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  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

the semiconductor industry in Taiwan is a striking success for advocates of strong industrial policy. It has led to the island nation's domination of the global "foundry" business in which firms like Taiwan Semiconductor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28

  Publications 2006 Journal of Organization Design The Strategic Fitness Process: A Collaborative Action Research Method for Developing Organizational Prototypes and Dynamic Capabilities By: Beer, Michael Abstract—Organizations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2018
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New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

2018 London: Bloomsbury Academic Global History, Globally: Research and Practice Around the World By: Beckert, Sven, and Dominic Sachsenmaier, eds. Abstract— In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

set of competitive allocations coincides with the unique von Neumann-Morgenstern stable set based on a farsighted version of antisymmetric weak dominance (cf., Wako, 1999). We demonstrate that the set of competitive allocations also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

I am also looking at how incentive systems can be designed to promote long-run performance. Excerpt From rethinking The Mba: Business Education At A Crossroads By Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick G. Cullen Voices from the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer into Windows, and Apple set Apple Maps as the iOS default. Policymakers have raised concerns that dominant... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

Buell believes that the wall (or in some cases bright yellow line) keeping patrons out of the service garage needs to come down, at least metaphorically. How about a guided tour in which the service manager walks you through the technical View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

Wal-Mart's and Microsoft's dominance in modern business has been attributed to any number of factors, ranging from the vision and drive of their founders to the companies' aggressive competitive practices. But the performance of these two... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23

design principles and properties for a non-technical audience; reviews its past, present, and future uses; and points out risks and regulatory issues as Bitcoin interacts with the conventional financial system and the real economy.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

in part because they typically occur at an earlier stage in an industry's life cycle. Many industries exist for a long time in a fragmented state: local businesses stay local, and no company becomes dominant regionally or nationally.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
  • 22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016

regulated entities’ compliance with law. The integrity of these regulatory regimes rests on the validity of the information third-party monitors provide to regulators. The challenge in designing third-party monitoring regimes is that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 12

technological shifts to closed-body designs and metal stamping technology, as well as the marketing-led idea of the annual model change. The case offers a setting to examine several frameworks: exploration versus exploitation, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

http://www.people.hbs.edu/mrhodeskropf/GovernanceCEOTurnoverMS.pdf 2006 Journal of Law, Economics & Organization Contractual Incompleteness, Contingent Control Rights, and the Design of Internet Portal Alliances By: Lerner, Josh, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

it's an uphill battle. Once someone is perceived as a star, I'm telling you, the load is lighter," he said. Hiring and socializing people so that they stay is something that takes practice. Organizations such as Southwest Airlines, Cirque du Soleil, and C&S... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Francesco Bova Abstract Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels; for instance, when goods designated for a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Dec 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

you name Google’s closest competitor in search and search-related advertising? That’s market power” Now comes the “New Tech Big Four,” often characterized as Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google. Like their older cousin Microsoft, all are View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services
  • 31 May 2017
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Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

of customers and the volume of sales increase, the retailer gains a dominant position in the market. The goal gradually shifts from attracting more customers to increasing prices and margins in order to achieve higher profits. That... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • 13 Nov 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

after the launch of the Cayenne. While she hadn't set out to focus on gender specifically, she found that gender dominated the discussions about the new vehicle. (The Cayenne launch became the basis of an HBS teaching case that Avery... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto
  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

restricted number of candidates coexist alongside those offering a larger number of candidates, even though the existing literature on network effects suggests that the latter should always dominate the former. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

analyses indicate that "All-Star" recognition proxies for buy-side client votes on analyst research quality used to allocate commissions across banks and analysts. Taken as a whole, our evidence is consistent with analyst compensation being View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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