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Ownership (OWN): Define Success, Create Advantage, Build to Last, Engage Effectively - Course Catalog

sports teams. We will explore how a shift in ownership model (e.g., going from public to private) can be a tool for changing a company’s trajectory. We will also consider the “Founder’s Final Act,” which is the choice that a founder makes... View Details
  • 11 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 11

  Publications 2006 Journal of International Business Studies Firm Rivalry, Knowledge Accumulation, and MNE Location Choices By: Alcácer, Juan, Cristian Deszo, and Minyuan Zhao Abstract—The international... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

commercial properties, and planned communities. So as the Rouse shopping center becomes the place of choice for consumers primarily interested in good jewelry or children's clothes, the competing shopping center nearby responds by trying... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 08 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

companies grappling with the familiar (yet complex) questions that confront any organization trying to do business across borders. According to Collis, every strategic choice that multinationals face falls into one of the following four... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

no. 5 (May 2007): 760-776 Abstract Given the importance of proximity for knowledge spillovers, we examine firms' location choices expecting differences in firms' strategies. Firms will View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jan 2021
  • Blog Post

Finding My Place at HBS

43 zip codes. Trey was recently named Social Innovator of the Year—Audience Choice by the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas. Our next project, called Trey SZN 3, is our most ambitious yet. In March 2021, Trey will launch a virtual... View Details
  • 25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006

Jones Author's Abstract A noteworthy characteristic of the contemporary global economy is the uneven distribution of world foreign direct investment (FDI). While in the first global economy before 1929 most FDI was located in developing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Wanted: Leaders for the New Millennium

Old, Something New Traditionally HBS has met prospective students at networking events such as open houses hosted in various locations by HBS alumni clubs as well as on campus by MBA Admissions. The current strategy builds on this... View Details
Keywords: Cindy Olnick
  • 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

contribution to employment, I find that labor-intensive firms are less likely to be subject to an SEC enforcement action. Next, I show that labor-intensive firms are less likely to face an SEC enforcement action in presidential election years if they are View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

and test an empirical framework which allows us to separate selection from treatment effects of large shareholders. Individual blockholders tend to hold blocks in public firms located close to where they reside. Using this empirical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10

  Publications August 2013 Strategic Management Journal Location Choices under Strategic Interactions By: Alcácer, Juan, Minyuan Zhao, and Cristian Dezso Abstract—The literature on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

If a dike or dam has sprung a number of leaks, there are many possible ways to respond. The initial impulse is to assiduously plug one hole after another, hoping that the situation will right itself. Another approach—and often a more sensible one—is to step back, View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman
  • 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

innovations might impact—and be impacted by—workers, consumers, organizations, and society. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55845 March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Choice... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

have low-cost energy. JR: Mike described some issues that make location choices a hard problem for multinational corporations—particularly, hidden costs that don't appear until years in the future. A second... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
  • 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

Location Choices Through the Value Chain By: Alcácer, Juan, and Mercedes Delgado Abstract—We explore the impact of geographically bounded, intra-firm linkages (internal agglomerations) and geographically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2019
  • Blog Post

"It'll All Work Out": Two Alumni Discuss Balancing Marriage and Markets

confronted the hard challenges many married, ambitious professionals face: maintaining a healthy marriage while pursuing independent careers. Geography serves as an anchor When it came time to launch their post-MBA lives, the Joyce couple had some complex View Details
  • June 2010 (Revised December 2013)
  • Case

Hang Lung Properties and the Chengdu Decision (A)

By: John D. Macomber, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Keith Chi-Ho Wong
A residential real estate developer competes in a heated auction for a prime retail development site in the interior of China during the 2009 boom. Total project cost might be in excess of $1 billion U.S. for over 4,000,000 square feet of building. Hang Lung Properties... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Return; Geographic Location; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Infrastructure; Valuation; Real Estate Industry; Chengdu
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  • 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

innovations from industry outsiders who saw economic opportunities where others didn’t—and how these mainstream firms had no choice but to innovate themselves. New models were tried: some succeeded, some failed. Commercial markets turned... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

located upstream versus downstream from that stage, as well as by the firm's productivity. Our results suggest that contractual frictions play an important role in shaping the integration choices of firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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1.18 FIELD Global Capstone - MBA

problems. Students are paired with a Global Partner (GP) company with a product or service challenge for students to address. The course culminates in a one-week immersion at the company’s location during which students meet with their GP... View Details