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Salience in Quality Disclosure: Evidence from the U.S. News College Rankings
Published:September 27, 2011Paper Released:September 2011Authors:Michael Luca and Jonathan Smith Executive Summary: Why are the U.S. News and World Report College Rankings so influential? According to...
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The Profit Power of Corporate Culture
Q&A with:James HeskettPublished:September 28, 2011Author:Sean Silverthorne Corporate culture is often thought of as a hard-to-define, or soft concept in management circles. Soft not in the sense...
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Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property
Published:September 29, 2011 Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be Answered What are...
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Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
Published:October 3, 2011Author:Michael Blanding It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further...
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Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com
Published:October 4, 2011Paper Released:September 2011Author:Michael Luca Executive Summary: In just six years, Yelp.com has managed to crowdsource 20 million reviews of restaurants and other services...
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Rating companies on their advocacy Advocates for environmental change are undoubtedly successful at raising political awareness, generating campaign funding, and rallying public support for their...
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Doing What the Parents Want? The Effect of the Local Information Environment...
Published:October 5, 2011Paper Released:September 2011Authors:Nemit O. Shroff, Rodrigo S. Verdi, and and Gwen Yu Executive Summary: As firms increase the scale of their global operations, monitoring...
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How Will the 'Moneyball Generation' Influence Management?
Published:October 6, 2011Author:James Heskett In the past we've discussed the importance of adding nonfinancial measures to the management dashboard, "indirect goals" that help predict and explain...
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What Environmental Ratings Miss
Published:October 7, 2011Paper Released:September 2011Authors:Auden Schendler and Michael Toffel Executive Summary: Environmental ratings of companies are based on "green" management efforts and the...
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The Steve Jobs Legacy
Published:October 7, 2011 News of the death this week of Steve Jobs reverberated around the world. And the Harvard Business School campus was no exception. Everyone felt a keen sense of loss for a man...
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Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
Published:October 10, 2011Authors:Rajiv Lal and Jose B. Alvarez "Category killers," those highly focused retailers that specialize in a category of goods including Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, and...
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US Healthcare Reform and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Published:October 11, 2011Paper Released:September 2011Author:Arthur Daemmrich Executive Summary: The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will restructure the US health care market...
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Building IBM's Watson When IBM's supercomputer Watson beat world-class human competitors on Jeopardy!, the world hailed the arrival of a new level of digital smarts. But Willy Shih, a professor of...
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Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
Published:October 12, 2011Author:Carmen Nobel For millions of TV watchers, the commercial break is an annoyance of the past, thanks to the fast-forward button on their digital video recorders....
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Market Competition, Government Efficiency, and Profitability Around the World
Published:October 13, 2011Paper Released:May 2011Authors:Paul M. Healy, George Serafeim, Suraj Srinivasan, and Gwen Yu Executive Summary: Understanding whether and how corporate profitability mean...
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Building a Business in the Context of a Life
Published:October 13, 2011Author:Dina Gerdeman When MBAs start the second semester of their second year at Harvard Business School, most have already lined up new jobs--but that doesn't mean they have...
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The Cost of Capital for Alternative Investments
Published:October 14, 2011Paper Released:September 2011Authors:Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford Executive Summary: An accurate assessment of the cost of capital is fundamental to the efficient...
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How 'Hybrid' Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
Published:October 17, 2011Author:Carmen Nobel For those who like to view things in black and white, it's tempting to divide the working world into two camps. There is the for-profit sector, primarily...
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Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy
Published:October 18, 2011Paper Released:May 2011Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Loubna Bouamane Executive Summary: Analyzing developments in the wind turbine business over more than a century, Geoffrey...
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A 250-year-old rivalry One thing you can say about the fine art auction business is this: it's not a winner-take-all market. Sotheby's and Christie's have been battling it out for 250 years, with...
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