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- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice By: Chen, Huaizhi, Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract— Using a novel database that tracks web traffic on the SEC’s EDGAR servers between 2004 and 2015,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24
Abstract—Existing apology research has conceptualized apologies as a device to rebuild relationships following a transgression. As a result, apology research has failed to investigate the use of apologies for outcomes for which individuals are obviously not culpable...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
torque immediately, producing jaw-dropping acceleration—the instant-on of an iPhone versus the slow boot of a laptop. While midday Manhattan traffic does not afford many opportunities for drag racing, Kristin suddenly had me take a sharp...
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- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
to divert search for an information intermediary who enables buyers (consumers) to search affiliated sellers (stores). We identify two original motives for diverting search (i.e., inducing consumers to search more than they would like): 1) trading off higher total...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
says. In the short term, there are indications that the plan is working: McDonald’s second quarter earnings, released in July, beat expectations, with the largest global traffic growth in five years; third quarter global comparable sales,...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
open and comfortable café as well as a McDonald's where visitors can relax and have a reasonably priced meal. A few miles away at the MCA, Vicki Wilson notes that traffic in the museum and rental income from private events has increased...
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- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
sense of being in a landscaped pedestrian precinct." Most traffic disappeared from campus in the 1980s, and "scores of trees and thousands of flowers where cars and trucks had once dominated" now dominate the landscape....
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Education
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
have this wonderful new hit product called the iPod, they're driving lots of traffic into their stores. If they go through a period when there are no hit products, the stores just become an anchor weighing them down. If you can tell me...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
“What keeps it all together is finding innovative new ways to bring costs down and make the business commercially attractive,” says Seabury’s Gautier Brunet. “Planet Labs takes pictures that let you see real-time traffic jams, and you can...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
saved customers money and their strong brands generated more traffic and sales but that most retailers, looking only at gross margins, missed this added value. Pepsi managers struggled to craft a strategy that would convince retailers to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
of all Internet traffic is content exchanged on p2p networks! The impact of p2p networks needs be carefully considered when pricing legal downloads. The easiest and most direct way to solve the puzzle is by assuming that peers are not...
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- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510071-PDF-ENG DR Corporation Roy D. ShapiroHarvard Business School Case 610-049 DR Corporation is a manufacturer of major appliances. The traffic manager is facing a decision of...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27
the traffic of 1 billion page views per quarter. In January 2011 it raised $30 million in venture capital for the network of 50 websites that featured an entertaining array of user-generated content. Beginning with a site based on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
search affiliated sellers (stores). There are three motives for diverting search (i.e., inducing consumers to search more than they would like): 1) trading off higher total consumer traffic for higher revenues per consumer visit, 2)...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
Abstract—Platforms use search diversion in order to trade off total consumer traffic for higher revenues derived by exposing consumers to unsolicited products (e.g., advertising). We show that the entry of a platform competitor leads to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
research paper by the inevitable 5pm deadline. Of course, I had edited and printed the paper right up to the last moment. Then I phoned the professor's office to tell them I was coming. The administrative assistant promised to keep the office open until I got there. I...
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Dean
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
the National Palace, visiting artist Frida Kahlo’s house, and touring the vast National Museum of Anthro-pology. It’s Día de los Reyes (Three Kings Day), a national holiday, so Mexico City’s infamous traffic isn’t too bad; even better,...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
focus was the physical campus, on which he had a huge impact — expanding the Morgan Hall office building from 53,000 to 116,000 square feet, adding the Shad Hall fitness center, and completing the Class of 1959 Chapel. He also effectively banned most View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
Image by John Ritter About a month before schools began to close in the United States in response to the pandemic, Sal Khan (MBA 2003) (pictured above, right), founder and CEO of the online learning platform Khan Academy, began to see View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
mind-sets of patients and investors, generating traffic at their eHealthpoints, expanding their product portfolio, and growing within and outside India. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812020-PDF-ENG Managers and...
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Sean Silverthorne