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- 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009
Case 709-017 Despite a tradition of high household savings, Japan has supported a dynamic and technically sophisticated consumer-lending sector. The high profitability of the sector has periodically attracted interest from domestic banks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
understanding the impact that branding activity (the audio-visual representation of brands) and consumers' dispersion of attention have on their moment-to-moment avoidance decisions during television advertising. It formalizes this in a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
describe how previously identified "second-generation" forms of subtle gender bias have impeded women's progress. These practices and patterns, although unintentional, favor men and create structural career blocks for women. The... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4
resources to meeting that customer's needs. This article will show you how to identify the best primary customer for your business by analyzing perspective, capabilities, and profit potential; allocate resources through structural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24
structuring of consumer loans than those who are not. Conditional on using decision-making authority, their decisions are also less risky ex post. These findings demonstrate employee selection as an important, but understudied, element of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007
stimulates greater use for a given buyer). We find that higher prices screen out those who use the product less. The amount paid does not have a psychological effect on use, but there is some evidence that the act of paying increases use. We use our data to estimate an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016
analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
economies, the smaller economies pay the price. The problem is exacerbated by continuing structural weaknesses in developing countries where foreign investments are not necessarily anchored in long-term commitments to infrastructure or... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14
Abstract An organization's compensation strategy plays a critical role in motivating workers and attracting high-performing employees. Most of the research linking compensation to strategy relies on the principal-agent model of economics,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14
http://hbr.org/2014/01/the-new-patterns-of-innovation/ar/1 January 2014 Journal of Labor Economics Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms By: Pekkala Kerr, Sari, William R. Kerr, and William F. Lincoln Abstract—We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
groups and above a threshold with respect to system size. We find that the size of the Core varies widely, even for systems that perform the same function. These differences appear to be associated with different models of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
mental models of what an industry is or should be, and so you're likely to see much more creativity in their definition, if you will, of a new market. It's extremely difficult to have enough self-awareness as a company to understand how... View Details
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
caught up in bits and bytes and microprocessor architectures is to embrace the concept of abstraction. Abstraction means substituting a simplified model for the full and technically complex reality. It acts as a filter, enabling “MBAs... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18
assumptions are present in the structure of technology and labor flows within Silicon Valley and its surrounding areas. Our model further identifies how the lengths over which agglomerative forces operate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
Schumpeter strays in Business Cycles onto whatever tangents interest him. Today, research efforts comparable to what Schumpeter was trying to do often employ teams of half a dozen statisticians, economists, and other social scientists. But in the 1920s and 1930s, this... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
benefits from racial diversity but that diversity is a liability when society's negative stereotypes about racial minorities' competence inhibit such interactions. We analyze two years of data from 496 retail bank branches to investigate racial asymmetries in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18
business contribution. The case uses interviews with Winfrey and her team to analyze how the business model and strategy of the company has changed—in the context of a dynamic marketplace, rapid... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
the other parts of the problem,” Shore says. “In that sense, it’s like a model for complex business decision-making because, usually, interesting problems are not just a matter of tweaking one variable up a little bit or down a little... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
are very different consumers from the more affluent. What kind of business models are needed? A: There are three major challenges. First, there is the issue of cultural distance between corporate decision makers and the poor. Let's face... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006
forecasting, despite a number of characteristics that make it a challenge to fit to a dynamic supply chain environment, to be effective in that context. We further show that the forecasting process, together with the supporting mechanisms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne