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- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51680 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us About Earnings Surprises and Post-announcement Returns? By: Froot, Kenneth A., Namho Kang, Gideon Ozik, and Ronnie...
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- 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
By: Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Using retail chain data, we study the effects of a tournament incentive plan based primarily on objective performance, but incorporating managerial discretion in the selection of winners....
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
has begun to grow kiwifruit outside of New Zealand in order to have the product on retail shelves year round. Is this the right strategy for the future? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511001-PDF-ENG Asian Agri...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
exports to the rest of the continent are up, and foreign investment has increased. Although progress is sometimes disappointing and many challenges are still ahead, South Africa is nonetheless seen by investors from all over the globe as...
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
factories that produce fertilizer, to investors like Masha working directly with farmers, to retail-focused suppliers rebuilding local appetite for food grown in their country. Universal among these agribusiness entrepreneurs is a core...
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- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
Liquidity Transformation in Asset Management: Evidence from the Cash Holdings of Mutual Funds By: Chernenko, Sergey, and Aditya Vikram Sunderam Abstract—We study liquidity transformation in mutual funds using a novel dataset on their cash holdings. To provide View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006
believed that these holdout creditors created "collective action problems" and presented a major obstacle to successful sovereign debt restructurings. On the other hand, other observers argued that activist investors actually...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
back even further, to his elementary school days, when he bought packages of light bulbs in bulk and sold them door-to-door in his neighborhood at slightly below retail prices. "I think I always wanted to have control over my future. We...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
is, “I care about my family, I want to be with my kids, I want to be with my parents. I want to spend time with my family, and I want to work for a company that cares about that.”Fuller: In your descriptions, you went everywhere from View Details
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
tanks advocate for their own mode of transportation, issue by issue. Air and rail don't talk to each other—just as they fail to connect at most airports (although freight rail and trucking companies work well together). The major View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
investors and he’s the “flag,” the name. Given that case, that would inform a world view that has a high sensitivity to perceptions in what we call in real estate “the real economy.” Are the rooms full, and in which locations? Hotel...
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016
Andrei Hagiu of Harvard Business School and venture capitalist Simon Rothman of Greylock Partners. Most entrepreneurs and investors attribute this to the challenge of quickly attracting a critical mass of buyers and suppliers. But it is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
surplus and welfare, sometimes to such an extent that the existence of the intermediary can be harmful. Specifically, lower consumer surplus and welfare result from inflated retail prices, over-investment in providing benefits to buyers,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
Alibaba Group to diversify from an international business-to-business (B2B) exchange (Alibaba.com) into a B2C and C2C exchange (Taobao.com) for Chinese retailers and consumers. In China, Taobao had managed to displace the once dominant...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
benefits from racial diversity but that diversity is a liability when society's negative stereotypes about racial minorities' competence inhibit such interactions. We analyze two years of data from 496 retail bank branches to investigate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
who weren’t able to work for one reason or another related to the pandemic. We have 1,900 employees here at the company, and we have very much a bifurcated workforce, in the sense that 40 percent of our team are our retail folks. They’re...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
professional goals, she did not realize what made the company so special until after she resigned. Only then did she comprehend what being a true leader involved. The Index Revolution: Why Investors Should Join It Now by Charles D. Ellis...
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Print View - Course Catalog
students who: Plan to start their own companies, immediately after graduation or in the future Have experienced a startup failure--of their own or of a company they were a part of--and want to build a narrative toolkit for talking to future employers and View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
who want to change the way health care is delivered. In 2010, she founded HealthTech Capital, a group of private investors interested in health tech startups. JULY 16 Héctor Masoero (PMD 58, 1989), chair of UADE, a private nonprofit...
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