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- April 2006
- Article
Competitive Advantage and the Value Network Configuration: Making Decisions at a Swedish Life Insurance Company
By: Øystein D. Fjeldstad and Christian H.M. Ketels
When the Swedish Life Insurers Förenade Liv found themselves in difficulties in a rapidly changing market, their response was to call in the consultants. And one of the consultant's first suggestions was to use the Value Network, not the Value Chain, as a new...
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Keywords:
Competitive Advantage;
Fluctuation;
Networks;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Value;
Quality;
Decision Making;
Market Transactions;
Performance Effectiveness;
Customers;
Insurance Industry;
Sweden
Fjeldstad, Øystein D., and Christian H.M. Ketels. "Competitive Advantage and the Value Network Configuration: Making Decisions at a Swedish Life Insurance Company." Long Range Planning 39, no. 2 (April 2006): 109–131.
- 2002
- Book
Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
By: Rakesh Khurana
Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected...
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Keywords:
Managerial Roles;
Selection and Staffing;
Personal Characteristics;
Experience and Expertise;
Investment Activism;
Corporate Strategy
Khurana, Rakesh. Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
emerging economies. However, microlevel product development processes in these economies are relatively unexplored, and the mechanisms by which the emerging economy context might affect such processes are still unclear. In this paper, we...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
venture capital firms, angel investors, crowd-funding, and accelerators/incubators. 3) What investors look for. Each source has a different funding process and set of criteria that you need to understand before seeking funding from that source. 4) The View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
negative. It remains so once we add an extensive set of further industry- and firm-level controls. Rising import exposure also reduces global employment, global sales, and global R&D expenditure at the firm level. It would appear that a simple View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
dating clubs, game consoles, and so on. So the idea is to subsidize one side in order to attract it more or less irrespectively of the other side and then turn to the second side and charge it positive prices. Of course, depending on the market, the timing and View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
rush because important details can and will be lost in haste. Develop clear measures of achievement for each objective. Specify precisely what "performance" means. Enumerate an explicit formula to relate payment price to performance outcomes. Specify a View Details
- 09 May 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
‘My Bad!’ How Internal Attribution and Ambiguity of Responsibility Affect Learning from Failure
- 29 Jun 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Trade Credit and Taxes
- 21 Mar 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Speaking of Corporate Social Responsibility
- 28 Jan 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Digital Discrimination: The Case of Airbnb.com
- February 2020
- Supplement
Managing Blackout at Aluminum Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) (B)
By: Joseph B. Fuller, Gamze Yücaoğlu and Youssef Abdel Aal
The case opens in 2017 as Tim Murray, CEO of Aluminum Bahrain (Alba), the largest single-site aluminum smelter in the world outside China and a major contributor to the Bahraini economy, was contemplating the recovery options as the company was facing the most severe...
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Keywords:
Aluminum Industry;
General Management;
Cultural Change;
Change Management;
Crisis Management;
Decision Making;
Organizational Culture;
Safety;
Leadership;
Emerging Markets;
Bahrain;
Middle East
Fuller, Joseph B., Gamze Yücaoğlu, and Youssef Abdel Aal. "Managing Blackout at Aluminum Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 320-057, February 2020.
- February 2020 (Revised March 2020)
- Case
Managing Blackout at Aluminum Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) (A)
By: Joseph B. Fuller, Gamze Yücaoğlu and Youssef Abdel Aal
The case opens in 2017 as Tim Murray, CEO of Aluminum Bahrain (Alba), the largest single-site aluminum smelter in the world outside China and a major contributor to the Bahraini economy, was contemplating the recovery options as the company was facing the most severe...
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Keywords:
Aluminum;
General Management;
Cultural Change;
Change Management;
Crisis Management;
Decision Making;
Organizational Culture;
Safety;
Leadership;
Emerging Markets;
Bahrain;
Middle East
Fuller, Joseph B., Gamze Yücaoğlu, and Youssef Abdel Aal. "Managing Blackout at Aluminum Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) (A)." Harvard Business School Case 320-056, February 2020. (Revised March 2020.)
- 08 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?
in the sample, the mechanisms through which the paywalls increased total revenue varied. “For example,” the study authors write, “the success of the New York Times came from a large increase in print and digital subscription revenues In...
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- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
others. But it got to decide which components to "expose," and which to keep hidden, providing a mechanism through which its core intellectual property could be protected. As the company expanded, Microsoft formalized this...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters
employees to propose new ideas when it came to “narrow-scope innovations” having to do with their particular task, the authors find. For example, a machine operator might suggest ways to limit mechanical breakdowns that are lowering...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
most. But there are other benefits, too. By putting a positive price on IPv4 space, a market mechanism would remind current v4 users that their v4 space is valuable, and that they might want to try to vacate it, to the extent they can,...
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- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
halted by external mechanisms, the situation is not self-correcting. His preferred form of intervention is a global tax on real wealth (minus debt). No fan of big government, he suggests that a mechanism be devised to effect a...
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by James Heskett
- 26 Mar 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments
- 07 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries