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- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
enormous collective negotiating power with respect to keystones. The same mobility that allows them to escape devastating technological transitions allows them to potentially "leave" a keystone that is trying to extract too much...
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by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
contribute to real—not the measured kind of—productivity. Some will argue that the Metaverse is little more than a place in which misfits can escape their own U-Stor-Its. Before assuming that, remember that this will be a virtual world of...
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by James Heskett
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
COVID-19 will have on high-tech startups and entrepreneurs? Maria Roche: [Similarly,] COVID-19 may induce individuals who are most sensitive to labor market conditions to start new ventures in order to avoid being unemployed, or to escape...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
re-read Khalil Gibran Muhammad’s The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, which I assigned to a class a few years ago and had Professor Muhammad speak to them about, because I might see new and different things this time. For...
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by Staff
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
to the Ground Navid Mojir and V. Kasturi Rangan “The case tells the story of Dell Technologies and its efforts to revitalize its value proposition and escape a commodity trap by acquiring EMC for $67 billion—the largest tech acquisition...
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- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
them pot in a cookie, they have no problem with it." The potentially high price of retail marijuana, however, leaves frequent recreational users in a bind. To escape price inflation, they could grow their own pot at home, but that's...
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- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
research. What's more, firms that correlate their international trading activity with the local ethnic community significantly outperform those that don't—a fact that has escaped notice of financial analysts. The findings could help Wall...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
seeking to pioneer radical or disruptive innovations while pursuing incremental gains. A business does not have to escape its past, these cases show, to renew itself for the future. [...] A New Lens On Growth One company that has used an...
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- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
array of investment opportunities, particularly in industries such as housing, construction, and home improvement. While the post-recession years were very good for Maestro, due to the market’s small size, Enfoca could not escape some of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
civilians' support for the opposition, who failed to protect them. Instead we show that such violence increases parochial forms of solidarity and social engagement within the refugee community. Altogether this suggests that, when civilians can View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
protagonist on the precipice of a great crisis: Shackleton marooned on an Antarctic ice floe; Lincoln on the verge of seeing the Union collapse; escaped slave Douglass facing possible capture; Bonhoeffer agonizing over how to counter...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
Magicians will stand in front of the mirror to test, revise, retest and further revise illusions until they get them just right. Thomke says that celebrated escape artist and magician Harry Houdini owned a very large collection of locks...
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- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
has not escaped the star power portability problem. Wide receiver Chad Ochocino has suffered a performance decline since being traded to the Patriots from the Cincinnati Bengals last summer. Regarding baseball, Groysberg cites a study...
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- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
more productive, escaping the trap of all-consuming work. The second rule is to focus on the right thing. Embrace a framework for allocating your efforts. US President (and legendary General) Dwight D. Eisenhower is credited with one...
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by Rachel Layne
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
partisan perception and then avoided any reasonable challenge to this view. Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism czar under Former President Clinton and President Bush, made a compelling case that the administration never escaped...
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
So it was with great interest that I looked over the results of a recent small, unscientific survey by McKinsey of what CEOs were reading this summer. The most frequently mentioned book somehow had escaped my attention: The Seventh Sense:...
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by James Heskett
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
five arguments: the triple agency conflict argument in agency theory; the owner risk argument in transaction costs economics; the advantage and disadvantage of ownership argument in the resource-based view (RBV); the power escape argument...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
insights into foreign policy, statecraft, and world order have been widely discussed. Yet surprisingly, until this book, his impressive achievements as a negotiator have escaped systematic analysis. While specific cases have been examined...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
prominent feature of the corporate landscape, escaping some of their earlier approbation as corporate raiders or, even worse, "greenmailers." Activism covered a range of approaches—from proxy votes and demands for Board seats,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
much new construction." For his part, Furber characterizes the market as "frothy," which warrants caution but not retreat. "There are always interesting opportunities out there, even in a frothy market." Even retail, the hottest performer in...
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