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- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
teamed up with Norton and Deshpandé to conduct a series of experimental studies. A Series Of Studies In the first study, a group of online participants received a description of a product—a set of bath towels for sale at a hypothetical... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
Restaurant Hygiene Inspections and Online Reviews By: Kang, Jun Seok, Polina Kuznetsova, Yejin Choi, and Michael Luca Abstract—Restaurant hygiene inspections are often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
corporate executives, government officials, and journalists, for allegedly spreading false rumors online about the market’s stability. And in a turnabout, authorities also announced they will not institute more interventions to rescue the... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
online retailer demonstrates that cost transparency improves sales. In particular, cost transparency led to a 44% increase in daily unit sales. This research implies that by revealing costs-typically tightly guarded secrets-marketers can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
What does cyberspace mean for physical retail space? Has online shopping changed the fundamentals of retailing? How should managers evaluate new in-store technologies? Harvard Business Review posed these questions to three retail... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
in EverFi, an educational technology company that offers a range of online educational programming to its K-12 school, university, and corporate clients. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/318041-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
online but could use 50 to 70 more. All this underscores that fact that options come with complications. A gas tax increase would reduce U.S. fuel consumption. While Italians are paying the equivalent of $6.50 per gallon, we Bostonians... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
volunteer as poll workers. Facilitate political engagement. Look to online platforms that have simplified small contributions to political campaigns and increased the diversity of donors, as well as efforts to encourage employees and... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
the Finger Lakes region of New York State, was at a crossroads. The business was poised for growth, and its owners, Laura and Alan Falk, were considering signing a deal with Groupon, the online coupon firm, to see if a Groupon deal would... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
unavailable at this time. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412062-PDF-ENG TopCoder (B) Karim R. Lakhani, Eric Lonstein, and Stephanie Healy PokrywaHarvard Business School Supplement 612-044 TopCoder develops software for clients through View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
online activities) and operations (e.g., school keeps track of student assessment results and select activities and problem sets from online databases). After the first year as a full-day program, results on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
712-022 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/712022-PDF-ENG Akamai's Edge (A) Eric Van den SteenHarvard Business School Case 712-455 In 2009, Paul Sagan, CEO of Akamai, the leading View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Cisco Learning Network, an online platform hosted at Cisco.com. Since its launch in 2008, the Cisco Learning Network provided content to prepare networking professionals for certification exams, as well as social functionalities to let... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
calibration, the model explains 58% of the log variance of income per worker. This figure should be compared to the 42% success rate of the usual model. Online Advertising: Rustlers and Sheriffs in the New Wild West Author:Benjamin G.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
sales as an engine of growth in the early 2010s, but international sales had also stagnated over the past few years. Wal-Mart's leadership had targeted the rapidly growing e-commerce arena as a strategic priority, but there it faced intense competition from dominant... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
downgraded its sales forecast for the coming year, suggesting sales would now be flat. Meanwhile, online retailer Amazon was growing rapidly and, despite being less than one-quarter of the size of Walmart, now boasted a higher market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
horizon-the rapid growth of the Netflix online streaming service, which had a very different business model. Hastings' efforts to separate the activity into two separate companies met with strong pushback from consumers and the press.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19
pre-paid vouchers to an online subscriber base-has by all accounts been spectacular. Our evaluation of daily deals is a cautionary tale for merchants: a substantial percentage are unlikely to benefit, and might well lose money, by using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
more than 25 times the amount spent on "hot" topics like online this or that. Yet, while there are now many books and ideas about strategy formulation, there is very little research about how to link strategy with the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
possible even a few years ago. The most obvious factor, and the one that has given rise to the "2.0" moniker, is that of online social media. Social media and, perhaps even more importantly, mobile phones have played a key role... View Details