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- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
systematic variation in inventory record inaccuracy (IRI) observed both within and across stores. Traditional inventory models, with a few exceptions, do not account for the existence of IRI and those that do treat record inaccuracy as random. Examining nearly 370,000...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
assumptions and attentive to ways reason and emotion shape their own behavior and those of others around them. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=404104 The Rise of Wal-Mart Stores Inc....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
One economic problem is search costs—the time, money, and effort spent on researching which dog to adopt. Another is information asymmetry—in which one person involved in an economic transaction has more information than the other. “The...
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- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
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...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
was called the Knowledge Management (KM) Appliance, but as Web 2.0 tools came into wider use, this evolved into what the company called "Cognizant 2.0" (C2), which was designed to ensure that the KM Appliance capabilities for View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
is a time-honored approach, particularly in media and entertainment. When space is limited on store shelves and in traditional distribution channels, producers tend to focus on a few likely best sellers, hoping that one or two big hits...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
because Patagonia was a private company. The Tompkins dual strategy of exit from business and application of entrepreneurial skills to conservation resulted in large environmental gains, including sequestering and storing an estimated 80...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
quality products when they use a tying strategy. In this paper, we empirically explore this question by examining Google’s decision to tie its new reviews product to its search engine. We experimentally vary the content displayed above...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
example by refurbishing electronic products and selling them in stores to contribute to the recycling effort. “Purpose becomes your lighthouse in the storm,” Barry says. “Purpose is the direction you’re always going to move the company....
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by Ranjay Gulati
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Working PapersOrganizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract Many companies operate units...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
maintaining a high level of exploration. Solutions improved most on rounds with social influence after a period of separation. We also show that storing subjects’ best solutions so that they could be reloaded and possibly modified in...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
Typical of comments regarding the issue of choice were those by Mehmet Genc, who said, "As choice increases, search costs increase . . . [and] it takes longer to make a decision. At the same time, due to social changes, we have even...
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- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
strategic choices for retailers. With respect to pricing, an important decision is whether to offer a “self-matching policy,” which allows a multichannel retailer to offer the lowest of its online and store prices to consumers. In...
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- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
collections, other online stores (such as allofmp3.com), p2p file sharing networks, and other forms of piracy (like sharing between friends). A thriving p2p community acts as an engine for iPod sales. ITunes's 99 cents per song is...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
can have positive impacts on innovation and entrepreneurship. After experimentation, policy makers are able to pick and choose among a variety of policies to implement those that work best. While some officials proactively search for...
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- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
Ngwe, Donald, Kris J. Ferreira, and Thales Teixeira Abstract— Many online stores are designed such that shoppers can easily access any available discounted products. We propose that deliberately increasing View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
motivate employees to learn, may only yield performance benefits among those who are already highly engaged and motivated. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55888 In Search of Organizational Alignment...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
Working PapersTesting Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24 Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, Susan L. Kulp, and V.G. Narayanan Abstract We analyze balanced scorecard data from a convenience View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
them, and the notion of writing a check at the corner store to get money in a pinch suggests a scene from a Norman Rockwell painting. It is only a matter of time, online banking enthusiasts say, before the process of writing a check,...
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by Susan Young
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
programming. The airwaves were literally jammed. In the face of such bedlam, NBC led a charge on Washington in search of regulation and the allocation of frequencies across the spectrum--the property rights I mentioned before. The result...
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by Jim Aisner