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  • 10 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 10

business initiatives, we find that firms engage in a dynamic process of managing contradictory boundary activities. Boundaries between differentiated units are reinforced to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

Career penalties for failing to meet the analyst consensus estimate are no different for firms where forecasting earnings is harder. Moreover, such penalties have increased in the post-SOX period. Our evidence suggests that incentives of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

limited quantity. The competition has no comparable model. Which price should the company choose? Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54489 Come Together: Firm Boundaries and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

political affiliations, so it can provoke both negative and positive responses. Nevertheless, in the age of Twitter, silence on an issue can be conspicuous—and consequential. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53647 Come Together: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

crossed the American border.HBS Working Knowledge: As you and Lina Gálvez-Muñoz write in the first chapter of your new book, the word "multinational" usually conjures up images of American firms. You have chosen to focus on foreign View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
  • 24 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 24, 2009

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709043 One Firm One Future at Davis Langdon Harvard Business School Case 409-044 Rob Smith, senior partner of construction consultancy Davis Langdon, has just led the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

Abstract—Innovation has traditionally taken place within an organization's boundaries and/or with selected partners. This Chandlerian approach to innovation has been rooted in transaction costs, organizational boundaries, and information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

link the islands of expertise together, they need to look at two broad kinds of mechanisms, according to Pisano: organizational—"so firms can expand their boundaries to include multiple capabilities.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

consider supporting deposit insurance schemes and undertaking subsidised recapitalisations.   Working PapersTrade Policy and Firm Boundaries Authors:Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, and Andrew... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jun 2013
  • Op-Ed

How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing

facing a one-time problem or a one-industry or one-nation crisis. If firms are going to continue to operate in an outsourced world—and there's no inherent reason they should not—they need to find a more systematic way of thinking about... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion
  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 30

involved marketing tactic (Experiment 4). Further experiments explore boundary conditions and suggest that the benefit of cost transparency weakens as firms increase price relative to costs and when markups... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising

in question.” 18 Innovators in chromolithography included the noted firms Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann, New York; Donaldson Brothers, New York; Bufford & Sons, Boston and New York; and Louis Prang, Boston. Their colorful trade cards were... View Details
  • 29 Sep 2011
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property

professor Josh Lerner discusses current trends in IP such as the rise of patent pools. Key concepts include: In many cases, firms are ignoring the increased role of intellectual property in today's economy and failing to monetize their... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 17 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Profile

Philipp Schäelli

knew that I wanted to work in a larger Private Equity firm to get a great on the job training and education opportunity and a fast start into this industry. After an intensive recruiting process in which I used all the HBS resources and... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services
  • Student-Profile

Fanele Mashwama

regulation. In the first, he is looking at episodes of capital flight in emerging markets and the way that the currency composition of firm liabilities can have serious ripples effects in times of turbulence. “Firms in emerging markets,... View Details
  • Web

Strategy Execution - Course Catalog

firms had sound strategies but were unable to execute them effectively. With changing customer preferences, increasing global competition, disruptive technologies, heightened employee expectations, and unpredictable macroeconomic shocks,... View Details
  • 03 May 2016
  • First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

Zou Abstract—There is relatively little prior evidence on the potential impact of rank and file employees on financial reporting choices outside union negotiations. We contribute to the literature by providing new evidence that firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne