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  • 02 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 2

profits of competing platforms in a market of fixed size are decreasing in the fraction of sophisticated users. When market expansion is introduced, the fraction of sophisticated users that maximizes competing platforms' profits may be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

treatments in greater depth, we investigate factors affecting deposit frequency and size and discuss possible ways of increasing deposits. Next, we compare the effectiveness of both deposit contract and lottery interventions as a function... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

thickening of the left-hand tail of the firm-size distribution suggesting a significant increase in the number of small firms. However, the dominance and growth of large incumbents remains unchallenged. Quantile regressions reveal that the distributional effects of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Nov 2017
  • News

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

Karavites’s store underwent—the reshaping of the experience, the modernizing—that’s the fun part of the turnaround, Kempczinski says. The less-fun stuff had to come first, though: foundational things, like paring back some of the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

and complementary effects across channels to provide sales forecasting, promotion planning, and customer relationship management guidance to multichannel managers. We investigate three contingencies in a sales analysis of a leading U.S. retailer who adds a new retail... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

presence of iTunes has a negative impact on the size of p2p networks resulting in reduced congestion and more efficient file sharing. Better functioning p2p networks, in turn, result in more content exchange, affecting positively iPod... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

the right balance between the private benefits of integrated markets and the public value of civic engagement, evidence on the size of the positive spillovers from local media is needed. To date, such evidence is scant. In this paper, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

a share that changed little over the period 2002-2009, but one that is approximately half of estimates frequently cited in the trade press. The persistence of a diverse and relatively unconcentrated size structure appears quite consistent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

utilizes a very rare "no haggle pricing" strategy and extended sales cycle when selling pieces to collectors. Though it remains profitable and very respected, the size and scope of the gallery will be brought into question when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

the increasing role of technology (digital and mobile) as well as the use by consumers of alternative signals of status, such as wearing less prominently branded apparel, being less conformist (e.g., entering a luxury store in a casual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

is associated with a 3.8% decline in new firm births. The effect is similar in size and significance when aggregating to the household level and when including a standard battery of covariates. The instrument is orthogonal to private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Past Issues - Alumni

March 2013 Sizing Up Social Impact Quantifying results in the social sector comes down to the tricky work of measuring social good A Healthy Profit How do you make health care for the poor affordable and self-sustaining? Make public... View Details
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

that RCMs are more precise at allocating firm heterogeneous effects to model slopes and intercepts than standard regression models. We also discuss RCMs’ possible limitations due to sample size requirements, nonconvergence problems, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Dec 2017
  • News

Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?

think we have this dynamic in which people voted for—many, many people voted for the lesser of two evils for them. Morrell: How has this project changed you, you and your opinions? Hessan: Honestly, Daniel, I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. My backyard was the... View Details
  • 19 May 2022
  • News

Leading to Salvation

don’t lend money to pay taxes. And they did that. Then we worked out an arrangement with the county where they could pay it over a five-year period. And so they did that. Hennepin County spent $6 million and bought a piece of land across the street. They did all the... View Details
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One-Year Action Plan Update - Advancing Racial Equity

community, and change the School's culture and organization. Today, we'll hear how things have gone over the past year and what's in store for the year ahead. I'm Brian Kenny, the chief marketing and communications officer for Harvard... View Details
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1895 Senior Lecturer Josh Baron Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits Overview: Family businesses dominate the economies of most countries. According to research by McKinsey, businesses owned by families account for more than 70% of global GDP and 60% of global employment. They... View Details