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- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
favorite content wherever they are whenever they demand it, consumption patterns will become more, not less uniform, this theory predicts. To shed light on this debate, we study the distribution of revenues across products in the context... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
television advertising influences online shopping. We construct a massive dataset spanning $3.4 billion in spending by 20 brands, including measures of brands' website traffic and transactions as well as ad content measures for 1,224 commercials. We use a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
forests each year (an area the size of Massachusetts). It is costly for meat producers to address the issue of deforestation on their own. If they agree to slow down the process, they face the risk of losing market shares and revenues... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
testimony of this concern: "OSS poses a direct, short-term revenue and platform threat to Microsoft, particularly in server space. Additionally, the intrinsic parallelism and free idea exchange in OSS has benefits that are not... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Authors:Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling Abstract This paper discusses five common divisional performance measurement methods—cost centers, revenue centers, profit centers, investment centers, and expense centers—while providing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots is one of the highest-paid coaches in the National Football League; Forbes in 2013 estimated his salary as $7.5 million. His track record helps explain the high compensation: Belichick is the... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
in America with 99% of its revenues deriving from its simple, text-only advertising services. It is on track to bring in roughly $9.5 billion in advertising revenue in 2006, which would place it fourth among... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
helped them to maintain this culture. The opportunity to acquire another EMR company offered eCW the chance to grow quickly in an industry that is estimated to take in more than $40 billion in overall View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
ad platform, and reducing—from three to two—the number of major sellers of sponsored search advertising." The deal, characterized as a nonexclusive partnership, would allow Google to sell some search ads that display next to Yahoo search results. Yahoo says it... View Details
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
is it a global business? Anita Elberse: The sports marketing industry, covering everything from television rights to endorsements, sponsorships, and merchandising, is an important sector and growing rapidly. In its Global Entertainment and Media Outlook,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
empirical models that allow me to separate the components of CEO and employee compensation explained by economic factors from those that are not and use these models to estimate explained and unexplained pay disparity. After validating my... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
benchmarks and documents that, relative to a normative benchmark, index-based RPE benchmarks perform 14% worse in their time-series return-regression R2; firms choosing specific peers as RPE benchmarks only modestly underperform. Structural View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
commissions, albeit lower, still exist, but they represent a relatively minor source of revenue for the big brokerages compared to investment banking fees. Either way, the cost of sell-side research, View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
Overture (now part of Yahoo) and Google and present evidence of strategic bidder behavior in these auctions. Between June 15, 2002, and June 14, 2003, we estimate that Overture's revenue from sponsored... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717430-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-033 A Note on Healthcare IT and Applications to the Healthcare Industry This note provides an overview of three key healthcare IT areas: electronic medical records and electronic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
decompose the productivity decrease that arises from taxation, we estimate that 40% is due to the lower net wage and the remaining 60% to tax aversion. This tax aversion affects labor supply more on the extensive margin (working less)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
recent study estimates that between 1990 and 1997, two hundred thousand more people moved out of the state than into it, in large part due to housing prices. Poorvu: Analyzing a mix of socioeconomic factors. (photo: Richard Chase) At HBS,... View Details
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
and in creating a market for it. This market, and Saffronart's revenues, grew rapidly from 2000 to 2005. Saffronart's estimate was that the Indian art auction market would be worth $125 million in 2006, with their View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
healthcare providers with revenue cycle management and population health management; the case provides an overview of both sectors. Conifer has been growing rapidly, leading some to question what the best relationship is for Tenet and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
Journal: Economic Policy The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying By: Kerr, William R., William F. Lincoln, and Prachi Mishra Abstract—How is economic policy made? In this paper we study a key determinant of the answer to the question: lobbying by firms. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne