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- 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14
competition effects to dominate within store categories—especially among discount and midscale stores—but positive agglomeration effects to exist across store categories. Although varying by store brand, our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
significant NPE pass-through to end innovators, nor of a positive impact of NPEs on innovation in the industries in which they are most prevalent. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47648... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
increasingly central role in tech companies—tackling problems such as platform design, strategy, pricing, and policy. Over the past five years, hundreds of PhD economists have accepted positions in the technology sector. In this paper, we... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
entrepreneurship. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54068 January 2018 Journal of Labor Economics Who Gets Hired? The Importance of Competition Among Applicants By: Lazear, Edward P., Kathryn L. Shaw, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
roughly 35 percent of its more than one million users and its $45 million in gross merchandise sales. "The biggest challenge for us is increasing market penetration from 4 percent to 15 percent, where the Internet reaches a critical mass," says CEO Oxenford. A View Details
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
of opportunity, America could instead be closing it down—unless we create a positive agenda to renew the American spirit," she writes in the book's introduction. Kanter believes America at the start of the 21st century has lost its... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
largely from Mexican readers—not surprising in view of the central role that Vicente Fox, the president-elect of Mexico, is expected to play in upcoming discussions of NAFTA 2.0. There was little argument among respondents about the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge
results could give “vendors a considerable competitive advantage, and has the potential to disrupt fair market competition,” Lakkaraju says. Defending against manipulation The study originated from Kumar’s prior research into much... View Details
- 26 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tap into Top Talent with the HBS Leadership Fellows Program
year. Zeaske and the Leadership Fellows Team are continually expanding the types of organizations they are engaging with based on current issues and student demand. Organizations are selected through a competitive proposal process, based... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change
Competition and plans to expand to other African nations. Karan Khimji: Eliminating carbon dioxide from the air Karan Khimji felt compelled to play his part in mitigating climate change after seeing the effects first-hand in Oman.... View Details
- 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016
in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Flying into a Rage: Physical and Situational Inequality on Airplanes Predict Air Rage By: DeCelles, K.A., and Michael I. Norton Abstract—We posit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
percent of all manufactured goods in the U.S. are outsourced, and not everything is outsourceable. Furthermore, wage inflation in China has dented its competitiveness and there are other location choices. So, the question is: How much... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
some PowerPoint slides—a process that Bill Burnham, a former CSFB Internet analyst, calls 'the competitive devaluation of underwriting standards.' But nowhere did the wall between research and banking fall so completely as in Quattrone's... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
that tend to feed into top MBA programs as well as in leadership positions in major organizations.” Rice found HBS to be a strange and wondrous place. Strange, he says, because, compared to most of his classmates, he had very little... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
to own the problem and do a lot of work to figure out our values and culture.” “Coming to HBS with a liberal arts background from Yale meant I had to ‘tool up’ a bit on the more quantitative subjects. But I enjoyed the environment; the culture was both View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Defecting from his position as Rajapaksa’s minister of health, Sirisena’s unexpected win signaled a miraculously peaceful transition to a more democratic, just future. A coalition government formed, with Ranil Wickremesinghe, a... View Details
- 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008
full-service bank; describes the competitive context of low-income sector of financing in Mexico; and reviews the decisions leading to the IPO in the Mexican Stock Exchange. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007
positions, which creates price pressure in the securities held in common by distressed funds. A similar phenomenon exists among funds experiencing large inflows: their tendency to expand existing positions creates View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
sustain, the role of co-ops in a Rwandan village was more than just helping farmers improve their income. Looking closer, I saw that the co-ops would give farmers a common sense of purpose, an incentive to want to work together and achieve a View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
Working PapersColonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition and Public Goods in India Authors:Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-062.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace