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  • 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

distribution. We also find that households’ consumption is significantly more responsive to dividend payouts across all parts of the wealth distribution. Our findings are broadly consistent with near-rational behavior in which households View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

optimal choice of proxy may vary across research settings. Our results illustrate how researchers can use our framework to critically evaluate and compare a growing body of ERPs. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

downstream party's optimal sales effort and, as a consequence, lead to different order quantities. We provide a formal characterization of both effects, insight into how these effects interact, and information on which conditions the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jul 2002
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How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

"Profitability Optimization Model" (PROM) in the first half of the 1960s that appeared to explain a significant fraction of the variation in the return on investment afforded by its various businesses.20 Over time, like many... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 01 Mar 2012
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The Accidental Innovator

need help. The students also teach each other. So every student is working at their own pace, and time is freed up in class to work on more open-ended projects. We think that even more than the student-to-teacher ratio, this is optimizing... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

56.9% for all other analyst recommendations. We also show that appointed analysts' optimism is stronger at precisely those times when firms' benefits are larger. Lastly, we find that appointing firms are more likely to have management on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54214 forthcoming Operations Research Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization By: Ferreira, Kris J., David Simchi-Levi, and He... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912003-PDF-ENG Peace, Non-Aligned: The Pragmatic Optimism of Lakhdar Brahimi James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. GreenHarvard Business School Case 912-028 Describes the background and career of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2004
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How an Order Views Your Company

in optimization of supply chains and logistics. I think that for all of us, the order cycle provided a wonderful window through which to observe the intricate details of revenue management, cross-functional coordination, and profitability... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
  • 19 Feb 2021
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A Playbook for Progress

for the corporations and the economy as a whole. Chitra:Your research revealed a consistent theme of women of color never giving up and having grit and the ability to trigger optimism in times of doubt and disappointment. Give an example... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

are discussed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-080.pdf Turning Waste into By-Product (revised) Author:Deishin Lee Abstract We determine, in a competitive setting, the optimal operating regimes for a firm that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Nov 2018
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'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

solutions after every third round. THE GOLDILOCKS POINT Past research led them to expect the group with constant interaction to have the highest average quality in their solutions, but less variety and less success finding the optimal... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 16 Feb 2012
  • Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

a more competitive workforce, and high-value-added jobs-steps that would restore optimism and confidence in the US economy. In times of anxiety, it's natural to begin pointing the finger of blame at others. That's what is happening right... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
  • 08 Dec 2008
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Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

payroll hours in an industry full of uncertainties. "In an optimal world, a manager would know exactly how much workload would exist at a store in any given month. In reality, that's never clear—some customers require more time than... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 15 Dec 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

corn—how it changes color to optimize filtration of ultraviolet light: Soon, he explains, the corn leaves will be tinted a deep purplish-red. Keen has taught a course on the economics of corn at Creighton University's Heider College of... View Details
  • 13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

regulators. Moreover, our findings highlight the trade-off between slow execution and potential information leakage in the decision of optimal trading speed. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55258 Summer... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

public finance, but it has been largely set aside in the modern theoretical approach to optimal income taxation, where welfarist objectives dominate. A prerequisite for that gap to close is the clarification of what benefit-based income... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

While this module is designed to be used alone, it is part of the Strategy Execution series. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117115-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-110 Strategy Execution Module 10: Using the Job Design View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

the code, which increases quality and value creation. Opened modules, however, are available for others to use free of charge. We derive the set of possibly optimal business models when the modules of the firm and the open source... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne