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- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
(BRFSS) data on 2.3 million U.S. respondents, and Eurobarometer data that cover multiple business cycles over four decades. This research provides a new perspective on the welfare cost of business cycles, with implications for growth...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
potential payoffs of e-commerce investments. Measuring returns on e-commerce projects can be a daunting challenge. Predicting customer behavior is difficult, because using the Web to do business is still relatively new to many businesses and thus forecasting View Details
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by Marc J. Epstein
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
Things—finally fail to attract investor interest, then we might posit that the cycle is reaching its trough. So if, in the wake of a future sector crash, entrepreneurs and investors anticipate a sector-level threat-rigidity response, what...
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- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
urgent needs of the future. Start-ups, on the other hand, are intensely focused on innovation but are also beholden to the impatience and boom-and-bust cycles of the venture capital industry. In his new book, The Architecture of...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
politicians from politically contested areas are also more likely to turn to toxic loans. Using a difference-in-differences methodology, we show that politicians time the election cycle by implementing more transactions immediately before...
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
a management perspective, what challenges face airline leaders today? A: Industries can evolve and change as a result of both external and internal forces. As the life cycle of an industry evolves, the dominant business model also...
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- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
virtuous cycles of exploitation and exploration by deliberately perturbing their own processes. We provide illustrations from Toyota and formulate testable hypotheses about the mechanisms of perturbation. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
actual sale of a business. Q: Let me ask you the question people frequently ask me. Can you really teach entrepreneurship? HS: For many years, the message from the School and from the faculty was, "Why would you waste your time and...
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by Staff
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
conducted with two of its sponsors and five independent experts. The interviews were conducted beginning in 2003, over the four EURO project life cycles starting in 2000, with a primary focus on the tournaments taking place in 2016. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
association, fair pay practices) and whether these codes have affected their business outcomes (e.g., staff turnover and absenteeism, product defect rates, sales growth). In this paper, we review the existing evaluations of other private...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
agreement may represent the culmination of a massive negotiation campaign with multiple, related fronts: financial, shareholder, internal corporate, labor, supplier, political, and regulatory. Complex sales with long View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
Cases & Course MaterialsBunge: Food, Fuel, and World Markets Harvard Business School Case 708-443 In 2007, Bunge, an agribusiness company, had over $26 billion in worldwide sales and was considered, along with Cargill and Archer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More, Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine, argues that the sudden availability of niche offerings more closely tailored to their tastes will lure consumers away from homogenized hits. The "tail" of...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
organizations and in society disrupts the learning cycle at the heart of becoming a leader. Women must establish credibility in a culture that is deeply conflicted about whether, when, and how they should exercise authority. Practices...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
the income taxes paid by residents with good jobs, from the tolls paid by drivers, from property and sales taxes. Without revenue, costs can't be covered. Can cities with high liabilities expect to be bailed out and propped up without...
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- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
alignment in supply/demand planning. We model the interaction between a sales and a manufacturing function within a firm, or between an upstream and downstream firm. We claim that misalignment is costly both to the involved...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50187 Capital Requirements, Risk Choice, and Liquidity Provision in a Business Cycle Model By: Begenau, Juliane Abstract—This paper develops a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model...
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
policy resolution. In so doing, they engender excess burden. This paper posits, calibrates, and simulates a life cycle model with earnings, lifespan, investment return, and future policy uncertainty. It then measures the excess burden...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
http://hbr.org/product/samuel-slater-francis-cabot-lowell-the-factory-system-in-u-s-cotton-manufacturing/an/814065-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-014 Donfeng Nissan's Venucia (A) The (A) case describes the launch of a new passenger vehicle in China, produced...
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Sean Silverthorne