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- 01 Dec 2004
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Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs
both their own companies and others in the area.” In addition to the program’s value for local companies and managers, the revenue generated supports gifts to area nonprofits and has funded scholarships for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015
vary the sales force compensation scheme at an Asian enterprise that sells consumer durable goods. With variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program
solutions in reaction to market realities rather than seeking to force-fit existing models from other markets into an African context. Winning in such an environment requires that the next generation of... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15
Abstract This paper presents an endogenous growth model that explains the evolution of the first and second moments of productivity growth at the aggregate and firm level during the post-war period. Growth is driven by the development of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2014
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Willing Hands
a longtime passion of mine." In addition to helping to develop the first SRO (single-room occupancy) residence for homeless men in Charlotte, Spencer has served on the board of the Charlotte Housing Authority Transitional Families... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1
repeal. This paper analyzes the extent to which tax deferral and other policies inefficiently subsidize U.S. direct investment abroad. Investments are dynamically inefficient if they consistently generate fewer returns to investors than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
For more than seven minutes, the class follows the IDEO designers through this concepting phase. The written case describes the process: “Designers used insights from the exploratory phase to generate hypotheses about solutions that would... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2015
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Screen Grab
on their smartphone within the last month. That trend is fostering a next generation of entrepreneurs developing new revenue models that aren’t built around the traditional program formats, a shift that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 17 Mar 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York
practitioners, policy makers, and the general public to affect meaningful change. Addressing society's rapid move to digital platforms, Dean Datar said, "As you look at some of the challenges that confront us as a society, one of those is... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016
the capital regulation of commercial banks? This paper builds a quantitative general equilibrium model with commercial banks and shadow banks to study the unintended consequences of capital requirements. A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Conde M. Nast
Nast transformed his first magazine, Vogue, from a low revenue and low readership publication into a premier fashion magazine that generated millions in revenues. Such turnarounds were typical of most Nast publications, including Glamour... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8
is nearly as large. Working PapersPrice Competition under Multinomial Logit Demand Functions with Random Coefficients Authors:Gad Allon, Awi Federgruen, and Margaret Pierson Abstract In this paper, we postulate a general class of price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016
Landvoigt Abstract—How does the shadow banking system respond to changes in the capital regulation of commercial banks? This paper builds a quantitative general equilibrium model with commercial banks and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 29, 2008
for example—in addition to commodity products. It describes how the firm's sales strategy—including changes in structure and compensation—changed as its overall product line evolve. The case also offers an interesting contrast for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Sara Roedner
the ways you can connect with consumers," Sara says. "It's so much more compelling to have Joe Torre talk about teamwork than the usual CEO." After completing her BA, Sara accepted a position at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). In View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6
low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
techniques to try to predict which deals he should offer to customers based on the purchasing behavior of those customers closest to them. Topics include supervised learning; collaborative filtering; K-nearest neighbor as a modeling... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2018
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Collaborative Cures
as well as additional funding for activities such as due diligence, market research, and other tasks necessary to determine the best route for product commercialization. Since its launch in 2013, fellows have created 17 companies in... View Details
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
Investing: Emerging Trends in a Changing Landscape," a recent panel discussion hosted by Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative. They also touched on growing trends including venture philanthropy and social impact bonds. "In View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
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Learning to Lead
model that will predict how its competitors will react to changes in pricing. “I felt completely clueless,” he recalls in the case. The dynamics of the project team are equally demanding. Keller, who launched and ran a company in Cambodia... View Details