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Impact Stories - Business History
Impact Stories Angle of Insight Re: Efosa Ojomo (MBA 2015) Discovery Process Re: Caitlin Rosenthal Fair Competition Re: Laura Phillips Sawyer Levels of Meaning Re: Ben Gettinger (MBA 2016) Uncovering the roots of innovation Re: Maki...
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- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
important part of how businesses operate, and that can only increase going forward.” “Increasingly, the tech architectures inside firms are a source of competitive advantage.” In a new industry and background note written with HBS...
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- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
weeks or days. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/03/manage-your-work-manage-your-life/ar/1 August 2013 International Journal of Industrial Organization Search Diversion and Platform Competition By:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- February 2001
- Case
Sun Microsystems, Inc.: Solaris Strategy
In the late 1990s, Sun Microsystems' Solaris has emerged as the dominant UNIX-based alternative to Microsoft for server operating systems. At the same time, the open source operating system Linux has appeared unexpectedly, and it is generating significant excitement...
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Silverman, Brian S., and Mark Rosenberg. "Sun Microsystems, Inc.: Solaris Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 701-058, February 2001.
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Approaching Business with an Artistic Eye - Global Activities 2020
there are distinct characteristics in the way people dress,” says Halwani. “Companies don’t create specific fashions for the region, so women who wear modest clothing struggle to find styles they like and often end up with very bland choices.” Plus, Darza provides...
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- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
Banning Big Box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers Research shows how regulations designed to protect independent retailers from big box competition may backfire. Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail Retailers can offer great product...
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- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
essential to develop the self-awareness, compassion, emotional intelligence, and authenticity required to be inspired human beings and inspiring leaders. Book: http://www.bkconnection.com/ProdDetails.asp?ID=9781609940072&PG=1&Type=AUTH&PCS=BKP Business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
but can't afford the hefty prices for designer originals? Rent the Runway allows fashionistas to use those dresses and accessories at affordable rates. The company has decoupled the value part of the process—experiencing haute...
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by Michael Blanding
- June 2010
- Teaching Note
Southwest Airlines: In a Different World (TN)
By: James L. Heskett and W. Earl Sasser
Teaching Note for 910419.
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- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
accommodate emergent sources of value. For these firms, competition resembled neither economic rivalry nor collective action but a logic of interaction akin to parallel play. The resultant middle-range theory has implications for research...
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Sean Silverthorne
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WRDS - Wharton Research Data Services | Baker Library
WRDS - Wharton Research Data Services Platform hosting financial, accounting, banking, economics, management, marketing, and public policy databases accessible through a single interface. Read More WRDS is a web-based business data...
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- 2010
- Working Paper
The New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industries
By: Regina Abrami and Yu Zheng
Why have China's petrochemical and steel industries behaved so differently in seeking trade protection through antidumping measures? We argue that the patterning of antidumping actions is best explained in terms of the political economy of economic restructuring in...
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Abrami, Regina, and Yu Zheng. "The New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industries." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-042, October 2010.
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
arise when cross-price elasticities are estimated for a set of brands expected to be substitutes. These anomalies are the occurrence of: (a) negatively signed cross-elasticities; and (b) sign asymmetries in pairs of cross price...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
percent of the children are vaccinated against the virus. And the price of the vaccine is negligible, says Schrader—around 5 or 10 cents. "It's not cost that limits it," he says, but rather infrastructure: Vaccines rely on a complex and...
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- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
coordinate, then there is an inefficiency in functioning as a platform," says Hagiu. In that case, it's incumbent on the firm to "internalize the spillovers" by coordinating its employees' actions. A certain amount of competition among...
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- 21 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Evelyne White (MBA 2010)
local customs were. My best travel experiences have always involved having a local person on the ground, so I set out to launch a platform where travelers could connect with local people. Sharing a meal is one of the best ways to break...
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- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
rather than what they want? Is it reasonable for employers to be allowed a tax benefit for paying for health insurance benefits, but not their employees, when the insurance is primarily funded through reductions in employee income? Must health insurance View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
that researchers face when demonstrating the existence and effects of resale price maintenance (RPM). We outline three approaches for finding price effects of RPM and the corresponding hurdles in data and...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
it seems that if you work hard and keep your nose clean, they'll get rid of your division." Stevenson believes that many of the remedies prescribed today for enhancing competitiveness - organizational innovations such as restructuring,...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
asset. —George Corbin (MBA 1993) Develop the disposable and license out the rights (bearing royalties and potentially producing earlier milestone revenues or other income) to an existing digital platform. Having the platform in...
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Dan Morrell