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  • 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
  • Web

Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog

corporate advantage statement. 3. Scope: Businesses and Portfolio Transformation Defining the boundaries of the firm - the limit to its scope - is critical to crafting the corporate portfolio. At the... View Details
  • 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
  • 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
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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
  • 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
  • 06 May 2002
  • What Do You Think?

What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”

boundaries and fuses various functions of a firm together (as well as a firm with its customers, suppliers, and partners) may suggest that marketing as we knew it has become so... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 07 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

conflicts of interest. For example, the change in the commission structure in 1974 created a whole new dynamic that influenced the role of research by investment banks. And the growing importance of consulting at public accounting firms... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
  • 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
  • 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
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

primarily occurred for firms covered by financial analysts. Where Do Transactions Come From? Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 9, 2016

proportion of cross-institutional publications between funded and unfunded firms. Specifically, we measure the impact on each of these variables based on three dimensions—small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME), younger firms, and size of the collaboration View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

Returns Authors:Robin Greenwood and Samuel Hanson Abstract When investors overvalue a particular firm characteristic, corporations endowed with that characteristic can absorb some of the demand by issuing equity. We use time-series... 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
  • 29 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

Six degrees of separation seems to work well for B-list actors—but does it have anything to say about innovation and business? HBS associate professor Lee Fleming believes it does, and his work looks specifically at how ideas and innovation flow across company View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing
  • 27 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

capital for Brazilian firms following capital control announcements. The results suggest significant variation across firms and financial instruments. Large firms and the... 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
  • 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
  • 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
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Strategy Execution - Course Catalog

and more than half of the companies on the S&P 500 in 2000 no longer exist. Many of these firms had sound strategies but were unable to execute them effectively. With disruptive technologies, increasing global competition, changing... View Details