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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
recommendations for stocks with larger market capitalizations and lower return volatility than their sell-side peers, consistent with their facing fewer conflicts of interest and having a preference for liquid stocks. Tests with no...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
on shared terminals in Baker Library, the game required first-year students to put their newly acquired knowledge of marketing, control, finance, and operations to the test in a simulated competitive business environment. In addition to...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
quarter of fiscal year 2015. Apple also faced some criticism from consumers regarding the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Upgrade Program. A September 2016 survey reported that an increasing number of customers decided to subscribe to the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
the ability to achieve a goal, which in turn translates into higher rates of learning. We test the resulting model experimentally, using a mixed-method design that combines two laboratory experiments with a field experiment conducted in a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
for soccer fans, FirstRowSports. The NFL’s as-yet-unnamed foray into online streaming will test the waters with an October 25 game only available online. The cable and telecom industry has taken note, evidenced by its heavy lobbying...
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Julia Hanna;
HBO;
Netflix;
Hulu;
Vimeo;
YouTube;
Telecommunications;
Information;
Arts, Entertainment
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
easy to navigate? And all of these build on each other. But now with the advent of AI and technology, I think we're entering it into HR 4.0, which is allowing us to do customization at scale, personalized experiences at scale. The career...
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- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
differential between inflation-indexed and nominal bond yields, we separately test for time-varying real rate risk premia, inflation risk premia, and liquidity premia in U.S. and U.K. bond markets. We find strong, model independent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
serve significantly diverging customer bases. Such market-type dispersion is likely to compromise the headquarters' ability to control its local managers' behavior and satisfy the divergent needs of different types of customers. In this...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
of HBS scholars have identified new perspectives for evaluating complex problems, launching new fields like strategy and new concepts like the balanced scorecard in the process. Research infuses our curriculum, where ideas are tested and...
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- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
decentralized banks are also more responsive to their own competitive environment. They are more likely to expand credit when faced with competition but also cherry pick customers and restrict credit when they have market power. This...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
I find robust evidence of a negative (positive) relation between unexplained (explained) pay disparity and future firm performance. Additional tests show that the negative relation between unexplained disparity and firm performance is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
work, we look at the gold standard era (1880-1914) as a "natural experiment" to test whether adoption of a rule-based monetary framework such as the gold standard increased policy credibility. On the basis of the largest...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
project, in which the sales and marketing structure play a central role. Will his ideas allow the company to keep its customers and successfully go after new markets? Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
literacy may slow adoption of these products. This article reports on a field experiment that offered an innovative new financial product, rainfall insurance, to 600 small-scale farmers in India. A customized financial literacy and...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
how do you account for the fact that, if we work at two of the world’s most distinguished business schools, we have lots of alumni who are CEOs in C-suites, renowned investors. And many of them, certainly the public company CEOs, I believe, will pass a lie detector...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
engineering team’s velocity and quality? How do I look at my customer support organization and what customer satisfaction metrics look like? And how am I performing against my service-level agreements?”...
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- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
models and evaluating their efficacy in standalone fashion—just as engineers test new technologies or products. However, the success or failure of a company's business model depends largely on how it interacts with those of the other...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
be adapted to all sorts of nutritious foods—AACE has added soybeans, maize, and sorghum to its product line—but spices have proven to be an effective proof of concept. It now sells products to customers in 6 of Nigeria's 36 states,...
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- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
extract maximum value from technologies such as point-of-sale scanners and customer loyalty cards. Highly readable and compelling, The New Science of Retailing is your playbook for turning all that data into a wellspring for new profits...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
want people who are enthusiastic and have a level of optimism about the future of work and how work happens, and, again, are willing to experiment and test things out. We talk a great deal around this what we call “high-rung thinking,”...
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