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- 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13
the Roth introduction, which means that the amount of retirement consumption being purchased by 401(k) contributions increases after the Roth introduction. A survey experiment suggests two behavioral factors play a role in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
you a survey of the many, many things that are being worked on. Much of it is pre-commercial. It's hard to see at the moment how a "data glove" that allows you to touch something with your fingers from 1,000 miles away and feel... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
an hour south of Watford City. A Pool Past Its Peak? Barbara George (MBA 1980) Williston farmer Steve Jensen surveys the cleanup process after more than 20,000 barrels of oil leaked on his land. “The research by the Post Carbon Institute... View Details
- 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
about the causes of regional variations in health care expenditures. We use vignettes from patient and physician surveys linked to fee-for-service Medicare expenditures to test whether patient demand-side factors or physician supply-side... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23
Abstract—Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey data from 40 countries (N = 55,238), we compare respondents' estimates of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008
Fisher made a fortune selling trendy, inexpensive home furnishings to baby boomers. With that generation beginning to enter its sixties, he sees a huge opportunity in products for aging consumers. Focus groups and surveys confirm strong... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007
chapters draw upon systematic interaction with companies and practice and this is presented in the examples and the case studies cited. The Handbook of New Product Development Management surveys this area in the context of an overall... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
investment deals and 2.3 percent of dollars among the investors surveyed went to women-owned firms, the Center discovered. HBS professor Myra M. Hart, an authority on entrepreneurship—especially the founding of high potential new... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
the Federal Reserve did surveys in the past few years, they discovered that 40 percent of Americans would have to borrow money if they had a $400 car repair bill. We have a lot of people who are on the edge. And if you look at the people... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
Web site (www.alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin). While the 1995 readership survey showed that only 25 percent of alumni were interested in the online format, that number had grown to 52 percent in a recent (February 1999) readership study. As more... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
By: Zhu, Feng Abstract—As platform owners continue to expand their ecosystems, many of them have started to provide consumers with their own complementary applications. These moves position the platform owners as direct competitors to their complementors. This paper... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7
quarter of fiscal year 2015. Apple also faced some criticism from consumers regarding the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Upgrade Program. A September 2016 survey reported that an increasing number of customers decided to subscribe to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
developing world. We then discuss how survey techniques can be improved to better measure willingness to pay for urban amenities. Finally, we explain how Internet data is being used to improve the quality of city services. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
contemporary corporate governance reforms, with an abundance of principles, guidelines, and standards. This paper portrays ERM as an evolving discipline and presents empirical findings on its current state of maturity, as evidenced by a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
respondents indicated their class or year or answered all questions. The survey concluded July 15, 1999. Most influential business leader Most significant consumer product Most significant innovation for business Most influential... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
totaling $375 billion. Nine are large enough to be listed in the S&P 500. Wall Street goes shopping. Wall Street surveyed the mountain of defaulted S&L loans taken over by the federal Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) and saw an... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
which transparency can backfire. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55804 forthcoming PS: Political Science & Politics Informal Institutions and Survey Research in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq By:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13
result, work performance. We also examine sources of variability in networking-induced feelings of dirtiness by proposing that the amount of power people have when they engage in instrumental networking influences how dirty this networking makes them feel. Three... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45998 Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery By: Serafeim, George Abstract—Using survey data collected from senior corporate executives around the world I analyze how detection of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
shown that roughly 8 percent to 10 percent of the SKUs in a store are stocked out at any given time. Stockouts are expensive for retailers for two reasons. First, they lead to lost sales. A 2004 study that surveyed over 70,000 consumers... View Details