mechanisms, we examine how equity... View Details
    Keywords: Network Effects; Governance; Strategy; Alliances; Stocks; Market Transactions; Equity; Mortgages; Biotechnology Industry
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    • August 2007 (Revised November 2010)
    • Case

    Grand Central Publishing

    By: Anita Elberse
    In April 2007, Grand Central's publisher Jamie Raab and editor Karen Kosztolnyik were involved in a frantic bidding war for a proposed book on the life of cat Dewey, billed as the feline answer to the best-selling "Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Product Launch; Bids and Bidding; Product Development; Publishing Industry
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    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Price Competition under Multinomial Logit Demand Functions with Random Coefficients

    In this paper, we postulate a general class of price competition models with Mixed Multinomial Logit demand functions under affine cost functions. We first characterize the equilibrium behavior of this class of models in the case where each product in the market is... View Details
    Keywords: Customers; Income Characteristics; Price; Product Marketing; Mathematical Methods; Competition; Segmentation
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    • 01 Apr 2024
    • In Practice

    Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes

    consumers can more flexibly adjust habits. More sophisticated firms take this into account when formulating their strategies and making long-run forecasts. Attention of regulators. The Federal Trade... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Consumer Products
    • January 2019 (Revised March 2021)
    • Case

    SoundCloud: Subscription Streaming?

    By: Ashish Nanda, Eric Van den Steen, Andy Wu, Jeffrey Boyar and Bonnie Bennett Slater
    Established in 2007, SoundCloud already boasted the second largest number of active music listeners among all streaming services and was recognized as the go-to platform for new artists by early 2014. Yet, its founders were questioning the robustness of the firm’s... View Details
    Keywords: Audio; Recording; Artist; Music; Music Downloads; Streaming; Radio; Subscription; Subscription Model; Mainstream; Growth; Lawsuit; Licensing; Customers; Platform; Pivot; Music Entertainment; Strategy; Leadership; Business Model; Decision Making; Advertising; Digital Platforms; Music Industry; Europe; Germany; Sweden; United States
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    • 12 Mar 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

    for growth. During the nineteenth century, most multinational investment in developing countries went into natural resources and related services. These were often enclave investments, like mining towns, with few links to the local... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical
    • 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
    • 03 Feb 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: February 3

    Dennis A. Yao Abstract—This article examines how antitrust law and policy can benefit from ideas developed in the academic strategy field. Because accurate assessment and prediction of the effects of firm... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • October 2019 (Revised January 2020)
    • Case

    Fixing Facebook: Fake News, Privacy, and Platform Governance

    By: David Yoffie and Daniel Fisher
    Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook based on the idea that connecting people was a fundamentally good thing—and a way to turn a handsome profit. But from the beginning, Facebook received criticism both for how it handled user privacy and how it curated user-generated... View Details
    Keywords: Platform; Governance; Privacy; Internet and the Web; Corporate Governance; Ethics; Business and Government Relations; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Web Services Industry
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    • 18 Apr 2022
    • HBS Case

    Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off

    cases entitled “Dick’s Sporting Goods: Getting Out of the Gun Business.” “Standing on the societal sidelines is increasingly becoming less of an option for companies and business leaders.” Riedel stresses that no two companies are the... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald