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- 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2378899 Monitoring the Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Supply chain auditors provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Working PapersMixed Source Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gastón Llanes Abstract We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms that sell software and complementary goods or services. In addition to tactical View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
However, if you're Fitbit or any of the other tracking and monitoring devices on the market today, you should be very concerned. The Apple Watch claims to render everything in these devices relatively obsolete. For $200 more than the... View Details
- 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
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
http://www.nber.org/confer/2009/EIf09/summary.html The Learning Effects of Monitoring Authors: Dennis Campbell, Marc Epstein, and F. Asís Martínez Jerez Publication: The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
garment factory owners engaged in cutthroat price competition to secure orders from Western manufacturer and retailer brands. These brands conveniently sourced their requirements at arm’s length through third-party intermediaries to avoid... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
internal intranet, "thereby allowing customers to serve themselves through their own computers within their own organizations." Nolan also points to Microsoft founder Bill Gates's strategy of holding computer prices relatively constant... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
forthcoming American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption Across Countries By: Cavallo, Alberto, Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, and Marcel P. Timmer Abstract—We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
enrolled at centers with biometric monitoring are 25% less likely to interrupt their treatment than those at regular centers—an improvement driven by increased attendance and efforts by health workers and greater protocol adherence by... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
both the movement of capital markets and gains in the price of competitors’ stock can provide executives with unearned windfalls for uncompetitive performance and promote unwarranted overconfidence. Awarding stock grants without... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
But if the two greatest challenges of an entrepreneur are finding a massive pain point and hiring enough exceptional talent, remote-first is worth the price as your greatest weapon to address the latter. —Samuel Clemens (MBA 2004), HBS... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
and entrepreneurial skills, Mayor Bloomberg, like his counterparts in other cities, has drawn up a plan to make his city greener. With his PlaNYC, supported by extensive tracking software designed to ensure and monitor efficiencies,... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
use infringement, and they may lack information about the price of a license. The uninformed nature of infringement implies that price may not be the primary factor in the decision to settle past use; in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods. Furthermore, our results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
they exercise, and then monitor it for visual cues indicating when, what, and how much to drink. Hydration can dramatically affect athletes, says Nix founder and CEO Meridith Unger (MBA 2010), a former college basketball player and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
Neurosmith. In many ways, Abercrombie was at the right place at the right time. The price of computer chips was plummeting, making it possible to deliver a lot of learning at an affordable price. After researching how children learn,... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
performance. We measure close ties using the education network between fund managers and managers of the investee firms. We find that having close ties to an investee leads to more timely investments only when the funds are closely monitored. For poorly View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
borrowers likely involve fewer monitoring tools and weaker control rights. We evaluate these explanations of cov-lite contract provisions in a large sample of U.S. loans for the 2001–2014 period. Consistent with creditor-driven... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
Jaffe of the Harvard University Department of Economics. Key concepts include: For retailers, discount vouchers provide price discrimination, letting merchants reach customers who know about the business, but wouldn't ordinarily go there... View Details
Keywords: by Staff