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- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
the Quartermaster General, earning the rank of captain. World War II had a significant impact on Christensen's career. The organizational challenges of warfare on a global scale encouraged the use of strategic thinking to accomplish... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
over time. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2394657 Working Papers Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India By: Alfaro, Laura, and Anusha Chari Abstract—This paper examines the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
the Great Depression had a significant negative impact on the level, quality, and trajectory of firm-level innovation, particularly for R&D firms operating in capital intensive industries. However, because a sufficient number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
research and discuss his contributions to management and economics. We look at three distinct bodies of work. In the first, Clark (in conjunction with Robert Hayes and Steven Wheelwright) argued that the abandonment by U.S. managers of manufacturing as a strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
which the ACA was passed and develops estimates of its likely impact on the biopharmaceutical industry. Universal insurance, either through a government-run system or by mandated purchase of private insurance, has been controversial in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
Frequent shopping programs that reward customers with discounts or other perks are commonplace in grocery stores, but many are not as effective in influencing buying behavior as they could be, argues HBS professor Rajiv Lal. "The View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
companies that have enormous potential, certainly potential to earn more than $100 million to $500 million a year in revenue. Entrepreneurs have to be realistic when assessing their own business's potential. Is the business concept one... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
consumers is a more complicated challenge. One approach Chinese manufacturers are using is to acquire companies around the world in order to get fast access to the technologies they need to modernize their product lines. ChemChina is a... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
place, while the results of that innovation leads to learning that reshapes the strategy. Lean Strategy enables company builders to pursue viable opportunities, stay focused, and align the entire organisation while supporting front-line... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509029 Mubadala: Forging Development in Abu Dhabi Harvard Business School Case 708-033 In 2007, Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, the CEO of Mubadala Development View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
strategies and organized their businesses. The contributors to this new book bring out this rich diversity on a much broader canvass. Q: What have you learned about the success and impact of businesses around the world? A: This book shows... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009
innovative new product for the treatment of acne that they hope to sell to consumers via direct-response television. The unconventional nature of the product and its distribution has led the company to seek angel financing. The Silicon... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
should be informed early on of such things as expected shortfalls in performance, changes in tactics, new information impacting a business, and the like. The intent is to flag potential problems early on so that help can be provided in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
companies in a variety of industries. Each worker kept a daily diary during the course of a project, answering open-ended questions such as, "Briefly describe one event from today that stands out in your mind." Each diary lasted... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016
New York: Springer Building a Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business By: Quelch, John A., and Emily C. Boudreau Abstract—This ambitious volume sets out to understand how every company impacts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
and approved, but when minority loan officers shepherd those applications, approval rates increase significantly, says Adi Sunderam, the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance at Harvard Business School, in the working paper, “The View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
gain more experience with online DVD rentals, the extent to which they hold should films longer than want films decreases. Our results suggest that present bias has a meaningful impact on choice in the field and that people may learn... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
intimacy, and community offered by direct-to-consumer marketing will have an impact on every industry and intermediary," Deighton predicted. Supermarkets may have "dodged a bullet" for now, but direct-to-consumer marketing... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
Apple Computer knows how to make headlines. The company is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh and is enjoying the fruits of its launch into the digital entertainment business. In its December quarter, Apple sold 730,000... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
and later New York. The result was a homogenization of beauty ideals throughout the world. Today globalization is changing the beauty industry again; its impact can be seen in a range of competing strategies. Global brands have swept into... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace