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  • 27 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Social Network Marketing: What Works?

camera. Sony can either advertise on Facebook and accept a very low click-through rate, or give away free cameras to several Facebook members (potentially at a lower cost than advertising) and generate a viral campaign. Our research shows... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising; Publishing; Retail
  • 11 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

well-known software retailer, not only launched Egghead.com but also placed all of its eggs in the Internet basket by closing its entire chain of stores. Still, established firms have been relatively slow to jump on the Internet fast... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
  • 23 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 23

intervention (red= "unhealthy"; yellow= "less healthy"; green= "healthy"). Phase 2 added a 3-month choice architecture intervention which increased visibility and convenience of some green items. We compared View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

short-term volatility of inflation-indexed bond returns do not invalidate the basic case for these bonds, that they provide a safe asset for long-term investors. Governments should expect inflation-indexed bonds to be a relatively cheap... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

of shopping malls across the country; Amazon's aggressive expansion of its Prime service; and tough times ahead even for venerable retailer Walmart. In short, retail is at an inflection point, even though ecommerce still makes up a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 09 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 9, 2010

belief is sound, but the authors' analysis of the performance of 45 companies led by CEOs with military experience revealed differences in how the branches (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps) prepare leaders for business. Those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

according to the research. One reason might be that costs are lower for companies that moved production offshore, and the resulting, more efficient firms developed higher-skilled service work, like computer science, to fill the employment... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing
  • 19 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Radical Design, Radical Results

of variety in their products because of the experiments they conduct. Instead, the results showed just the opposite. While the cost of experimentation in the furniture industry is relatively low, Verganti... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products
  • 07 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India

functionality and cost over time over features and require robust solutions for extensive daily use. This approach is not only pragmatic but also resonates with the Indian market, where commercial vehicles are essential to the economy and... View Details
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

strategically, Google can increase advertisers' costs. Increased Costs To Advertisers Once Google controls a substantial share of inventory at Yahoo, advertisers' search advertising options will be severely limited: Save for Google,... View Details
Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing
  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

amount of waste generated to improve the efficiency of the by-product process. In addition to the managerial implications, this analysis can inform policy as we show that increasing disposal cost decreases... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

non-CEO executives in banks with materialistic CEOs insider trade more aggressively around government intervention during the financial crisis. Finally, we find that banks with materialistic CEOs have significantly more downside tail risk View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

Abstract—The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

pre-selection by a menu setter. We develop a model to study the relation between the ability of the menu setter and the size and quality of the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the size of the menu is sufficiently small, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jul 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

adding the software was very large. The engineers undoubtedly felt the pressure of a long-standing culture comprising equal parts of pride, arrogance, and fear. The Company is still recovering from the costs of enormous government fines,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 09 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel

in India: while some decarbonization technologies exist for steel production, most are prohibitively expensive relative to the current market prices for steel, and green steel has small demand, especially in Asia. Since the Government of... View Details
  • 28 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

companies will be explicit about their cooperation and under scrutiny from investors, regulators, and their own legal experts. “Similar to airlines cooperating by purchasing jets together in order to lower costs collectively,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining
  • 04 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 4

We propose that firms' corporate governance and firms' strategic business activities within an industry are interlinked. By conducting a simultaneous economic analysis of business strategy and corporate governance, scholars can better... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

semiconductors and software, but monetization of IP only works there because of some very specific conditions. You need to have a very modular knowledge base; that is, you need to be able to break up a "big puzzle" into its View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology
  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

initially positive indirect network effects decrease in strength, reach their limit, and eventually turn negative. The limit to network effects is different for different types of agents. For agents with few outside options, the limit to network effects is reached... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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