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  • 06 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

River in identifying investments, performing due diligence, and working with portfolio companies and asks how Blue River should build itself into a top-tier private equity fund, particularly as more and more foreign firms target the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

percent increase in housing prices. Moreover, Yelp measures of local business activity provide leading indicators for housing price changes and help to forecast which neighborhoods are gentrifying. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

5.1 Information Technology | MBA

Federal copyright law prohibits the reproduction, distribution, public display, or public performance of copyrighted materials without permission of the copyright owner, unless fair use or another exemption under copyright law applies. In... View Details
  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, HBS professor and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 9

performance of hybrid organizations that pursue a social mission, and sustain their operations through commercial activities, by studying work integration social enterprises (WISEs). We argue that social imprinting and economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 14

the more complex the legislation, the more difficulty the market has in assessing the impact of these bills. Consistent with the legislator incentive mechanism, the more concentrated the legislator's interest in the industry, the more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 May 2017
  • News

Going with the Flow

humor, however, is a no-nonsense approach to business performance that stems from Fisher’s upbringing as the daughter and granddaughter of rural central Pennsylvania entrepreneurs who taught her that great ideas can be backed with the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
  • 26 Feb 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels

performance of hotels versus Airbnb, the researchers used hotel data from STR, which tracks more than 161,000 hotels, as well as proprietary data provided by Airbnb, creating "the perfect setup to study market competition between new... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Travel
  • 11 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

and studied the performance of the algorithms with Kirk Bansak, an assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley. The work builds from their partnership with the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University, which uses... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

selling valuable and scarce products are more likely to have separate primary and secondary markets and will therefore appropriate more value when secondary markets thicken. Firms selling products that are not valuable and scarce will be hurt. Further, we hypothesize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54596 Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Follow the Informativeness Principle? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract— We examine... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

made from 1990 to 1995 picking up the pieces of the crash," says Fidelity's Sandwen. "Prices adjusted and real estate became more attractive. And we got back to relative equilibrium through the tech bust in 2001. After the bust,... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate
  • 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

PublicationsManaging School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership Authors:Stacey Childress, Richard F. Elmore, Allen Grossman, and Susan Moore Johnson, editors Publication:Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2007 Abstract Managing School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

of athletic footwear, should respond to Adidas' planned acquisition of Reebok—a transaction that would join the second- and third-largest companies in the industry. Highlights the unique aspects of New Balance's strategy—focusing on fit and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

initially positive indirect network effects decrease in strength, reach their limit, and eventually turn negative. The limit to network effects is different for different types of agents. For agents with few outside options, the limit to network effects is reached... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

portable, but with inferior performance characteristics, the Montague folding bicycle has the look, feel, and performance of a standard bicycle. However, while the firm has experienced notable success since... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

new manufacturing plant, the quick and easy decision would be to choose the current low-cost location—but since that can change within a relatively short time span (as it did with China), it's also important to factor in longer-term... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 23 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Status: When and Why It Matters

status plays a role in the price. But we also have to admit that it is one of the best cars ever produced, and that many deem the combination of its performance characteristics and quality without equal. "To get at the symbolic value... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

Ideas in Action

performed significantly better than others when evaluated for “presence” and were more likely to be hired. Their secret? Striking expansive poses for two minutes before the interview. The study builds on Associate Professor Amy Cuddy’s... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 22 May 2020
  • In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

Gallani: Physician pay will get a closer look The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the problems of compensation based on relative value unit (RVU) as never before. Hospitals have been overwhelmed with COVID-related cases and, at the same... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost