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- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Internalization of advertising services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated and varies widely across industries. To explain this variation, we draw on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Consequently, there is a negative effect of leader power on team performance. Three studies find consistent support for this argument. The implications for theory and practice are discussed. South Sudan: The Birth of an Economy...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
would be stadium seating, but that's about it. It's remarkable. And not in a good way." Lopez, it seems, is just getting warmed up. "Can you imagine driving the same car in 2010 that you drove in 1977, with the same features? There's almost nothing in the 2010 consumer...
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- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy CEO Behavior and Firm Performance By: Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract— We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in six countries parsing granular CEO diary...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
efficiency? What if cars weren’t made up of 25,000 different parts? What if, instead of giant factories that operate on economies of scale, forced to produce millions of the same cars to make a profit, we produced cars in small batches,...
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- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
PublicationsThe Profits of Power: Commerce and Realpolitik in Eurasia Authors:Rawi Abdelal Publication:Review of International Political Economy (forthcoming) Abstract Although the energy trade is the single most important element of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
costs. But to realize those benefits, the acquirer needs to achieve economies of scale by absorbing the target's resources into its operations. CEOs, who are often unrealistic about the performance boost from such acquisitions, must be...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Spring2025 Q4 1.5 Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements Accounting & Management Joseph Pacelli Fall2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Business and Geopolitics Business, Government & the International Economy Jeremy Friedman Fall2024 Q1...
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- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
These are important livelihoods for Americans and the number is growing with the gig economy and the opportunity to work remotely. Then there are about 4 million Main Street businesses: coffee shops, dry cleaners, and car repair...
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- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
that data from digital platforms such as Yelp have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification, both by providing data in close to real time (i.e., nowcasting and forecasting) and by providing additional context about how...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
make up a large part of the labor force, the US population is aging, and the knowledge economy is booming. But companies have not adapted to this new reality. By failing to address the caregiving needs of employees, they are missing a...
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- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107029 How Media Choices are Changing Online Advertising Harvard Business School Note 707-458 What is the response by advertisers as media consumption moves to the digital...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
capabilities, new experiences. We do that very well. One of the challenges that Kelly and our customers—as well as, I think, the economy or labor markets in general—there is no uniform way of credentialing and creating basically a View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
and to avoid the larger economies of Spain and Italy becoming involved. The European financial system became strained. Banks were found to be undercapitalized and began to ration credit to the economy. The European Central Bank intervened...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
the art world with affordable pieces of art," says Endine, the former founding CEO of Sweetriot. Art Rioting allows visitors to support artists by purchasing artwork to be used as digital backgrounds. "I love building sweet movements to...
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- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically attributed to reduced complexity, lower uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
enterprises with that and nobody was really operating at the very high levels of, kind of business intelligence that a lot of the work that was happening in the gig economy, and the freelance economy was very fairly basic and fairly...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
perspective, we have centralized a majority of our operating model to create scale, to create leverage. We’re aiming to create economies of scale, build functional expertise where applicable. And there remains aspects of our work that are...
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- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
letter from the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) asking him to shut down eDonkey, MetaMachine's popular file-sharing system. In September 2005, more than 30 million users relied on eDonkey to share digital files,...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
you’ve been engaged in and those around you?Moret: It had a number of effects. In particular, digitization of the economy really got a big boost. On the hybrid front, I personally think that’s probably going...
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