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- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
role of financial intermediaries. In the private equity setting, institutional investors are increasingly eschewing intermediaries in favor of direct investments. To understand the trade-offs in this setting, we compile a proprietary...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
shook hands before integrative negotiations obtained higher joint outcomes (Studies 2a and 2b). Pairs randomly assigned to shake hands were more likely to openly reveal their preferences on trade-off issues, which improved joint outcomes...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
distribution, pooled intra-organizational coordination, and agency relationships—result in a trade-off between centralized and dispersed growth strategies. Which strategy prevails depends on how policy—enabling branching interacts with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
research, 90 percent-plus of companies admit that. As you think about AI and the regulation of AI as it relates to hiring evaluation, what do you think the issues that people need to keep in mind, what are the trade-offs going to be...
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- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
made this business model profitable by making a conscious set of operating strategy choices (menu, meal design, service process, lay-out, reservation process) that reduce waste and inefficiency, while preserving quality. The case enables students to understand how...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
sorting effect, whereby firms trade-off service quality and price, and in turn, the incumbent attracts service (price) sensitive customers in markets where it has supplied relatively high (low) levels of service quality in the past....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that these results are due to a sorting effect, whereby firms trade-off service quality and price, and in turn, the incumbent attracts service (price) sensitive customers in markets where...
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
belief is sound, but the authors' analysis of the performance of 45 companies led by CEOs with military experience revealed differences in how the branches (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps) prepare leaders for business. Those differences reflect the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
internally between autonomous divisions must use some form of transfer prices and adjust the profit plans of the divisions involved. This module demonstrates the different ways of designing an internal transfer pricing system and explains View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
discover combinations of product features that would be hard to envision under integration. Open innovation, however, confines the ability of the firm to establish the product's technological trajectory. The resolution of the trade-off...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
microfoundations, we find that increasing the number of potential matches not only has a positive effect due to larger choice, but also a negative effect due to competition between agents on the same side. Agents with heterogeneous outside options resolve the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
minimizes a convex approximation of this metric. We further develop an exponential penalty approach and show that its computational performance is far superior and its trade-off between delay and fairness compares favorably. In our...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
fired, this is what happens if-- there's so many hours they want me to work, blah, blah, blah. But we don't have a similar contract at home. So we come home and we're in a contract-less world, which means that the contract of the first place can often-- like, now I'm...
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- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Our findings illuminate the micro-foundations of innovation in firms by highlighting a trade-off between organizing patenting activity to maximize scope versus speed. Publisher's link:...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
leader in trying to set aside historical requirements for applicants and trying to shift more toward a phrase a lot of people use, “skills-based hiring.” Could you talk a little bit about the way you’re thinking about that trade-off and...
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- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
trade-off between competitive price discovery and convenience. Evidence from eBay fits the theory: auctions are favored by less experienced sellers and for idiosyncratic products, and auction listings sell at a discount but with higher...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
3) there may be no trade-off between value creation and value capture when comparing business models with different degrees of openness. Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search? Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Publication:RAND Journal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
incomplete contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the pecuniary benefits of coordinating production...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
some of our main values and make choices about society. Some of the biggest trade-offs we make are made when deciding tax policy. One of the things I've been disappointed about with the talk around this particular reform is that there...
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by Sean Silverthorne