Filter Results
:
(328)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (328)
- Faculty Publications (73)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (328)
- Faculty Publications (73)
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
become more fundamental as advertisers target their advertisements with greater precision. In the paper that follows, the author attempts to identify the circumstances that make advertisers most vulnerable, notes adjusted contract...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
absent from the largest retail markets. Moreover, every retailer that has ventured overseas has failed as often as it has succeeded. On average, the extent of internationalization doesn't have a significant effect on either retailers' revenue growth View Details
Keywords:
Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
decision rights and (2) adjust for local information, including historical performance data, in their decisions. These decision-making patterns are associated with large and systematic differences in learning View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Abstract This paper examines the litigation of patents relating to financial products and services. I show that these grants are being litigated at a rate 27 to 39 times greater than that of patents as a whole. The patents being litigated...
View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
dynamism. China's economy, he reported, has been growing at a rate of over 10 percent a year in this decade, on a scale the world has never known. China's chaos stems from the lack of preparation before reforms began - including a lack of...
View Details
Keywords:
Alejandro Reyes
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
data to recover parameters including the depreciation rate and adjustment costs of managerial capital (both found to be larger than for tangible non-managerial capital). Our model also predicts (i) a...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
community? In the next fifty years, the current global economic and population balance will be turned on its head. Today’s rich countries will need to adjust to a significant drop in their share of the world’s income. As Africa’s share of...
View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
quality. Furthermore, the decay rate of athletics goodwill is smaller for students with lower SAT scores, suggesting that the goodwill created by intercollegiate athletics resides more extensively with low-ability students than with their...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
exhibited very different rates of economic recovery. We provide evidence that those countries that caught up the most with the U.S. in the postwar period are those that saw an acceleration in the speed of adopting new technologies. This...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
level. Inheriting Losers Authors:Li Jin and Anna Scherbina Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We show that new managers who take over mutual fund portfolios sell off inherited momentum losers at higher rates...
View Details
- Web
CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014
Outlook Over the past five years the School has made good progress on its strategic objectives while continuing to generate a healthy operating surplus. Nonetheless, in this same period revenues have grown at a compound annual rate of 6...
View Details
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
us about how the workforce is adjusting to the new normal?Welcome to the Managing the Future of Work podcast from Harvard Business School. I’m your host, Bill Kerr. My guest today is Sander van’t Noordende, CEO of Randstad, the...
View Details
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
valued very differently. Like, for example, soft skills become much, much more critical; the ability to work with other business partners becomes so much more critical, because all of those business decisions are intertwined. Kerr: We...
View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
from the developed to the developing country and (ii) adjustment costs to investment flows. Consistent with the model, we observe that the flow of technologies from N to S co-moves positively with output in both N and S. After calibrating...
View Details
Keywords:
Carmen Nobel
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
observers rate those who reveal even questionable behavior more positively (experiments 4A and 4B). The negative impact of hiding holds whether opting not to disclose unflattering (drug use, poor grades, and sexually transmitted diseases)...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
offers at the rate of one percent of the number of applications they filed. What we came up with was this notion that the way employers were approaching the process—of identifying applicants and then qualifying applicants to be...
View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
make bad decisions? Using both field and quantitative data from the MGM-Mirage Group, this paper discusses how management controls affect the learning rates of lower-level employees. Research, focusing on hotel casino hosts, was conducted...
View Details
Keywords:
by Staff
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
$1 soft drinks. A new, national value menu is set to roll out in January. Improving the customer experience meant implementing the physical and digital updates that Karavites’s restaurants had undergone but on a larger scale—part of a...
View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
the more traditional interest rate and tax channels-suggests new considerations in assessing the impact of government spending on private sector economic activity. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/cmalloy/pdffiles/envaloy.pdf...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne