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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit...
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Jennifer Meyers
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
performing outsourced tasks sending much of their work abroad, enabling them to "further outsource non-strategic work so as to concentrate on strategic issues that their audiences (the U.S. firms) would be more interested in."...
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by James Heskett
- Profile
Max Wibaux
firefighting while managing two or three challenges simultaneously. This was attractive to me!" Yet the concentration on marketing left Max with gaps in some of the fundamentals of business such as...
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Evelyne White
start-up with limited resources. Your product is intently geographical. Concentrate on markets large enough to become profitable where you have no competition so you can spend your energy running the...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Opening Minds Through Expanded Learning Opportunities
programs, graduate business study has not been a natural leap. PRIMO is one way to change that." Tami Kim was a rising senior concentrating in government at Harvard College in 2011 when she participated in the inaugural session of the...
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- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
The assumption that industries will become more concentrated as they become more global, that the global economy is a winner-take-all economy, has become common wisdom. But, according to Pankaj Ghemawat and Fariborz Ghadar, empirical...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
by the interaction of partner firms that does not necessarily accrue to any of them. The extent of "ambivalent value" is unclear, but its persistence, despite changing structural market features, promises to help sustain...
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
market reaction to attempts to enforce sovereign debt contracts via U.S. "dollar diplomacy" in Latin America in the pre-World War II period and by legal action in the 1990s and early 2000s. We argue that dollar diplomacy created...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Group Therapy
emerging markets has been part of a larger effort to understand how local business environments influence company strategy. Thus far, strategy scholars have emphasized the importance of industry and firm-specific characteristics in...
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by Peter Jacobs
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
reinsurance is so expensive is because the cost of capital is unfairly high. When reinsurers sell securities to raise money, buyers expect high returns, just like from any other equity investment, Froot says. “If you look at the risks that compose most reinsurers'...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
wanted to know how some companies could grow so big so fast. “The answers we got were unsatisfying,” Yeh says. People cited the Valley’s concentration of smarts or its access to venture capital—which is useful for growing companies, “but...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
and Marketing Services Industry? Myth vs. Realty Authors:Alvin J. Silk and Charles King III Publication:Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising (forthcoming) Abstract We analyze changes in View Details
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Forest L. Reinhardt | About
Professor Reinhardt is interested in the relationships between market and nonmarket strategy, the relations between government regulation and corporate strategy, the behavior of private and public organizations that manage natural...
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- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
Shane Greenstein Abstract—We examine the relationship between the diffusion of advanced Internet technology and the geographic concentration of invention, as measured by patents. First, we show that patenting became more View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Fast Answer
Resources for Harvard Economics Students
A series of resources, tips and FAQs to support Harvard economics doctoral students, senior thesis writers and econ concentrators navigating Baker Library financial data resources. Which databases can I use...
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- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
the 20-30% commission charged by its competition, would help differentiate it and gain the necessary traction in an ostensibly concentrated market between Uber and Lyft. Despite both Uber’s and Lyft’s...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
start-up with limited resources. Your product is intently geographical. Concentrate on markets large enough to become profitable where you have no competition so you can spend your energy running the...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
multiservice supply chains. That trend is likely to grow and will facilitate delivery in oneand two-day services, at least in high concentration areas like Latin America. How can the USPS reinvent itself to deliver a superior customer...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
because their market power allows them to charge higher service fees than domestic banks. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/05-025.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Armstrong Investigation Harvard Business School...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Shared Vision for a Better World
section,” Harrold says. “It was welcoming and comforting. We all had a feeling that we’d lost some time and it was time to catch up.” After HBS, Harrold worked as a banker before building a 25-year career as an independent market maker on...
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