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- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
by surprise with the success of Amazon.com. As a result, they found themselves in what I term "strategic jeopardy"; that is, they literally were forced into scrambling to protect their market share. If you're not alert to the technology View Details
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by Staff
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
being.” Others challenged data documenting productivity trends. Their position basically was that there is no need for patience. The productivity dividend is happening. For example, David Wittenberg cautioned us to “Beware of snapshot analysis amid a trend!...
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- 19 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Podcast: Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal
worsen. The industry is now going through full-scale consolidation and reorganization in the face of competition from Internet properties. The trend begs the question: Is Murdoch overpaying for Dow Jones? Harvard Business School professor...
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- 29 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Global Change in the Built Environment
materials for the first year MBA core curriculum and created three programs for executive education both here and off campus. What did your participants identify as some of the major trends or issues influencing the real estate...
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- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
like, you need to include everyone in your tent not just the giants like Teach For America and City Year." To that end, Lee has teamed up with HBS Associate Professor Julie Battilana to collect and analyze quantitative data on social entrepreneurship. Their goal is to...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
and Organization 24, no. 1 (May 2008) Abstract As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators and industry, novel government programs are encouraging firms to monitor their own regulatory compliance and...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Abstract As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators and industry, novel government programs are encouraging firms...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
political scientist Karl Deutsch and associates, relying on research conducted in the early 1950s, emphasized that the internationalization of transactions had declined significantly since the beginning of the 20th century, and averred that this View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
product range and a broad customer base. Kvadrat's internal organization had grown and transformed to support this larger business. Now Kvadrat's management team was focused on a number of key initiatives: expansion into Asia, improved sales View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1471435 Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect Authors:Amir E. Khandani, Andrew W. Lo, and Robert C. Merton Abstract The confluence of three trends in the U.S. residential...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
the various actors. The note provides ample examples of countries and cities that have actively tried to shape their brand identity and further exposes students to recent trends and vehicles (such as social media) relevant for the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
Leveraging Digital Opportunities: Research, Industry Practice, and Open Questions Luxury Branding Research: New Perspectives and Future Priorities By: Keinan, Anat, Sandrine Crener-Ricard, and Silvia Bellezza Abstract—Several major trends...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
employees. And, because standard interviews enable you to spot trends but unstructured ones elicit unexpected insights, consider combining the two approaches in semi-structured interviews. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Abstract—This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
health-care reform is a management problem. It can't be solved by policymakers acting at a distance.” Having said that, I think we have to recognize that in the last 10 to 15 years there have been substantial advances. Mortality rates for major procedures and...
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- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
counterparts. In most countries, firms have become less diversified over time. However, there is no such trend in China. The level of diversification of Chinese enterprises does not vary over our study period (2001-2005), making Chinese...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
conversation about. A professional school consists of some agreed-upon body of knowledge that it believes the practitioners of the profession need to know in order to be effective. Current trends suggest that an institutional...
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- February 2013 (Revised March 2015)
- Case
The LEGO Group: Publish or Protect?
By: Willy C. Shih and Sen Chai
Senior managers at the LEGO Group are faced with a quandary: Should they patent inventions coming out of their manufacturing process development work, should they keep them as trade secrets, or should they publish them so that they would go into the public domain and...
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Plastics;
Injection Molding;
Toys;
LEGO;
LEGO Group;
Tools;
Additive Manufacturing;
3D Manufacturing;
Toolmaking;
Patenting;
Spillovers;
Knowledge Spillovers;
Change;
Trends;
Engineering;
Machinery and Machining;
Intellectual Property;
Patents;
Operations;
Production;
Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Technology Adoption;
Consumer Products Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Technology Industry;
Europe;
Denmark
Shih, Willy C., and Sen Chai. "The LEGO Group: Publish or Protect?" Harvard Business School Case 613-079, February 2013. (Revised March 2015.)
- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
investors succeed in volatile, cyclical markets as far ranging as real estate, high technology, and truck transport. In Waves in Ship Prices and Investment, a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, Professor Robin Greenwood and Assistant Professor Samuel...
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- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
differentials. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-089.pdf The Bloody Millennium: Internal Conflict in South Asia Author:Lakshmi Iyer Abstract This paper documents the short-term and long-term trends in internal...
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Martha Lagace