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- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Case 708-479 This case on the globalization of East Asian pop music is useful for teaching concepts of regional business strategy and also of cultural arbitrage. Music companies in the case must examine why certain markets are clearly...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
and prosperous than others. And the third, which arose from the second, examines how you can take competitive thinking and apply it to social problems such as the environment, inner cities, and health care. Most of my readers have tended...
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Re: Michael E. Porter
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
to speaking up. At the same time, we've been in many organizations that have pockets—groups, departments, work units—that are palpably open and actively engaged in discussion, debate, experimentation, or improvement. Other View Details
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
teamwork in decision-making, the challenges of group decision-making, and the strategies for engaging team learning skills and attitudes to improve both the quality of and commitment to group decisions. Purchase the exercise:...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
features. First, financiers engage in the costly but potentially profitable process of innovation: they can invent better methods for screening entrepreneurs. Second, every screening process becomes less effective as technology advances....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
As makers of everything engage in an all-out features war to cram the most services, accessories, and functions into a single product, the real question for many is this: Does the consumer really want an all-in-one digital device? A panel...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
entrepreneurs are critical to innovation and the creation of the next companies like Google, they do not make up a large part of the small businesses community who are seeking loans. Lagace: How does the US small business landscape look...
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- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
advantages of scale for innovation, companies need the right combination of strategy, systems, and culture. Based on more than three decades of the Pisano's research, teaching, and experience, Creative Construction offers a set of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
engaging in aggressive discounting, the price of butterfat had skyrocketed, and the CEO was coping with a brain tumor. Dreyer's senior executives decided that they needed to restructure the company...
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by Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
aspects, such as the availability of content, are also relevant. Music from Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, or Radiohead, for example, has been available on p2p networks since Napster's time but is yet to make it to iTunes. Record companies...
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- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
on the home country remains unclear. We know very little about return migration of workers engaged in innovation and entrepreneurship, except that it is rapidly growing in importance. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
Marketing Research, "Emotion-Induced Engagement in Internet Video Ads," coauthored by Teixeira and fellow researchers Michel Wedel of the University of Maryland and Rik Pieters of Tilburg University.) The researchers paid 58 adults to...
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- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
a dealer's back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the world's largest automaker, a...
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- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
in two major product lines for a large enterprise software vendor to examine the use and success of pricing and product strategies. Regarding pricing, the paper demonstrates that the vendor engages in significant...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
which, as the former parent of Delphi, has agreed to fund a portion of the massive pension and retiree health care liabilities that Delphi incurred when it separated from GM in a prior spin-off. The company...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711415-PDF-ENG Retiree Pension and Health Benefits David F. HawkinsHarvard Business School Note 111-033 Note on accounting for retiree pension and health benefits...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
differentially spur employees of varying hierarchical levels to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
economic turmoil creates both business destruction and opportunity is one of a series of insights emerging for readers of recent HBS interviews with two prominent Turkish business leaders: Hamdi Akın, chairman of Akfen Holding and Rahmi M. Koç, honorary chairman, Koç...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
horizontally. We also decided that while there are lots of companies with expertise in different verticals, our basic concept of using auctions to help buyers and sellers was exactly right and our pricing was right. While our executional...
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- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
deaths from roughly 4.5 million in 1980 to 1.5 million in 2000. Yet for reasons unclear to the global public health community, the mortality rate stalled at around 1.5 million, where it remained in 2010. In presenting the problem of...
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Sean Silverthorne