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  • 29 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 29

superior economic performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-110.pdf Trade Policy and Firm Boundaries Authors:Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, and Andrew F. Newman... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Making Change

must learn the ins and outs of a specific client, sector, and geography. This involves understanding how decisions are made, the culture of the decision-makers, and the historical context of the topic. We learn to push boundaries and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

The Business of Biotech

it to market is so low that it remains a risky proposition." Profitable firms such as Genentech, Genzyme, and Biogen already have products on the market, as does Amgen, where Gordon M. Binder (MBA '62) served as CEO until his retirement... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

integrated innovation? Our model has firms with limited visibility that either control all aspects of product innovation (integrated innovation) or open their designs to components developed by other players (open innovation). We show... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Sizing Up Social Impact

difficult to clearly integrate with MCC's precise directive of focusing on activities that lead to poverty reduction through economic growth. "The MCC has been explicit in setting boundaries around initiatives that it believes will lead... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

incentives to invest in the face of potential holdup problems and also with the proposition that exclusive arrangements lead firms to seek contingent control rights to avoid lock-in when environmental uncertainty is high. Private Equity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Mar 2018
  • First Look

March 13, 2018

historians in recent years, academic research on business groups has, to date, remained within the boundary of emerging markets. The major aim of this volume is to explore the long-term evolution of different varieties of large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

place. The leading players in these clusters are multilocation firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these firms to leverage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 29

1-3). In our final two studies, we highlight two boundary conditions for this effect: identifying a specific gift and using money as a gift. When gift recipients request one specific gift, rather than providing a list of possible gifts,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

engage in collective behaviors that diminish their ability to do so. Sarah Jane Gilbert:What led you to study the effects of performance pressure on work teams? Heidi Gardner: I experienced similar team dynamics when I worked in a consulting View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 29 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

potential: (1) project complexity, (2) cross-functionality, (3) temporary membership, (4) fluid team boundaries and (5) embeddedness in organizational structures. We argue that effective management of these five attributes allows not only... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Profits and Purpose

through teaching the course that I’ve come to believe that corporations have to think beyond their own boundaries to a broader concern with the health of the institutions on which we all rely. In the second year I taught the course with... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 22 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 22

increased innovation outcomes, while shifts away from ambidextrous designs are associated with decreased innovation outcomes. We describe the nature of ambidextrous organizational designs—their characteristics, underlying processes, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 23, 2016

agents, and this tension presents a boundary condition for when a group decision is superior to an individual decision. We test the implications of the model for a particular phenomenon in venture capital: private angel investments by the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Books

failures as well as successes. A final chapter examines how some companies — even whole industries, like integrated circuits — literally have shifted the locus of experimentation to their customers and created billions of dollars of new value. Taking experimentation... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

Harmonizing Accounting Standards Really Harmonize Accounting?: Evidence from Non-U.S. Firms Adopting US GAAP Authors:Mark T.Bradshaw and Gregory S. Miller Periodical:Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 12

observers. We identify boundary conditions and demonstrate that the positive inferences disappear when the observer is unfamiliar with the environment, when the nonconforming behavior is depicted as unintentional, and in the absence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

firms in primary markets. We characterize two effects on primary market firms caused by intermediaries entering secondary markets: the "cannibalization" and "option value" effects.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

can achieve. Should he accept the offer provided by a private equity firm that is buying up other small competitors in his industry? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807125 The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

and business problem. Design of market-based systems to reduce carbon emissions has proven difficult. More broadly, national attempts to comply with the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol present both governments and firms with significant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace