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- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
Internet; it's all digital goods or digitizable goods. The same is true of media retailers, games retailers, software retailers. Alvarez: If you're being digitized or people just aren't buying your categories anymore, then you just have... View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15
scholars to devote more resources to obtaining a fundamental understanding of contemporary and future practice and how analytic tools and contemporary advances in accounting and related disciplines can be deployed to improve the professional practice of accounting.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407006 Slots, Tables, and All that Jazz: Managing Customer Profitability at the MGM Grand Hotel Harvard Business School Case 106-029 The MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas had detailed information on loyal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
piercing blue eyes walks around at the beginning of the class and I think I skimmed the Coke and Pepsi case, maybe. He’s looking over on the other side, and I sat in the power deck: eye level with all the professors and trying to play the View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
shareholders that they override the CEO. "But the real zero-sum game is which one of them will win the CEO's position," says Lorsch. "It is relatively simple for two leaders to agree on a lucrative financial package for themselves - after... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
ad auctions as a dynamic game of incomplete information, so we can study the convergence and robustness properties of various strategies. In particular, we consider best-response bidding strategies for a repeated auction on a single... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
the other side with the other's "behind-the-table" barriers to successful agreement. Following Robert Putnam's (1988) two-level games schema, I characterize such "behind the table," or "Level Two," barriers... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
product dubbed a “wearables game changer”; and enjoyed a loyal customer base, particularly among technology early adopters and the community of software developers that created applications and watch faces for its products. Nonetheless,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
Paige has been an absolute game changer,” says Kelly of the Times-Tribune. “To have someone who is committed to transparency—I’ve been covering the school district for 25 years, and just finding a way in has been almost impossible. “She’s... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
presence to Jay.” The Rally Fighter, pictured above, is Local Motors’ most well-known vehicle, with appearances in the movie Transformers: Age of Extinction and the racing video game Forza Horizon 2. Local Motors launched on March 25,... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
for one, is using Khan Academy on an experimental basis. It’s early, but test and learning results are promising. Here’s what happens: Students spend part of class time—and some time at home—working at their own pace on videos and exercises. They get immediate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Austin. As a UT undergraduate, he was Southwest Conference 200-yard breaststroke champion and placed third at the World University Games in 1991. Once out of the water, it was safe for Staats to play full-time with electricity. In 1999,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
technology, and logistics. Of all the project’s phases, however, transportation is the issue that really gets Mawilmada going, the one that, in his mind, will be a complete game changer. It’s something he’s spent countless hours on,... View Details
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
of resumes. Experienced eyes can point out immediate red flags and give you specific areas you may want to probe for a particular candidate. Invite an investor to help diversify an otherwise homogeneous interview team. This can be a game... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
conclude with thoughts on future research directions. Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice, and Open Questions Author:Alvin E. Roth Periodical:Prepared for Gale's Feast: A Day in Honor of the 85th Birthday of David Gale International Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007
firm, or between an upstream and downstream firm. We claim that misalignment is costly both to the involved functions/firms and to the rest of the organization or supply chain, and focus the paper on studying the circumstances under which alignment will or will not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
about how they might want to change the rules of the game to get to outcomes that are good. I'll bet they'd come up with lots of great ideas. They would go out into the field and grapple with these difficult questions, and it would give... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
realize that on one or two of those competencies, you don’t have a compelling story, and it’s harder to go and build that to make up that ground if you start late. So I would encourage the folks coming out of school now to start with a long view, understand what the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
(another form of entertainment) and in games and sports. Edison’s electric lamp, brighter and better than gas, oil, or candles, which was supposed to lead men and women to the library, merely lures human moths to Main Street. From Chapter... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
excessive compensation has contributed to lowering the legitimacy of the free market system because it ends up making the system look more like a game than an institution producing goods and services that advance the general social... View Details