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- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
Z. Ahmed, and Charles Cohen Abstract We use yearly variations in the price of oil to construct a powerful new instrument to test the impact of an important but often-overlooked foreign aid channel: money given by wealthy OPEC nations to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
The cult of the CEO is complex and persistent—and usually not good for business, says HBS professor Rakesh Khurana. Khurana recently fielded questions from HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace in an e-mail interview about his new book, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
million, though the price may be negotiable. The other site, a former apple orchard of about one hundred acres, was acquired by a local bank through a foreclosure. The bank is preparing to list the property but has yet to set an asking... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/PIMAp.pdf August 2013 American Economic Journal: Microeconomics Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz Abstract—We consider market rules for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
style, and thus set prices that limit market penetration. The winning strategy diverges from this approach in almost every respect. When innovators develop products that people want to pull into their lives, they create markets that serve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
investment banks, and consultancies that once shunned the practice and from the increasing influence of proxy advisory firms. But it was the many institutional investors who eventually embraced activists in their search for better returns... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
outline a consumer-oriented research agenda that will provide individuals with good advice about core purchase decisions. My anecdotal experience is that many homebuyers search until they fall in love with one house, negotiate only for... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
isn't easy. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/strategic-decisions-for-multisided-platforms/ January 2014 Harvard Business Review The New Patterns of Innovation By: Parmar, Rashik, Ian Mackenzie, David Cohn, and David Gann Abstract—The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
collaborate with partners; being able to manage the conflicts of interest inherent to such compete-collaborate relationships; knowing how to monetize the value created by the ecosystem (which member of the ecosystem is needed most—developers or end users—and how the... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
economics, demonstrating a persistent concern with market fairness—not only fair prices for consumers but also fair competition among businesses. Proponents of fair trade collaborated with regulators to create codes of fair competition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
interactivity, including Thought tracing. Firms infer states of mind from the content of a Web search and serve up relevant advertising; a market born of search terms develops. Ubiquitous connectivity. As... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Xu Abstract—We investigate how dynamic pricing can lead to more product returns in the online retail industry. Using detailed sales data of more than two million transactions from the Indian online retail market, where View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
collaborate on a field experiment with Ashraf and two colleagues, Oriana Bandiera of the London School of Economics and Kelsey Jack of Tufts University. SFH had established a new program in which hairdressers provided HIV/AIDS education and sold female condoms at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
(revenue maximizing) auction for sponsored search advertising. We show that a search engine's optimal reserve price is independent of the number of bidders and independent of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
bringing them to market. Though this article presents the three diagnostics linearly, they are rarely conducted in a linear fashion. Teams or individuals searching for disruptive opportunities can start with any of them. The results of... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
postadoption behavior varies depending on customer acquisition method and dynamic states. At the total usage level, in one context (an annotation and note-taking service), customers who heard about the service through search and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
promising and profitable. This should benefit small businesses who, despite having to deal with higher interest rates in some cases, could find more transparency in product and pricing options, lower search... View Details
- 15 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
A New Model for Business: The Museum
environment. It sets the rules." Apple, meanwhile, has made an art form out of curation, not only by limiting its product line but also by providing quick, clear explanations--starting with the way the company names its products. Consumers who visit Sony or Dell in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
we find evidence that proximity is positively associated with coordination and overall performance. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-092_0272c9fd-0da7-4bad-811c-77eb8db9ef81.pdf Competing in New Markets and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne