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- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
result higher cost of capital. However, this result is not mitigated by the presence of long-term investors, consistent with these investors requiring a risk premium for holding the stock of short-term oriented firms. Overall, our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
Attributing moral agency to business enterprises may be thought to avoid this controversy given that most theories of morality recognize positive duties on the part of all moral agents to help others even if at some cost to their own... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1
channel offers potential benefits in selling to customer segments that value the convenience of online shopping, but it also raises new challenges. These include the higher likelihood of costly product returns when customers' ability to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
located in larger cities. We argue that despite the ex-ante higher search costs associated with hiring from smaller towns, firms can benefit from such hiring. In this study, we explore the relationship... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015
Business School. Guerra was vice president of Operations at Evans Food, a $100 million company, which produced pork rinds-salty snacks made out of pork skin-sold at some of the largest U.S. retailers such as HEB, Meijer, ALDI, and Wal-Mart. In the last few years, the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a cost must be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
are not always made in a competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to compete in a market. We contend that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22
work-life balance and with their work in general. And the firm was better able to recruit and retain employees. Clients also benefited-often in unexpected ways. In this engaging book, Perlow takes you inside BCG to witness the challenges and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
offering limited-capability models that are created by removing or degrading features in existing models. This production method, called versioning, has been lauded because of its ability to increase both consumer and firm welfare. According to rational utility models,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading a company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
benefit from a fresh and open perspective. For students, meanwhile, the experience of generating insights that could have real-world repercussions in a foreign country is empowering, says MacCormack, even if they never plan to work... View Details
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
trust was no doubt engendered in an earlier day when defined benefit (DB) pension plans were offered by lifelong employers like IBM and General Motors. Today, that system is all but extinct. Merton explains that employers underestimated... View Details
- 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009
Consistent with predictions, results reveal that portfolios of level 3 financial assets have higher implied betas and lead to larger bid-ask spreads relative to those designated as level 1 or level 2 assets. Both results are consistent with a higher View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
benefiting small business Karen Mills, Former administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and now a senior fellow at HBS and at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School. Having a... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. As a simple theoretical framework... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
townhouse or buy the one next door. Allows for a discussion of net present value, internal rate of return, and the costs and benefits of homeownership. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17
feedback influence order quantities. We find that the portion of mismatch cost due to adjustment behavior exceeds the portion of mismatch cost due to level behavior in three out of four conditions.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
digitization of information goods have changed the commercial landscape: Virtual shelf space is infinite, consumers can search through innumerable options, and the marginal cost of reproducing and distributing products is low. What does... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
the chain best positioned to create a process that benefits all. In this excerpt, Rangan discusses the promise of channel stewardship. (Look for an HBS Working Knowledge interview with Rangan next month.)Senior managers of most of the... View Details
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
likes to look at this complicated new world in terms of what is changing and what is staying the same. A longtime observer of technology's impact on business, McFarlan has been intrigued by recent developments in the financial services industry. He notes that while the... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young