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- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Cost-Accounting/9780132109178.page Mixed Source Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gaston Llanes Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We study competitive interaction between a profit-maximizing firm...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs
a long list of adjectives and verbs as masculine or feminine then scanned a popular job site to look for those words. They found that job ads in male-dominated fields (like software programming) tended to use masculine-coded words such as...
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- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
Fund's Ethics Council. According to a spokesperson of Norway's Finance Ministry, "The recommendation to exclude Wal-Mart cites serious and systematic violations of human rights and labor rights." Before making its View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
that managers deliver ROI from their marketing investments; therefore, quantifying the effects of marketing decisions is imperative. At the same time, customer relationship management (CRM) software and emerging Web 2.0 applications are...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
Tongish, posted his profile to a now-defunct website that promised online dating with a twist: Women recommended their male friends to other women. Kushner, who had also recommended a friend of hers on the...
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April White
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
dynamic consumer segmentation, which operates independent of the homogenization effect, and can in fact be stronger when the homogenization effect is weaker. We also find that bundles are treated as separate products (distinct from component products) by consumers....
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Anna Secino
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
electronic-mail communication. Building on the knowledge gained from that project and from the use of personal computers in a few carefully selected MBA courses, the School moved in the mid-1980s to recommend strongly that students use...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
churn problem. Netflix used Cinematch, its proprietary movie recommendation software, to promote individually determined best-fit movies to customers. Hastings determined that a 10% improvement to the Cinematch algorithm would decrease...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
explain eight lessons from optimal tax theory and compare them to the last few decades of OECD tax policy. As recommended by theory, top marginal income tax rates have declined, marginal income tax schedules have flattened, redistribution...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
and Finding Alignment Currently, as Director of DEIB at Justworks, Ramirez has taken on her latest challenge of leading impactful initiatives at the growing human resource software company. Most recently, she has been focused on building...
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- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
recommendations cover the entire hiring cycle in seven steps: anticipating the need for new hires, specifying the job, developing a pool of candidates, assessing the candidates, closing the deal, integrating the newcomer, and reviewing...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
sell-side analysts employed at state-owned brokerages issued relatively optimistic earnings forecasts and stock recommendations during these periods. This relative optimism is particularly pronounced in earnings forecasts for larger firms...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
Case 218-095 Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (A) Snap, the disappearing message app, went public at $17 per share on March 2, 2017, making its two 20-something founders the youngest self-made billionaires in the country. Over the next three weeks, 14 analysts...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
and Finding Alignment Currently, as Director of DEIB at Justworks, Ramirez has taken on her latest challenge of leading impactful initiatives at the growing human resource software company. Most recently, she has been focused on building...
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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
fundamental business model has not changed in more than 100 years: very smart outsiders go into organizations for a finite period of time and recommend solutions for the most difficult problems confronting their clients. But at...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017) - Recruiting
leading impactful initiatives at the growing human resource software company. Most recently, she has been focused on building an advocacy organization within Justworks to remove barriers for business owners who have been historically...
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- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
hand in a clear manner. It offers recommendations for both those seeking and giving advice to make the process as effective as possible. Publisher's link: https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-art-of-giving-and-receiving-advice January 2015 Journal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
care. Challenges and hurdles to implementation are described for both the health plan and the IPU. Provides detailed data to allow students to evaluate success, identify current challenges, and recommend improvements to the integrated...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
deliberations, the President's Commission recommended Fannie Mae be restructured into a fully private firm. Now it was up to Congress and the President to decide whether to accept and implement the Commission's findings. Purchase this...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
would have otherwise been undertaken at home. These two tempting claims are found to have limited, if any, systematic support. Instead, modern welfare norms that capture the nature of multinational firm activity recommend a move toward...
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Martha Lagace