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- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
can be used in powerful ways, ideally leading to better patient care, lower health care costs and, ultimately, healthier patients. “Trust on the part of both the consumer and doctor is hugely important in determining who is going to be the likely winner here” There is...
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- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
for hiring, the concept of a slot is absent from virtually all of economics. Macroeconomic studies of vacancies and search come closest, but the implications of slot-based hiring for individual worker outcomes has not been analyzed in a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
levels and frequency of default typical of emerging markets even if the household impatience parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise calibrated to Brazil finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
Ross to write the paper "Performance Pricing in Tough Times." Shapiro, an authority on marketing strategy and sales management, is the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. Ross is a...
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- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
use a new dataset on industry-level targeting to analyze quality FDI based on the subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
succeeded in producing and distributing My Name is Khan in the country. The first thing Fox did right? "They set up shop in India." The company's previous release of the Hollywood blockbuster Avatar to the Indian market created...
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- 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18
and test its empirical implications using a novel data set from the market for original movie ideas. Consistent with the theoretical results, I find that buyers are reluctant to meet unproven sellers for early-stage ideas, which restricts...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
trades involving similar goods. It draws on archival, interview, and observational data mainly from New York state to analyze market participants' efforts to legitimize commerce and resolve a jurisdictional dispute. Building on literature...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10
Case 715-022 HEINEKEN-Brewing a Better World The Dutch company HEINEKEN, one of the leading global brewers known for its brands like Heineken, Amstel, and Desperados and for its award-winning marketing campaigns, seeks to closely...
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
resulting currency position tends to rise in value when equity markets fall. This strategy works well for investment horizons of one month to one year. In the past 15 years the risk-minimizing demand for the dollar appears to have...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
the marketing and economics literature. We show that in the Nerlove-Arrow framework, moment conditions typically used in conventional dynamic panel data methods become vulnerable to serial correlation in the error structure. We discuss...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
L.E. Simmons Faculty Fellow at HBS. He joined the HBS faculty after holding leadership positions in the European capital markets groups of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch and has broad experience in the areas of corporate...
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- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
average, use unverifiable discretion to convey private information on future cash flows; in contrast, agency theory predicts managers, on average, use unverifiable discretion opportunistically. We test these alternative hypotheses using a sample of firms with View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006
Business School Case 707-012 Clearwater was trying to market value-added products in a traditionally commodities based industry while facing supply uncertainties and regulatory, environmental, and foreign exchange challenges. Clearwater...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
meet the quarterly earnings targets of increasingly short-term–oriented investors. Reality: Companies that pursue major sustainability initiatives, and publicize them in integrated reports and other communications with investors, have...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
and French size and value portfolios, the market portfolio, bond portfolios, and the entire cross-section of stocks. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-060.pdf Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
competition in a two-sided market that includes buyers and sellers. One of the platforms benefits from a partial belief advantage, in that each side believes that it is more likely that the other side will join the advantaged platform. We...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
Reorientation in New Ventures By: McDonald, Rory, and Cheng Gao Abstract—New ventures often experience deviations from their plans that oblige them to reorient in pursuit of better fit between their evolving products and their target...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1
explanations of our findings. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1572699 August 2013 Journal of Finance Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market By: Ivashina, Victoria, and Bo Becker Abstract—Reaching for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
value" by issuing perpetual preferred stock, dubbed iPrefs. Henry Blodget, CEO of The Business Insider, disagrees saying, "You can't just wave your magic wand and make something of nothing." This short case is designed to support a discussion of...
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Sean Silverthorne