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- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Dynamics By: Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo Abstract—Which managerial skills, traits, and practices matter most for productivity? How does the observability of these features affect how appropriately they are priced... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 8, 2008
Society to Create Competitive Advantage Harvard Business School Case 307-076 Focuses on the experience of China's largest shirt manufacturer in managing various aspects of government relations in China. Identifies a wide variety of social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
Venturing for Nokia. The result is reduced innovation, an emphasis on hardware solutions over software, and not much market pressure on pricing for services, several panel members agreed. Miner, of Orange, foresees a trend toward... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge
use of the strategic text sequence prompted the AI assistant to choose the targeted products for recommendation even though they didn’t always meet the consumer’s stated criteria. For example, one of the machines was repeatedly included in the results even though it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Bibliography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
front. "The price of a piece of information is vanishingly small, so we have to play tricks to make sure it doesn't disappear to zero," said Upton. "That doesn't work unless I make some artificial distinction between... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
defeated by a less reformist coalition. Stock prices of government-controlled companies that had been slated for definite privatization by the BJP dropped by 3.5 percent relative to private firms. Surprisingly, government-controlled... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
debt issuers deteriorates during credit booms, and that this deterioration forecasts low excess returns to corporate bondholders. The key insight is that changes in the pricing of credit risk disproportionately affect the financing costs... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
association between creativity and dishonesty, thus highlighting a dark side of creativity. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-064.pdf Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns Authors:Robin Greenwood and Samuel G. Hanson Abstract Changes in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship
B2C Marketing Compilation of posts on B2C marketing , Tom Eisenmann Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us , Duncan Watts Building Brand Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd , Youngme Moon Building Teams/Culture Compilation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
implemented. Service industries, by definition, are all about the people. Get that right and you will do well. — Jacob Navon (MBA 1984) If you’d said that your competitive advantage was something other than personal service/high quality,... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008
a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help themselves, while the measure of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
mechanics that add very little to the competitive position or underlying value of the enterprise." But while board members are now taking their jobs more seriously, their input is not necessarily as helpful or effective as it could... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Index Connect, that would essentially allow retailers to pool customer contact data and be more competitive with Amazon. Participants must evaluate whether Index was taking the right approach to sales and marketing and consider how the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009
delayed price discovery). This isolates a setting wherein observed strategic trading behavior more likely reflects insiders' private information regarding goodwill, as opposed to other (non-goodwill related) economic performance. Overall,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
shipping them back to the United States. The collection contains a large amount of correspondence detailing competition for trade, price of goods, the general business atmosphere, and his views on social... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017
parameters, which must be learned from sales data. In the presence of these unknown demand parameters, the retailer faces a tradeoff commonly referred to as the exploration-exploitation tradeoff. Towards the beginning of the selling season, the retailer may offer... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
liquidating funds: at the beginning of the fire sale, they sell their holdings in the liquidated stocks, to then cover their positions once asset prices start recovering. The predatory trades generate at least 50 basis points over ten... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne