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  • 15 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday

show that Prime members spend almost double the money of other customers," Gupta said. "And the conversion from search to purchase for those customers is something like four to five times higher. There is no question that Prime... View Details
Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Retail
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

Quasi-Experiment By: Israeli, Ayelet Abstract—This paper investigates a manufacturer’s ability to influence compliance rates among its authorized online retailers by exploiting changes in the Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) policy and in... View Details
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

relative to one-sided markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-011.pdf Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search? (revised) Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We analyze the incentives to divert search for an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Abstract We study sponsor-based business model innovations where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

maintenance and repair parts and equipment in the U.S., had just held its November 2014 board meeting. The meeting had been productive but not without some soul searching for both the company’s management team and financial sponsors. Was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

example, in a February 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center, 73 percent of 2,253 adult respondents answered they would not be OK with a search engine (such as Google) keeping track of their searches and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

isn't easy. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/strategic-decisions-for-multisided-platforms/ January 2014 Harvard Business Review The New Patterns of Innovation By: Parmar, Rashik, Ian Mackenzie, David Cohn, and David Gann Abstract—The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

the ongoing transformation of the industry, we use a large database of interviews with participants in executive development programs at HBS—and executives in their sponsoring organizations—to map out the (multidimensional) objective... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

practice, disciplinary rigor, and successful search for powerful generalizations help explain the lasting impact of their 1965 book, A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations. Central to their argument are three important... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

content, psychometric validity, and relationships to outcomes of interest. Data extraction. We identified relevant articles using the search terms team, teamwork, work groups, or collaboration, in combination with survey or questionnaire.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43385 Harvard Business School Case 817-012 DataXu: Selling Ad Tech DataXu served marketers by buying digital advertising for brands using its demand-side platform. It sought a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

the search for best practices. The strategy part is very much more difficult, but it creates the need for choice with the associated uncertainty and anxiety. Strategy requires saying no, rather than empowering everyone in the organization... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

is presented in which people base their labor search strategy on the average wage and the average unemployment duration of people who belong to their peer group. It is shown that, if the distribution of wage offers is not stationary so... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2011
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First Look: May 31

Abstract Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society and often posing irreconcilable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

developments in a changing market. Says Cespedes: “Value is created or destroyed with customers, and good leaders know that interpreting market data is not just a search for truth and insights. It’s also about actionable dialogue with the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 15 May 2006
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Women Find New Path to Work

and personal marketing, sort of one-to-one-to-one, the customized approach, as opposed to the broadcast media that were the mainstays of advertising in the early '90s. They always have to think about this work in the context of a broader... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

businesses outperform both single-unit firms and multi-unit firms composed of unrelated businesses. Explanations for this relationship between focus and firm performance have largely centered on economies of scope achieved by sharing common resources, such as View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

management's search for a solution led the company to collaborate with a local CSO, the Friendship Home (Casa de la Amistad, hence CdA). In Costa Rica, the television corporation Representaciones Televisivas (REPRETEL) met a similar... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Abstract We analyze the optimal strategy of a high-quality incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

with the task of choosing the final set of programs for the 2006 fall schedule, which she would present to advertisers at the annual "upfront" market in New York one week later. Only four months earlier, CBS Corp. and Time... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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