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- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
further promote commercial avoidance. Based on the model estimation, we optimize the branding activity under marketing control for ads in the sample to reduce commercial avoidance. This reveals that pulsing the brand presence—while...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13
Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and stewardship) and that verifiability and...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
with open disagreement). The paper thus provides micro-foundations for the idea that bringing a project inside the firm gives the manager control over that project, while explaining concentrated asset ownership, low-powered incentives,...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
five months-cut defects by half, reduced inventory by 20%, and raised output by 10%. A control group saw no such gains. The authors' global data set suggests that implementing good management at schools and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
agreed to, and my assignment resulted in the successful integration of operations and rapid growth. I was then asked to take an assignment in Japan as managing director, Far East, to wrest control of a 50-50 joint venture with Sumitomo. I...
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Walt Disney Studios
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
compare those clicks with users' subsequent purchases. Ever-cheaper IT makes this tracking cost effective and routine. In addition, a web of interlocking ad networks trades inventory and offers to show the right ad to the right person at...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
development as a means of raising the lives of previously disadvantaged South Africans. By 1999, the company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, making 36-year-old Surve the youngest CEO of a listed diversified conglomerate. From its inception, Sekunjalo only...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
control for this effect in our model specifications. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-006.pdf Level II Negotiations: Helping the Other Side Meet Its 'Behind the Table' Challenges Authors:authors Abstract A long...
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30
tax per dollar of pre-tax income than non-PE backed firms, after controlling for NOLs and debt tax shields. We find additional tax savings for PE-backed portfolio firms that are either majority-owned or owned by large PE firms, consistent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
information in online retail. In our experiments, customers are randomly assigned to a treatment condition where virtual fit information is available or to a control condition where virtual fit information is not available. Our results...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
And so simplicity was key. Agency was the other. So we wanted our employees to have more control over how they chose their compensation. And I’ve always worked in organizations where you give someone a base salary, maybe there’s a bonus,...
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Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
proactive in our communication back to the community. The work we've been doing to build the team and infrastructure is low visibility but vitally important. So, I understand why people might wonder what we've been up to. We're navigating the processes for things that...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
"option value" by actively seeking out opportunities—lateral and diagonal moves, along with upward movement—that open up career paths not just now but every step forward. Continually mark-to-market yourself by taking inventory of your...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
arrival at LC in 1994 that the company had done relatively little consumer research, he immediately launched an intensive survey of customer needs. He also performed an asset inventory of the entire organization, which revealed "a lot of...
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Nancy O. Perry
- Web
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reporting implications of business decisions and identify key control fault-lines in companies that can lead to fraud. The course is also relevant for students seeking to develop sophisticated financial analysis skills to spot red flags...
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