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  • 08 Mar 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices

Keywords: by Victor Manuel Bennett, Lamar Pierce, Jason A. Snyder & Michael W. Toffel; Auto
  • 30 Jan 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship

Keywords: by Ramana Nanda
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

news alters a firm's own project discontinuation decisions. The findings reveal that technological learning dominates competition effects. Firms are most sensitive to competitor failure news coming from within the same View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2015
  • Case

Accor: Designing an Asset-Right Business and Disclosure Strategy

By: Mozaffar Khan and George Serafeim
Sebastien Bazin was now in charge of Accor, the world's largest French hotelier, a CAC 40 company with 3,600 hotels in 92 countries and a market cap of €10 billion. Previously as the European head of Colony Capital, one of the largest private equity groups and the... View Details
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    Climate Change is Going to Transform Where and How We Build

    As fires, floods, and droughts increasingly threaten homes, businesses, and other institutions, climate risk has become financial risk. Mortgages written on homes in exposed locations are being shed by banks and absorbed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,... View Details

    • December 1994 (Revised July 1996)
    • Case

    USSR 1988, The: The Search for Growth

    For decades after the revolution of 1917, Communist Party leaders claimed that the socialist economic system was superior to the capitalist system on both moral and economic grounds. By 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party of the... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Systems; Economic Growth; Government and Politics; Soviet Union
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    • 2009
    • Chapter

    The Effects of a Central Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices

    By: Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth
    New gastroenterologists participated in a labor market clearinghouse (a "match") from 1986 through the late 1990s, after which the match was abandoned. This provides an opportunity to study the effects of a match by observing the differences in the outcomes and... View Details
    Keywords: Labor; Market Timing; Marketplace Matching; Failure
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    • 2006
    • Working Paper

    Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship

    By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
    We examine entrepreneurship and creative destruction following US banking deregulations using Census Bureau data. US banking reforms brought about exceptional growth in both entrepreneurship and business closures. The vast majority of closures, however, were the new... View Details
    Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Market Entry and Exit; Capital Markets; Entrepreneurship; Outcome or Result; Business Startups; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; United States
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    • December 2004 (Revised December 2005)
    • Case

    Nectar: Making Loyalty Pay

    By: John A. Deighton
    Loyalty Management UK (LMUK) manages British supermarket chain Sainsbury's frequent-shopper card program, called Nectar. LMUK uses Sainsbury's sponsorship as the magnet to attract other retailers into a profitable, multisponsor loyalty network. Examines the economics... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Business or Company Management; Supply Chain Management; Marketing Strategy; Networks; Marketing Channels; Advertising Campaigns; Outcome or Result; Growth and Development; Retail Industry; Great Britain
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    • June 2016
    • Teaching Note

    Relating to Peapod

    By: Jill Avery and Susan Fournier
    This case concerns the topics of relationship marketing, customer acquisition and retention, brand loyalty, service failure and recovery, new product introduction, and the use of consumer ethnography to study consumer behavior. Specifically, the case explores the... View Details
    Keywords: Brand Management; Customer Relationship Management; CRM; Customer Behavior; Consumer Behavior; Retailing; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; E-commerce; Retail Industry; United States
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    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem

    By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
    Prior work in organizational learning has failed to find a consistent effect of variation in experience on performance. While some studies find a positive relationship between these two variables, others find no effect or even a negative relationship. In this paper, we... View Details
    Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; India
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    • October 2009
    • Article

    Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship

    By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
    We examine entrepreneurship and creative destruction following US banking deregulations using Census Bureau data. US banking reforms brought about exceptional growth in both entrepreneurship and business closures. Most of the closures, however, were the new ventures... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Market Entry and Exit; Capital Markets; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development; Disruptive Innovation
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    • May 2013
    • Article

    From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival

    By: Oliver Falck, Christina Guenther, Stephan Heblich and William R. Kerr
    We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi-natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Competition; Supply and Industry; Labor; West Germany; Soviet Union
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    • December 2001 (Revised February 2004)
    • Case

    Aviation Security after September 11th: Public or Private?

    Was the public or the private sector best positioned to provide security and baggage screening services? The suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the plane crash outside Pittsburgh, marked September 11, 2001, as the date of the most severe... View Details
    Keywords: Private Ownership; National Security; Air Transportation; State Ownership; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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    • January 1998 (Revised April 2001)
    • Case

    Acer America: Development of the Aspire

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Anthony St. George
    Follows the development, national launch, and global rollout of the Aspire, Acer's first new product developed outside of Taiwan. Implementing a very promising new PC concept proves challenging to Mike Culver and his U.S. team, who are plagued by coordination problems... View Details
    Keywords: Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Design; Supply Chain; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Business Subsidiaries; Product Launch; Computer Industry; United States; Taiwan
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    • June 2010 (Revised October 2011)
    • Case

    ProPublica

    By: Michel Anteby, Philippe Bertreau and Charlotte Newman
    Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica's managing editor, entered the organization's newsroom located in lower Manhattan on September 16, 2008. He knew a historical financial debacle was happening at his doorstep, yet none of his journalists were covering that beat. It would... View Details
    Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Leadership; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Organizational Culture; Motivation and Incentives; Journalism and News Industry; Publishing Industry; New York (city, NY)
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    • 08 Nov 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

    writes in "What Have We Learned from Market Design?" "Among the general tasks markets have to perform, difficulties in providing thickness, dealing with congestion, and making participation... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
    • 18 May 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth

    country. Q: What are the practical policy or other implications from your work for public or private decision makers? Where do you see the research making a difference? A: Our paper provides a simple interpretation for the East Asian miracles and for the View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
    • Article

    MIT Roundtable on Corporate Risk Management

    By: Robert C. Merton

    Against the backdrop of financial crisis, a distinguished group of academics and practitioners discusses the contribution of financial management and innovation to corporate growth and value, along with the pitfalls and unintended consequences of such innovation.... View Details

    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Market Participation; Finance; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Value; Distribution; Capital Structure; Risk Management; Business Ventures; Business Model; Strategy
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    • September 2023
    • Case

    The Rise and Fall of FTX

    By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese, Joseph Pacelli and Max Hancock
    In November 2022, Sam Bankman-Fried's multi-billion-dollar crypto exchange, FTX, collapsed, wiping out investors and throwing the crypto industry into disarray. As FTX's founder and CEO, Bankman-Fried developed a reputation for his unerring business sense and... View Details
    Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Crime and Corruption; Financial Statements; Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Failure; Restructuring; United States; Hong Kong; Bahamas
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