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  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

itself yields several questions: Is there a view that negotiation is a collaborative process aimed at mutual advantage or a competitive battle? Should one focus on specific issues early on or is there a lengthy process of relationship... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

constraints. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-097.pdf The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

What’s the Big Idea?

international divisions. “Goldman Sachs in New York is different from Goldman Sachs in Asia,” he observes, adding that the same is true for conglomerates operating in industries as different as pharmaceuticals and aircraft engines.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management
  • 12 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

manufacturer whose brands and trademarks lay at the heart of its competitive advantages in international markets, the loss of these intangible assets was especially damaging. However, worse was to come. During the 1930s as a so-called... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Pharmaceutical; Pharmaceutical; Pharmaceutical; Pharmaceutical
  • 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807011 Business, Law, and Society: The Systems Approach to Law and Management Harvard Business School Note 806-086 Presents the systems approach to law and management, a construct for understanding how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

Case 809-026 An executive from pharmaceutical company GSK must choose how much to integrate a recently acquired biotechnology firm, Sirtris. Moncef Slaoui, GSK's global head of R&D, championed the acquisition of Sirtris to gain access... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45998 Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery By: Serafeim, George Abstract—Using survey data collected from senior corporate executives around the world I analyze how detection of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

the highest commissions-impeding price competition among GDSs. Against this backdrop, American considered how best to cut its GDS costs. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=909035 Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

20,000 SIM cards at an average of $100 each. (Roshan was second to enter the market after Afghan Wireless; it now has four providers nipping at its heels in a highly competitive market.) Today, the company connects all of Afghanistan’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • March 2017
  • Case

Cantel Medical

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Cantel Medical Corporation provided infection prevention and control products and services for patients, caregivers, and other healthcare providers. In 2016, Cantel generated sales of $665 million and net profits of $60 million, double the levels of five years earlier.... View Details
Keywords: Cantel; Charles Diker; Furniture Industry; Matrix Organization; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Chemicals; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Business History; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Research and Development; Opportunities; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Information Technology; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; New Jersey
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  • 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

superior performance and competitive advantage at the individual, organizational, and social levels and 2) empowers the three virtue phenomena of morality, ethics, and legality. We also demonstrate that applying cost-benefit analysis to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

they also induced large spillovers of technical knowledge in prefectures adjacent to those with prizes, relative to distant control prefectures without prizes. Linking competition expenditures with the expected market value of patents... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

We conclude with an internalization model depicting organizational adaptation to evolving social institutions. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2184439   Cases & Course MaterialsAustralia: Commodities and Competitiveness... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Faculty Books Published in 2020

growth and the transformation of knowledge into new products and processes. A third reviews different innovation policies and their performance in the pharmaceutical sector. Next is a chapter on the effects of View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

pharmaceutical sales teams in Belgium and sports teams in Canada. These results suggest that a minor adjustment to employee bonuses-shifting the focus from the self to others-can produce measurable benefits for employees and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

they will not match prices across channels. Using a game-theoretic model, we investigate the strategic forces behind the adoption (or non-adoption) of self-matching across a range of competitive scenarios, including a monopolist, a mixed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

silos within numerous academic medical centers, pharmaceutical companies, and some disease-based foundations. For new precision therapies to be developed, these data sets need to be shared broadly. Patients can help lead this effort by... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

profits when one side is subsidized in equilibrium. By contrast, if platforms make positive margins on both sides, the same investment has the regular, expected effects. Our analysis implies that the strategy space and the logic of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Aug 2024
  • News

Quantum Leap

computers will become a reality. And the competition to bring the first working solution to market is incredibly fierce. Levy is aware of all this. “We’re little guys,” he says, laughing. “We’re going against the biggest, best-funded... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006

recommendations, and feeds, to help members manage their experiences with their online friends. The two choices have very different value propositions and have very different competitive implications. Also describes the dynamics of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne