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- 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
scalability: providing an ancillary service to sellers to reduce their fixed costs. In our model, a platform can choose whether and when to provide this service to sellers. When the platform provides the service, it encourages the entry of View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
- Background Note
Leadership and Teaming
By: Ethan Bernstein
Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail...
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Bernstein, Ethan. "Leadership and Teaming." Harvard Business School Background Note 414-033, September 2013. (Revised August 2015.)
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
advantage and market outcomes hence could be more efficient with stronger indirect network effects. We empirically examine the competition between the Xbox and PlayStation 2 consoles. We find that Xbox has a small quality advantage over...
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Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Experience and description-based decision making.
Prof. Barron and his co-authors study the effect of the economic environment on decision making. One example involves the effect of rare (low probability) events. People behave as if they overweight these events in some settings (e.g., when buying insurance and...
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- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
integration across multiple offices, ancillary businesses, early adoption of financial reporting software, and consensus-based decision making. The firm was proud of its corporate culture and sought to maintain it as it grew, bringing in only people who would fit the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
be driven by market mispricing to undertake activity in a highly cyclical manner, accelerating activity during periods when securities can be readily sold to other parties. While financial economists have largely focused on bank lending,...
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Martha Lagace
Howard H. Stevenson
Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details
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- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsCreating Meaning for the Customer: The Case of GMACI Harvard Business School Case 106-073 Excellence in exploiting customer information and leveraging its affiliation to the GM group are among the strategic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
from investors. CircleLending is a pioneer in the informal lending market, a largely unstudied and little understood consumer finance segment. Asheesh Advani, the founder and CEO of CircleLending, must evaluate the relative attractiveness...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
Working PapersDeterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners. Fraud...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Online Management Course | HBS Online
adopt and leverage processes to your advantage. Highlights Managing vs. Leading Columbia Space Mission Case Process: The DNA of Management ShowHide Details Case Studies Mount Everest - 1996 Columbia’s Final Mission Leading Change at...
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- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
$15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy
infrastructure that were likely to be able to use such large unrestricted grants effectively. The typical nonprofit in the US is very small in terms of revenue. The average grant size among organizations...
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- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
treatment has very large effects on whether respondents view inequality as an important problem. By contrast, we find quantitatively small effects of the treatment on views about policy and redistribution:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
direct competition with each other elicit size effects: consumers like small brands more when they compete with big brands and like big brands less when they compete with small brands. We further explore the...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2023
- What Do You Think?
Do Leaders Learn More From Success or Failure?
at business schools across the world, my own experience tells me to expect a bias toward success. After all, leaders are proud of what their organizations accomplish and have a bias to talk to academics about successes vs. failures. My...
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by James Heskett
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
start-up world and beyond. These methods have enabled technology companies large and small to accelerate their product development pipelines and reshape their relationships with customers. Drawing on...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
Mining and Manufacturing, 1953–1963 Warren E. BuffettBerkshire Hathaway, 1969–Present Morgan G. BulkeleyAetna Life Insurance Company, 1879–1922 Arde BulovaBulova Watch Company, 1930–1958 Steven A. BurdSafeway, 1993–Present James E....
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- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
for larger firms (which have access to bond markets), we confirm that this substitution has strong predictive power for lending volume by small and unrated firms. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-107.pdf Unfair...
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Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration
The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details
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Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant...
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