Structure Creation - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

of one of the top pharmaceutical companies in the world. Vasella, an avowed advocate of diversification, had expanded the scope of the company and structured it into 16 distinct business units ranging from animal health to oncology while... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

Bottlenecks, Modules and Dynamic Architectural Capabilities By: Baldwin, Carliss Y Abstract—How do firms create and capture value in large technical systems? In this paper, I argue that the points of both value creation and value capture... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

systemically risky institutions, it would jeopardize its political independence. And that would be a big mistake. Excerpt: the New Structure Of U.s. Financial Regulation by Robert Pozen, from Too Big To Save To provide taxpayers with an... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

07 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

influence how investors diversify their portfolios; the organizational and ownership decisions firms make; firm investment[PDF] decisions; and myriad financing decisions, including capital structure and repatriation. Perhaps, the biggest... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average in the period 1953–2009, it was unusually high in the early 1980s and negative in the 2000s, particularly in the downturns of 2000–2002 and 2007–2009. This paper specifies and estimates a model in which... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

number of structural changes that forced an ongoing re-examination and modification of traditional norms and policies emphasizing exclusivity in agency-client relationships. A typology of conflicts that has arisen in the U.S. shows the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

the impact of alternative policies governing the creation and use of digital information. This agenda focuses on the development of research to investigate the economics of digitization, to analyze the governance of intellectual property... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

penetrated the field of negotiation and then presents a framework for bridging the gap between these two literatures. The paper notes that one of the reasons for its limited impact on negotiation research is that extant research on social influence focuses almost... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

component for the link between labor and liking to emerge; participants who were not permitted to finish their creations did not show an increase in willingness-to-pay. The marketing challenge lies in convincing consumers to engage in the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

about disruption, but you need a salesforce aligned with strategy to do something about it. This article discusses how investments in sales affect core levers of enterprise value creation (and destruction). Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

the resource-based view of the firm, we examine how teams can develop a knowledge-integration capability to dynamically integrate members' resources into higher performance. We distinguish among three sets of resources: relational, experiential, and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

financial risk. Our findings highlight the challenges of using ACOs as a mechanism to achieve financial cost savings. Bundled payments, which focus on narrower episodes of care, may involve fewer operational complexities and be better View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

November 2017
Teaching Note

Tencent

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-426. Tencent had undergone many transformations since it was founded in 1998 as a simple messaging service. In 2017, it was the largest online games provider in China with a wide range of game types, China’s largest social networking... View Details