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- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
frenemies limited to the Apple-Amazon example. The same pattern may emerge when competing platforms with asymmetric profit strategies. For example, Amazon recently listed its Chinese e-commerce site as a virtual store on the massive Chinese View Details
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
Widely deemed the most important piece of security legislation since formation of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934, the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was born into a climate still reeling from the burst of the...
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- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
“Allowing owners to have more power and influence in corporate board elections seems to be valuable.” In August 2010, the US Securities and Exchange Commission passed Rule 14a-11, also known as the shareholder proxy access rule, which...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
908-068 In this case we look at the design and development of an unconventional market, where neither money nor traditional "goods" are exchanged. Kidney exchange is an idea pioneered by HBS professor and market designer Alvin...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
very dumb things. And it's always tempting to say, 'Can we just tweak the incentives and hope the problem goes away?' But that can come back and bite us very badly." The Consortium for Operational Excellence in Retailing is focused on advancing retail operations from a...
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Training Course in Personnel Administration - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
opportunities for lively social and intellectual exchanges among the students. 1. Fritz J. Roethlisberger, The Elusive Phenomena: An Autobiographical Account of My Work in the Field of Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Business...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
Refined metals like gold and silver have a standard quality and are priced on global exchanges like the London Metal Exchange. But concentrates vary widely in terms of quality—some rocks have more copper than others, some come with...
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Nicole Torres
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
for the Securities and Exchange Commission to pass rules that would allow for crowdfunding investment on a large scale. Already, companies have dipped their toes into crowdfunding through websites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and...
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- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
you need all these people, the seemingly inefficient intermediaries, to actually do that. They are constructing value, making market exchange possible; they are not just brokering the meeting." "If you can shift one of these...
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- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911405-PDF-ENG Jo Worthington (C) Dorothy LeonardHarvard Business School Supplement 911-406 A professor has an awkward exchange with a student who has prepared numeric analysis, but whose...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
will give you time to evaluate and organize unexpected information—as well as your thoughts. When you expect talks to be especially intricate, consider negotiating over multiple days. You might exchange preliminary information by e-mail...
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by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Exchange Fellowship; the Orthopaedic Research Society William Harris Award; and the Hip Society John Charnley Award, among others. Contact kevin.bozic@austin.utexas.edu Education BSE, Duke University MD, University of California San...
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- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
approach to policy making. In 2005, the Governor of Arizona issued an Executive Order to create a roadmap for the state to achieve statewide electronic health data exchange between various entities in the health care delivery system. The...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
eating that,” he says with a smile. But he’ll also miss the intellectual exchange of the HBS classroom. “When you have a class dynamic going, you can hear six views on a subject and come to understand different facets of it,” he remarks....
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- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
206-046 Using a comprehensive and simple example of a firm exposed to foreign exchange risk, interest rate risk, and commodity price risk, shows how to use corporate-value-at-risk to measure and manage a firm's global exposure to risk....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
capitalists in the Valley function as an informal, close-knit guild. Today's employee may be tomorrow's boss; today's competitor, tomorrow's partner or acquisition. If you're an experienced, reputable member of the guild, you're entitled to draw from the common fund of...
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by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
exchange information and generate high quality ideas. A Sub-field No Longer As laboratory researchers, write Bazerman, Valley, Curhan and Moore, they are "sympathetic to the constraints of the laboratory methodology" and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
given that they're exchanging what they hope is a boost in demand for sure losses on the logistics side," says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Donald Ngwe. Shipping Fees and Product Assortment in Online Retail explores...
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- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
"nanopayments" to all of us who supply valuable information gratis to Facebook and other information exchanges that have expropriated value from both the employed and unemployed of our society. Are productivity increases...
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by James Heskett
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
against and refusing service to WikiLeaks. The attacker and the cause? A crowd (I don't know what else to call it, since it is not an organized group) that calls itself Anonymous and that was spawned by ideas exchanged on an Internet...
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by James L. Heskett