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12 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 12

some, but not all of these predictions. A relatively high economic value of adaptation at the establishment has a strong association with delegation to local managers, as do local information advantages and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?

solution is to create institutions that allow consumers to build and claim the value of their marketplace identities, and that give producers the incentive to respect them. Privacy and identity then become opposing View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls & Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

03 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize

the value proposition that they put forth." “Everybody knows what the Nobel Prize is and what it does, but practically nobody knows how it does it,” The study involved historical research and hours of conversations with recent laureates... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

this system. "We're in a bad place" today, he said. Builders have overbuilt: Retsinas estimated there are now a million more homes than needed. And just when people need credit, credit is constrained. Subprime lending has... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

11 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

delayed price discovery). This isolates a setting wherein observed strategic trading behavior more likely reflects insiders' private information regarding goodwill, as opposed to other (non-goodwill related) economic performance. Overall,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2024 (Revised September 2024)
Case

Norway: An Embarrassment of Riches

By: Sophus A. Reinert, Forest Reinhardt and Jens-Henrik Munthe-Kaas

Keywords: Sovereign Wealth Funds; Welfare State; Internationalization; Dutch Disease; Macroeconomics; Energy Sources; Values and Beliefs; Sovereign Finance; Immigration; Welfare; Natural Resources; Happiness; Energy Industry; Norway

15 Dec 2015
First Look

December 15, 2015

(Frank) Li, and Dylan B. Minor Abstract—We link the corporate governance literature in financial economics to the agency cost perspective of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to derive theoretical predictions about the relationship... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

weaknesses that underlie corruption everywhere. As an emerging professional he must also weigh the trust value of the personal relationships he is forming; his own comfort zone for ethical trade-offs; and the inherent uncertainties of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

to demonstrate the full economic and social benefit of BD’s shared value initiatives. The competition for internal capital and the challenges of taking on new types of products meant that any shared View Details

12 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

variation in average asset returns than aggregate or non-stockholder consumption risk and provides more plausible economic magnitudes. We find that risk aversion estimates around 10 can match observed risk... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

to make the $3.5 million Roadside Romeo. The first-of-its-kind animated Hindi movie barely broke even. All told, Hollywood studios invested an estimated $100 million on producing films in India between 2007 and 2009. But box-office... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video

08 May 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

in HAI and present-on-admission (POA) infection reporting rates that are strongly suggestive of upcoding. We conservatively estimate that 10,000 out of 60,000 annual reimbursed claims for POA infections (18.5%) were upcoded HAIs, costing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

the true value of those customers has always been a challenge. This paper develops a network model to estimate the long-term impact of each additional free customer on a company's profits, factoring in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

out less-intensive users of the product. High prices do not cause greater product use than low prices for a given buyer, but there is some evidence that the act of paying increases use. Our estimates imply that positive prices may be... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2001
Case

Sime Darby Berhad (B): The Asian Crisis Begins

By: Tarun Khanna and Danielle Melito Wu

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Conglomerates; Economy; Capital Markets; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; Malaysia

September 1994 (Revised October 2002)
Case

Citibank: Launching the Credit Card in Asia Pacific (A)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

Consumer Bank pondered the possibilities of launching a credit card in the Asia Pacific region. The bank's New York headquarters, and several of its country managers in the region, were not enthusiastic. But others were supportive because of the opportunity to expand... View Details

Keywords: Product Launch; Service Operations; Value Creation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Trade; Business Strategy; Expansion; Laws and Statutes; Banking Industry; Asia; New York (city, NY)

August 2024 (Revised November 2024)
Case

Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B?

By: Raymond Kluender, Emanuele Colonnelli, Sabrina T. Howell and Karina Souza

In April 2021, Brazilian cryptocurrency platform Mercado Bitcoin had to decide how to scale: go public, M&A with a bank, or take a VC big check. In a highly volatile market, Roberto Dagnoni, chairman of the board, viewed the unprecedent crypto momentum as a window of... View Details