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- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
capabilities across markets: no learning, local learning, and global learning. Three equilibrium strategies arise: accommodate, marginalize, and collocate. We identify how these strategies emerge depending...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and...
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- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
development of Kvadrat's retail sales operations, the implementation of new Human Resources practices, and the execution of a new organizational design. Was such an extensive growth, turnaround, and internal development agenda feasible?...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
Abstract Many scholars and practitioners have recently argued that corporate awards are a "free" way to motivate employees. We use field data from an attendance award program implemented at one of five industrial laundry plants...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
responsibilities include overseeing finances and operations, helping set and implement company strategy, fundraising/keeping investors updated, business development, legal work, interviewing/hiring/onboarding employees, and working...
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- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Building an IT Governance Committee
help the committee avoid dwelling on the difficulties of the work and emphasize instead the opportunities. The focus should be on the big picture: Conversations about IT strategy are hard and can be discouraging if the committee gets...
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by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
into an increasingly innovative media company, with an emphasis on original programming, reality television, sports, music, and news. Conde has also implemented an aggressive multiplatform digital strategy...
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- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
not only experience project-level success with the implementation of new work practices, but also organizational-level success as indicated by overall measures of performance. We tested our hypothesis in a longitudinal study of 23...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
development of novel, useful ideas. Innovation is the successful implementation of creative ideas." In other words, she says, creativity is the "front end" of the process, while innovation is the "back-end"...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
enjoyed their own versions of success with the mega-retailer. Getting a ground-level view of how two companies achieved those positive outcomes illustrates the story-within-a-story of implementing corporate change. “Achieving that is...
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- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
prided itself on avoiding artificial ingredients, opting instead to use a relatively short supply chain of local growers for many of its ingredients. That strategy just might have been part of its problem, says John A. Quelch, the Charles...
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- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources-what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"-plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
Christopher Poliquin (now assistant professor of Strategy at UCLA Anderson School of Management), were at first unsure about how they could have an effect on a dire statistic: Nearly 40,000 gun-related deaths occur annually, almost 15,000...
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- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
assumed it was some combination of choice, poor financial decisions, and bad luck,” says Shumway, the founder, chairman, and former CEO of Cicero Group, a Salt Lake City–based consulting firm that uses advanced analytics to help clients develop and View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
instruments (including price-setting) to implement desired outcomes. Non-price instruments were very much at the core of MSP strategies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-061.pdf Platform Competition, Compatibility,...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
licenses to operate in the country. In the face of these changes, the company has to figure out what its strategy should be to realize its vision of becoming a leading integrated financial services player offering customers a menu of...
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Anna Secino
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
we review the goals of each cancer provision of the ACA and discuss the effects each has had to date. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51115 Notes on Developing a Strategy and Designing a Company: Vol. 1—A...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
client relations. Infosys' strategy is evolving to build transformational partnerships from its original position as an outsourcer of end-to-end IT projects. A transformational partner helps clients to devise and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Writing the Case for Public School Reform
what came to be called the Campaign for Human Capital. He then oversaw the implementation of a variety of efforts, including a marketing blitz touting the benefits of teaching in Philadelphia; a recruitment event, "Rolling Out the...
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- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
of implementing such a broad definition, support the idea of sustainability as the integration—and intersection—of social, environmental, and economic responsibilities that are borne by managers. In for-profit organizations these...
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by Jim Heskett