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- 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009
increases. Lastly, it is argued that the common practice of announcing price increases in advance is much easier to rationalize with regret concerns by consumers than with more standard approaches to price rigidity. Download the paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
market power dynamics, MacKay says. Market power, which is sometimes referred to as monopoly power, refers to the ability of a firm to charge a price above the level that would prevail under normal competition. The researchers argue that... View Details
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
centers, to some extent, on whether there should be a publicly administered alternative to the private health care system, as opposed to other countries in which private care is supplementary to the public system. Harvard economist Greg Mankiw, for example, View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
Few would argue that detergent is about as dull a product as might exist. Yet the odyssey of laundry soap and dishwashing liquid in Europe, according to two presenters, shines a streak of sunlight on some of the messier issues of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
which is why our first goal was to get some sense of what each field means when it uses the word. Won’t some people argue that leadership is too nebulous a quality to define, that you’ll know it when you see it? The benefits of stem cell... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
increase? —Rob Kautz (MBA 1987) Many argue that anonymity is one of the key disruptions Bitcoin introduces. I think anonymity is valuable only in the early days and for a specific group of people. If we want Bitcoin to become more... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
learning. We argue that once an individual has accumulated experience with a task, the benefit of accumulating additional experience is inferior to the benefit of deliberately articulating and codifying the previously accumulated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15
that have ownership and control rights in the SOE. Building on Vernon, we argue that the SOE can break free from this power imbalance and establish resource independence from other state actors by becoming a multinational firm and/or by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23
century American, European, Japanese, Indian, and other business leaders discussed the responsibilities of business beyond making profits, although until recently such views have not been mainstream. There was also a wide variation concerning the nature of this... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
down on the outskirts of Moscow, and the Eastern Front proved to be the decisive theater in the defeat of the Third Reich. Ever since, historians have agreed that this was Hitler’s gravest mistake. In Hitler’s Great Gamble, James Ellman View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that business associations partnered with regulators to create codes of fair competition that reshaped both public and private regulatory power. Rather than viewing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016
bundled payments. The stakes are high, and the outcome will define the shape of the health care system for many years to come, for better or for worse. In this article, the authors argue that although capitation may deliver modest savings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20
rest of the CLO portfolio. While there is some evidence of underperformance for securitized loans originated between 2005 and 2007, it is not consistent across samples, performance measures, and horizons. Overall, we argue that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9
agreement to give ownership of the Canal back to Panama in the 1970s was not a gesture of magnanimity, but because the strategic and economic value of ownership had since disappeared. In a surprise to those who argued that it was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
argues that “the majority of this recent green patenting is not driven by highly rated ESG firms but instead by firms that are explicitly excluded from the ESG funds investment universe.” 'Blockbuster' innovation Cohen and coauthors Umit... View Details
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
the richest breeding grounds for coding superstars: the hackathon. These high-pressure weekend events of furious engineering can be an incredible environment for diffusion of knowledge, argues Andy Wu, an assistant professor in the... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
student as a DBA-- doctor of business administration--student.”) David Wittenberg was more to the point, arguing that it is not inadequate recruitment efforts that are producing disparate enrollments. “Let’s do everything in our power to... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
stock holders’ but seldom ‘it’s all about the employees and customers.’” Bruce Lloyd argued that there has been too much emphasis on power and too little on values in leadership literature and training. “Leadership is much more concerned... View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
groups and asked to assess a series of hypothetical workplace conflicts between two managers. Each group reviewed identical situations—except for the names of the arguing characters: Adam and Steven (two men), Adam and Sarah (a man and a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel