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- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
loved it so much they encouraged them to do it again the next year, and the next, and the next. And that's how Burning Man started. We burn the man because it's a symbol of life, and how short it is, and how ephemeral it is. And we spend...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
buying from, selling to, and competing with enterprises and customers from around the world. What all four had in common was that they worked to extend the reach of markets, and hence of competition, into places that Schumpeterian...
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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
abstract available. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52217 2016 Monetary Policy Through Asset Markets: Lessons from Unconventional Measures and Implications for an Integrated World Forward Guidance in the Yield Curve: View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
with team projects and experiential learning. Training might come initially through the collective work of multiple business schools, with cohorts of alumni who receive a short dose of either functional knowledge or research skills or...
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- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive, respectively, a small monetary margin on each pack sold, a large margin, and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
Street (OWS), a prominent short selling research firm. Diamond Foods, a high flying growth company in 2011, grew from a walnut farmers' cooperative in 2005 into a branded snack foods manufacturer on the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
retailer, we found 65% to be inaccurate. That is, the recorded inventory quantity of an item fails to match the quantity found in the store. We identify factors associated with this inaccuracy that are stock keeping unit- (SKU) and store-specific. SKU-specific factors...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
promote complementarity across channels. We find that opening retail stores cannibalizes sales in the catalog and online channels in the short term but produces complementary effects in both channels in the long term; cannibalization is...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
point higher fee relative to the notional invested for selling the dominated bond on average. I develop and estimate a broker intermediated search model that rationalizes this behavior and quantifies the distortions in these markets. In...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
consumers. One view argues intermediaries provide valuable product education and guide consumers towards suitable products. Consumers understand how commissions affect agents' incentives and make optimal product choices. The second view argues that intermediaries...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
(forthcoming) Abstract We here bring forward strong evidence that political instability impedes financial development, with its variation a primary determinant of differences in financial development around the world. As such, it needs to be added to the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
Up: Is Voluntary Self-Reporting a Signal of Effective Self-Policing? Authors: Michael W. Toffel and Jodi L. Short Abstract Administrative agencies are increasingly establishing voluntary self-reporting programs both as an investigative...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
aversion assertion emerge. This pattern does not emerge in short experiments or in the first 10 trials of long experiments. Nor does it emerge in long experiments with two-outcome symmetric gambles or in long experiments with asymmetric...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
with a ring of empty seats above, below, and to either side of her own. "It was a lesson in the emotional and intellectual challenges of being a true minority," Lack says. "One of the wonderful things is that isolation lasted such a short...
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Hanna, Julia
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
1990s, she recalls, “I had dozens of people walking through the door with business plans for InStyle.com or Time.com that were essentially trying to sell me my own content.” The situation, she reflects, reminded her of the era of...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
these actors to change established practices and entrenched behaviors within a short timeframe to help Unilever meet its sustainability targets and also to improve the operations of its partners in the value chain? By encouraging...
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
industry, your business, and that might sound a little strange coming from a technology vendor who seems to want to sell everything to everyone all at once. But this stepwise evolution of understanding how AI can help your business, I’m...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
have been written, and 99 Chinese students have received MBAs from HBS. Nearly one in six HBS faculty members lists China as a primary research interest. China’s research potential is almost limitless. The country’s development over the past 25 years has been nothing...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
audiences to the theater than selling toys and other consumer product tie-ins, which is a significant revenue stream for studios. At Roadside Attractions, Eric d’Arbeloff (MBA 1993) has found a niche as a distributor of independent films...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
talented women with children for short periods of time," she says. "So we've built a network of about forty people who can do part-time, nonprofit work." Camargo's ability to find a balance between work and family is not accidental. "When...
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