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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
Honeycomb, is designed to be a space where families can capture and curate priceless moments within a private circle. Engagement and retention went through the roof as a result, Lin says, with many parents using the app every day. Half of... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
cost of being matched to an inefficient supplier when the relationship lasts too long. For commodified goods and services, this tradeoff can be the primary determinant of the duration of supply contracts. I develop a model of optimal contract duration that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49614 October 2015 Journal of Finance The Cost of Capital for Alternative Investments By: Jurek, Jakub W., and Erik Stafford Abstract—Traditional risk factor models indicate that hedge funds View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
evolving in this area? A: Yes, they are, and that is not necessarily a good thing. Financial accountability is an important characteristic of high-performing nonprofits, to be sure. But an undue focus on narrowly defined financial accountability can lead to a lot of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
"You could get into this industry and have someone basically fund some of your R&D. You could capture a return much faster. This contributed to the flood of new entrants that we have seen and which has continued pretty... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
trip there that he wanted to see numbers improve in categories such as guns on the battlefield, attacks against the North, and enemies captured and killed. But the pressure to hit the numbers caused his commanders to report falsely... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
civil works. In this way, they have Manila Water as a captured market, and more importantly, they can develop their capabilities as an organization and sell their products to other clients as well. Our livelihood program has already given... View Details
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
organization alignment (alignment index). This enterprise scorecard captures the essential elements of the overall strategy. It provides SMI with the top-down guidance from corporate to the business and service units that needs to be... View Details
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Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising
chorus of claim-making comparisons, before-and-after scenarios, exaggerations, and even warnings about patent infringement to customers contemplating the purchase of a competitor’s product. 49 Advertisers used common visual themes to View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
lost some of their charm when set down on paper. She eventually left her tech job at Udacity to focus on building a way to capture them. “I wanted to find a way to make it easy for my parents to share these stories, and I wanted it to be... View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009
Author:Bettina Klaus Abstract We consider one-to-one matching markets in which agents can either be matched as pairs or remain single. In these so-called roommate markets, agents are consumers and resources at the same time. We investigate two new properties that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
customers wanting a value-adding relationship. For Rockwater to become a strategic partner with its targeted customers required the development of several entirely new processes. The nature of the partnership was captured and communicated... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
asset pricing model in which some investors form beliefs about future price changes in the stock market by extrapolating past price changes, while other investors hold fully rational beliefs. We find that the model captures many features... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
plan for Polished captured the interest of angel investors, not the big-ticket venture capitalists that some of her classmates enticed, reports, “Most of my contacts in some way, shape, or form were initiated at HBS, especially in terms... View Details
- 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010
case presents an emerging new business model: the for-profit "B corporation" designed to combine profits and mission. Founder Xavier Helgesen struggles with how to price his products to capture the value of their social good;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
management to move forward on a step-by-step basis, learning all the time. As for alienating shareholders, that is a problem across all listed businesses, not just in the kind of initiatives we are discussing. But it’s true that in companies that have been View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
is a little bit unique to the work that I’ve been doing over the past 20-plus years, 25 years, that has shaped me in ways that I didn’t necessarily expect is that, I’ll try to capture it here. That challenge is about getting folks who are... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
islands.) But the delays and costs involved nearly killed the company, which survived only with support from the WPTO. Capital expenditures for sources of marine energy are another stumbling block. The equipment that is required to View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
positively predict CL reviews and substantive characteristics of such reviews, including the number of issues evaluated and the seniority of SEC staff involved. These results, robust to identification concerns, are inconsistent with SEC View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
channels. But it still struggled when it came to capturing advertising dollars to its online video platform. The social video website wants to be a "brand-safe" platform that major marketers use to advertise their video ads.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne