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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
through teaching the course that I’ve come to believe that corporations have to think beyond their own boundaries to a broader concern with the health of the institutions on which we all rely. In the second year I taught the course with...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And the top consulting (or law) View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
almost any business action, especially in tough and uncertain economic conditions when price is a key and visible strategic choice. Conventional wisdom has firms cutting price in these circumstances. But most industries typically allow...
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- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
September 2018 Strategy Science Applying Random Coefficient Models to Strategy Research: Identifying and Exploring Firm Heterogeneous Effects By: Alcácer, Juan, Wilbur Chung, Ashton Hawk, and Gonçalo Pacheco-de-Almeida Abstract—Strategy...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
before and after the policy change. We find that these responses increase significantly after the policy change. These stronger responses partly occur while the review is still ongoing and persist on average for two years. Corroborating these results, we also document...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
expertise will continue to be the bedrock of the academy but the boundaries that separate schools and faculties will melt away. This trend has already taken hold at Harvard, where faculty from across the University are building formal and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
end of the studio’s decade-long string of successes that included Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo—each movie breaking new ground in its own way, pushing the boundaries in terms of both technology and storytelling. It was...
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- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
increased innovation outcomes, while shifts away from ambidextrous designs are associated with decreased innovation outcomes. We describe the nature of ambidextrous organizational designs—their characteristics, underlying processes, and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
full board committee membership for over 6,000 firms. Board committees provide benefits (specialization, efficiency, and accountability benefits) and costs (information segregation). Consistent with these benefits and costs, we find that committee activity increases...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
biotech company than an Internet start-up," remarks Pisano. "In biotech, one big drug will make you very profitable for a long time, but the percentage of drugs that make it to market is so low that it remains a risky proposition." Profitable View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
small businesses like her own, succeeded in pushing the boundaries of antitrust legislation. Edna Gleason, known as the “Mother of Fair Trade.” Courtesy of the journal Pharmacy in History. The photo first appeared in American Druggist,...
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- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
and business problem. Design of market-based systems to reduce carbon emissions has proven difficult. More broadly, national attempts to comply with the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol present both governments and firms with significant...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
Business School Case 805-060 World Wide Licenses (WWL) was a low-technology firm that licensed famous brands, which it then applied to timepieces, stationery, and back-to-school products. It transformed into a digital imaging company and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in designing regulation. This study examines a unique energy efficiency standard for...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
stocks: stocks of large, mature, low-volatility, profitable, dividend-paying firms that are neither high growth nor distressed. Variables derived from the yield curve that are already known to predict returns on bonds also predict returns...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
the prior year's stock selections, suggesting that investors believe that a successful process in one year is likely to be repeated the following year. We believe that these findings are particularly interesting given recent efforts to require View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters that are much larger than the underlying agglomerative forces themselves. Empirically, we demonstrate that our model's assumptions are present in the structure of technology and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
difficult to clearly integrate with MCC's precise directive of focusing on activities that lead to poverty reduction through economic growth. "The MCC has been explicit in setting boundaries around initiatives that it believes will lead...
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- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
difficulty responding. By defining the rules and boundaries of the competition, Juniper was able to capitalize on Cisco's first-mover momentum. Lick 'em by joining 'em. When the owner of an independent coffeehouse in Oakland, Calif., saw...
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by David Stauffer
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
place. The leading players in these clusters are multilocation firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these firms to leverage...
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Sean Silverthorne