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- 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13
behavior and preferences into service cost and productivity standard metrics. Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios Authors:W. Jakub Jurkek and Luis M. Viceira Publication:Review of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We develop an analytical solution to...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50668 forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Design of Search Engine Services: Channel Interdependence in Search Engine Results By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—The authors...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
and the profitability to engage in exports and R&D, thereby relaxing borrowing constraints and enabling more firms to overcome the fixed-cost hurdle for financing R&D. We decompose the effects of RER changes on productivity growth into these View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016
between portfolio choice and return realizations. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51573 In Press Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Risky Business: When Humor Increases and Decreases Status By:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
to what they've done to reinvigorate their business. They looked strategically at all aspects of their offering across the various channels they have at their disposal to maximize customer satisfaction and the return they get on their...
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- 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
priors/worldviews, or relevant features of a problem not being top of mind. Most research studying such losses does not empirically distinguish between these mechanisms. Instead, we show that most highly cited papers in this area presume one mechanism underlies...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30
the two tendencies can be explained as a product of a contingent recency effect: although the estimations reflect negative recency, choice behavior reflects positive recency. A similar pattern is observed in the field study: immediately...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
engaging in a pre-eating ritual over a 5-day period helped participants reduce calorie intake (Experiment 1). Pairing a ritual with healthy eating behavior increased the likelihood of choosing healthy food in a subsequent decision (Experiment 2), and enacting a ritual...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17
three options to address this threat: doing nothing, licensing the focal IP ex ante, and paying agents to stay loyal. His optimal choice depends on external parameters-the share of untrustworthy agents in the population, the intensity of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016
2016 Self-published Introduction to Financial Accounting: Review Quizzes and Practice Exams By: Narayanan, V.G. Abstract—This book provides practice multiple choice questions on introductory accounting topics. It can be used to prepare...
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- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and control, and getting everyone to pull in the same direction. How do you accomplish all this? Continually ask the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
retailers. Consistent with managerial wisdom, we find that authorized retailers are more likely to comply with MAP than are unauthorized partners. By contrast to managerial wisdom, we find that authorized and unauthorized markets are largely separate, and that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016
hosts who have never had an African-American guest, suggesting only a subset of hosts discriminate. While rental markets have achieved significant reductions in discrimination in recent decades, our results suggest that Airbnb’s current design View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8
partly a result of poor corporate governance. We also provide evidence of a channel through which the benefits of ownership concentration outweigh its costs. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-100.pdf Cases &...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
aggressively and scale its business. They also needed to make business choices about next steps. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813023-PDF-ENG The World Bank in 2012: Choosing a Leader Iyer, Lakshmi, and Ian McKowan...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
video rental chains. The combination of a large national inventory, a recommendation system that drove viewership across the broad catalog, and a large customer base made Netflix a force to be reckoned with, especially as a distribution View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
integrating operations to avoid corruption. The difference, the authors believe, lies in the choice between “push” and “pull” investment. MNCs seek growth by pushing current products onto emerging middle-class consumers. They retain some...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/man-jit-singh-at-sony-entertainment-television-a/an/414028-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-083 The Weather Company New CEO David Kenny transformed The Weather Company in less than two years from a primary identity as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
retail channel made up of thousands of small neighborhood shops called bakalas. In October 2018, all three of these focal points were under pressure. Under the economic-restructuring programs of Saudi Arabia’s new crown prince, Mohammed...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
is left with no choice but to do so.) Nevertheless, there is slow and I believe inexorable movement in the direction of a WDC, because it makes sense for all concerned. It will take time but it will happen. Just the other day the CEO of a...
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by Cynthia Churchwell