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  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

suggest that in many commonly regulated markets in which firms share similar cost structures, firms are likely to experience incentives to ratchet down and delay the introduction of innovative products. The study highlights the importance... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-103.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsBancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (A) Harvard Business School Case 107-055 In 1996, CEO Fernando Garcia Checa wanted to make View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

207-075 In May 2006, a resident of Key West, Florida had to decide whether to renew his policy to insure against hurricane damage. The policy would cost $13,000 for one year, $5,000 more than what he paid in 2005. At the same time, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

businesses that scale undergo a graduation process in which they meet the varying expectations of multiple organizational resource providers. At the unit level, they convince established core units that the potential value from combining their resources exceeds the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

costs decrease and as the benefits from outsourcing the use of intellectual property increases. We also examine how different licensing arrangements affect the relation between the variance of the returns to the intellectual property and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4

market for psychologists, in which stable matchings exist for all years of the data, despite the presence of couples. August 2013 Harvard Business Review Choosing the Right Customer By: Simons, Robert Abstract—Companies that win in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

up to the point where the benefit of the marginal project is just equal to the cost. Because labor is a key input to innovation when the opportunity cost of time is lower, such as during school breaks or time off from work, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

North-South freight transport suggest that if the cartel were broken, railroads would have passed through 50% of their cost savings from standardization, generating a 10% increase in trade on the sampled routes. The results demonstrate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Jun 2021
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The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

but it’s reasonable to assume that many companies and individuals will continue with full or hybrid remote work arrangements for months to come. Who’s moving and how? Lift outs help companies add talent without the logistical and psychological stressors of View Details
Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel
  • 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

914-014 Ford Asia Pacific & Africa: The E-coating Facility Decision in Gujarat, India (A) In April 2013, Ford Asia Pacific & Africa (FAPA) was examining its options for e-coating service metal parts for the Ford Customer Service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

driven by patents filed by distant collaborators rather than non-collaborative patents or patents by non-distant collaborators, suggesting low cost long-distance digital communication as a potential mechanism. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

are not always made in a competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to compete in a market. We contend that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

issues is brief and non-technical. Provides actual deferred tax information from AOL's Form 10-K, where net operating loss carry forwards result in a large deferred tax asset and the accounting for software and deferred subscriber View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

notion that the signal-to-noise ratio plays a central role in generating multiplicity with AA preferences for fairness.   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 612-701 Zappos.com 2009: Clothing, Customer Service, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

treating platform systems and step processes as mutually exclusive architectures sets up a false dichotomy. Creating any good requires carrying out a technical recipe, i.e., performing a series of steps. Step processes in turn can be modularized (at the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

whether there might be an emerging professionalism with Chinese characteristics and how this might have an impact on the professions elsewhere. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 Cost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing and maintaining a relationship with an advertising agency and pecuniary economies of scale available in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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