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  • 28 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

managers: What happens at the start of a bidding process is not always indicative of how it will end up. Sara Grant: What attracted you to study late-bidding behavior on eBay and Amazon? Were there any surprises from what you originally... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology
  • 11 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

were outraged and went to the streets in protest. These blackouts were specifically due to the increased power usage for air conditioning in the summer months but were more generally caused by the removal of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • August 2001 (Revised July 2008)
  • Technical Note

A Technical Note and Discussion on Real Estate Valuation (IBET): Back of the Envelope (BOE) on Bonhomme Place: A Case within a Case

By: Arthur I Segel
Discusses real estate valuation. Reviews "back of the envelope" valuation; real estate appraisal methods, including the income method; market comparables and replacement costs; and more complex computer modeling. Also discusses other variables that could influence... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Mathematical Methods; Valuation; Real Estate Industry
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  • 16 May 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal?

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Andrew Charlton
  • Article

Believe Me, I Have No Idea What I Am Talking About: The Effects of Source Certainty on Consumer Involvement and Persuasion

By: Uma R. Karmarkar and Zakary L. Tormala
This research explores the effect of source certainty-that is, the level of certainty expressed by a message source-on persuasion. The authors propose an incongruity hypothesis, suggesting that source certainty effects depend on perceived source expertise. In three... View Details
Keywords: Research; Experience and Expertise; Risk and Uncertainty; Consumer Behavior; Performance Expectations; Interests; Power and Influence
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual Fund Portfolio Choice

By: Lauren Cohen and Breno Schmidt
We explore a new channel for attracting inflows using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows by being named trustee of a 401(k) plan. This affords the plan sponsor potential... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Conflict of Interests; Financial Services Industry
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  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

certification programs are understandable and largely predictable if the ideas, interests, and power of key actors are accurately assessed. When alignment View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and Adjustment Behavior

By: David F. Drake
In an experimental newsvendor setting we investigate three phenomena: Level behavior — the decision-maker's average ordering tendency; adjustment behavior — the tendency to adjust period-to-period order quantities; and observation bias — the tendency to let the degree... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Consumer Behavior; Decision Making; Prejudice and Bias; Profit
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  • July 2020 (Revised September 2021)
  • Case

Mr. Five Percent: Calouste Gulbenkian and the Origins of Global Oil

By: Geoffrey Jones and Yazeed Al-Rashed
This case describes the business career of Calouste Gulbenkian, a skilled intermediary who was able to secure 5 percent of a vast oil concession covering much of the Middle East that was signed in 1928. Gulbenkian was an ethnic Armenian born in the Ottoman Empire,... View Details
Keywords: Oil; Globalization; Energy Sources; History; Biography; Energy Industry; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East
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  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

business owners to understand their own cash flow and prospects. Now the fintech innovation cycle is at an inflection point—new streams of data have the power to illuminate the opaque nature of a small... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • May 2009
  • Article

The Empirical Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation: Puzzles and Clues

By: Josh Lerner
Economists have long seen the patent system as a crucial lever through which policymakers affect the speed and nature of innovation in the economy. It is not surprising, then, that the profound changes which have roiled the global patent system over the past 20 years... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Rights; Business and Government Relations
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    When Do Firms Greenwash? Corporate Visibility, Civil Society Scrutiny, and Environmental Disclosure

    Under increased pressure to report environmental impacts, some firms selectively disclose relatively benign impacts, creating an impression of transparency while masking their true performance; other firms’ disclosures, in contrast, are more representative of their... View Details

    • 15 Jan 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

    influence the perceptions that people have about a place in a way that is conducive to their goals. This background note lays the ground for instructors to expose students to the concept of a place brand, allow them to examine the ways in... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 14 Nov 2017
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

    expert witness, dealing with governmental organizations, working with schools and students, and influencing public policy, this volume helps social scientists forge the vital... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 02 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

    common fee structure is contingent free shipping, in which consumers are granted free shipping for basket sizes above a minimum value and are charged a flat fee for orders below this threshold. We seek to characterize how contingent free... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 15 May 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

    May–June 2018 Harvard Business Review The Surprising Power of Questions By: Brooks, Alison Wood, and Leslie K. John Abstract—Much of an executive’s workday is spent asking others for information—requesting... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 01 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies

    Keywords: by Erin M. Reid & Michael W. Toffel
    • Web

    Business and Geopolitics - Course Catalog

    including how they impact bilateral relationships, contribute to power shifts, and act as vectors for the promotion of values and ideologies. The course will consist of three... View Details
    • 24 Mar 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

    creation of jobs and attracting investment, said Bruce Bolnick, a fellow in Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. However, he did not agree that business should have a free hand in directly View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 11 Feb 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey

    analysis," she advised. Another entrepreneur took a different tack and credited her own decision-making prowess to the power of yoga. Roxanne Quimby, who started Burt's Bees, Inc., a personal care... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace