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- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
retail industry depends extensively on store liquidation, not only as a means for investors to recover capital from failed ventures, but also to allow managers of going concerns to divest stores in efforts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
Investors and market watchers noted Amazon’s less-than-stellar forays into health care, while privacy advocates raised concerns about Amazon’s access to patient medical data. Still others have voiced hopes Amazon will bring much-needed... View Details
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
uses examples and stories from dozens of high-performing managers and entrepreneurs. Is there one person, one quote, that you think most brilliantly captures the spirit of Think Outside the Building? Kanter: Doug Rauch, former president of Trader Joe’s, who founded... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2197876 Expectations of Returns and Expected Returns Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract We analyze time-series of investor expectations of future stock market returns from five data sources... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
information from Bankruptcydata.com, Bloomberg Law, Moody’s Investors Service, and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Antill studied 503 nonfinancial companies, each carrying more than $50 million in debt at the time of default... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
And that percolates back to retail investors, as well. But at the same time, the entrepreneurs who are still out there swinging are getting a lot done and creating a lot of value. And remember: not all crypto products are purely... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
consumer brands that rely on traditional retailing for the bulk of their sales—have already been demonstrably affected. So will industries that revolve around large gatherings, such as many forms of popular entertainment—sports, cinema,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
McDonald and others in academia call a cognitive referent. Simply put, a cognitive referent is the king of its category. More importantly, it enjoys all kinds of benefits over competitors further down the brand-recognition chain. The smartest people want to work there.... View Details
- 06 Feb 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?
exceeding the optimal point of inequality and descending into an era of a vanishing middle class and, with it, the spending power and inclination with which it fuels an economy? A growing number of observers are saying yes, pointing to the fact that View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
equity firms have billions of dollars of investible cash—although whether any of these investors have the appetite to risk their capital in the present environment is yet to be determined. And of course, an effective cure or vaccine for... View Details
- 26 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More
Osaka, Japan. Trump said on Twitter last week that he would have an "extended meeting" with President Xi Jinping of China at the summit, a welcome development for rattled investors and other world leaders. Cavallo's research... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
customers and, at least in the early years, owners and investors that largely included managers. More recently, the benefits have gone primarily to customers. Walmart's managers are not among the most highly paid, especially in light of... View Details
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
retail investor pain points is perfect for the recession. In one recent ad, a consumer says: "I've got a lot less cash and a lot more questions." The voiceover then invites the consumer to... View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
PublicationsRegulation and UK Retailing Productivity: Evidence from Microdata Authors:Jonathan Haskel and Raffaella Sadun Publication:Economica (September 2011) Abstract We explore the effects of planning regulation on the UK View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption
on digital platforms./p> Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Your Board of Directors In a recent survey of 5,000 board members, innovation was not ranked high on their list of priorities. What are they not seeing? On Target: Rethinking... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
power of unions, competition based on lower prices and costs, the failure of governments to take action—inequality appears to have increased over the past three decades in many parts of the world. A strong economic case can be made that consumers and View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
innovations (for whom the price of failure tolerance is too high) can only be started by investors who are not failure tolerant. Since policies to stimulate innovation must often be set before specific investments in innovative projects... View Details
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
Southwest Airlines, for instance, has continued as a legendary US-based service provider since its inception in 1971, IKEA of Sweden has evolved to teach the world’s retailers about the power of a well- defined and well-executed service... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
choices. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-064 OpenInvest Founded by a team of hedge fund and NGO alumni, OpenInvest launched its platform in 2015 to enable retail... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne