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- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
moving "downmarket" without diminishing their prestige or alienating existing customers. The authors suggest various ways to cater to new, non-core customers in a way that differentiates the newcomers from a brand's core...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational managerial responses to securities mispricing. The managerial biases approach studies the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
economic uncertainty of the time and emphasizing the importance of focusing on creating long-term value. The stock immediately lost 8 percent of its value, but Polman saw no other way out of the dilemma between catering to short-term...
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
discrete industries. First, there's in vitro fertilization, probably the most obvious piece. This is a service industry, like medicine in general, which caters to infertile couples. Then there are what I call the component industries,...
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- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
providing retail, housing and entertainment facilities that catered to Colombia’s middle class. While White Stone’s proposal would solve many of Jaguar’s challenges as a start-up real estate development company, the offer would also...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51996 forthcoming Quarterly Journal of Economics Catering to Investors Through Security Design: Headline Rate and Complexity By: Célérier, Claire, and Boris Vallée...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
Abstract We survey the theory and evidence of behavioral corporate finance, which generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational managerial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
"specializing" in misconduct and catering to unsophisticated consumers, while others use their clean reputation to attract sophisticated consumers. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53404 October 5, 2017 New...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
time, catering to the extremeness of the conversation. Paul Krugman is an example of that. My thoughts these days are about how we can leverage the moderates much more than before. In the old days, when the disagreements were about...
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- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
world, and this is yet another similarity that we believe may be instructive. It is no wonder that, according to reporting in the New York Times, people are feeling irrelevant at younger ages than ever before. If you don’t believe us, check out this piece about a spa...
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- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/319066-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 419-001 Wolfgang Puck: Setting the Table for the Future Chef Wolfgang Puck oversees a disparate business empire that includes fine dining restaurants, a View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
allow work to be done. Second, by allowing trusted paramedics to "save lives" even if this means bending the rules a bit, physicians cater to the paramedics' occupational identities. Paramedics become who they aspire to be,...
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by Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
additional time. That’s been of huge value to us. And we’re doing more things like creating pools of individuals and pods of individuals that might work on five projects at once, where historically they would’ve worked on one project at once. And if you do that, you...
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- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
A share market skyrocketing. We discuss the cause and the consequence of investor sentiment on the cross-listing decision of firms and the responsibilities of corporate managers to maximize existing shareholder interests through catering...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
Such motives spring from the humanitarian values possessed by the organizations or individuals involved. Utilitarian motives, on the other hand, cater to the partners' organizational needs, focusing on issues like risk management or the...
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- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
was established in 2005 to invest primarily in middle market, particularly family-run, businesses in India. Blue River caters to this niche as an active investor, providing capital and working with portfolio companies to improve their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
entrepreneur and thus, despite our both working equally hard with respect to family and expectations, can’t relate to my catering to 14 time zones. I presume that I would feel the same in her shoes. So it’s the little things that enable...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
educational, but it is one that caters to the different strengths of its players and encourages creative development. “For each of our games, we focus on three crucial ‘moments,’” explains Furlong. The situational moment involves when and...
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- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/116020-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-083 Improving Repurchase Rates at zulily In February 2015, zulily cofounder and CEO Darrell Cavens faced a major challenge in his business, a Seattle-based daily deals site that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
provide indirect evidence as to why firm managers may cater to the demand for dividends from local seniors. Overall, these results suggest that the composition of a firm's investor base affects corporate policy choices. Download the paper...
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Martha Lagace