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- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
that if all songs are priced equally, those albums are a particularly "good deal" for consumers. But that is not what I found: The number of songs on an album does not really matter. “The labels did themselves a disservice by granting a player like Apple such...
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- 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008
Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many independent rating systems are designed primarily to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
markets, which have had biosimilar competition since 2006. Using our own survey, we analyze how market features and public policies predict biosimilar entry, price, and penetration, finding significant heterogeneity across countries and products. Effective View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008
Shine, Stern & Partners) and the buyer (MINI USA) and asks them to develop a sales strategy and a buying strategy for advertising services. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
design tools is a powerful force that is leveling the global technology playing field. It democratizes innovation and makes future competition more challenging. This paper describes the knowledge flows through production and design tools,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
powerful economic incentive to lend to companies in Chapter 11. (Although American did not need such debtor-in-possession financing, United and Delta together raised almost $3.5 billion in DIP financing in their bankruptcies.) Chapter 11...
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- 10 Oct 2007
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http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507082 PublicationsRealizing the Promise of Personalized Medicine Authors:Mara G. Aspinall and Richard G. Hamermesh Periodical:Harvard Business Review 85, no. 10 (October 2007) Abstract Scientific...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
double-edged sword because of the power such a client has over a young, struggling firm, the signal that the prestige of the client sends out is more valuable than any potential negative impact. Hence, entrepreneurs and managers should...
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- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
Lady Gaga, and LeBron James? Which strategies give leaders in film, television, music, publishing, and sports an edge over their rivals? In this book, drawing on my case studies and other research on the worlds of media and sports, I explain a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
establishing the existence of equilibria and other useful properties in diverse settings such as matching, auctions, and exchange economies with indivisible goods. We extend earlier models’ definitions of substitutability to settings in which each agent can be both a...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
settings in which each agent can be both a buyer in some transactions and a seller in others and show that all these definitions are equivalent. We then introduce a new class of substitutable preferences that allows us to model...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
of the most powerful political and economic jobs in the world, this book charts Al-Naimi’s extraordinary rise to power. Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today’s Business and Create the Future by Scott D. Anthony (MBA 2001), Clark...
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- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
of him and his company. But eventually, when sales of his breakthrough, no-frills Model T began to flag because car buyers became interested in style, not just functionality, Ford refused to face facts. He denied that the world had moved...
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- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
How can we profit from the structural reality of emerging markets by identifying opportunities to fill voids, serving as market intermediaries? For Khanna and Palepu, an emerging market is anyplace where buyers and sellers cannot easily...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
who offer innovative products. Buyers who trust their current suppliers are less likely to seek information about the new product and they express less interest in purchasing it. Once the product becomes available, they do in fact make...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
behavior on an ongoing basis. Communication is a central part of that story. Negotiators can have good reasons for not saying everything they're thinking. Holding back information can be a simple matter of self-defense. If a seller reveals her bottom line, that may be...
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by Michael Wheeler
- 03 Sep 2013
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organizational design so as to reinforce and enable each other. August 2013 Harvard Business Review 91, no. 9 (September 2013): 68-76 Great Leaders Who Make the Mix Work By: Groysberg, Boris, and Katherine Connolly Abstract—Business leaders send a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
because their market power allows them to charge higher service fees than domestic banks. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/05-025.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Armstrong Investigation Harvard Business School...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7
Firms Respond to Being Rated Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
converting an idea into reality, recruiting inspired talent, transforming buyers into partners, aligning financial and other supporters, and scaling the business. 100 Mistakes of a Start Up CEO (Start Up Guru Series) by Bill Lewis (AMP...
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