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- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
in metal cutting. These were sophisticated customers, and the role of the intermediary (called a formulator) was to provide outstanding maintenance services. The new product, however, was intended for operations that were supported by...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
justify the higher Asian wages." Asian companies will need to move beyond OEM production and adopt real strategies involving unique ways of competing, Porter asserted. They will have to compete in more sophisticated ways, and the national...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
to get financially sophisticated people out of the system.' The worst is to say 'financial engineer.' I suggest it's just the opposite. The problem, in part, is that senior managers, regulatory overseers, and members of boards of these...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
me to manipulate the data," he notes. "But as we get more sophisticated with the technology, it will all straighten itself out." Hands-On Decision Making Long viewed as an essential aspect of managerial education at HBS, field-based...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
EPOC, and highly sophisticated software that can translate a person's emotions, cognitive thoughts, and facial expressions into digital outcomes. Emotiv wants the technology to be adopted by mainstream consumers and is leaning towards the...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
sophisticated and obscured forms. This fear of an empowered and strong Black America is further illustrated by the likes of J. Edgar Hoover, the founding director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who once labeled the Black Panther...
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- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
investors and entrepreneurs need, optimize both technological sophistication and financial sophistication-approaches designed to attract capital by offering different levels of risk and return, different cash-flow priorities, and...
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Anna Secino
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
support the R&D and scale necessary to enter such sophisticated capital-intensive industries. There were no firms with the deep technological roots or the skill base to even begin. Yet government planners recognized the challenges of...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
it articulated a set of foundational concepts. As early as 1900, some firms chose to differentiate their products in order to do a better job of satisfying customers' diverse needs. In subsequent years, the marketing discipline developed increasingly View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
unmatched and unchecked culture of engineering ambition, of rote learning and educational experimentation, of sophisticated tastes along with basic concerns with food safety. It is a country that is at once cosmopolitan and confused about...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
client relationships to the rest of the company, growing their business from just local transactions to the full array of services JLL provided. Second, local brokers became aware of a great number of mid-sized clients whose real estate needs were not as View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
sophisticated KGB counterpart. To recruit Allyn to secretly work for the KGB, the agent tries many approaches: barely veiled threats, offers of money, and the promise of high-level access and Soviet documents that would enable Allyn over...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
investing. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212068-PDF-ENG Intel: Exploring Market Opportunities in Water Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, George Serafeim, and Sarah E. FarrellHarvard Business School Case 412-100 Seeking to move beyond...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
express inconsistent beliefs about the product suitable from them, and mention they have received advice from another seller of insurance, they are more likely to receive suitable advice. Agents provide better advice to more sophisticated...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
the Internet sophistication of even our established customers. It's just phenomenal. For instance, we just announced that J.C. Penney is going to be a customer of ours. Now the scary thing for start-ups is that they are being dwarfed by...
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- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
the sophisticated human resource levers his predecessors left him. Immelt questions whether the changes in place will foster the development of the next generation of GE growth leaders. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
the future. Told through the experiences of CXOs at billion-dollar companies, star start-ups, and non-profits from around the world, the book chronicles the ups and downs of sophisticated organizations as they navigated the COVID-19...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
pay-for-performance arrangements. But the administrative muscle and know-how required to successfully execute against such integrated models is daunting for even the most sophisticated of hospitals, requiring a radically different...
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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
environment, there are hopeful signs that sophisticated management teams are reevaluating their rush offshore and, in some instances, are moving high-end mobile activities back to the United States. Read the article:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
both coercive options and upside potential, as international negotiators have often done, works against this integrated strategy. If this approach opens a zone of possible agreement, sophisticated negotiation will be key to reaching a...
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Carmen Nobel