Strategic Alliances (Business) - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

upgrades. This partly explains, I believe, why they have been among the first European companies to build strong IR departments. Now they can use IR to explain their business to stockholders as well as communicate to their many other... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. From the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006

in a major global beer company as a strategic partner at this difficult time? Or should they stay on as controlling owners, inject millions of dollars into the company from other parts of the family business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

PublicationsThe Strategic Use of Brand Biographies Authors:Jill Avery, Neeru Paharia, Anat Keinan, and Juliet Schor Publication:Research in Consumer Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract We introduce the concept of a brand biography to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

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Keywords: Anna Secino

23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

leads to the possibility of strategic delay by decision participants who differ in their preferences and are limited by the resources they can allocate to influence decisions. We focus on sources of delay caused by the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008

execution of integrated strategic options. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709434 Examining the Adoption of Drug-Eluting Stents Harvard View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

April 2021
Case

Codecademy: Where to Next?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Max Mailman and Sarah Ascherman

In March 2020, Zach Sims, co-founder and CEO of online education platform Codecademy, prepared for a meeting with his Chief of Staff Kunal Ahuja to discuss the company’s goals. Codecademy billed itself as the largest online resource for computer science literacy and... View Details

Keywords: Monetization Strategy; Business Model; Change Management; Venture Capital; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Teams; Marketing Channels; Product Marketing; Network Effects; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; United States

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15 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 15

Publications August 2013 Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Business Model Evaluation: Quantifying Walmart's Sources of Advantage By: Brea-Solís, Humberto, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, and Emili Grifell-Tatjé... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

Strategic Talent Management Initiatives Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. AbbottHarvard Business School Case 412-147 In 2012, Bill Allen and Maria Pejter, of Maersk Group's Human Resources Department, sat down to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

after identifying a structural weakness. “Apple has shown the way in how to build a market of external innovators.” According to Harvard Business School professor Karim R. Lakhani, Boeing's approach is an excellent example of how not to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

private equity investments suggest that the results are not driven by reverse causality. These patterns are not driven solely by common law nations such as the United Kingdom and United States, but also hold in Continental Europe. April 2015 Harvard View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

implementation of an innovative, but ultimately unsuccessful strategy. Quarterly strategic reviews, based in part on the firm's balanced scorecard, led executives at Store24 to identify problems with, and eventually abandon, this strategy... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010

adult decision maker. Finally, we list a set of open questions that could be profitably addressed by future research. Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts Authors:Marco Piovesan, Antonio... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

Overall, the findings demonstrate the power of non-financial rewards to motivate agents in settings where there are limits to the use of financial incentives. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/nashraf/NoMarginNoMission_JPubE.pdf July-August 2014 Harvard View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

performance—and figure out what went wrong initially, if the business model and operations are now on solid footing, and, assuming capital can be raised, whether it is better to take the "bird in the hand" of significant capital... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

examine the firm's choice of business model between the proprietary model (where all software modules are proprietary), the open source model (where all modules are open source), and the mixed source model (where some—but not all—modules... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

attempting to transform a large portion of its business from a traditionally product-centric operating mode to a platform-based one that leverages network effects to create durable competitive advantage. View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 6

relative to financially under-developed ones. Mergers That Stick Authors:Rosabeth Moss Kanter Publication:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 10 (October 2009) An abstract is unavailable. Purchase the article:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

June 2011 (Revised November 2011)
Case

The Expansion of Ping An

By: Robert C. Pozen and Nina Yang

In June 2010, Mingzhe Ma, chairman and chief executive officer of Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China ("Ping An" or "the Company"), sat down with Sun Jianyi, vice chief executive officer and executive vice president at Ping An, to discuss the future direction of... View Details