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- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
financial services. Its user-friendly interface is designed so that customers only need to fill out one application for all the products it offers. The services that Wingspanbank offers include checking and saving accounts, bill paying,...
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by Susan Young
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices to its customer base. We analyze strategic interactions between an innovative entrant and an incumbent where the incumbent may imitate the entrant's business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
column, "want other things." When you put these three dimensions together, you get a simple matrix that looks like this. We've included a line for you to add your rationale or thinking for the initial ratings you make on each of...
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- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
behaviors serve as a signal of prosocial identity and that people subsequently behave in line with that self-perception. In contrast, costless prosocial acts do not signal much about one's prosocial identity, so subsequent behavior is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
pay wages? Why pay loans? With what? What does a "no" mean? What does a "yes" guarantee? These weeks have been a nightmare, with no medium of exchange and banks facing growing lines of depositors who want to withdraw...
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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
they spent enough time understanding what it took to make sure that the specific plans—which products to make in which kind of facility, located where, using which technologies, selling to which customers—were View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
The use of Tamiflu in such a crisis would allow the world to respond immediately, rather than having to wait for development of a vaccine which had limitations in its effectiveness, and the drug had been endorsed by the WHO as a first View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
words, you also need a management plan for your customers. To return to our manufacturing metaphor, the special challenge of service delivery is that your customers routinely wander onto the shop floor-unannounced-and tinker with the assembly line. And yet success...
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- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Public School Districts Author:Stacey Childress Abstract This working paper offers concrete examples of improved productivity and efficiencies at the district level, drawing from the author's experience working with districts and...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
be named to the company's New Horizons Board, a select team responsible for producing recommendations for new products or line extensions for Aragon Entertainment. Patel's co-worker and friend, Jeremy...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
production workers) are associated with more autonomy and a wider span of control. By contrast, communication technologies (like data networks) decrease autonomy for both workers and plant managers. Treating technology as endogenous using...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
production of low-income rental housing. While it has grown into the largest source of new affordable housing in the U.S. and its structure is now being replicated in other programs, the LIHTC has also drawn skepticism and calls for its...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
connect with each other and share good practices peer-to-peer, rather than relying on traditional hierarchical lines of communication or IT repositories. From 2004 to 2007, Mougin and his team had found that 5,000 Danone managers around...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
"freemium" business model, which is used by some Internet businesses and smartphone application developers to give users free basic features of a digital product and access to premium functionality for a subscription fee. The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
certainly a cause for concern and something about which we should do something. But with one of the longest recoveries in history upon us, the US economy as a whole appears to still be in a growth mode. Our biggest challenge today is persistently weak View Details
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by Jim Aisner
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
estimator is available in Stata. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/ate_clustering_text_20110228_FINAL.pdf Work, Ownership, and Productive Enfranchisement Author:Nien-hê Hsieh Publication:In Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
earlier case. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/americhem-the-gaylord-division-a-1/an/314011-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-433 Intuit QuickBooks: From Product to Platform This case focuses on the challenges and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis, private equity firms have higher quality accruals and a lower propensity to manage income than public equity firms. We further find that public equity firms report more conservatively, in View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
has good information about cost and demand functions, product quality, and optimal output mix. Profit centers—defined as business units whose managers have responsibility for overall profits but not the authority to make major capital...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008
whose job is growing accounts with a lot of potential and farmers whose job is to maintain strong and broad-based relationships. CRLs must walk a fine line between being close to the client, even considered part of their team, and not...
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Martha Lagace