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- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
same brand is offered in different countries with a different product formulation. Depending on the country, people usually wash clothes with hot or cold water, so the product formulation needs to be...
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- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
Information or Wing It? A Model of Dynamic Pricing with Seller Learning By: Huang, Guofang, Hong Luo, and Jing Xia Abstract—Pricing idiosyncratic products is often challenging because the seller, ex ante,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
sometimes Germany. Generations of British business historians explained their country's economic "failure" by establishing what it did "wrong" compared to U.S. or German business. They then explained this by identifying View Details
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 02 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?
how Xerox machines were really fixed, Xerox brought in an organizational consultant and anthropologist who found, among other things, that some of Xerox's service representatives' most productive time was spent in telling stories (leaking...
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by James Heskett
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Valuing an MBA: Beyond Dollars and “Sense" - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
of an objective standard for vague traits allows people to create idiosyncratic definitions and view themselves as better than others in their own unique ways (Experiment 6). Overall, the results suggest motivation’s effect on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
the making of the global world over the last two centuries. Individual entrepreneurs and managers invented new products and shaped consumer demand. Firms created and diffused technologies and products, alongside the values in which they...
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- 27 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape
standpoint, lowering its carbon intensity in India is key to unlocking a sustainable future. In 2019, agriculture generated 585 Mt CO2e, making it the third most contributing sector behind power generation and heavy industry. Nonetheless, the country’s View Details
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Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #18: Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Venture Capitalist and Water Evangelist - Blog - Business & Environment
Stories Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC India 2024 - Development While Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net Zero MBA Teaching & Research...
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- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
reducing banks' leverage reduces the risk and cost of equity but does not change the weighted average cost of capital, and thus the rates for borrowers. We confirm that the equity of better-capitalized banks has lower beta and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
information, increased volume, or idiosyncratic volatility. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51024 February 2017 Academic Radiology Dissecting Costs of CT Study: Application of TDABC (Time-driven...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
interview with HBS Working Knowledge's Martha Lagace, he discusses what companies should bear in mind going forward.Lagace: People often equate globalization with the idea that globally standardized products are displacing local ones. In...
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by Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
Working PapersTowards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors:Abigail Allen and Karthik Ramanna Abstract We investigate the idiosyncratic influence of standard setters in standard setting. In...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to investment performance is the most frequent motivation for use of ESG data followed by client demand and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
as those in group practice. Peer interaction is important for professional learning and quality care. Working Papers Return Migration and Geography of Innovation in MNEs: A Natural Experiment of On-the-Job Learning of Knowledge View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
non-profits, while all others are idiosyncratic to specific sub-groups of non-profits. After identifying these commonalities, this paper focuses on specific factors which make non-profit governance particularly nuanced and complicated in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
too much about the product that they're about to acquire or be part of and, much more important, the parents because they're the ones who ultimately get to choose. I remember telling my own children, "You can apply to any college you...
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- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Abstract This paper presents an endogenous growth model that explains the evolution of the first and second moments of productivity growth at the aggregate and firm level during the post-war period. Growth is driven by the development of...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
investigation into many aspects of service management. For example, while product design and development have received a great deal of attention, the subject of service design has not been very visible in the research literature. There...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
rebalancing in the financial portfolio of participants. These patterns conceal strong household-level evidence of active rebalancing, which on average offsets about one half of idiosyncratic passive variations in the risky asset share....
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Martha Lagace