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- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
Abstract Because the market for online advertising is both new and fast-changing, participants experiment with all manner of variations. Should an advertiser's payment reflect the number of times an ad was shown, the number of times it was clicked, the number of sales... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
value loop. It also introduces business model representations and proposes four tests for evaluating business models in isolation. This is the first note in a series of three written for the HBS elective course "Competing through... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
not be there tomorrow. A good set of principles and values will remain with you for a lifetime." Among the wider societal responsibilities that Chandaria felt was to improve the rules of the game under which business operated. One major... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
led in hopes of rejuvenating the industry pioneer. The tagline for this phase was "Employee First, Customer Second." Can be used in strategy, change management and leadership courses. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
started FairMarket three years ago. My take on where the market was heading three years ago was similar to Glen's: that dynamic pricing was going to be a significant market opportunity where buyers and sellers could come together and basically set a fair market View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
the death or bankruptcy of at least one seller, are sold at lower prices than other houses. Foreclosure discounts are particularly large, on average, at 28% of the value of a house. The pattern of death-related discounts suggests that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
writing for practitioners by and more interest in research by practitioners few systematic efforts have been made to close the gap. The chapter begins with a discussion of the strategic value R&D in management can have for firms. It... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
established practice. Companies have hired writers and chief content officers to run departments as well as create blogs and other materials—in the process, some have assured sales people that content marketing can mean the end of cold calling. The authors examined 34... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
served tens of millions of transactions with total dollar value in the billions. Users have been drawn to Bitcoin for its decentralization, intentionally relying on no single server or set of servers to store transactions and also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
addition, a growing literature has begun to highlight the potential importance of overconfidence in driving entrepreneurial outcomes. Such a mechanism may appear at face value to work like a lower level of risk aversion, but there are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
argue that the considerable moral hazard of private regulatory enforcement can be mitigated by the scope of organizations' product/service portfolios and by private governance mechanisms. These organizational characteristics affect the stringency of enforcement through... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
Harvard Business School Case 207-109 Taka Haneda, a proprietary trader at the Tokyo office of Goldman Sachs, has just learned that the Nikkei 225 will undergo a significant redefinition over the coming week. He faces several billion dollars of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
with a decrease in debt-equity conflicts of interest. The changes are isolated to firms relatively closer to default. The ruling was also followed by an increase in average leverage and a reduction in covenant use. Finally, we estimate the welfare implications of this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
Module I: Defining and Developing the Business Model The first module of The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) focuses on business model analysis and lean testing. Your business model defines your company and sets its strategic direction, including View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
thinking shuts down, and you lose the value of their unique talents, expertise, and perspectives." Providing resources. This doesn't mean spoiling employees with fancy weekend retreats and unnecessary cutting-edge gadgets, but rather... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
caused by information overload, and an increase in employees' ability to respond readily to customer needs. Inclusion: At its best, interpersonal conversation is an equal-opportunity proposition. It invites all participants to put their... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After? Authors:James E. Austin and Herman B. Leonard Abstract What happens when small iconic socially oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such mergers create significant opportunities for creating... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
managers a way to illustrate the cause-effect relationship between company goals and the overall business strategy. Using an internal value chain model, we discuss how the balanced scorecard can support and enable View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
compare the slant and bias of pairs of articles on identical topics of U.S. politics. Our slant measure is less (more) than zero when an article leans towards Democratic (Republican) viewpoints, while bias is the absolute value of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
HawkinsHarvard Business School Case 110-013 Students must suggest ways to value intangible assets, including trademarks, acquired by Cisco in the Linksys acquisition. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace