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  • January 2011
  • Article

Let the Right One In: A Microeconomic Approach to Partner Choice in Mutualisms

By: Marco Archetti, Francisco Ubeda, Drew Fudenberg, Jerry R. Green, Naomi E. Pierce and Douglas W. Yu
One of the main problems impeding the evolution of cooperation is partner choice. When information is asymmetric (the quality of a potential partner is known only to himself), it may seem that partner choice is not possible without signaling. Many mutualisms, however,... View Details
Keywords: Microeconomics; Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; System; Problems and Challenges; Information; Economics; Theory; Cost; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cooperation
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  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

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course, and it has been shown that effective styles can vary over a wide range. They can stretch from the eloquence and self-deprecation of Abraham Lincoln, to the bombastic preening of Douglas MacArthur, to the confident and infectious... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 08 Nov 2024
  • HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

criticisms of the camp and their suggestions for improving it. Appointed to work under the Army’s top officer, Douglas MacArthur, Eisenhower immersed himself in a detailed analysis of World War II as it began in Europe and Asia. His... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 31 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807026   PublicationsProphet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction Author:Thomas K. McCraw Publication:Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007 Abstract Pan Am, Gimbel's,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 12

late 2009, Marisa worked in acquisitions at Douglas Private Equity Advisors. During the first year Marisa spent a lot of her time reviewing documents, making site visits, and running numbers, using a sophisticated software program called... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 16

social categories. We discuss the ethical implications of these decision-making biases in the context of organizations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-033.pdf What Should GAAP Look Like? Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

"The lesson here," says Narayandas, "is that relationships can succeed, even if they are asymmetrical to begin with, provided that companies manage them for mutual long-term gain." A second study, undertaken with Associate Professor View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
  • 16 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Value A transnational brand is the corporate brand of firms that market globally in order to leverage economies of scale and scope, according to HBS professors Douglas Holt, John Quelch, and co-author Earl Taylor of Research... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 1

  Working PapersWhat Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we articulate a positive theory of GAAP under the assumption... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2024
  • Book

Retiring: Creating a Life that Works for You

By: Teresa M. Amabile, Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. (Tim) Hall and Kathy Kram
Retirement, as a major life transition, can be both thrilling and challenging in unexpected ways. Written by acclaimed authors in the fields of business leadership, careers, and work, this book goes beyond the typical financial and health-related advice on retirement,... View Details
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  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

culture, technology, and economy to coevolve in unison under the rubric of an integral polity. Family Inc.: Using Business Principles to Maximize Your Family’s Wealth by Douglas P. McCormick (MBA 1997) (Wiley) This book is a roadmap to... View Details
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What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders | Working Knowledge

He asked his subordinates to share their criticisms of the camp and their suggestions for improving it. Appointed to work under the Army’s top officer, Douglas MacArthur, Eisenhower immersed himself in a detailed analysis of World War II... View Details
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Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Steel Corporation, 1950. Douglas A. Fisher. Steel Making in America. New York: United States Steel Corporation, 1949. Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences: Body Harvard Business School (HBS) had actively sought out photographs... View Details
  • March 2010
  • Article

Calculating, Creating, and Claiming Value in Business Markets: Status and Research Agenda

By: Gary L. Lilien, Rajdeep Grewal, Douglas Bowman, Min Ding, Abbie Griffin, V. Kumar, Das Narayandas, Renana Peres, Raji Srinivasan and Qiong Wang
A key challenge facing business marketers surrounds developing a deeper understanding of customer needs. We conceptualize that challenge as having three dimensions: calculating, creating, and claiming value. We discuss key problems, new developments and research... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Problems and Challenges; Research; Customer Relationship Management
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  • October 2013
  • Article

A Traffic Light Food Labeling Intervention Increases Consumer Awareness of Health and Healthy Choices at the Point-of-Purchase

By: Lillian Sonnenberg, Emily Gelsomin, Douglas E. Levy, Jason Riis, Susan Barraclough and Anne N. Thorndike
We surveyed customers in a hospital cafeteria in Boston, Massachusetts before and after implementation of traffic light food labeling to determine the effect of labels on customers' awareness and purchase of healthy foods. View Details
Keywords: Nutrition Labeling; Obesity; Food Labeling
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  • September 2012
  • Article

Food Choices of Minority and Low-Income Employees: A Cafeteria Intervention

By: Douglas E. Levy, Jason Riis, Lillian M. Sonnenberg, Susan J. Barraclough and Anne N. Thorndike

Background: Effective strategies are needed to address obesity, particularly among minority and low-income individuals.

Purpose: To test whether a two-phase point-of-purchase intervention improved food choices across racial, socioeconomic (job... View Details

Keywords: Working Conditions; Safety; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competitive Advantage; Cost
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  • 20 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

environment strategies. They also acknowledged the difficult challenge inherent in balancing the effort needed to achieve these goals with the central need to generate profit. "There's this natural tension," said Douglas Conant, former... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

public's interest and reminded people of the multiple platforms available to see the competition," says Greyser. The biggest boon to NBC, however, was the Games themselves. Winning performances by American athletes such as swimmer Michael Phelps and gymnast Gabby View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising
  • 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

routinely think about the problem. We conclude by exploring implications of this finding for professional conduct and public policy.   Working PapersImplications for GAAP from an Analysis of Positive Research in Accounting Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

Planning Process with Minimal Effort by Tracy Morgan (MBA 1990) (North Star Strategies) Supreme Commander: MacArthur's Triumph in Japan by Mike Morris (MBA 1971) (HarperCollins) Morris combines political history, military biography, and business management to tell the... View Details