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  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

trades involving similar goods. It draws on archival, interview, and observational data mainly from New York state to analyze market participants' efforts to legitimize commerce and resolve a jurisdictional dispute. Building on literature... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

By: Beckert, Sven Abstract—During the last third of the nineteenth century, a debate emerged in a number of European countries on the “American danger.” Responding to the rapid rise of the United States as the world’s most important economy, some European View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Aug 2007
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HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

Following competitors allows you to position yourself against them. Observing analyst valuations and forecasts raises red flags internally when the market has different views on your company's performance and strategies; this allows you... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

innovation enthusiasm she's observed over the past 25 years. She describes the classic mistakes companies make in innovation strategy, process, structure, and skills assessment, illustrating her points with a plethora of real-world... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2005
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How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

instrumental assistance, such as loans of cash, to psychosocial assistance, such as friendship and caring. I observed that these helping relationships all shared a similar characteristic: all of these men had worked at Baxter. I began to... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

volunteering if this history is public rather than private. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50190 Observability Increases the Demand for Commitment Devices By: Exley, Christine L., and Jeffrey K.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2014
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Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

competition among firms? In the working paper Competing with Privacy, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andrés Hervás-Drane "consider a market where firms set prices and disclosure levels for consumer information, and consumers observe both... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010

supplier capabilities and hence about future supplier performance. This paper presents a multi-period model of service level competition among suppliers selling substitutable products to a customer that engages in supply learning. We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2010
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Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

business model for decades. Shrewd observers knew it. The company did not transform itself because it could continue to coast along, living in the reflected aura of its past glory. GM's leadership acted in 2008 as if it were 1998 or 1988.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology
  • 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009

delayed price discovery). This isolates a setting wherein observed strategic trading behavior more likely reflects insiders' private information regarding goodwill, as opposed to other (non-goodwill related) economic performance. Overall,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

including voter, state, and election fixed effects, and allowing movers’ behavior to be arbitrarily different, both in levels and average trend, from non-movers’. We find that state characteristics explain about 52% of the observed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

outs (LBOs) and greatly changed the structure of corporate America. By the late 1980s, though, Milken and junk bonds became more heavily scrutinized, and Milken was eventually implicated in a number of felonious acts. Even after his admission of guilt, however, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Feb 2014
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Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

reservation for a family vacation? In other words, it is difficult to make a loyalty program effective if the consumer does not believe that the rewards are achievable. This myth is partly true because most retailers agree with the View Details
Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

concurrent trades in these stocks by continuing fund managers. This behavior is observed regardless of fund characteristics and is stronger when new managers are external hires. The tendency of continuing fund managers to hold on to... View Details
  • 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

intermediate results or, alternatively, one of closed secrecy around intermediate solutions. We observe the cumulative innovation process in each regime with fine-grained measures and are able to derive inferences with a series of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

heterogeneity across countries and drug classes among all outcomes. While traditional predictors of entry, such as market size, are significant, we also observe that effective buyer institutions (in particular, committed tenders) are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

suggest that workers with higher rank should receive compensation packages more heavily weighted in equity. However, we observe the puzzle that many firms adopt an equality-in-equity strategy: they offer different cash salaries across all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

old technology, and "retreat" strategies, which attempt to accommodate the rise of the new technology by repositioning the old technology in the demand environment. Underlying our arguments is the observation that the emergence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

robbery, as opposed to other kinds of crime like arson, assault, homicide, and rape. Temporal patterns in crime are observed in jurisdictions in which disbursements are focused at the beginning of monthly welfare payment cycles and not in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Deterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears Authors:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed observation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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